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Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:46 AM

Free Online Course: BizTalk 2006 for Developers (Self-paced course)

I just found this free course on MSDN, amongst others that are offered for free. I am in the process of getting smarter on BizTalk 2006, so that I can understand it from an SOA perspective and have been looking for as many free resources to help me get
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Friday, June 29, 2007 8:35 PM

Free Online ASP.NET in C# Tutorial

Our friends at MSDN have been so good as to release a multi-chapter online tutorial on how to build ASP.NET solutions in C#. So, although I would not call this a "Beginners" tutorial, in that you are going to need to understand either some C#, VB.NET,
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Friday, June 29, 2007 10:28 AM

Fun game using Virtual Earth & Silverlight

Rob from the Public Sector Virtual Earth team just sent me an email pointing to a game called "Destroy All Invaders" where you fly around in a helicopter shooting down flying saucers that have invaded the earth. The game was created by Andy Beaulieu .
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:34 PM

Find out how Microsoft deployed Windows Server 2008 (BETA 3) to run Microsoft.com

If you or your company is thinking about what Windows Server 2008 (code name: Longhorn) in your environment, but are not quite sure what to expect from a scalability and availability perspective. Well, check out how the Microsoft.com team is putting their
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:40 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL (June)

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can download the deck here and code here . -Marc Technorati Tags: LINQ
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:33 PM

How to get (for FREE) SQL Server 2008 CTP

I just got an email from a friend of mine asking how he could get his hands on SQL Server 2008 "Beta." Well, we don't have a BETA per se, since over the past year or so Microsoft has been trying to be more "transparent" on our software releases/progress,
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:14 AM

FOLLOW UP: What's new for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 Developer Dinner

Thanks to everyone who attended and stuck it out for the close to 2 hour presentation! The deck is available here and the code is here . If you liked what you saw in the brief LINQ to SQL demo, then you might want to attend my Introduction to LINQ + LINQ
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 6:48 PM

What's new for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 (Developer Dinner Presentation location)

For those of you who attended the Developer Dinner tonight (6/26/07), you can find the presentation materials here . If you liked what you saw and want to share what you saw with coworkers and friends, please register for Marcs web cast presentation of
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:43 PM

Building WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Services with WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) - Recorded Web Cast

I've just viewed a very interesting web cast (hosted by Channel9) by Pravin Indukar (Program Manager for Microsoft), where he talks about how WCF and Workflow are integrated in Visual Studio 2008. I've done quite a bit with both WCF and Workflow (even
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Monday, June 25, 2007 10:11 AM

Patterns for Supporting Information Cards on Web Sites

By Nigel Watling | Technical Evangelist | DPE This is the Webcast postponed from June 12 Audience(s): Developer. Duration: 90 Minutes Start Date: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Register Here Users of Web sites today face
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:01 AM

How to get a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 (VB.NET)

Microsoft is offering a "free copy" of Visual Studio 2005 Standard, an estimated retail value of $299.00. Well, it's almost free, you have to register and watch two FREE VB.NET Lab Cast. Not a bad deal: You can learn something and get a free copy of Visual
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Friday, June 22, 2007 2:13 PM

Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation Rules -- Aftercast...

Thanks everyone for joining our Webcast this morning. Per my promise please find below a link to the PPT (Also available for download from the Webcast itself) and pointer to sample code. PowerPoint Deck , External Ruleset Toolkit , All Samples I hope
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Friday, June 22, 2007 10:44 AM

WPF "crash course"

If you are looking for a nice quick way of understanding some of the WPF fundamentals, then head over to Josh Smith's blog . Josh does a great job of explaining concepts like routed events, dependency properties, and attached properties. Definitely worth
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Friday, June 22, 2007 9:04 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL (June)

June 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities,
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:19 PM

FOLLOW UP: New York Developer Conference

On behalf of James, Joel, and myself, I would like to thank everyone who attended the Public Sector Developer Conference in New York City. Here are the downloads: Implement the Process: Real World SDLC Using Visual Studio Team System - deck Building Office
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:00 PM

BizTalk Services Explained

John Shewchuck & Dennis Pilarinos have a video over at Channel 9 explaining BizTalk Services here . I just watched it. If buzzwords like SOA and ESB grab your ear, then you will want to check out this video. -Marc
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:48 PM

Wanna learn how to build SilverLight solutions?

If so, check out the tutorials on this site, it looks great and is done in SilverLight 1.0. Much "props" to the developer Celso Gomes! Here's the link: http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ ~ Robert Shelton
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:41 PM

Best Practices for using VB6 and VB.Net (Visual Basic.NET) together...

This is an article that outlines the best practices for using VB6 and VB.NET code in the same project, albeit not in the same IDE. It outlines how to build "COM Callable Wrappers" to allow communication between the VB6 and .NET code and has sample code.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:55 PM

Writing code against WSS (Windows SharePoint Service) 3.0

An interesting 2 part article has just been published by Patrick Tisseghem of U2U, on writing custom code for Widows SharePoint Service 3.0 which is the underlying technology to MOSS 2007. Here's the summary of the article: "Learn the skills you need
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:53 AM

Community Kit for SharePoint 2.0 Pre-Release announcement

Head on over to the SharePoint team's blog to read about the newly pre-released Community Kit for SharePoint. -Darryl Technorati Tags: SharePoint , MOSS , Microsoft , Blog , Wiki , Web 2.0
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Monday, June 18, 2007 4:29 PM

WPF/E CTP to Silverlight upgrade issues?

I've had a couple people mention to me that they did not have a pleasant upgrade from ctp experience. Details and fix are here . -Marc
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:54 PM

Developer Dinner, Reston Va.: What’s new for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 (codename: Orcas)

When : June 26, 2007 6:00PM – 8:00PM Where: Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Register today! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343813&Culture=en-US or call 1-877-MSEVENT
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 7:00 PM

Have ever had trouble remembering the Keyboard Shortcuts to some application?

