October, 2007

Over the past 3 weeks, I have been touring across Canada giving a half-day briefing on Silverlight. It was an incredible experience as it certainly opened my eyes to what types of things are being done with Silverlight today and the buzz it has generated among web developers. In those briefings, I promised you a number of things, so this post is meant to provide the post-briefing materials I spoke...

Hello Canadian Developers, By the way of introduction, my name is Sasha Krsmanovic and I am the MVP Lead for Canadian MVPs. Your developer advisors asked me to publish a few posts here in order to introduce the MVP Award Program to Canadian Developers. You have seen some of these individuals ‘spotlighted’ at this blog, too, so here I come to demystify what the MVP Award program is all about. It...

Last week I conducted a webcast on Windows Live Services. The turnout was fantastic and there was great participation at the end of the webcast. Thanks to those of you who attended! For those of you who could not attend, you can always watch the webcast on demand here . In the webcast, I promised you a copy of the deck that I presented. You can find the deck in PowerPoint 2007 format here . If...

One of the things that we hear quite a bit about is that our software licensing policies, processes and options are too complicated. I'll admit that it can certainly be a complicated and mind-numbing process to wrap your head around the various licensing options we provide to our customers. Part of the reason why it seems so complicated is that sometimes the licensing information available to you is...

Here's a list of the resources mentioned during the Developer Night in Canada user group tour that is going on right now. VB Run - Home of everything that has to do with VB6 development on MSDN Pattern and Practice book on upgrading VB6 to VB.NET 2005 Older book on upgrading VB6 to VB.NET 2003 (Free) Ramp Up training path for VB6 developers Vista support statement for the VB6 runtime Migrating a VB6...

Update: You can find copies of the presentations we used at the following URLs: Building Better Websites (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007) Developing Web Applications Today (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007) If you have any questions about these presentation, please feel free to let us know! A lot of people who have attended realDevelopment so far, are clamoring for the different...

Last month, I had the opportunity to interview Dick Hardt about digital identity and why it's an important topic for developers to understand. A Conversation with Dick Hardt (MP3) Resources Dick Hardt's OSCON 2005 Presentation on Identity 2.0 www.OpenID.net IdentityBlog (Kim Cameron, Microsoft) Kim Cameron's Seven Laws of Identity Windows CardSpace About Dick Hardt (Founder...

During the course of developing websites (or any software development project for that matter), it's quite natural to encounter errors and problems that you can't solve right away or you need additional expertise to help troubleshoot it. There are two great places that can help you get your technical questions answered - Microsoft Forums ( http://forums.microsoft.com ) and ASP.NET Forums ( http://forums...

If you are swamped in a project right now or just starting up in your journey in .NET, you should ignore this post. On the other end, if you are the ultimate geek with some time on your hand you may want to head over Scott Guthrie's blog and check out this piece of news. Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing the source code of many of the .NET System libraries with full integration inside...

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Last Thursday (September 25), I conducted a webcast on the topic of Silverlight. To those of you who were able to make it in person, I want to thank you for taking the time to attend! It was very well attended and we were even able to sweeten the pot, so to speak, by announcing that anyone in the "live studio audience" who filled out an evaluation form at the end would be entered into a draw to win...