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Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:08 PM

How does FREE ASP.NET hosting until January 2010 sound?

Verio is offering a sweet little free hosting deal to developers and designers to promote Microsoft-based hosting for products and technologies like Expression, Visual Studio, and Silverlight. The Plan includes: .NET Framework 3.0 (I am told 3.5 will
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Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:08 PM

ADO.NET Entity Framework - Overview Video

Mike Taulty has a really nice overview video here . I have spent much more time looking at LINQ to SQL than LINQ to Entities (which is just using LINQ queries against the ADO.NET Entity Framework). I plan on digging in to the ADO.NET Entity Framework
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:01 PM

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

Thanks to everyone who attended! If you missed it, you should be able to watch a recording soon here . I've uploaded the updated code & deck to my Windows Live SkyDrive folder here . My list of LINQ resources I find helpful is here . Someone mentioned
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:47 AM

I'm trying to make getting at my "next steps / further learning" resources easier...

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that this post is confusing. Recently, our team moved to individual blogging. My individual blog is at www.devkeydet.com and is hosted on Windows Live Spaces. However, my team still maintains a blog that is
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Monday, August 27, 2007 12:32 PM

MOSS Supports Live Earth - How we built Conservation International's Public Websites (Part 2)

Part 2 of the 2-part series on how we migrated Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 is now online. In this installment, we talk about how we designed and built the Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that
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Friday, August 24, 2007 10:16 AM

WEBCAST: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL

August 29th 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
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:01 PM

New SharePoint Server 2007 SDK - Free Download

Overview The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:42 PM

Seeking Inspiring Stories of ISVs Making a Difference

We’re looking around the globe for inspiring stories of passionate people, developing innovative software solutions, making a meaningful a difference in the world. We believe people and software are key to unlocking some of the biggest global challenges
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Monday, August 20, 2007 2:02 PM

REMINDER: Xceed offers a FREE DataGrid for WPF

Yes, you read that right! Details here . - Marc
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Monday, August 20, 2007 2:00 PM

DotNetBar for WPF

The top three requests I hear from customers regarding WPF controls are something like the DataGridView in WinForms, Office 2007 Ribbon, and behavior similar to how Visual Studio allows you to drag & drop / dock / undock windows like the toolbox,
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Monday, August 20, 2007 10:11 AM

CORRECTION: The ASP.NET Futures DOES have a Go Live license

Well, the internal conversation that lead me to this post continued while I was on vacation. It turns out that the license you agree to when you install the ASP.NET Futures does have the Go Live text. However, the team asked me to remind people that the
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:54 PM

Webcast Schedule for September 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE September 18, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What’s New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers? Jack Bradham Developers September 21, 2007 14:00
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:13 PM

Some of my download links may be broken

Windows Live Folders is now Windows Live SkyDrive ( http://skydrive.live.com ). I started using it in the early beta stages. If I would have read the fine print I would have known that they warned people that the urls would change. Therefore, all of the
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:15 AM

What's new in WPF 3.5?

Tim Sneath has some details here , plus there is a great video that was just published on Channel 9 here . - Marc
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 6:34 PM

MOSS Supports Live Earth - How we built Conservation International's Public Websites

You may recall in a previous post , I wrote about how I led a couple of projects to migrate Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 as well as implement a Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:23 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX

Thanks to everyone who attended! All of my latest VE content is available here . Direct links: Deck VE Map Control (v5) / ASP.NET AJAX Demo Code (requires VS2008 Beta 2) WPF Demo Code (requires VS2008 Beta 2) ClickOnce Deployed WPF Demo (requires that
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:53 AM

Learn more about the new controls in ASP.NET 3.5

If you've seen one of my deliveries of "What's new for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008..." presentation, then you have seen the three new controls in ASP.NET 3.5 (ListView, DataPager, LinqDataSource). Daniel Moth just shared some links here to some
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:10 AM

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

This is a very good overview of how to setup/accomplish development on WSS 3.0. I will be posting a series of Workflow for SharePoint with Visual Studio (Developer Topic) within the next week or so and I often get questions about how to setup my environment
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:33 AM

Excellent video going deep on LINQ to SQL

Charlie Calvert published a video where Matt Warren (C# Principal Architect) & Luca Bolognese (Lead Program Manager) have a very deep discussion of LINQ to SQL internals. I you're like me and you really like to know how all the moving parts work,
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Monday, August 06, 2007 3:51 PM

More JavaScript Intellisense goodies: another great reason to use ScriptManager

I have been tinkering with different JavaScript Intellisense scenarios in Visual Studio 2008. I just stumbled onto a feature I did not know existed thanks to an internal discussion. First, if you use a ScriptManager in your page to reference other JavaScript
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Monday, August 06, 2007 2:57 PM

Visual Studio 2008 ASP.NET/WPF designer vertical split view and multiple monitors

I have a 3 monitor setup at home. Both the WPF & Web (ASP.NET/Html) designers have a "split view" capability which allows you to see markup and the design surface at the same time (and keep them in sync). If you "split" vertically and stretch VS across
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:36 PM

Hands on Labs to help you test out the new WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008

Charles Sterling has put together a great 3 part Hands on Lab where you start off using Visual Studio 2008 and the new WPF Designer (code name "Cider") to build an Browser Application (.xbap). Then, he walks you through how a designer could pick up the
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:58 PM

Does the ASP.NET Futures have a Go Live license?

In short, no. I promised to follow up on this question that was asked in my What's new in Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers webcast this week. The ASP.NET Futures "contains an early developer preview of features providing a wide range of new functionality
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:12 PM

WEBCAST: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth

The Virtual Earth Platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique bird’s eye, aerial, and satellite imagery with best-of-breed mapping, location and search functionality. It enables business to deliver innovative solutions and breakthrough
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 3:08 PM

I'm moving my publicly available downloads to Windows Live Folders

From here on out, I will be uploading all of my publicly available downloads to Windows Live Folders . I have already begun the movement. None of the old links will break, but all new links will point to Windows Live Folders . I've already updated the
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:06 PM

Full JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight 1.0

Visual Studio 2008 has this great new JavaScript Intellisense feature. Now with this addon from Justin Angel , who is an MVP from Israel, you can get full JavaScript Intellisense for Sivlerlight. - Marc
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:45 AM

LINQ & C# 3.0 Hands On Labs

Charlie Calvert , in his post announcing Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, shares some links to LINQ & C# 3.0 Hands On Labs, plus links to the C#3.0 spec and samples. Details here . - Marc
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:28 AM

SQL Server 2008 July CTP

Hot off the presses. You can download it and get more details at https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5395 . The SQL team has put together a really helpful page that shows you a diagram of what's new: When you click on
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