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Friday, September 28, 2007 10:06 AM

More info on LINQ to SQL performance

Soma just blogged about VS 2008 Performance Improvements . There is some good info in his post. One of the things he mentioned was: "For example, with the new LINQ facility we set a goal that LINQ performance be significantly better than using a SqlDataAdaptor
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:31 PM

VSTO Virtual Labs

For those of you not familiar with Virtual Labs, they are a great way to try out technology without having to install a bunch of stuff or download a VPC. As Robert likes to say, "Virtual Labs = Free Training:)." I just came across these Visual Studio
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:45 PM

Answer to questions from Webcast (What's new in WCF+WF in Visual Studio 2008 -> Workflow Services)

1. "Context Exchange Protocol" slide, an instanceID is returned to client. How to deal with load balanced services in that case if the client tries to access service instance on another server? That instance ID is the instance ID of the workflow.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:40 PM

Microsoft Outlook Integration with .NET

I found this great article by Rachel Wireman and how-to documentation on building Outlook integration functionality with C#, and it has downloadable source code. She covers, General Outlook integration issues Creating an Outlook Contact with C# Programmatically
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:55 PM

What's new in Team Foundation Server 2008

Brian Harry, of the TFS team has listed all of the final Team Foundation Server 2008 features on his blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/08/final-tfs-2008-feature-list.aspx . I've published the list of new features in Visual Studio
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:54 PM

What's new in Visual Studio Team System 2008

If you are curious to know what the new features of Visual Studio Team System 2008 (The client to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008), then check out this feature list. Note, there are some features of Team Foundation Server 2008 mentioned, but
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Monday, September 24, 2007 10:46 PM

VS2008 Beta 2, Workflow Services, and Svcutil

For the benefit of those of you experimenting with Visual Studio 2008, particularly building Workflow Services. Visual Studio Beta2 (v9.0.20706.1) has a small flaw involving strong name validation. So if you try to debug say a Sequential Workflow Service
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Monday, September 24, 2007 8:53 AM

How to view my presentations if you do not have Office 2007

Recently, at the National Association of Government Webmasters conference , a few people tried to download my presentations, but could not open them. As you might guess, I use Office 2007. All of my recent presentations have been saved in the new file
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Monday, September 24, 2007 12:55 AM

Did You Know? Microsoft leverages Windows Workflow Foundation Technology in 6 Mayor Product Releases

These are six products for which Microsoft is leveraging the power of the Workflow Foundation Engine: BizTalk Server : Next Major Version - known internally as V.Next will use the WF runtime. Office SharePoint Server 2007 : Public Beta now includes workflow
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Friday, September 21, 2007 11:43 AM

Virtual Earth Road Show - Reminder - Limited seats available in all locations - Register TODAY!!

The US Public Sector DPE Team, in partnership with the Public Sector Virtual Earth & Vexcel Teams, is excited to announce the Virtual Earth Road Show! Event Date & Location: Date & Time Location Registration Link October 3, 2007 9:00 AM –
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Friday, September 21, 2007 6:39 AM

WEBCAST: What's New in the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation in Visual Studio 2008

September 26th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:34 PM

I'm at the National Association of Government Webmasters conference

I'm here to present sessions on Silverlight & Virtual Earth. I just sat through an EXCELLENT session on accessibility: "Section 508 / W3C Standards - Zoe Gillenwater Starting with a general overview of the W3C/ Section508 standards and guidelines,
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:11 PM

Free SharePoint Document Workflow Workshop - Part 4 on Workflow Task

The fourth and most likely final (they take a lot of time to write) part of this workshop series tackles one of the most common questions that I run into with SharePoint developers. The question revolves around creating, sending (via email), and handling
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:04 AM

MOSS 2007 Records Management Deployment and Configuration (Virtual Lab)

Since Records Management is a HOT topic these days for people in the SharePoint world, I thought that you might be interested in a free Virtual Lab that Microsoft has been offering for you to get your "Hands wet" in a safe/virtual way. Microsoft gives
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:02 PM

Why can't I just embed assemblies built using VSTO in the document?

Joel Reyes has been doing Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) presentations at our dev conferences and as webcasts. During our conference in Juneau, AK, someone in the audience asked him something to the effect of: "The new Office 2007 file formats
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:23 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers

Thanks to everyone who attended. I'd also like to thank Jack Bradham for presenting! Jack's deck is available here . I've asked Jack to come back and do some code focused deeper dives on the foundational topics he covered today. Stay tuned in the coming
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:39 PM

How do I freeze an ASP.NET GridView header?

This question came up at the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK. I'm trying to answer all customer questions like this via my blog so everyone has the benefit of the answer. There are a number of ways to do it, but my favorite (because
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:00 AM

A salute to our troops...

