Many of you have come to know and love XNA, the programming language for the Xbox and the PC. Since the global launch at Warwich University in December there has been considerable interest in UK Universities and students and academics alike have used XNA and have joined the Creator's Club community. We are currently planning ways to show off all ...

Are you planning to go to TechEd 2007, 5th - 9th November in Barcelona? If so you can save €300 by registering byTuesday 31st July (tomorrow). Designed to provide developers with deep dive technical training, information and community resources, this conference focuses on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for ...

Microsoft's Chris Satchell presented at Games Edu yesterday and underlined the need for interesting curriculi to boost recruitment into Computer Science degrees.Here in the UK we are already working with 20 universities and are seeing great enthusiasm for putting XNA on the curriculum. If this is something that your university would like to do ...

Those of you who teach Embedded programming, including those of you involved in our Embedded Pilot Group, should treat your bookshelves to a copy of Embedded Programming with the MIcrosoft .NET Microframework. This useful tome by Donald Thompson (Microsoft Research) and Rob S. MIles (University of Hull) is your essential guide to developing for ...

Last December we had the pleasure of meeting many of you at the XNA worldwide launch held at Warwick University. Games Development has become one of our hot topics with many requests for talks, books, resources and advice.  At the same time we also had the pleasure of working with many of you and your students with the Imagine Cup. It will ...

The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that a link to Ed Dunhill's blog has appeared on this site. Ed is one of our Academic Developer Evangelists (ADEs) which means he aims to help students get the most from our technologies. Last week Ed blogged about free Micrososft Expression Studio training. Microsoft Expression is a suite of tools ...

It may be July and raining but hopefully the sun will soon appear and we can all head to the beach with a good book. Make sure you pack some sun-cream and at least one of the following. Happy holidays! Mobile Development Microsoft® Mobile Development Handbook by Andy Wigley; Daniel Moth; Peter Foot, Publisher: MS ...

....access a series of videos about the .NET framework? Easy, visit the .NET Framework Developer Centre and discover a range of video resources on the following topics: ASP.NET ASP.NET AJAX Channel 9 Devices Extensibility Office/Visual Studio Tools for Applications Silverlight Visual Basic Visual Studio Team System Windows Forms ...

Those of you who are familiar with Faculty Connection will already know about the Academic Resource Centre. This is the place academics and our colleagues from around the world post free teaching resources on a range of subjects and in a range of styles; professional development training, projects, labs, courses, exams and more. I hope you will ...

We blogged about the Academic Insight conference a while ago but as there is only a few places left, I thought I would bring it back to your attention just in case you haven't seen our previous announcement.   The Academic Insight Conference is run in conjunction by Microsoft and DevelopMentor and takes a deep look into the .NET ...