The Day of Knowledge! Conferences, courses, documentation and other resources for developers from Microsoft

Coming to the end of a great vacation time. We hope that you managed to gain strength to begin to implement all the goals set! Our team is also well rested and ready to do even more interesting for you! But, before proceeding to the story of the coming year, we suggest you remember how much interesting things were in this.

We talked a lot with you, not only online, but personally, at conferences. Undoubtedly, the brightest event of the past year is the Microsoft Developer Tour ! We are extremely happy that we managed to visit so many cities of our large country, as well as neighboring countries - Belarus and Kazakhstan, and personally meet with thousands of developers. After all, this was a very good reason. In October 2014, Microsoft announced a new operating system - Windows 10 and a new version of the powerful development environment Visual Studio 2015 . Visit the site #msdevtour to remember how it was and see the records of the reports.

Another significant event of the year, which has already become regular and traditional, is DevCon . This year, the conference celebrated its anniversary - for 5 years we have been gathering developers at the end of May in a beautiful suburban complex, so that within two days they can immerse themselves in the development atmosphere for the Microsoft platform, get all the latest news, communicate with world experts and like-minded people, have a good time! Interesting? Records of the DevCon 2015 conference reports are available here .

Last year we touched on the topic of monetization of applications and mobile business opportunities in general at the Russian App Day conference. The real business sharks made speeches at the event :) These topics remain relevant today, especially during the crisis, which, as you know, is a time of new opportunities and a driver of new ideas. Records of reports from the Russian App Day you can see the link .
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Not only to listen, but also to work with your head and hands, hackathons are called, in which developers create their own projects in 48 hours. By tradition, game hackathons have become the most popular! The theme of games in Russia is developing especially fast and we are happy to support all new projects and help the birth of exciting games on the hackathons. We conducted a hackathon within the framework of the KRI (Game Developer Conference), made an excellent hackathon together with our friends and partners, the GamesJam platform! One of the results of our special attention to the games industry was Russia's second consecutive victory in the Games category at the international Imagine Cup competition . The IzHard team with the OVIVO game , which became the winner of IC 2015, appeared as a team on one of our hackathons!

Not everyone wants to visit our off-line events, so we actively communicate with you and online on the following resources:

• Educational free Microsoft Virtual Academy portal. It contains hundreds of Microsoft technology courses. A list of the most popular courses for the last year can be found below:
  • Fascinating C # Programming
  • Unity Game Programming Introduction
  • Create 3D games with KODU GAME LAB
  • C # programming language
  • Course on SQL queries for beginners
• The main developer portal is MSDN . It contains all the latest information about Microsoft technologies. You can find there all the necessary documentation, links to downloads of development tools, code samples, ask your question on the forum. Also on the portal is available all the basic information about upcoming events, contests and promotions.
• We actively communicate with you in our groups for developers on FB , VK , Twitter , Instagram . If you want to know all the latest news quickly, then be sure to join our community! You can also leave your questions or feedback in our groups.
• Global resource - Channel 9 - you can always find all records of reports from our conferences on it.
• MSDN Newsletter - if you want to know all Microsoft news for developers in the regular distribution format, just subscribe to it. Every two weeks we will send a selection of interesting articles, videos, as well as we inform our subscribers about all current events.
• International Loyalty Program - DVLUP! If you develop applications for the Microsoft platform, you can earn points and exchange them for valuable prizes! Sign up for DVLUP and join the community of active developers around the world.

Last year was very bright for events and announcements, but the coming year promises to be no less interesting! We open it from an event that has become traditional for us - Windows Camp . Of course, this Windows Camp will be dedicated to the release of the new Windows 10 OS! Registration for the event is already closed, but you can watch the online broadcast of the event on September 10 at 10:00 Moscow time.

If you are a student, enter your story in the international Imagine Cup competition ! For the second year in a row, in the category of games, the first place goes to the team from Russia. Maybe next year you will be the winner?

Once again, we congratulate you on the start of the academic year, and someone else has a business of the year, let it be successful, full of projects and new ideas that you will definitely be able to realize, no matter what!

We will be glad to meet you personally and on the Internet!

Your Microsoft Russia Technical Audience Team