Top Newsand Events From Microsoft

	DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2012 includes several new features for developing and debugging applications that use DirectX. The Visual C++ Team Blog listed links to references and resources so you can get started with these new features.
	TypeScript: Making Developing JavaScript in Visual Studio 2012 Easy Visual Studio 2012 Developers can install the TypeScript editor plugin to get rich TypeScript tooling. With TypeScript, you can use existing JavaScript code, incorporate popular JavaScript libraries, and be called from other JavaScript code.
	Migrating apps from Windows Phone to Windows 8 Channel 9 presents a webcast series on migrating Windows Phone 7 apps to perform well on Windows 8 devices. These five quickstarters not only provide the basics of setting up a Windows Store app project but also deal with issues and solutions involved in porting Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows Store app.
	Windows Azure Eclipse Plug-in for Windows 8 Released The Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java provides templates and functionality that allow you to easily create, develop, test, and deploy Windows Azure applications using the Eclipse development environment. The updated plugin on GitHub now also enables Eclipse on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 RTM development environments.
	Text Message Delivery with Windows 8 Apps A white paper is available in the download center which gives app developers information on sending and receiving text messages in Windows 8 with the aid of a broadband network adapter. This allows the integration of communication via text message into Windows 8 apps.
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	MSDN Event: Introduction to Windows 8 and App Developer Round Table October 10th, ‎2012 | Wallisellen Do you develop successful apps for iOS and Android? Now you can also get to know the future-oriented Windows app platform at our after-work app developer round table session in Wallisellen. We look forward to welcoming you to a lively exchange of ideas!
	DNN User Group Switzerland: DotNetNuke 7.0 Party October 31st, 2012 | Wallisellen The time has nearly come and DotNetNuke will be launching version 7.0 before the end of this year. In order to provide Swiss developers and the community with innovations and information on improvements beforehand, the DotNetNuke user group Switzerland is hosting a DotNetNuke 7.0 party.
	DNUG Berne: Ruby and Rails for .NET Developers October 31st, ‎2012 | Bern Whether ASP.NET MVC, NuGet or the code-based migrations with EF – more and more concepts and ideas are spilling over from Ruby to the .NET world. But why from Ruby? This presentation provides an overview of Ruby and Rails and helps you to find your way in this unfamiliar environment.
	TechDays 12: Final Agenda for Lausanne Live! November 6th & 7th, 2012 - Lausanne | November 19th & 20th, 2012 - Basel Microsoft Switzerland's largest technology event is taking place for the 9th time this November in Basel and Lausanne. At the TechDays 12, developers and IT Pros learn all the latest news regarding current trends and highlights of Windows 8, Windows Phone, web technologies, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, Windows server, the new Office system and much more during two separate days. Register now at www.techdays.ch.
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	130+ jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2012   Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Visualization & Modeling SDK   Metrosnaps: A Modern UI Design Gallery for Windows 8 Applications   Metro Studio – Your Modern UI Style Icons Paradise   Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store Apps
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Horizontal Scalability for Parallel Execution of Tasks: The Task Parallel Library (TPL) provides the infrastructure optimize utilization of CPU resources within a single multicore computer. Now you can also implement an approach that scales across computer boundaries - useful for workload automation and batch processing scenarios.