Category Archives: Microsoft

Build Conference 2020

I was reading about the 2020 Build Conference which for the first time was completely virtual. Can read more the details here…

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Microsoft Azure contest

Came across this contest in my twitter feed, #FuelMyAwesome Microsoft wants to know What Gets You In the Code Zone? What fuels your awesome? What favorite snack or music or ritual gets you cranking out that beautiful code? It’s easy to let us know, and there are prizes involved. Just jump on Twitter and tweet […]

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Microsoft Build 2017 Conference

The Microsoft Build 2017 conference started today, and it goes through to May 12th, in Seattle, WA. I tried to catch a few sessions during the day live as possible. Satya Nadela, CEO of Microsoft kicked off the conference with the Mission of Microsoft, which is Empower every person and every organization on the planet […]

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Microsoft’s Single View

Interesting article by Mary Jo Foley about Microsoft’s map + business data = Microsoft’s single view http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2216

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Learning LINQ – Extension methods

Extension methods can be used to extend the set of methods that you can use for LINQ queries, namespace TestConsoleApplication { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { int[] myNumbers = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,7 }; // the j=>j lambda expression as a parameter to the method so compiler // implicitly converts […]

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Day 1: Mix 08

Ray Ozzie’s Keynote outlined IE 8.0, Silverlight 2 Beta – indicated Mix is the starting point for key lauch milestones – product introduction culminating in PDC this year. Two distinct to services strategy – advertising and how internet is transforming all the existing msft products. Content-Community-Commerce were key drivers of community engagement. Innovation driven user […]

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