PHP Tools extend Visual Studio with the support for PHP code. The extension adds syntax highlighting, real-time checking of syntax errors, code outlining which makes it easier to understand code and navigation features, so that you can easily go to the required class or function.

PHP Tools extend Visual Studio with set of features to work more efficiently with PHP code.

Basic Features (FREE)

• Syntax highlighting for PHP code and HTML outside of PHP tags.
  

• Code outlining – Code collapsing for classes and functions.
  

• Brace matching – Brace highlighting helps to quickly identify which braces belongs together to provide better overview over more complex functions and other structures.
  

• Errors detection – Syntax errors are underlined in real time while coding to immediately see that something is wrong.  As well as error underlining the errors are displayed in Errors list with more details.
  

• Navigation bar – To navigate quickly through your code you can see all the classes, functions, properties and constants declarations in top navigation bar in Visual Studio.

Download it from Visual Studio Extension Manager

Introducing “Microsoft Mondays”. A program consisting of a series of Webcasts showcasing various Microsoft products and technologies. Each Monday we discuss a particular topic pertaining to development, infrastructure, Office tools, ERP, client/server operating systems etc. The webcast will be broadcast via LiveMeeting and can viewed from a web client. The idea behind the “Microsoft Mondays” program is to help you become more proficient in the products and technologies that you use and help you utilize their full potential.

SharePoint 2010 UI Customizations with Ribbon and Dialogs

Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced )
SharePoint 2010 introduced the concept of Ribbons and Dialogs. In this session we will look at various methods that we can use to customize ribbon and dialogs. You will see how you can create custom ribbon controls that match any of the SharePoint 2010 out of the box controls. You will also learn how to link your ribbon to dialogs and create new dialogs. The session will also demo how we can work with the client object model and accept and do external and internal processing of data from dialogs.
Date: May 14, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Jerry Yasir, SharePoint Consultant, EJADA

Introducing SQL Server Data Tools

Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced )
This session introduces SQL Server Data Tools (previously called Juneau) and how developers can finally manage their SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS implementations and their databases through one central tool inside Visual Studio. Managing SQL Azure, as well as offline and online development will also be discussed. If you are a .NET developer or a SQL Server professional, this is a must-attend session.
Date: May 21, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Nabeel Derhem, Senior Solutions Architect, AL-ELM

A Middleware in the Cloud: Windows Azure AppFabric

Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced)
In this session you will learn about Service Bus for connecting on premise applications through the cloud without the hustle of network configurations and Claims-based authorization, Windows Identity Framework (WIF), and how to leverage the Access Control Service to enable claims-based access to your applications without having to manage user stores anymore.
Date: May 28, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Mohamad Halabi, Microsoft MVP & DevLifeStyle Lead, Ministry of Higher Education

Oracle JDeveloper is a free integrated development environment that simplifies the development of Java-based SOA and Java EE applications.

One of main goals of Team Foundation Server 2010 is to support heterogeneous development environments and of course part of it is supporting  Java developers to make use of team development features provided.

Eclipse developers have full ALM support through Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere and Team Foundation Server 2010

With JDeveloper 11g you can connect to Team Foundation Server and make use of Source Control features provided through Team System-Connect to Team System

You can refer to the following article for full details how to install the add-in  Using Microsoft TFS as Version Control System with JDeveloper 11g

I have produce a small video demonstrate the whole steps

Hope it help!

Expression Web is a great website development environment with Expression Web 4 SP1 you have several new productivity features, and updates to PHP support. The following link illustrates Expression Web’s updated PHP IntelliSense, the new “Open as PHP” feature, and IntelliSense for HTML extended characters Expression Web 4 SP1 PHP Authoring Demo.

Expression Web has also a great support for connecting to Microsoft Team Foundation Server to make use of great features provided like SourceControl management features and WorkItem managements.

Below is a very basic steps in order to get Expression web connected to Team Foundation Server SourceControl

1. Open Expression Web 4.

2. Site (top tool bar) > Manage Sites List… > Add > Select the directory which is mapped to your project workspace (created from Team Explorer or Visual Studio 2010) –> Select the website folder in the file system.

