Windows Phone

With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft offers a fresh approach to phone software, distinguished by smart design and truly integrated experiences that bring to the surface the content people care about from the web and applications. Windows Phone 7 gave us the opportunity to start from scratch and create an application platform that draws on the best tools and technologies available today, to give developers and designers an opportunity to reach an evolving mobile customer. The Windows Phone 7 application platform is based on Silverlight and XNA, two robust and mature frameworks used by hundreds of thousands of developers today to build compelling applications and games for the Web, the PC, and Xbox. Applications and games are built with Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Expression Blend. Developers and designers publish their completed applications and games using the Windows Phone Marketplace. Marketplace provides developers and designers an open and structured ecosystem with the structure, transparency, and support they need in order to deliver on high quality, trustworthy experiences for end users.

Internet Explorer

As the most widely used browser in the world, Internet Explorer provides a safer and easier web experience on Windows. Internet Explorer helps you get to the information you are looking for more quickly and easily, and helps protect your privacy and your PC from the latest security threats. Looking forward, Internet Explorer will continue to evolve with advancements in performance and Web standards support to deliver enhanced and interoperable web experiences leveraging the power of the PC.

Windows 7

Building great software applications that are easy to use, visually appealing, immersive and offer high performance is a challenge that developers face every day. Innovative applications can greatly improve the user experience, empowering companies to differentiate their services and solutions. However, the challenge remains to do more in less time, while also optimizing the power and performance requirements.

Learn more about the platform that helps you reach over a billion users. Learn more about the platform that makes it easy to create engaging, user-friendly applications. Learn more about the platform that lets you connect people to their devices, data and social networks. Come learn about the Windows 7 Client Platform!

HP

As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise. More information can be found at www.hp.com.

Microsoft WebsiteSpark

Microsoft WebsiteSpark provides visibility, software, training and support to web developers and designers.

Telerik

Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS, TFS, Code Analysis and Web Application Testing Tools. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

Microsoft Translator

Microsoft Translator provides free online translation service for a truly world-wide web. Translate Traducir ترجمة Vertalen 翻译 Traduire 翻譯 Übersetzen 翻訳 Traduci 번역하기 Traduzir

Microsoft's translation technology powers cross-cultural communications through Microsoft products, including Bing, Office, and Windows Live. Microsoft uses state-of-the-art statistical machine translation technology to help eliminate language barriers in information access, empowering people and businesses around the world to achieve their full potential and bringing users of diverse cultures closer together.

DevExpress

Build Your Best – Without Limits or Compromise
DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Systems, IDE Productivity Tools and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and Web in the shortest possible time. Learn more: www.devexpress.com

The Code Project

With more than 6.8 million registered members (and growing!), The Code Project is one of the world’s largest independent developer communities. Find what you’re looking for in more than 26,000 top-quality programming articles and tutorials—with hundreds of new articles each month—plus code snippets, discussions, news and the best bunch of developers on the net. Developers from all over the world come together to share source code, tutorials and knowledge for free—to help their fellow devs. Now you can find your dream job—or your dream hire—on our worldwide jobs.codeproject.com job board.

ProductionHub

ProductionHUB, Inc. is the global online industry resource and business networking community for those behind the camera: from film/television and video, to audio/visual, live event and digital media production. Developed in 1999, ProductionHUB serves as a tool for anyone with an Internet connection to find production products, equipment, services and professionals (or be found by those who require those services). Exceeding 3.5 million user sessions in 2009 alone, this vertical B2B and industry portal has grown to become the world’s largest and most active production community search site.

Windows Azure

Windows Azure™ is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters. Windows Azure is a flexible platform that supports multiple languages and integrates with your existing on-premises environment. To build applications and services on Windows Azure, developers can use their existing Microsoft Visual Studio® expertise. In addition, Windows Azure supports popular standards and protocols including SOAP, REST, XML, and PHP.

DevConnections

DevConnections provides comprehensive, independent how-to content on building applications with the Microsoft stack—Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Azure, Windows, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server, Mobile, and beyond. The DevConnections network provides web and business application developers with content and code for practical solutions based on real-world implementations. In partnership with leading industry experts, DevConnections provides education and networking opportunities through in-person and virtual events, an extensive online resource, and DevConnections magazine. Visit www.devproconnections.com today!

Electric Rain, Inc.

Electric Rain is a 3D and multimedia software company offering two new application: ZAM 3D V2 – a 3D XAML modeling application that enables easy creation, customization and animation of 3D vector and raster interface for Silverlight and WPF applications development; and Convexion - a PowerPoint add-in to convert PowerPoint presentations to Silverlight and WPF formats while retaining the highest animation, transition, and design fidelity found in the original PowerPoint (also available for licensing to third-party ISVs). Both applications integrate directly with Blend and Visual Studio projects. Visit us at http://www.erain.com.

Visual Studio Magazine

1105 Redmond Media Group’s Visual Studio Magazine provides news, analysis and how-to, practical articles that teach developers how to create applications with Visual Studio better, faster and more easily. The award-winning editorial reaches the core of the Microsoft developer community—software architects, senior developers and development managers. Visit us online today for tips, code and the best independent, how-to articles.

SearchWinDevelopment.com

SearchWinDevelopment.com is a unique online resource for developers, architects and development managers tasked with building and maintaining enterprise applications using Visual Basic, C# and the Microsoft .NET platform. The site covers all aspects of the .NET development lifecycle, including design/architecture, coding, testing, deployment and also addresses qualitative issues such as .NET application performance management and security. Through exclusive technical tips, learning guides, webcasts, expert advice, news articles, interviews and discussion boards, SearchWinDevelopment.com serves as both a community and news resource for its audience.

Best Web Design Agencies

Best Web Design Agencies is the independent authority on web design agencies located in the United States. We are dedicated to finding the best agencies when being compared to all of those in the United States to give customers the best possible service available. This includes different types of web design agencies including flash and ecommerce design. Our website provides access to our independent rankings, the directory service, the latest media and job openings for the best web design agencies in the United States.

Wirestone

Wirestone is an independent marketing solutions company uniquely ranked on two Advertising Age Top 50 lists—as both an integrated marketing services agency and an interactive agency.

We are dedicated to ensuring that our clients—a who’s who list of iconic brands—are champions in their categories. We accomplish this goal by employing a proprietary blend of analytics, industry awareness, and gut instinct to custom develop strategies, tactics and experiences that engage people at key moments in their lives. Through this methodology, we help companies achieve the highest return on investment and ensure that their brands stand out in the crowd.

We are 150+ people strong, with talented professionals in locations across North America, including Boise, Chicago, Fort Collins, Sacramento, San Diego and Seattle.