In Praise of Microsoft Virtual Academy

posted on January 12, 2014 by | No comments

A few weeks ago I ran across Microsoft Virtual Academy. I’m still on my first course, but I’m really impressed. They film experts going through a wide variety of their products in-depth, and it’s all free. The course I’m taking is comprehensive and well presented by a ten-year MVP in the area, Andy Wigley, who became a Microsoft employee shortly before filming the course. Every session includes PDFs of their PowerPoint slides for review and there are links to supplementary materials to go... Continue reading →

Windows Phone 8 Emulator Processors

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When launching the Windows Phone Emulator for debugging, I got the message “The Windows Phone Emulator wasn’t able to set some properties on the virtual machine. Couldn’t change Memory of the virtual machine”. I got this both on a Windows 8 machine (non-virtualized) and on Parallels on a Mac. It took a while to find a solution for Parallels. I had followed all the instructions they provided here. The emulator would start, display the error message, and close as soon... Continue reading →