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Tomorrow is the kick-off of the MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow in Parsippany, NJ! Bill Zack and I are excited to spend the afternoon talking with folks about Windows Azure, Microsoft’s new cloud computing platform, and Silverlight 2 application development.
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The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready? Cloud computing, Software plus services, Windows Azure, SQL Services, Live Services, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0 Framework, etc, etc…. Did you miss all of the news
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Hello everyone from sunny southern California! I'm out here with a bunch of my Microsoft peers and others from the local developer community from back east attending the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. As I wake up to sunny
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Next month, Bill Zack and I are going to be kicking off a new series of live events throughout the tri-state area! Many of the great developer events you read about here take place in NYC. Does that leave you with the Lincoln Tunnel blues? Worry
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Back when Silverlight 1.1 (the predecessor to today’s Silverlight 2 release ) was first announced at the Mix ‘07 keynote , I remember being fascinated by the cross-platform .NET Framework aspect of it. As a cross-platform browser plug-in, Silverlight
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Thanks to everyone who attended the Silverlight 2 Fire Starter event in New York City on September 13th . I had a great time helping organize the event and speaking with many of the attendees about Silverlight. There were over 150 folks who made it out
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The next series of MSDN Events are about to kick off! This quarter there will be local stops in Stamford (tomorrow afternoon!!!) , Waterbury, Long Island, and Philadelphia. On the agenda this go round: SQL Server 2008, VSTO, and Silverlight
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Via Shawn Wildermuth , who is in town for the Silverlight Tour: UPDATE [9/23/08 – 9am]: Shawn has decided to cancel the dinner as he is feeling under the weather. He apologizes for the short notice. I’ll let Shawn know that he owes us some good
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The Silverlight 2 Fire Starter in NYC was a big hit over the weekend. Major thanks goes out to our speakers for a job well done: Shawn Wildermuth , Jason Beres , and Todd Snyder . Without them, this event just wouldn’t have been possible!
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Back on August 25th, I announced the Silverlight 2 Fire Starter that will be coming to NYC this Saturday, September 13th. The event registration quickly filled up and we sold out. I’m now happy to announce we managed to obtain a larger room
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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. By using Expression Studio and Visual Studio, designers
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If anyone out there has not had an opportunity to use the NY Times Reader to read the NY Times , you're missing out on a great experience! The Times Reader is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that let's you read the paper on or
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Tomorrow, I get to make a trip to what I think is the most beautiful "big city" in the country: San Francisco. I'll be heading out there with a bunch of fellow Microsoft folks to participate at Sun's JavaOne conference. JavaOne is
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So, I thought Silverlight 2.0 would have it's big coming out party at Mix 08 next week in Vegas. To my surprise, Scott Guthrie published a whole bunch of details about it on last Friday! If you haven't read it already, see his post "
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Last year at the Mix conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft surprised the web world with the announcement of Silverlight 1.1 which supports the .NET framework running cross-platform in the browser! Mix 08 is coming up soon during the first week of March.
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