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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.

Visual Studio Achievements Now Available
Jan. 18, 2012
Now available for download, the Achievements plug-in provides tireless Visual Studio developers some long-overdue competitive fun and public recognition for writing great code.
News: Announced on Channel 9
Blog: Gamification Comes to Development
Leaderboard: See Who’s On Top
Download: Get In The Game
Visual Studio Achievements Now Available
Featured News
Developer Events Update
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.
 
Kinect for Windows Coming Feb. 1
Kinect for Windows Coming Feb. 1 Jan. 9
New Kinect for Windows hardware and accompanying software will be available in 12 countries.
 
A Bar, an Idea, and a Garage: The Story of CodeFlow
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
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
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.
 
New IE10 Platform Preview Adds More HTML5 Support
New IE10 Platform Preview Adds More HTML5 Support Nov. 29
Updated platform preview now available for download, enabling richer Web applications with significantly improved performance.
 
BUILD: Keynotes, Screenshots & More
BUILD: Keynotes, Screenshots & More March 15
Catch all the news from the big event for software and hardware developers.
 
Mango Provides Sweet Opportunities for Windows Phone Partners
Mango Provides Sweet Opportunities for Windows Phone Partners July 12
Microsoft spells out benefits for Windows Phone partners at WPC 2011.
 
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