Microsoft Corporation in partnership with the United Service Organizations (USO) is recognizing the contributions of the military community – the friends, family, and other individuals who support U.S. troops throughout the world – with the creation of
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Monday, September 17, 2007 4:23 PM

OBA E-Forms processing in the Public Sector

In the majority of the Public Sector organizations today, forms processing is a highly manual, paper intensive, and labor intensive undertaking. Technology and automation provide numerous opportunities to optimize related end-to-end processes that could
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Monday, September 17, 2007 9:09 AM

Free Download: Visual Basic (.NET) 2005 Power Packs 2.0

Last week Microsoft released version 2.0 of the Visual Basic (.NET) Power Pack, and is freely downloadable here: Click to go to download . Here's an overview of what's in it: Overview The new Line and Shape controls included in this version of the Visual
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 11:54 AM

Free SharePoint Document Workflow Workshop - Part 3 (ASP.NET Workflow Forms continued)

In Part 2 of this workshop series, I focused on how to allow Administrators to set the "Default Behavior" of a document workflow using the Association Form. For this (Part 3) of the workshop series I will focus on how to prompt a normal (non-Administrator)
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Friday, September 14, 2007 12:13 PM

Webcast Schedule for October 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE October 5, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Security: CardSpace Heating Up! Are You Ready? Joel Reyes Developers October 16, 2007 14:00 -15:30
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:37 PM

WEBCAST: What New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers

Jack Bradham will be presenting on my behalf. I'll be on the webcast to introduce Jack and help out. I'm looking forward to this one myself:). September 18th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) This session will present new features in SQL Server 2008
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:15 PM

SharePoint Conference 2008 Registration is now open.

We are pleased to announce that registration for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 is now open! You requested to be notified when registration became available, so we invite you to join us for this monumental event by registering today! The event
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:45 AM

Free SharePoint Document Workflow Workshop - Part 2 (ASP.NET Workflow Forms)

In Part 1 of the Workshop series, I focused on how to get your Development Environment configured and how to build a basic document workflow for SharePoint using Visual Studio. In Part 2, I am expanding on the subject by tackling the subject of " getting
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Monday, September 10, 2007 3:36 PM

Free Workshop: SharePoint Document Workflow for Developers - Part 1

I have written and will start releasing this week, a series of Workshops on "How to build document workflow for SharePoint with Visual Studio." I will release them via my blog ( www.sheltonblog.com ), see below for details. This series of workshops are
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Monday, September 10, 2007 9:52 AM

Capital Architect Regional Conference 2007

When: October 8-9th Where: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC Registration link: Register online here Description of the Conference: The response to the Washington DC ITARC has been amazing. Attendance is way up thanks to many organizations sending their
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:22 AM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Denver, CO - October 18, 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Denver, CO to be held on October 18, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Event Date & Time : October 18, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:13 AM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Anchorage, AK - September 13, 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK to be held on September 13, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Event Date & Time : September 13, 2007 , 9:00
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:56 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Juneau, AK September 12, 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Juneau, AK to be held on September 12, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Event Date & Time : September 12, 2007 , 9:00
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:33 PM

Virtual Earth Road Show

The US Public Sector DPE Team, in partnership with the Public Sector Virtual Earth & Vexcel Teams, is excited to announce the Virtual Earth Road Show! Event Date & Location: Date & Time Location Registration Link October 3, 2007 9:00 AM –
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:41 PM

Looking for recordings of my webcasts?

I get emails from people periodically asking for recordings of my previous webcasts. Now that I have my own blog/site (my stuff gets aggregated to this one), I decided to go ahead and create a list so I can just point people to a single URL. The list
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:54 PM

Accessibility Kit for SharePoint

I just caught this over on the SharePoint Blog . This is HUGE for the US Public Sector! "Microsoft has hired HiSoftware as a vendor to develop the Accessibility Kit for MOSS 2007, also known as Accessibility Kit for SharePoint or AKS . The decision was
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:28 PM

Picture Services 1.1 - Building RESTful and Syndication (RSS, ATOM) Services with WCF

"Pictures Services is a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that is returns pictures from the computer in which the service is being hosted. The Picture Services 1.1 sample demonstrates the following: How to build a Syndication Service
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:31 AM

Silverlight 1.0 Released and Silverlight for Linux Announced

I know everyone and their sister will be blogging this today so sorry if you've already read this a bagillion times. Scott Guthrie has the details here . The coolest thing is that we are officially endorsing the Moonlight project so that: "we are announcing
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:11 AM

Becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)

It's been a long time since I have looked at certifications. The last tests I took were for my VB6 based MCSD and SQL 2000. Recently, a customer asked me for advice about getting the MCPD certification. Since it's been a while, I surfed around a bit and
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