This screencast shows you how you can work with Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel from a Silverlight 4 application. Watch this screencast to get started with out-of-browser applications and the COM interoperability features.

Watch this short screencast to learn the tools needed for XNA application development for the new Windows Phone 7 platform. You will also learn how XNA games are organized at the highest level, and see how you can test your games within the phone emulator, part of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone 7.

Location based services and interactive maps are fast becoming a commodity. As an application developer, you need to learn how to easily bring maps and location based features into your own applications. In this article, you will learn how to integrate Microsoft's Bing Maps into your own Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications.

Learn to work with the SQL Azure web management portal as we walk through how to, set up firewall access rules, create and delete databases and more.

BizTalk Server is Microsoft's answer to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and communications within a business-to-business (B2B) setting. This article explores the possibilities .NET developers have for writing custom applications for this large-scale solution.

See why this aging platform manages to stay successful in the business world and how Windows Mobile 6.5 stacks up against it's competitors.