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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:07 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry about the demo hiccups / going over.  As I mentioned in the beginning, I had a hard time trying to get everything I wanted to cover into 90 minutes.  As you can see, there's quite a bit in the ASP.NET
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:40 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - June 4, 2008, Nashville, TN

Venue Microsoft Nashville Office 2555 Meridian Blvd., Suite 300 Franklin, TN 37067 Date & Time June 4, 2008 9:00AM – 4:00 PM EST Registration Information: Click here About the Conference Join us for a day of developer-oriented technical sessions,
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:32 PM

Microsoft Rich Internet Applications Dinner - May 28, 2008 - Reston, VA

Rich Internet Applications Dinner Microsoft Silverlight for Designers & Developers May 28, 2008 - 6:00PM – 8:00PM Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Register today! http://www.microsoft.com/events
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:07 PM

Microsoft ESP Developer Conference - May 22, 2008 - Reston, VA - YOU ARE INVITED!!

Register today to attend this special event!! Venue Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Parkway Reston, VA 20190 Date & Time May 22, 2008 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST Registration Information Click here About the Conference Join
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:37 PM

Windows HPC Server 2008 - Jumpstart event - Reston, VA - June 18, 2008

HPCPAL Jumpstart Event - June 18, 2008 Reston , VA Microsoft Office You are invited to participate in our HPCPAL Jumpstart technical training series for IT Pro's and Developers. These are one-day immersion style events that can help you get the technical
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:30 PM

Government Resources Section in MSDN Flash – Update your profile - Reminder!

The MSDN Flash newsletter can now be personalized to receive content relevant to developers who work for the government (directly or indirectly). Please update your profiles today by selecting ‘Government Resources’ in the Topics of Interest section to
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:35 PM

Government data - programmatic access?

Microsoft Public Sector DPE is looking for a few good API's. Are you aware of any government data that is available via a public API? (Web Services, REST, JSON or other...) If you are please send me a note, or respond via comment on this blog.  My
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:50 AM

Silverlight 2 WrapPanel and ViewBox

These are two controls I hear people ask for that aren't currently shipping in Silverlight 2 (as of Beta 1).  However, since anyone can build a Silverlight control you have to think someone has built these right?  They have.  Here are the
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:31 AM

What is this Live Mesh and why do I care as a developer?

Well, I am not going to try to answer that:).  No seriously, the best way to get this question answered is to watch a MUST SEE video on Channel 9 called Programming the Mesh .  One of the many scenarios I think you'll find interesting is using
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:21 AM

Consolas Font: BEST Font for writing code!!!

"The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified." Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual
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Friday, April 25, 2008 11:22 PM

Open XML Format SDK - April CTP

"Open XML formats are useful for developers because they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Microsoft provides a library for accessing these files as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:41 AM

WEBCAST: Overview of the Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target: Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:18 AM

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on Silverlight 2

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the download links I promised: Deck: Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 Code: My Digg Sample The sample app is based on Scott Guthrie's First Look at Silverlight 2 blog series. 
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:57 PM

Writing Secure Code - AUSTIN ATTENDEES ONLY

Thank you for attending this all-day event. Glad you found it useful. Apparently the material didn't make it to you, the other way, so here it is via the blog... this link will be available for the next 7 days only. Download here --> Writing Secure
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:24 PM

WEBCAST: Microsoft Software + Services and Government

The Software + Service approach is a confluence of multiple industry phenomena including SaaS, SOA, and Web 2.0. While different vendors are evolving their offerings from different starting points, the entire industry is converging on the Software + Service
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:55 AM

LINQ to SQL: Answers to Frequently asked Questions (FAQ)

Came across this Q&A that you may find very informative...  check it out: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2769747&SiteID=1 Joel
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:51 PM

SCREENCAST: Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part I

When the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) was first introduced in the .NET Framework 3.0, the only way to host a workflow in a client application was to use the WorkflowRuntime class programmatically, start the runtime, and create/start an instance of
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:13 AM

