Microsoft recently announced the addition of two new data centers in the USA: West US and East US.
Here's the complete Azure data centers list:
- Asia: East (Hong Kong) and Southeast (Singapore)
- Europe: North (Netherlands) and West (Ireland)
- United States: North Central (Illinois), South Central (Texas), East (Virginia), and West (California)
Here's how geo-replication works for the new data centers:
- US East and West are paired together for Windows Azure Storage geo-replication
- US North and South are paired together for Windows Azure Storage geo-replication
Microsoft has recently grouped its Azure security documents and information under the Windows Azure Trust Center roof.
Why? Please Adobe, tell me why.
Microsoft has published an update to Visual Studio 11 Beta for MSDN subscribers. This KB article lists the changes and fixes.
Microsoft is offering Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime (ISBN 9780735656949), by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook in PDF, EPUB and MOBI. More info here
At my current client, I'm using Visual Studio 2010 inside a VM and the overall experience was, well...excruciating. Turns out that VS uses the GPU to help rendering the designers, IntelliSense, etc. Well, since a VM provides a software video card, the result is a painfully slow experience. A quick search lead me to this Code Project tip and the solution is shockingly quite simple: just disable hardware acceleration in the VS settings!
Menu: Tools/Options
Select: Environment/General
In the Visual Experience section: uncheck "Automatically adjust..." and "Use graphics hardware acceleration..."
Your mileage may vary.
Syncfusion if offering a free icon editor that let you customize 600+ Metro style royalty free icons. What's cool is that the editor can export in JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, ICO and XAML
Browse the library and download the tool here.
A Windows 8 Camp is a free, two-day event. During the Camp, you’ll discover HANDS-ON how to build your first Metro Style App for Windows 8. You’ll learn from experts in a low-key, interactive way and apply what you’ve learned with support from Microsoft Canada.
How do I register?
Registration is fast and simple! Select the link for the appropriate city to the right!
Space will be limited. Register today to secure your spot!
What do I need to bring?
Hardware
Any device capable of running Windows 8 and Visual Studio Express.
We recommend that you install the necessary software prior to the event. If the software is not already installed, you will need a partition with ~30 GB of free space to install the bits.
Software
Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Visual Studio 11 Beta
Download the Windows 8 SDK samples
Cities
Vancouver
April 3rd & 4th
Fairmont Pacific Rim
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Montréal
April 10th & 11th
Le Centre Sheraton
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Toronto
April 16th & 17th
King Edward Hotel
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Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks fame just released a cool tool called GesturePak for Kinect along with a full dnrTV episode demonstrating the use of the tool. So what's GesturePak? It's a Kinect gesture recorder that come with a class that you can use in your apps to make them Kinect aware. Cool eh?
Here's the tool:
And a Kinect enabled WPF app using the gesture:
