I had a GREAT time touring across Arkansas (over 1300 miles of driving!) talking about Windows Live Framework (LiveFX for short), Windows Live Mesh , ASP.NET MVC , Silverlight 3 and building communities.  I’d like to thank Randy Walker, Michael Paladino and all the User Group leaders in Fort...

I’ll be presenting a Lap Around Windows Live Services and Mesh at the North Dallas .NET User Group meeting tomorrow night.  At this meeting you’ll learn about the Live Framework , our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming...

Mike Holdorf and Vince Blasberg have collaborated on putting together the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Cloud Computing User Group on January 21 from 6-8pm in the Dallas MTC.  It’s great to see the community so excited about embracing the latest Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies including...

Some of our friends in Atlanta put this awesome video together of the latest MDC event from Atlanta.  Remember that the Dallas MDC is coming up soon – January 26th, 2009.  For more information, and to get registered today, go out to http://msdndevcon.com . Enjoy! Technorati Tags: mdc , msdn...

I’ve been invited to participate in the MDC events in Detroit, Minneapolis and Dallas as the Keynote Demonstrator.  I’ll be up on the stage with the official keynote speakers running demos, and helping them make sure the keynote goes off without a hitch!  There is a lot going on in the Keynote...

I just went to the Live Mesh site and noticed that they’ve enabled functionality for Mac and Mobile! For current Mesh users, just hit http://www.mesh.com from your mobile device’s web browser or from your Mac and it will guide you through the installation process. If you’re not already using Mesh, you...

For those of you attending PDC and are experimenting with Windows 7, here’s an update you’ll need to apply to get Mesh working on your new OS.  Just create a REG file with the following information in it, and run it on your Windows 7 machine.  1: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 2...

Today’s big announcements at PDC were around Windows 7, .NET 4/VS2010, Windows Live Mesh and Microsoft Office futures. Windows 7 Both Windows Server 2008 R@ and Windows 7 will have the ability to boot from a VHD as well as mount a VHD like a normal drive or create a VHD on the fly – all from the built...

I had a great time last night at the OKC Developer Group meetings.  I love presenting there because you actually get to do 2 presentations – one at lunch (there was about 85 people in attendance) and one at dinner (about 15 people).  That’s 100 people in one day with two chances to get it right...

The Windows Live team recently released and update to their Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, and added a new ASP.NET Server Control for Virtual Earth!  Now it is super easy to add a Virtual Earth capabilities to your ASP.NET applications using this new control. For information about...

If you’re not already on the Mesh – now is a great time to join.  Here’s a recent post from the Live Mesh Blog: Interested in trying out the Live Mesh Technology Preview? The process for joining just became a lot easier. From the Live Mesh forum : Signing up for Live Mesh now! The Live Mesh team...

My teammate Jared Bienz informed me the other day about a CodePlex project he just helped finish called VIEWS , which is a really cool Virtual Earth Wrapper for Silverlight. It's released as a a managed layer for integrating mapping in your Silverlight apps and is easy to use. If, like me, you've been...

For those of you who enjoy using the Silverlight -based Tafiti front-end to Windows Live Search ,  or would like to know how it works, the source code has been released on our Open Source portal CodePlex under the Windows Live QuickApps project.  The source code is provided under the Microsoft...

For those of you with multiple personalities, or would like to have multiple personalities, or perhaps find *a* personality <grin>, you can have a Live personality now if you move quickly... Just jet on over to http://get.live.com/getlive/overview and sign up for your very own @live.com account...

Have you seen the new Live Search Maps ?  Launched today, the new interface is a LOT simpler to use, and a lot faster (it seems) to load and find results.  The Windows Live Search team has really been busy getting and incorporating all the feedback they've received into a much more solid and...

I just posted all my pictures from WMJ07 on my Flickr site . 

I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm really enjoying how fast the new Windows Live Search is these days. When I search from the IE search bar (don't forget to press "Ctrl+E" to get there quick), my results come back immediately now - no waiting. The Windows Live Search engine just keeps getting better...

I know I'm not always the first to blog about stuff (I'm working on that) but I wanted to make sure that I sent out an announcement about Microsoft Tafiti - http://www.tafiti.com . Tafiti is a new take on the search engine metaphor that builds on the power of Windows Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight...

What a great sample application to showcase the power of Silverlight. Popfly is a mash-up creation tool that's super easy to use and fairly powerful for an alpha. This video gives a 15 minute overview of the Popfly functionality, featuring integration with Windows Live Spaces, the World of Warcraft guild...