Round up to QuMIX! Martha Rotter, Robots and plans for world domination

QuMIX, supplemental ;)

Martha Rotter Introduction

Martha is a DPE in Microsoft Ireland, and has a great background in the company. She previousily worked as a Lead SDET (Software Developement Engineer in Test) for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), and a Lead SDET for Silverlight. She has a great enuthasium for technology, and if you have any deep questions about Silverlight - shes the girl to ask!

XNA

XNA Game Studio Express is a new game development solution targeted primarily at students, hobbyists, and independent game developers. XNA Game Studio Express is based on Visual C# Express 2005 and lets developers create games for both Windows and Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express contains the following:

• The XNA Framework, a set of managed code development libraries that make it possible for game developers to be more productive when creating games for Windows and the Xbox 360.
• The XNA Framework Content Pipeline, a set of tools that allow developers to more easily incorporate 3D content into their games
• XNA Game Studio Express also contains a full set of documentation, how-tos, and starter kits that demonstrate how best to use the content pipeline and XNA Framework.
• XNA Game Studio Express runs side-by-side with other versions of Visual Studio without interference
• XNA Game Studio Express has now been released, and can be found here. It supports both Windows and Xbox 360 game development.

Robotics Studio

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. It's also the source of Martha's Power.