In these difficult economic times, we believe it is a great time to hear the voices of customers across various industry sectors , who are driving down costs, improving efficiency, and increasing agility and quality of solutions to business problems....

The Live Framework team recently published a short (but to the point) white paper entitled The Live Framework: What is it and Why Should I Care? “The Live Framework provides a platform-agnostic, HTTP-based, resource-oriented programming model for accessing...

Breaking news!!!   Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD. Note:  The Windows 7 DVDs will not be ready to hand out in time for the events happening in December, but we’ll definitely mail...

Have you seen the new stadium they are building for Visual Studio Team System? Complete with stadium seating, here's a picture... Follow a blend of technology, resources and practical tips at the Visual Studio Team System Cafe and join us for a Lap Around...

Join me at the Code Camp in Stamford, Connecticut this Saturday . I'll be presenting 2 sessions - What I learned at the PDC *and* Silverlight+WCF *or* PowerShell for Developers (or all 3). As far as the actual event goes, from the organizers... We have...

Coming to a city near you, check for yours. The MSDN Developer Conference will sell out early. Register today. The cities... The agenda... The details... Conference web site with additional information and details.

Microsoft just announced a new version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit . What is it (emphasis mine)? MAP is a scalable and agent-less assessment platform designed to make it easier for you to adopt the latest Microsoft technologies. In...

Just in time for the PDC, the latest Architecture Journal is focused on Distributed Computing . Check it out! P.S. If you are a fan of the WPF based Reader like I am – great for offline and great digital reading experience, a reliable source mentioned...

Just received the latest edition of the newsletter and thought it was a good read to share in its entirety. The theme? Back to Basics. What do you think? Welcome to the Fall 2008 edition of the Microsoft Financial Services Developer Newsletter ! As the...

Say it fast and it rhymes! I was reading the press announcement that Silverlight 2.0 is ready (the bits should propagate to the web soon), and I liked this nugget: This is great, following the link to the Soyatec's eclipse4SL page gives some screen shots...

I know it is a horrible expression, but if you are looking to get some questions answered about IE8 (Beta 2 has been out since end of August), you will want to mark your calendars for this Thursday : The transcripts of older conversations are a great...

Dublin? Check out Steve Martin's blog for details. Follow the links for what is coming to Windows Server :

Hey enterprise developers, are you ready for IE 8? There is an all in one IE 8 compatibility page that talks about the whys and the hows . Check it out! P.S. You'll see links to adding the X-UA-Compatible tag for IIS and Apache. Nice. <meta http-equiv...

Sound intriguing? MSDN Events will be presenting: Session 1 :  Demystifying WPF Today’s applications need to do more than simply work.  They need to draw in the user, and provide a differentiated experience. This means moving beyond battleship...

SP1 is here ; complete with the revved 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit. Jonathan reveals all , including the links to the released versions of SP1. Here's a taste... P.S. The Training Kit is a great tool for self study and community building . For the original...

The webcast is online for your viewing pleasure in case you missed it. I thought it was very well done - I learned a few things *and* it was less than 60 minutes (my attention span max)! The abstract: Microsoft's Insurance Value Chain (IVC) pioneered...

This upcoming webcast promises sizzle (Web 2.0) with substance (insurance oriented challenges and opportunities). It is on Monday, July 14th from 12-1pm US EDT. Come join us - I've highlighted the cool tech components in the abstract below... Details...

If you are interested in security, identity management, and web standards; you won’t want to miss the next meeting of the local chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) in Hartford tomorrow night. The local chapter holds bi-monthly...

As a follow up to their very well done Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit , the team has released a "may preview" for the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit. Read more and download the kit at JC's blog . He describes what...

Dani is promising to help "Get ya' Mobile Development On" . Great price (free!) on this all day session on Windows Mobility Development. What is promised?   The kickoff is next week in NYC with other cities to follow. Register today and...

Join myself and Joe Rubino for our really fascinating discussion with Marc Jacobs from Lab49 and Bill Bain from ScaleOut Software where we discuss "Distributed Caching for Server Farms"...what it is and why you should care. The total length...

How's that for a provocative subject line? Actually... it's not.  But, sometimes something that really is simple gets overcomplicated... particularly when viewed from multiple perspectives.  Personally, I see that happening with the concept...

Technorati Tags: silverlight , designer , financial , demo , retail , banking , 401k , 529 In my last post, I mentioned that we recently completed our 6th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference in NYC.  While the conference theme was HPC...

Wow, what an amazing week last week.  If you've been reading my blog in the past, you'll know that most of our team's time has been spent on getting ready for the 6th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference, that was held March 12, 13th at...

Check out this video interview of Wachovia's Gunhan Tatman at Microsoft's 6th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference.