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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:20 PM

AJAX programming in Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets

I've been talking to a few customers about gadget programming recently. I've also been doing some gadget programming myself to get ready for my webcast this month on the topic. One of the first things people ask me about gadget programming, once they
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:16 PM

Building Connected Systems with Vista demo's from the Vista/Office 2007 launch.

For those of you who attended the Windows/Vista Launch in Washington, DC (or other cities throughout the US), I wanted to let you know where you can get the demonstration code, and other items, mentioned in the Building Connected Systems talk that I did
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:26 PM

User Experience demos at the DC Vista / Office launch dev track

Thanks to everyone who attended! I've received a number of emails regarding the demos from my User Experience session at the DC Launch yesterday. There are a ton of code samples / demos available with the Windows SDK . The "healthcare prototype" and "Woodgrove
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:44 AM

Office Business Applications

Office Business Applications (OBAs) are an emerging class of business applications connecting line-of-business systems with the people that use them through various Microsoft Office applications. OBAs enable businesses to improve adoption of their LOB
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:28 AM

Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Reference Posters

We all love those shortcuts in Visual Studio. You know, those handy little programming keystrokes we have all become accustomed to built into the product for most of the functions normally found through the user interface - just like CTRL-C for copy.
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Monday, January 29, 2007 6:01 PM

Microsoft .NET Public Sector Developer Conference - March 22, 2007 Washington, DC

Event Date & Time : March 22, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Washington DC Convention Center Room 152B 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW Washington , DC 20001 About the Conference The 1-day conference co-located with FOSE 2007 comprises Developer-oriented
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Monday, January 29, 2007 3:12 PM

Visual Studio Tools for Office - Round II

Visual Studio Tools for Office is the next generation of tools and API’s for creating document centric solutions. In this Web seminar you will learn how to take advantage of new VSTO v3 features. We will Identify the key features of VSTO, Describe the
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Friday, January 26, 2007 1:32 PM

How much would it cost you to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery? Nuthin' if you're talkin' SQL Express

I'm a natural born fool for free stuff. Better yet, I'm an even bigger fool if the free stuff is worth something. I can't get over how cool SQL Express 2005 is and the cost is, well... free. Here's yet another example of how cool this thing truly is:
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Monday, January 22, 2007 1:52 PM

Are you listening to ARCasts?

Although the ARCast series has been around for over a year, we aren't sure how many Public Sector architects are aware of it. Ron Jacobs has compiled a large collection of audio and video interviews with architects on a wide range of interesting topics.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:55 AM

Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX (with a Twist) - Register and join us to find out!!!

Join us and get first-hand information about AJAX from our guess speaker Keith Smith - Group Product Manager ( Core Web Platform & Tools). --> more detail to come soon! Event Name: Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX Start Date: 1/25/07 Start Time: 11:00
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Friday, January 19, 2007 12:11 PM

SCRUM Process Template for TFS

We always trumpet the extensibility of Team Foundation Server, but I'm in a Satchmo kinda mood today, so bear with me while I trumpet a little more. In case you where unawares - there is a free process template for Team Foundation Server that enacts a
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:30 AM

How NOT to Set up a VPC - Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

And you thought Darwin dreamt all that stuff up by himself. Well, nature might like change, but I don't think it's so cool while I'm in the middle of setting up a VPC. Yesterday as I set up a new VPC, everything starts going wierd on me. Files locked,
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:58 AM

MOSS 2007 Developer Dinner in Maryland on Jan. 23rd

When: January 23, 2007 - 6:00PM – 7:30PM Where: Lockheed Martin 7615 Ora Glen Drive Greenbelt, MD 20770-3642 Register today! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032322687&Culture=en-US or call 1-877-MSEVENT (1-877-673-8368)
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:15 PM

Webcast Schedule for February 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK February 1 , 2007 11:00 -12:30 EST Webcast Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office February 1 , 2007 14:00 -15: 0 0 EST Webcast Understanding the Cost Model
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:53 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Creating Controls with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Thanks to everyone who attended! Sorry for the technical difficulties. I really appreciate the fact that most of you stuck around. I am not sure how/why I dropped of the conference bridge. I'm just glad I was able to get back on before the majority of
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:45 PM

Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office

Come join us to the first in a series of Webcasts exploring development using Visual Studio Tools for Office. This new 2007 Microsoft Office system is a true development platform that provides developers with a wide array of new features upon which they
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:51 AM

More WPFE, Virtual Earth, and AJAX goodness!

