Moving forward within the software-platform continuum inevitably does (and will) involve taking a closer look at the implications of conceiving software as a service both on premise as well as on the cloud.  As a software visionary it means thinking...

I may have posted about this before, but if you have not yet downloaded this amazing reader do it now... you will be Very Impressed and will find yourself reading MSDN more often than never before. Zero touch deployment makes it a breeze and it is a good...

Technorati Tags: Windows Mobile 6 , Compact Framework , Smartphone , PocketPC , WM6 SDK The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a key part of realizing Microsoft's goal to provide customers with great experiences any time, any place, and on any device...

Windows Mobile 6 offers a great developer experience in Visual Studio 2008. The combined features of WM6 SDK + VS2008 provide excellent new ways for testing your applications for reliability and resiliency. Testing WebServices, however, is not an out...

This is a handy little free tool for sharing documents and screen views with your team, close friends and family from anywhere. It is called Microsoft Sharedview ! You can download it here . You can initiate a session directly from Live Messenger or send...

Join us this Friday, Feb 29, to explore the Microsoft Enterprise Services Bus (ESB)!!! Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its Application Platform including Windows Server 2003, Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0), and BizTalk...

Please join us this coming Friday when Mike Benkovich from MSDN will explore the exciting new Data Access features added to Visual Basic 9. When: Friday, December 7 th 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST Target: Public Sector Developers/Architects Event Description...

This link contains an excellent resource: Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397 - I referenced this in my last two talks... Enjoy! Joel

This Friday @ 2pm EST: Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation are two very relevant technologies within .NET 3.x for Public Sector applications. WCF represents a total unification layer for building connected systems and WF provides a powerful...

If you attended this weeks' conference in Austin you can download the material here !! Thank you for attending we hope you found it useful... Joel Reyes

Please find the deck + demos from the event in this link . Thank you for attending and for asking many good questions. Good Luck! Joel

Please join me tomorrow Friday, October 5th @2:00PM EST to my Webcast where we will discuss these topics within the context of IT consolidation. The title " Cardspace Heading Up! Are You Ready "... perhaps doesn't do any justice to the context...

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...

Visual Studio 2008 delivers key advances for developers in three primary pillars: Improve Developer Productivity Manage the Application Life Cycle Employ the Latest Technologies The developer advancements delivered on these three pillars are achieved...

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 : Now includes workflow in document...

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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This RAP is comprised of a reference architecture and solution that illustrate how an OBA (Office Business Application) can be built to automate and optimize forms processing in a Public Sector organization. The RAP utilizes Microsoft InfoPath 2007, Microsoft...

My peer Robert Shelton posted this on our mother-ship blog http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector so here it is. Very relevant to our State & Local Government (SLG) customers --> http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/06/29/online-asp-net...

Per our Webcast today here is some additional reference information about the Authorization Manager - AzMan Scenario: Expense Report Application http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/12722e06-35d0-46f3-92d8-f6f9b1ee8b861033.mspx?mfr=true...

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...

Just Release! This document describes patterns for implementing Personal Information Card support on Web sites. Web site developers can use this document to create sites that take advantage of Information Cards to improve the ease of use and security...