Is so, check this site out: www.kbshortcuts.com . It's got tons of application shortcuts in it and if you are like me, you want to take your hands off of the keyboard as little as possible when you are working. Thanks Emad for telling me about the site
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:30 PM

Interesting article on "Hosting and Consuming WCF Services"

WCF has been out for a while now, but I just found an interesting article (circa March 2007, revised May 2007) which talks about all of the options for hosting or supporting your service using: Self-hosting IIS as a Host Windows Service (aka., NT Service)
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 8:33 PM

Video of WCF and Workflow in Visual Studio 2008

I just viewed a great, almost all demo presentation (recorded video) of building Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation applications in Visual Studio 2008 (code name: "Orcas"). This was presented last week (June 7, 2007) @ TechEd 2007.
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Friday, June 15, 2007 4:50 PM

Using Windows Workflow Foundation for UI flow

Matt Winkle introduced a sample solution called PageFlow which shows how to implement UI flow using the Windows Workflow Foundation. More details about the sample are at Matt's blog . Shelly Guo has a nice demo of PageFlow on Channel 9 here . I just watched
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Friday, June 15, 2007 4:21 PM

WPF Hands On Lab demonstrating how to build an Outlook clone

Some of the WPF sample applications you have seen probably don't resemble the type applications you plan on building. Some of these examples are a bit gratuitous in their use of WPF features because they are trying to show what is possible. Sometimes,
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Friday, June 15, 2007 2:47 PM

Webcast Schedule for July 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE Ju ly 2, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Building Custom Document Workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Robert Shelton Developers
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Friday, June 15, 2007 11:22 AM

Testing a WPF UI

I get asked about automated testing of WPF apps quite often. WPF has a nice feature called UI Automation. From the UI Automation Overview page on MSDN: "Microsoft UI Automation is the new accessibility framework for Microsoft Windows, available on all
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Friday, June 15, 2007 11:13 AM

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

V1 of the IE Developer Toolbar is available. One of the many features that Public Sector developers will find useful is a Section 508 checker. More here . -Marc
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Friday, June 15, 2007 10:49 AM

Learn how to build document workflow in MOSS 2007 (Live Web cast on June 19th)

When Tuesday, June 19th @ 10:30A EST , Register by clicking here (For our West Coast friends) Tuesday, July 2 @ 2:00PM EST/11:00A PST, Register by clicking here What This talk will focus on one of the most commonly asked questions about SharePoint (MOSS
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:31 PM

New Code Samples and Articles for the Virtual Earth v5.0 SDK

http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2007/06/12/121.aspx There's a nice link in this post to an article on "Converting From VE4 to VE5." -Marc
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Monday, June 11, 2007 2:02 PM

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector which is available at http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector . The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Project Server 2007 Connector is designed
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Friday, June 08, 2007 7:27 PM

Walk through on how to build a "Vista like" interface (button in this case) with Microsoft Expression Design

The people at the Microsoft Expressions team have (using their blog) shown a great walk through on how to build Vista-like buttons using Microsoft Expression Design. What is Microsoft Expressions Design you ask? Well, it is a new product by Microsoft
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:23 PM

Introduction to Service Factory

Guest Presenter: Don Smith | Product Manager | Patterns & Practices The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:28 PM

"MUST HAVE" IE7 addin

I usually don't blog about non dev related stuff, nor do I usually plug non Microsoft products. However, I have been using IE7Pro for a few days now and just love all the enhancements it adds to IE7. Many of the enhancements are available in separate
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:02 PM

Windows Mobile 6 Resources for Developers

Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh The Refresh SDK replaces the RTM SDK launched on March 1 st and includes the latest emulator images, new documentation/samples and a number of bug fixes. Standalone, Localized Emulator Images Available in 24 languages, the
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:15 PM

New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit version released

Details here . -Marc
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:40 PM

On-Demand Webcasts for May

The on-demand webcast page has been updated to include the webcasts that were recorded in May. As a reminder, the on-demand link is the same as the original webcast link. So, you don't have to wait for us to update the web page before you view the recording.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:11 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight (06JUN07)

Thanks to everyone who attended. Links to download my code & deck are here . The tool to help configure Blend to work seamlessly with Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 is here . There were some questions I wasn't able to answer during today's webcast.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:30 PM

What's new in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 for Smart Client Developers?

I've been spending a bit of time getting spun up on what's new in the .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008. With all the buzz around Silverlight & ASP.NET AJAX, you may not have heard about the new tools, APIs, and services for Smart Clients.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:43 AM

BizTalk Adapter for Windows Workflow Foundation sample (June 2007 CTP)

Pretty cool, there WILL be a solution for hosting Windows Workflow Foundation workflows in BizTalk Server 2006. Paul Andrew has more details here . -Marc
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Monday, June 04, 2007 1:43 PM

US Government Per Diem Rates Gadget: Building a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget using ASP.NET AJAX

UPDATE: Modified second to last paragraph with pointer to http://gallery.live.com . Added a design goal to the list. I was asked by someone in my management chain, let's call them Manager X, to build a sample Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that would be
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Monday, June 04, 2007 10:41 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight

June 6th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Microsoft Silverlight is a technology for delivering rich, cross-platform interactive experiences for the Web and beyond. Silverlight will enable the creation of rich, visually stunning and interactive content
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:12 PM

Virtual Tech-Ed 2007 (If you were not able to make it)

Tech-Ed is one of Microsoft's most popular Developer Conferences. Unfortunately, unless you are in Orlando, Fl. or have a travel budget to get you there and you have tickets, you don't get to see some of the Microsoft "Goodness" shown at the conference.
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