I was inspired by WPF/E and "Layering" Content and Using Opacity with a WPFE / Virtual Earth Mashup to try something similar but different. I wanted to be able to show WPFE content (vector graphics, text, and video) on a map when I hover over a pushpin.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:22 AM

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows... New Orcas Specs Published

Seneca is amazingly prescient. I believe he had inside information on Aero perhaps. Then again, maybe not. He lived from 4 B.C.–A.D. 65. Check out this link to see some of the latest specs on Orcas. The Developer Division is bending over backwards to
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Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:39 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Creating Controls with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit (repeat)

When Jan. 16th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30A PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032321906&Culture=en-US Note : Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract The
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Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:43 AM

Web Client Software Factory released

Man the p&p guys are just crankin out releases. Announcement here . -Marc
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Friday, January 12, 2007 12:36 PM

Visual Studio Orcas Jan CTP

This one COMPLETELY flew under my radar. Check out the details here . There are all sorts of goodies in this release. I think the first thing I am going to try out is the JavaScript Intellisense. I'm unpacking the compressed download right now:). UPDATE:
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Friday, January 12, 2007 12:32 PM

AJAX Security

Just about every time I do an ASP.NET AJAX presentation, someone asks me about some question about AJAX security. I always start of by saying, "I'm not an AJAX security expert, but I will do my best to answer your specifc questions..." Well, thanks to
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:43 PM

Webcast: Overview of new Portal features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Heavy on Demonstrations)

When: (Tomorrow) Thursday, January 10 from 11:00A-12:30 Where: Register here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032321904&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Topic: Overview of new Portal features
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:35 PM

Passing data between Master and Content pages in ASP.NET 2.0

I ran across this nice little video (about 2 minutes long) that demonstrates how to pass data between Master Pages and Content Pages in ASP.NET 2.0, using Shared Variables. All demonstration and no PowerPoint! I thought it was worth the investment in
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:59 AM

December release of the Service Factory from patterns & practices is available

By way of Don Smith . Details: http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith/archive/2007/01/09/come-and-get-yer-service-factory.aspx The two features that jumped out at me are support for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and "WSDL-first support." The direct
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:57 PM

.NET 3.0 Crash Course (This is cool!)

I was catching up on some of the latest WPF bloggers out there and noticed this. What a really cool idea! Rob Eisenberg has put together this fantastic, multipart ".NET 3.0 Crash Course" blog series. Have a look here . -Marc
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:54 PM

Virtual Earth webcast follow up

Thanks to everyone who attended! My previous post here has all the information about downloads, etc. -Marc
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:00 AM

New WPF tutorial site

One of the many WPF blogs I follow is www.thewpfblog.com . Lee just blog'd about a new site at www.contentpresenter.com . Read more about it here . BTW, the banner on Lee's site is done with WPF/E. Pretty cool! -Marc
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:36 AM

Where did Mobile Web Forms go?

Are you are building web sites for mobile devices? Did you install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and try to use the new Web Application Projects feature only to find no project templates? Well the Omar Khan posted some templates over at the Your Websites, Our
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Monday, January 08, 2007 7:20 PM

Web Client Software Factory RC is out!

Just noticed by way of Eugenio Pace . If you are building ASP.NET apps, you'll definitely want to take a look at this Software Factory. It's chock full of best practices for building enterprise class web apps. This is the patterns & practices work
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Monday, January 08, 2007 3:06 PM

Microsoft @ The CES

I know that this is a bit off of the "Developer/Architect" focus of our blog site, but if you want to see some interesting new technologies from Microsoft, check out the Microsoft @ CES site: http://microsoftatces.com/ . At the moment they have the Bill
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:08 PM

Registration is open for the MIX07 conference

Mix is "Geared toward Web developers, designers, online advertising professionals and a broad set of partners and customers, MIX will continue to explore how to build more interactive and responsive experiences that take full advantage of the capabilities
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:43 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth (repeat)

Did you miss my webcast on this topic last month? I am doing a repeat next week. If you are interested in adding mapping capabilities to your app, please join me for this webcast next week. When Jan. 9th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 5:39 PM

Microsoft .NET Public Sector Developer Conference - February 14, 2007 Denver, CO

Event Date & Time : February 14, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Microsoft Denver Office 7575 Technology Way, Suite 400 , Denver CO 80237 About the Conference The 1-day conference comprises Developer-oriented technical sessions, featuring Visual
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:24 AM

DC Vista, Office, Exchange Launch Event

Having spoken to a few customers, it has come to my attention many of you in the DC area aren't aware of the launch event we are having this month. The event is open to the public. Did I mention it is free? Many of the folks on our team will be presenting.
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