Microsoft Developer Tools Virtual Presskit

Welcome to the Developer Tools Virtual Presskit. Here you’ll find the most current news, videos, product screenshots, top stories and resources for Microsoft’s suite of developer tools and programming languages.

Meet the Team Behind the Speed

April 16, 2012
Members of customer experience engineering team talk about the project that made Windows Phones LTE-capable.

Feature Story

Windows Phone Newsroom

Meet the Team Behind the Speed

April 16, 2012
Members of customer experience engineering team talk about the project that made Windows Phones LTE-capable.

Feature Story

Windows Phone Newsroom

Meet the Team Behind the Speed

April 16, 2012
Members of customer experience engineering team talk about the project that made Windows Phones LTE-capable.

Feature Story

Windows Phone Newsroom

Highlights

Devs Get Game with Visual Studio

April 26

New Visual Studio achievements introduced for Windows Azure developers.

Better Together: TFS 2010 and System Center 2012

April 17

Launch wave of System Center 2012 includes management pack for TFS Work Item Synchronization.

Microsoft Employees Build Popular Twitter App

April 17

How two moonlighters built Rowi — a Twitter app that fully taps the social networking capabilities of the Windows Phone.

Visual Studio Adds Feature Packs and Build in the Cloud

March 27

Team Foundation Service support for building in the cloud and feature packs for Visual Studio 11 Ultimate customers announced.

Microsoft, Nokia to Invest in Mobile App Development

March 25

Mobile developers to benefit from funding, training, support and business opportunities as Microsoft and Nokia launch the AppCampus program at Aalto University.

Project Detroit: Reimagining an American Classic

March 21

A retrofitted Ford Mustang from Microsoft and West Coast Customs shows off connected-device scenarios of the future.

Developer Events Update

Jan. 24

Note that there will be no MIX event this year. Stay tuned for news about our next major developer conference.

Visual Studio Achievements Program Brings Gamification to Development

Jan.18

Developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio have a new way to highlight their skills, get recognition for the amazing work they do every day, and add some competitive fun to the development day.

A Bar, an Idea, and a Garage: The Story of CodeFlow

Jan.5

Meet the people who took CodeFlow from an idea in a bar to a tool now used by developers in every division at Microsoft.

Meet Who's Behind Windows Phone's Breakthrough Design

Dec.15

A visit with four members of the Windows Phone Shell Team.

Previewing the Windows Store

Dec.6

Microsoft’s Antoine Leblond details upcoming developer opportunities on "Windows 8" via the Windows Store, including economic and policy terms; announces contest to feature apps in Windows 8 Beta.

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