The June 2008 CTP of  the Managed Services Engine is now available for you to download from CodePlex.  For those not familiar with MSE, it is a framework for developing Enterprise SOA : The MSE fully enables service virtualization through a...

On June 10th, Microsoft will be hosting a FREE seminar, presented by our friends at Pluralsight , on our NextWeb technologies – specifically ASP.NET , Silverlight and WPF .  Points of interest will include: Here’s the text from the original invite...

Announced today, Microsoft PDC 2008 will be held on October 27-30 at the Los Angeles Convention Center .  This is the premier Microsoft technology summit, targeted at leading-edge software developers and architects with a focus on the future directions...

I have begun the process of compiling a giant list of all the developer-focused User Groups across TX, OK, LA and AR.  I know I don't have them all yet, and might not have all the exact details correct on all of them, but I get so many questions...

I got an email the other day from a friend who was having some trouble getting the WPF TreeView to do what he wanted to do. He had a master-detail relationship between Doctors and Patients, and wanted to add some additional information about each Doctor...

Toi is one of our most active community members in South Central, and I think it’s great that Jennifer was able to connect with Toi for the latest edition of Jennifer’s Women in Technology blog series. Jennifer has been featuring one woman per week who...

The first session of the morning in the .NET Track at Dallas TechFest this year was a panel discussion on Building Communities hosted by our frieds Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks!   The panel consisted of Toi Wright (ASP.NET MVP...

For those of you living in or around Poland (hey – it turns out I have pretty decent readership in Poland – and I hope they’re all subscribed to this blog!) you can now register for the first ever Kraków Code Camp on June 7th.   I’ll be heading...

I attended a great meeting of the DFW Usability Professionals User Group meeting this month at the Central Market in Dallas.  The small room was filled to the brim to see Brian Sullivan talk about Design Patterns .  I was very curious about...

Do you like playing games on your XBOX , Windows Desktop or your (gasp) Zune?  Want to learn how to write your own games for those platforms?  Then I have some good news for you :-)  Microsoft XNA Game Developer Studio is a very hot topic...

Congratulations to Jason Pluenneke and the folks in Northwest Arkansas for their first ever Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group meeting tonight!  A very respectable 20-person crowd gathered together tonight to hear Boyd Evert discuss the new...

For those of you attending TechEd 2008, you might be interested in this little suarree that my friend Joe Healy and the folks in Orlando are putting together in between TechEd Developer and TechEd Infrastructure: ]inbetween[ weekend, June 7/8, Orlando...

UPDATE:  Looks like I jumped the gun a little bit.  This release is not quite production ready and not quite bug free.  BUT – they’re easily accessible now and available for you to do your testing.  Sorry for the confusion Congrats...

I don’t know how familiar you are with our research folks, but they do some really amazing stuff.   In recent years, we have seen things like Seadragon, Photosynth, Virtual Earth, and now the Worldwide Telescope .  I’ve blogged about the...

For those of you looking for it, ScottGu published a blog post earlier today announcing the BETA release of VS08/.NET 3.5 SP1.  There are a ton of bug fixes, updates and improvements to Web Development (including ASP.NET Dynamic Data), Visual Studio...

Hanu Kommalapati, one of the Architects on our team, has written an excellent blog post about using Silverlight 2 in “the real world” of Enterprise Applications.  After reading it, I’d consider this to be important stuff for not only the Enterprise...

I’ve been invited by the Wroclaw .NET User Group in Wroclaw, Poland to be a featured speaker at their upcoming Heroes {Community} Launch event on June 2nd, 2008.  I’m really excited about my trip to Poland to meet with such an enthusiastic group...

For those of you in the Northwest Arkansas area, don’t miss the inaugural meeting of the Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group. Meeting Details: The first ever NWASQL meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 14th from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm .  Pizza...

Last weekend was the first ever Dallas TechFest – and it was FANTASTIC!  Now I know we do a lot of these *Camps or *Fests around here, but this event (at least for the Dallas area) was something new.  Based on some great stories in the Heartland...

I just found out today that the smart and creative folks over at The Official Microsoft Expression Design Support Team Blog have created a videocast series to go along with their popular blog.  You can visit their site to download the shows individually...

Get it while it’s hot: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DF4AF56A-58A7-474C-BFD0-7CF8ED3036A3&displaylang=en This version adds the ability to develop games for the Zune!  I can’t wait to try it out.  You can get more...