3. Save

4. Site (top tool bar) > Open Site (select the site you just added).

5. Now you will have the files connected to Team Foundation Server automatically

I have produced a small video demonstrating the above scenario

Hope it helps!

Upgrade your team to Visual Studio Premium with MSDN and save 15%. MSDN offers up cool resources—including 12,000+ downloads for servers, tools, and apps. The best part? Every subscriber gets the next version of Visual Studio when it ships. Score!

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I’m seeing a lot of people still using some old ways ported from TFS 2008 to delete a team project like TFSDeleteProject utility.

In TFS 2010 the administration tasks are made very easy to help you in a lot of administration stuff, for the deletion point specially you can navigate to the Administration Console then Select Team Project Collection

• Select the project collection contains the project you want to delete then navigate to Team Projects.
• Select the project then click Delete, you will have the option to delete any external artifacts and workspace too.

Hope it helps.

Maximize the potential of your Windows Metro style app with Windows Azure. Building a cloud service to support rich Windows Metro style apps is even easier with the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8. This toolkit has all the tools to make it easy to develop a Windows Azure service and deploy it to your users. In addition to documentation, this toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for a sample Metro style app and a Windows Azure cloud project. This tool is designed to accelerate development so that developers can start enabling Windows 8 features, such as notifications, for their app with minimal time and experience. Use this toolkit to start building and customizing your own service to deliver rich Metro style apps.
Windows Azure
Windows Azure is a cloud-computing platform that lets you run applications and store data in the cloud. Instead of having to worry about building out the underlying infrastructure and managing the operating system, you can simply focus on building your application and deploying it to Windows Azure. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute, storage, networking, and content delivery capabilities.
For more information about Windows Azure, visit the Windows Azure website. For developer focused training material, download the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit or view the online Windows Azure Platform Training Course.
Key Technologies

• ASP.NET MVC 3
• WCF Web API
• Windows Azure SDK 1.6
• Windows Identity Foundation
• The Windows Push Notification Service

Content

• Setup and Configuration
  • Software Requirements
• Toolkit Content
  • Project Templates, Samples and Libraries Source Code
  • Samples
    • Push Notification Worker Sample
    • ACS Windows Metro Sample
• Getting Started
  • Creating a New Windows 8 Cloud Application
• Running and Going Through the Windows 8 Cloud Application
  • Starting Windows Azure Services
  • Starting the Windows Metro Style App
  • Sending Push Notifications using the ASP .NET MVC 3 Portal
  • Uploading Tile Background Images
• Appendix
  • Appendix I: How to Deploy Your Services to Windows Azure?
  • Appendix II: How to Obtain Namespace and Management Keys?
  • Appendix III: How to Deploy Margie’s Travel sample to Windows Azure

Learn More:

Videos:

As a brief preview to the toolkit check out this 3 minute video to see how you can get a jump start using Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 to send Push Notifications with Windows Azure and the Windows Push Notification Service (WNS). This demonstration uses the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 that includes full end to end scenario for Tile and Badge notifications with toast notifications only a drop down away :)

To understand WNS, Windows Azure and Push Notifications watch the in-depth Build Conference Video with Darren Louie and Nick Harris

Delivering notifications using the Windows Push Notification Service and Windows Azure

Blogs:

• Walkthrough of the Toolkit: Creating a Windows 8 Cloud Application
• Nick Harris's Blog: Delivering Notifications with Windows Azure and the Windows Notification Service
• Vittorio Bertocci's Blog: Using ACS in Metro Style Applications
• Wade Wegner's Blog: Metro Style Apps with Windows Azure

CodePlex Site http://watwindows8.codeplex.com/

Registration Link https://win8.msregistration.com/login.aspx?EventID=49&ID=be8d4ec6-3d17-4430-831c-f3840d27ff3f

Registration and Agenda Microsoft World Wide Event