NEW RELEASE: Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper

I am happy to announce that we have a new release of the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper to bring Intellisense in sync with the new Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1 .  In addition to 6.1 compatibility, we also made the following enhancements:
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Monday, April 14, 2008 4:30 PM

VE JavaScript Intellisense Helper bug & workaround

A bug has been discovered when using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper where JavaScript Intellisense fails to surface in a very common scenario.  The scenario is when you have declared a page level map variable.  You will get
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Friday, April 11, 2008 7:24 PM

Webcast Schedule for May 2008

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE May 2 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Software + Services and SLG Centralized Services Patrick Weikle Joel Reyes Developers May
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Friday, April 11, 2008 4:49 PM

SCREENCAST: Exposing/Consuming RSS/ATOM using WCF 3.5 & Silverlight 2

In this screencast, I show you how easy it is to expose RSS and Atom feeds using the new Web Programming Model (REST) features, classes in the new System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace, and LINQ to SQL in the .NET Framework 3.5.  Then, you will
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Friday, April 11, 2008 12:32 PM

Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1

The control has been releases / is publicly available.  Chris Pendleton has the details in his post titled New Virtual Earth API Release - Virtual Earth 6.1 .  The Virtual Earth Interactive SDK & full Virtual Earth SDK have not been update,
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 6:28 PM

WEBCAST: Microsoft Open XML Format (Developer Overview and Standardization Update)

Now that OOXML (ISO/IEC 29500) has become an ISO standard, government agencies interested in committing document creation, management, and archiving to a standard format have OOXML. Microsoft in particular offers a set of " Platformic " tools
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:54 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Thanks to Scott Caulk from IDV Solutions for being a guest presenter.  You can find Scott's deck here .  Scott also asked I post the following links for those of you who want further information: IDV Solutions
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:40 PM

US Mobility Metro/Firestarter Developer Events

The following are FREE Developer Events !!! Mobility Metro is a 3 day hands-on lab or 1 day seminar that covers the detailed points about building applications on the Windows Mobile platform. It covers tools such as Visual Studio 2008, the .NET Compact
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:30 PM

Service Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008

During the recent Public Sector Developer Conference in Washington, DC, I was asked about tools support, beyond the class designer, for modeling WCF services.  My answer was to use the Service Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 from
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:48 PM

Launch Hands On Labs

I have received a few requests looking for the HOLs from the Windows Server 2008 / Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Launch events.  I just found out they are now available at http://heroes.labmanuals.virtualwide.com/ .  - Marc
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:15 PM

Looking for my screencasts?

I've created a new list on my Windows Live Space so you can easily find My Screencasts .  I have a few planned so keep an eye out for new ones soon. - Marc
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Friday, April 04, 2008 1:52 PM

WEBCAST: Geospatially Enabling SharePoint with IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Suite

Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 (MOSS) is rapidly approaching the 100 million licenses sold milestone and SharePoint consulting services are white hot.  IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion software extends SharePoint to create a visual composite
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:31 PM

SCREENCAST: Silverlight 2 DIGG Sample

Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch.  The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. 
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:15 AM

FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Washington, DC)

UPDATE: Added link to LINQ deck Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ session yet, but will update this post when I get it.  However, I did promise
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:44 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Silverlight 2 for Business Applications

Sorry for the slow follow up post.  For those of you looking for Pete's deck from the webcast, it's at http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2008/03/20/Slides-from-Silverlight-for-Business-Applications-Webcast.aspx . 
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:08 PM

Improving the performance of drawing large vector datasets on the Virtual Earth map.

One of the topics that comes up often when I give Virtual Earth programming talks is that there is a point where performance degrades when adding shapes (pushpins, polylines, polygons) to the map.  When depends on the complexity of the shapes you
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:54 AM

Silverlight 2, Accessibility, Section 508, etc.

During my recent Silverlight 2 talks, I have had a handful of questions around building Section 508 compliant applications with Silverlight 2.  I've mentioned that the accessibility features are not in the current beta, but they are coming. 
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