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ARCast.TV - Improving User Experience in Digital Signage Solutions with Silverlight In this interview, Tim Meinhardt, Colin Ploscaru, and Juan Calcagno at TTSS discuss with Zhiming Xue why they became interested in adopting new technologies like Silverlight...

Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks When designing and developing frameworks, it can be challenging to create them in a fashion that enables them to evolve over time. Krzysztof Cwalina , a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, discusses...

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Ignite a Positive Reaction MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT OF TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER WITH FREE LIVE WORKSHOPS. There is continual pressure for IT departments to accomplish more for the business with fewer resources. Make sure your business application development...

Another great event in Pittsburgh is coming up.  This one is for both IT Pros and Developers.   Pittsburgh, PA Tuesday March 24, 2009 Waterfront 22 300 Waterfront DR W West Homestead, PA 15120         Join us for a free day...

Well…..free for a while anyway.   Microsoft Web Hosting has some great offers for people who want a first class hosting environment.  60 days free hosting, a $100 credit for Microsoft adCenter search advertising and a FREE copy of Microsoft...

Microsoft Surface is one of the most exciting technologies to come out of Redmond in some time.  In case you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch, multi-user operating system that interacts with real world objects...

I just got the email about several special licensing offers to help our customers out during this difficult economic climate.  Here is the email with a link to the Visual Studio Website where you can take advantage these offers. Special Offers for...

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Network Instruments is bringing their “Destination: Performance” seminar to the city of brotherly love.  This seminar is touring through 10 major cities across the U.S. to help network administrators more easily and...

The Freedom rolled through Harrisburg, PA today as Lindsay, Dani and I spread the message of S+S.  You can download my slide decks here: S+S Architecture Overview Windows Azure: A Platform for Cloud Computing The Harrisburg community is alive and...

Windows Azure created quite a buzz coming out of our PDC this past Fall.  We have seen tremendous interest in this platform for cloud computing evidence by the number of developers signing up for the CTP.  We are keeping the momentum going with...

Microsoft continues to champion developer freedom this first quarter of 2009 with more and better live events!  We have 2 types of events: The MSDN Freedom Roadshows will run on weekdays from 1 pm to about 8 pm. We are changing the time so that you...

Our friends at Lab49 continue to lead the way with WPF development.  This video on architecting a WPF application is really worth the watch.  Check it out.

Microsoft acquired a voice search company called TellMe in March 2007.  Now, almost 2 years later, I still find people who have never experienced the service so I thought I’d post about it.  TellMe is the worlds largest VoiceXML platform. ...

You owe it to yourself to see this talk with David Platt, author of Why Software Sucks .  David does a great job of pointing out anti-principles of software development and how to avoid them.  Check it out.

I just visited today with a local Microsoft partner (local to me, anyway) Mogisitc that has built an interesting content management system Contentivity .  Microsoft has always depended upon a thriving partner ecosystem where really smart people build...

Microsoft’s SilverLight tightens the screws on Adobe Flash? ITBusinessNet January 20, 2009; by Matthew David http://softwaredev.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=630745

Thanks to Sanjay for saving me the time of writing this up myself.  :) http://blogs.msdn.com/sanjayjain/archive/2009/01/24/technology-forum-of-delaware-cloud-computing-session-by-david-solivan.aspx

  MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Pittsburgh, PA Hey all.  The MSDN Freedom Roadshow has already rolled through Scranton and Pittsburgh and the next stop is Harrisburg, PA!  These events are proving to be a great way to keep up with technology...

Breaking news!!! Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. Note:  The Windows 7 DVDs will not be ready to hand out in time for the events happening in December, but we’ll definitely mail them out to...

One of the few shows to NEVER jump the shark recently poked some fun at a certain technology company that is enjoying great success in the personal device space.  I will let the animated characters speak for themselves.

Ok, so I have a friend who I follow on Twitter and recently I noticed that she (the goddesslike Asli Bilgin) was automatically forwarding her Facebook status updates to Twitter.  Each post was preceded by “Book of Faces” which is really, really Asli...

One of the things I love about working at Microsoft is the number of specialized roles that work together to bring the power of software to the world.  We have engineers, salespeople, technical specialists, technical evangelist and many more roles;...

  I often talk to architects who are frustrated when trying to find good material relevant to their field, particularly from Microsoft.  For instance, we just held a very successful Professional Developer Conference whose title seems to indicate...