I saw Maurice de Beijer recently published a good introduction article on .NET RIA Services. Getting started with the .NET RIA Services The post starts with a very good introduction: RIA, short for Rich Internet Applications, is a bit of an...

Vijay , one of the folks working on RIA Services recently posted a very good overview of how to do Unit Testing with .NET RIA Services.  I think this is an important benefit of adopting the RIA Services pattern.  Check it out and let us know...

Update: See the full list of PM Tips . Recently a friend of mine at Microsoft asked about tips for how to land a great Program Management job at Microsoft. It has been a while since I did a “PM Tips” post, so I thought I’d use the opportunity to share...

I have started teaching my 6-year old son logo as our summer learning project.  My goal is to help him discover the creativity and logical thinking approach that programming requires. And, of course to share a passion that I have with him, so there...

Dinesh Kulkarni recently posted our current thinking on the release roadmap for .NET RIA Services .   One thing I love about this product is that we are able to iterate rapidly with the community to get the product right.  This means being...

I just finished up the keynote at VSLive in Vegas.     I did an update of my Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 3 talk from Mix09 .  I updated to the latest internal builds of Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services...

I was talking to some coworkers today about the scenarios for Forms Auth and Windows Auth in line of business applications.    We were having a debate about which was more common. As you might guess at Microsoft we are an all windows shop...