Free Book: touchdevelop — programming on a phone

This book contains an introduction to the idea of programming on a phone, illustrating in depth everything one needs to know to get started with the TouchDevelop app and the TouchDevelop language. The book is comprehensive in its treatment of the language, and follows a logical structure from simple constructs to more advanced ones. The aim of the book is twofold: It tells a teacher everything there is to know about the new programming paradigm, and it serves well as a reference to students who are learning the system.

Download here: http://www.touchdevelop.com/book

TouchDevelop: Program your phone directly on your phone with TouchDevelop!

With TouchDevelop, you do not need a separate PC. Scripts can perform various tasks similar to regular apps. Any TouchDevelop user can install, run, edit, and publish scripts. You can share your scripts with other people by publishing them.



Learn programming with TouchDevelop...

Microsoft Translator web page widget

The Microsoft Translator web page widget allows you to bring real-time, in-place translation to your web site. Users can see your pages in their own language, without having to go to a separate translation web site, and share your page with friends in multiple languages.

Get it here: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/widget/

Microsoft Translator web page widget work on Android phone running Opera Mobile:

Install Visual Studio 11 Beta

- To download Visual Studio 11 Beta, visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads, click the download link.


- Click to Run the downloaded file, vs_ultimate.exe.

- Accept (or change) the install directory, accept the terms and conditions, and click INSTALL.



- Setup completed with error: Windows Software Development Kit for Metro style Apps Service unavailable! May be because I run on 32-bit PC. click LAUNCH to start Visual Studio 11 Beta.



- Choose default environment settings and local help documentations. Click Start Visual Studio.


- It will take a moment.


- Visual Studio 11 Beta started


- Microsoft Help Viewer will be opened also, you can update with expected help topics.

Delete Windows.old after installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview

After installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview, it will save the original Windows folder to Windows.old. If it's no need for you, you can remove it using Disk Cleanup.


- Enable administrative tools, refer to the article "Enable administrative tools on Windows 8 Consumer Preview".

- Run Disk Cleanup from Metro Interface.


- Click "Clean up system files".


- After the system files scanned, you can check to include "Previous Windows installation(s)".


- Finally, click OK to cleanup it.

Enable administrative tools on Windows 8 Consumer Preview

To enable administrative tools on Metro Interface of Windows 8 Consumer Preview

- Move the mouse to the lower-right corner, click the Settings icon on the pop-up menu.


- Click Settings.


- Click to say "Yes" on Show administrative tools.


- More icons will be shown on Metro interface. (May be you have to log-out and log-in again).

Windows 8 Consumer Preview Demo