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Here are this weeks headlines from Innovation Showcase . Lots of news on Office and SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure. Programming Microsoft Office 2010: Getting Started with Office 2010 Solutions The IE6–IE8 Technet Webcast Upgrade Series Prism Updated for Silverlight 4 Patterns...

Innovation Showcase headlines 06.01.2010 – Stay on top of the latest news, views and technology updates. This weeks articles focus on Windows Azure, Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010, Windows 7, Windows Phone and developer and architect community news. ARCast.TV - SOASTA...

The editorial staff over at Innovation Showcase have been busy this week compiling the top stories for developers and architects. Check out the news on Silverlight, Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Office, 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7. High-Quality Touchscreens for your Windows...

This weeks Innovation Showcase Headlines   Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Technologies to Device Manufacturers Web Application Publisher Combines Data Across Clouds Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP For Visual Studio 2010 RTM Financial Institutions See Benefits of Windows 7 Microsoft: We are “All...

Here are this weeks Innovation Showcase headlines.  Lots of product announcements this week such as PowerPivot, SQL Server Express 2008 R2, Enterprise Library 5.0 and SharePoint Designer 2010. There is also a great ARCast.TV episode with the folks at Outerlink who have created a high value asset...

Here are the top stories from Innovation Showcase this week… Windows Phone 7, Silverlight Are Business-ready Ford, Microsoft team up on electric-car system Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Released ARCast.TV - Tool Assisted VB6 to .NET Migration What's new in C# 4 Windows Azure...

If you’ve wanted to get up to date on the new features in C# 4 that is part of Visual Studio 2010, see the set of Whirlwind screencasts on Channel 9. Whirlwind 9 - Introducing C# 4 The screencasts feature MVP Stuart Celarier and ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle as he describes six...

This weeks headlines include a great story about CSC and how they are leveraging Windows Azure for their next generation Legal Solution Suite and a terrific ARCast episode by Dr. Zhiming Xue on the use of WCF Services when doing SharePoint development. USA Imagine Cup 2010: Vote For The Top Student Tech...

This weeks Innovation Showcase Headlines features articles on Outerlink, Partners Health Care, a ton of Windows Phone 7 information and this weeks ARCast.TV episode features a tour of an Azure server container. Explore Windows 7 Sensor Capabilities with Parallax Intro Kit Visual Studio 2010 RC Virtual...

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Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 60-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. February 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Visual Studio Tools For Architects Abstract: Come learn how the new code...

Here are the Innovation Showcase Headlines for this week. Great content on SharePoint 2010 , Visual Studio 2010 , Silverlight 4 , Windows7 and Windows Azure . Bring Combined Search Experience to Windows 7 Users Understanding XP Mode in Windows 7 Windows XP Mode: What it takes to uninstall it and to delete...

ARCast.TV - Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 In this talk, Cameron Skinner , Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team System, and Zhiming Xue discuss the challenges architects often face and how they may benefit from new features in Visual Studio 2010 such as the new UML modeling...

Windows Azure provides scalable, available, and durable structured storage in the form of tables, blobs and queues. The tables contain entities, and the entities contain properties. The tables are scalable to billions of entities and terabytes of data, and may be partitioned across thousands of servers...

New GUI Even though I created a new UI for the application, I reused much of the code as the functionality was nearly identical. I changed the color, location and size of the elements and added a few new ones. The new user interface is built using a both Expression Blend 3 and Visual Studio 2010....

Migrating the Sounds Familiar application services to the cloud prompted me to make a switch from SOAP to REST. Though it was not necessary to make the switch, REST has become the de-facto standard for public services. The modification to my existing services was not a major change. To assist me in...

Setting up the project in Visual Studio 2010 is very straight forward: Click File –> New –> Project , select Cloud , provide a Name and click OK . Next select the type of Role you want to create. For hosting both a Silverlight client and WCF services, choose ASP.NET Web Role. Once the...

SQL Azure Database is a cloud database service from Microsoft. SQL Azure provides web-facing database functionality as a utility service. Cloud-based database solutions such as SQL Azure can provide many benefits including rapid provisioning, cost-effective scalability, high availability and reduced...

Configure your Windows Azure Account and Development Environment To get started developing for Windows Azure you will need an account. Before you can have an account you will need a Windows Azure token. Request a token by completing the application here . Tokens are generally issued within a...

The architecture for a rich internet application leverages the same logical model that all modern applications are based on: the n-tier service-oriented model. This diagram depicts the n-tier service-oriented layered architecture consisting of 3 layers, Presentation, Business and Data / Interop...

Over the past three years I have been using my personal music website as a sandbox for experimenting with the latest Microsoft Application Platform features for building service oriented web applications. The last version of the site featured WCF SOAP services and a Silverlight 2 UI. The site was hosted...

This weeks Innovation Showcase Headlines features news from the PDC09, the latest ARCast episode, a “Dallas” deep dive from Jim O’Neil, a Silverlight 4 overview from Jeff Barnes and Azure pricing info detailed by Allan Da Costa Pinto. Azure Data as a Service – Jim O’Neil details Dallas ARCast.TV - Vishwas...

  The Innovation Showcase delivers the all the news that fit to feed… PDC09 – Session, Video and PPT List by Greg Duncan Windows 7 Books for Developers and Administrators Securing REST-Based Services with Access Control Service ARCast.TV - Albert Pascual on how he built GeoTwitter Silverlight 4...

The Innovation Showcase does not fail to deliver on this weeks top headlines. Check out the stories below… Dell GIS Helps Its Customers Reduce Costs Through Solutions Built on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Facebook Toolkit for .NET Developers Firefox takes Lion’s Share (44%) of All Browser Bugs...

Lots of terrific articles posted this week on the Innovation Showcase news site. Read about new features in Visual Studio 2010 , check out David Chappells’ whitepaper on the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform and see video interviews with Don Box and Dave Thompson . Visual Studio 2010 Gallery - RegEx...