Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21e979e3-b8ae-4ea6-8e65-393ea7684d6c&displaylang=en Please note that XNA Game Studio Express requires Visual C# Express Edition to be installed. Both Visual C# Express and...

My developer evangelist counterpart in New England, Thom Robbins , who has been an amazing part of our team, posts about his new role as Director for .NET Marketing. As part of the new role, Thom will be relocating to Redmond. All of us on the east region...

Andy has the scoop ...the last one was a big success, so you should mark your calendar now! I'll post an update once the registration URL is available. Frank's also on the case . The date is Saturday, October 7th, and the event will be held at ECPI...

Rob Tiffany has put together what looks like a very useful tool for building mobile line-of-business applications, called (appropriately enough) the Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator . Description and screenshots are on Rob's blog . You can...

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bharry talks about how we use Team Foundation Server at Microsoft , and even provides a nice pictorial view of how TFS is deployed here.

Just wanted to give everyone an early heads up on next month's Richmond .net User group meeting, as blogging will be lighter than usual next week. Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 6:30 PM Location: 4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA [ map ] Greg Postlewait...

Soma has the skinny... Here's the link to the SP

So I'm waiting at a Cheesecake Factory in suburban Maryland to meet someone for lunch, and since they're running a little late, I decided to try to get some work done. Thanks to my Treo 700w Pocket PC Phone and a little bit of software goo, I can get...

Ever wanted to be able to simply right-click a folder in Windows Explorer and open it as a web site in Visual Studio 2005? Well, Brad Bartz has a nice post on how you can do this easily using a macro and a simple registry script. Good stuff.

One of the coolest announcments it's ever been my pleasure to share...today, Microsoft announced XNA Game Studio Express , one of a pair of development environments (its sibling is XNA Game Studio Professional) designed to make game development easier...

Nifty new site for designers targeting Windows applications (or Web applications targeting Windows Server): http://www.nextdesignnow.com/ Topics from Windows Vista, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression, etc.

Learn how to build 'em for Live.com and the Windows Vista Sidebar .

The Patterns & Practices group is at it again...they've just released the Web Service Software Factory , aka Service Factory. There's downloadable source-based guidance, a hands-on lab, and a webcast to get your started.

Had a fun time last night at the Richmond combined user group social. Thanks to Andy Leonard for arranging the shindig at Sharkey's. Had some nice conversation, a nice cigar, and my only complaint was it involved going somewhere that was actually hotter...

This came up as a question from a customer, so I thought I'd share the answer... If you've heard of MSBuild , the new build platform for Visual Studio 2005 and .net 2.0, and are interested in taking advantage of it with .net 1.1 and Visual Studio ...

Yes, you read that right...I said "hands-on" webcast. It's an interesting idea, and here's the scoop from the mobility folks in Redmond: The MSDN Webcast and Virtual Labs teams are joining forces and offering a special featured Windows Mobile 5...

Jeff Prosise discussses his Top Ten things to avoid when developing web sites using ASP.NET .

For those of you who haven't heard of her yet, or attended one of her presentations, Lindsay Rutter is the Developer Community Champion for Microsoft Mid-Atlantic. Lindsay blogs , and also presents quarterly MSDN events all across DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania...

Two exciting pieces of news: A new CTP is available for ASP.NET Atlas . A new release of the Atlas Control Toolkit is up. The new version includes a bunch of new controls, including my personal favorite, the PasswordStrength control (though the...

You can see photos from my recent trip to Seattle here . Here's just one of them: