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Friday, March 30, 2007 9:18 AM

WPF 3D Goodies

I was catching up on some blog reading and came across two posts that I think those of you interested in the 3D feature of WPF will find helpful: Bootcamp Lecture deck from the WPF 3D Team Blog New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation
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Friday, March 30, 2007 8:24 AM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth & ASP.NET AJAX (MARCH)

UPDATE: Changed the url for the collections sharing site to the official Windows Live site. Thanks Rob ! UPDATE2: All of our webcasts are recorded. You can get to the recording by clicking the original registration link of any webcast. The recording for
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:00 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Developing Gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar (MARCH)

Sorry for those of you who expected this post to show up yesterday. You can find my updated deck here and the gadget which uses ASP.NET AJAX for web service calls + client side data binding here . -Marc
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Monday, March 26, 2007 3:11 PM

In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty (and VS Dev tools)

While I don't frequently suggest people study my face, I do suggest that antsy developers interested in discovering what's around the bend take a look at our Visual Studio developer tools roadmap at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb407307.aspx
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Monday, March 26, 2007 1:20 PM

I'm Free - Tommy, the Who, Roger Daltry and Web Access for Team System

Microsoft acquires DevBiz Business Solutions, the makers of the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team System. Here's the good news - TeamPlain is available, at no additional charge, to users who own a Team Foundation Server license. Check out the full
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Friday, March 23, 2007 9:37 AM

WPF Wiki

Check it out here . Man I wish I had this when I started learning WPF! -Marc
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:56 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth & ASP.NET AJAX

UPDATE: CORRECTED THE DATE. SORRY ABOUT THE CONFUSION. When March 29th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032331002&Culture=en-US Note : Audio will be via the
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:54 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Developing Gadgets for the Windows Vista Sidebar (MARCH)

When March 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032331000&Culture=en-US Note : Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:38 AM

Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face

I just finished reading this article over at ars technica. Developers always ask me "why Vista if WPF works just fine on XP SP2?" WPF on Vista is a better experience because of the "plumbing" you will read about in this article. I think this article does
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:15 PM

Webcast Schedule for April 2007

UPDATE: The LINQ+ LINQ to SQL webcast originally on the 26th has been rescheduled to the 24th. Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK TARGET AUDIENCE April 4, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Creating Controls
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:35 AM

(Update) Developer Dinner in Maryland: Adding mapping to apps with Virtual Earth and AJAX (Win a copy of Vista and Office 2007)

When March 22nd, 2007 - 6:30PM – 8:00PM Registration Link http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032333344 Where Greenbelt Marriott 6400 Ivy Lane Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 301-441-3700 Due to an overbooking by the
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:33 AM

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

I just came across this recently published article. A significant portion of it covers accessibility. You'll also want to download the Writing Accessible Web Applications document from MSDN Downloads. The document talks about accessibility with AJAX.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:29 PM

Public Sector Developer Conference - Los Angeles, CA April 11 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Los Angeles , CA to be held on April 11, 2007. Event Date & Time : April 11, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Microsoft Los Angeles Office 333 S Grand
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:29 AM

Get the Windows Vista Aero theme in a Guest OS using Virtual PC 2007

Here's a tidbit I've been meaning to blog about for months... If you install Windows Vista as our guest OS using Virtual PC 2007 (or Virtual Server for that matter), you may initially be disappointed by the fact that you only get the Windows Vista Basic
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:21 AM

Virtual Earth and ESRI Data

One of the questions I get asked about like clockwork when I do Virtual Earth programming sessions to government customers is "How do I get my 'ESRI data' onto the map?" I always caveat that I don't know much about ESRI products. I then tell people that
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:30 AM

Expression Blend Release Candidate is out!

More here .
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:40 PM

Visual FoxPro 1984-2007...A moment of silence please...

It's official, after almost 6 years of speculation, the era of Visual FoxPro (formerly FoxBASE and FoxPro) is coming to an end. Those of you who, like myself, once proudly proclaimed "I am a PROFESSIONAL FoxPro programmer" or more recently Visual FoxPro,
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:41 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to WPF (13MAR07)

UPDATE: I promised I would post the running list of WPF controls and XAML capable tools. Mike Swanson keeps it here . Thanks to everyone who attended. You can download my deck here . The demos & code I showed (plus more) are all available from http://wpf.netfx3.com/files/default.aspx
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Monday, March 12, 2007 7:00 PM

How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: For those who want to expirement with MOSS 2007

So, I like many others, have been spending some time trying to get smart on all that is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (aka. MOSS 2007), you know the "new SharePoint Portal" as it were. As a side note, it's much more than an upgrade for SharePoint
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:20 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation

When March. 23rd 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032330992 Note : Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract Windows Presentation
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:28 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Vista has released

This update is for those developers who are doing Visual Studio 2005 development ON the Windows Vista platform. Meaning, if you have the Visual Studio 2005 IDE installed on your Windows Vista desktop. Here's the link for the update download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=90E2942D-3AD1-4873-A2EE-4ACC0AACE5B6&mg_id=10111&displaylang=en
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:21 AM

Give Microsoft input on its web sites, products and services...oh, and get PAID to do it.

Microsoft is looking for members of the technology and business community who would be willing to provide Microsoft with their valuable insight on Microsoft web sites, products and service. If you join and participate in an online discussion group, you
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:08 AM

SandCastle March CTP: Code Documentation "MSDN style"; you can even add video.

SandCastle is a documentation compiler for managed class libraries, that will output your comments/documentation with a MSDN "look and feel". Here's the link to the March CTP: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE-A715-696E3A4873B2&mg_id=10111&displaylang=en
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:42 AM

New Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets

Microsoft has released a new set of code snippets for Visual Studio 2005 for developers who are building around the Office 2007 UI. From the download site: Overview This download includes Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# code snippets for
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:45 AM

DESIGNER Dinner event in Reston, VA: Design cutting-edge UI with Microsoft Expression Blend (Win Vista Ultimate + Office Ultimate)

When March 21st, 2007 - 6:00PM – 7:30PM Registration Link http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032332975 Where Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 What Do you collaborate
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:35 AM

ASP.NET AJAX based Virtual Earth server control alpha available

If you've attended any of my Virtual Earth presentations, then you've heard me talk about and show a prototype of an ASP.NET AJAX based Virtual Earth server control. Chris Pietchsmann has released an alpha of his PietschSoft.VE v2 control. Have a look
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:52 PM

More SharePoint Products & Technologies Resources

In the spirit of SharePoint-focused resource centers hosted on various blog sites, like Lamont Harrington's SharePoint Products & Technologies Resource Center , which, during its time, provided invaluable resources around SharePoint Portal Server
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Monday, March 05, 2007 8:22 AM

(Updated) Built in "Zip" compression for the .NET Framework

So, I must admit, I thought that if I wanted to build ZIP (compression) into a .NET Application, that I would have to use some 3rd party control, like WinZIP. Well, I just learned today, that NO, it's actually built into the framework. Check out this
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Friday, March 02, 2007 7:33 PM

Visual FoxPro CTP just released...that's right Visual FoxPro still exists!

Yes, Microsoft still is producing and improving on one of our most historically popular developer platforms: Visual FoxPro. Many of you, like me, started out as xBase programmers (dBase, FoxBase, Clipper...gosh I can't remember them all.) Anyway, for
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Friday, March 02, 2007 8:52 AM

New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

There are two new controls (ListSearch and SlideShow). They've also added support for localization, JavaScript comment/whitespace stripping, and ASP.NET Themes/Skins. The details are at http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/03/02/lost-sk-in-translation-ajax-control-toolkit-update.aspx
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Friday, March 02, 2007 8:40 AM

"How Do I?" Videos for SQL Server 2005 Express

I've heard from lots of customers who really like the ASP.NET "How Do I?" videos. I think they are a great way to learn in short spurts. There are a new set of videos for SQL Server 2005 Express here . -Marc
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 6:10 PM

Beginner Developer Learning Center (with free Dev Tools)

I know that none of the people who are subscribed to this blog needs this, but you know that some of the developers on your project team does. :) Seriously, if you have Jr. Developers, Friends, Family who want to learn how to write software but need the
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:54 PM

Visual Studio 2005 SDK version 4.0 is available for download.

The latest and potentially last version of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK's is out and available for download here . Overview of the SDK (From the download site...) This is the official Visual Studio 2005 software development kit that allows developers to
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:19 PM

REMINDER: MSDN Virtual Labs (they keep growing and growing)

Virtual Labs are a great FREE way to get your hands dirty using new technology without having to install all the software. There are a quite a few new labs available since the last time I visited the site. They have labs on Expression, Office 2007 development,
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:11 AM

Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B533619A-0008-4DD6-9ED1-47D482683C78&displaylang=en Downloading it myself right now. I'm looking forward to digging in and sharing what's new:). UPDATE: Thom Robbins has a great summary of what's
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