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It only takes 10 minutes to deploy your website with Azure. Free distinction for everyone! Just follow the guide below. What do you need? 1. A Microsoft Account with Azure! (Hey! Microsoft gives you a 30 day free trial) 2. A Dropbox Account (Free 2GB account is more than enough) 3. A folder with all the developed HTML/PHP/JavaScript/CSS files (Make sure they can run on local host to save your 30 days free trial) 4. 10 mins of your time Alright! Let’s start! ...

Recently I have received some demand of building HTML5 mobile app on Windows Phone Mango. Hence, I think it is a good chance to introduce PhoneGap this HTML5 mobile framework, which has full suports for Windows Phone Mango. If you are using PhoneGap this kind of framework, you are building a hybrid application. What is a hybrid application? It is an application that runs with browser components, but could be able to utilize the phone functionality (such as camera, geolocation, notification and etc). Hybrid application is downloadable through marketplace as well. To the end user, there is no difference from hybrid and native application. But for our developers, it is a huge different. If developer wants to build native application for all different platform, he needs to use C# for Windows Phone, Objective-C for iPhone and Java for Android. However, if developer building hybrid application, he only needs to take care of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Question: Why should we consider HTML5 mobile? If you are a developer targeting on multiple platform (Wp7, iOS, Android), using standard technology (HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript) is a very cost-effective choice for you. Question: How does this compare to native application? Hybrid application utilized the power of browser rendering engine. However, native application will be able to utilize the graphic APIs of the operating system. Hence, hybrid application couldn’t achieve game-quality graphics. Moreover, take windows phone platform as a sample. Application Bar is a very useful control developer usually uses for layering their applications. For hybrid application, since its just HTMl and CSS, you need to figure out the layout yourself by coding. Even there will be templates in the future, it is just mimicking the control and it won’t be as convenient as using native SDK. Please check PhoneGap on Windows Phone Tips series (5 Tips in the end of this article) for mimicking native control, such as Live tiles, Deep linking, handling orientation. Here is all the references: PhoneGap Get Start Guide for WP:Start Guide | GetStart video 1 | GetStart video2 PhoneGap API Reference: Reference PhoneGap official Wiki: Wiki Useful tutorials: ...

Here we’ve compiled great amount of resources on Private Cloud. Learn from the basic on how the private cloud can help your business and your IT Pro career, using these useful links ranging from virtual event, MVA courses, videos to screencast. Upcoming Event on 19 Jan 2012 : “Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud” MVA (Microsoft Virtual Academy) Courses : Planning, Building and Managing a Private Cloud Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – Management Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals – The Platform Microsoft Private Cloud Infrastructure Enhancing Your Business and Career with the Private Cloud TechNet Radio (Videos) : ...

Thank you for attending “Real World Agile Roadshow” held at Microsoft Singapore Office on 25th Nov 2011. We truly hope you found the content relevant, below are the links to the slides presented on the day. Keynote: Becoming and Being Agile – What Does This Mean? Hammad Rajjoub, Microsoft Singapore Agile in Action – Act 1: Planning, Set Up, Requirements and Architecture Colin Nah, Biz-Era Pte Ltd Agile in Action – Act 2: Development Tan Choon Ngee, aZaaS Pte Ltd Agile in Action – Act 3: Testing Tan Choon Ngee, aZaaS Pte Ltd FURTHER READING Below are some additional learning resources on the topic of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2010 for your reference:- Topic – ALM Overview What is ALM? Discover the three aspects of ALM - governance, development, and operations - and how each is vital throughout the entire lifecycle of an application. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743693 ALM and Business Strategy - How well a firm executes its business strategies is tied to how good it is at creating new applications. See how ALM solves this business need. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743690 ALM as a Business Process - Business processes are more dependent on software than ever, making the proper development of in-house applications - using ALM techniques - all the more critical. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743691 ALM Tool Evolution - The old model of software development involved using separate tools. Today, those tools have been combined in powerful ways to optimize the end-to-end development process. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743692 Adopting a Common ALM Foundation - Diverse tools are an inescapable fact of life in most development organizations today. Learn why it makes sense to adopt a common ALM foundation in a heterogeneous world. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9778321 Topic – Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server Introducing Visual Studio 2010 - Visual Studio 2010 offers a rich set of ALM tools that integrates key artifacts and provides full traceability and collaboration throughout the development process. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9743697 Visual Studio ALM Roadmap - Manage the entire lifespan of your applications with a set of proven processes supported by tools that integrate team members and activities. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/roadmap ALM Summit 2010 Videos Discover how Visual Studio 2010’s rich profiling tools and real-world scenario modeling can ensure that your application is ready to perform. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9767119 For any enquires pertaining to Real World Agile Roadshow or related to Visual Studio 2010, please feel free to reach out to us at prakuma@microsoft.com or v-yilim@microsoft.com. We look forward to seeing you at our future events.

Thank you to everyone who attended the Visual Studio & .NET sharing event on 13th Aprl 2011, apologies for the long delay in getting this post up…had been away for business travel. Hope you found the content presented useful. Below are the links to the slides presented and some other information. .NET 4 Demystified - Sandeep Joshi View more presentations from Microsoft Innovation Centre Singapore ASP.NET Overview - Alvin Lau ...