March, 2008

I've mentioned these a couple of times in the local MSDN Flash newsletter , but it bears repeating, and since Frank kindly noted these events, I'll let him do the talking : In case you missed the Heroes Happen Here Launch event in DC , you can catch the...

Michael Kennedy, who wrote a useful utility for managing the recent project list on the Visual Studio home page , gave me a heads up that he's taken the project open source. It's now available on CodePlex , and you can install it via ClickOnce, or download...

Want to learn more about Silverlight, AJAX, MVC, SQL Server and more? Want to get a chance to lay hands on a Microsoft Surface ? Want to do it all for free? Then register for the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Developer and Solutions Conference 2008...

...and French, and Spanish, and Italian, and Chinese, and Japanese, etc. : This is a pretty cool tool, from the Windows Live folks, called Windows Live Translator . You give it a URL, and it takes care of translation from English to Arabic, Chinese, Dutch...

Take a look at the video here , and see if you don't think this is potentially one of the most revolutionary things to happen to music in...I don't know...forever: Direct Note Access is a technology that makes the impossible possible: for the first time...

Passing this along for folks who may not have heard of FolderShare, or folks who have used it and wondered when a new release would be available. Hello, and welcome to the blog for Windows Live FolderShare. It's a big day for us here at Windows Live HQ...

From my friends down south: The March Richmond SQL Server Users Group meeting is Wednesday 12 Mar 2008 . This is going to be a good one folks - Kevin Viers is a Business Intelligence guru for Microsoft. Register today! (... if you plan to attend, please...

My colleague Tim Heuer shares a case study of a company building casual games with Silverlight: The group that brought you one of the first Silverlight end-to-end games ( Zero Gravity ) is now featured for some of the work they've done with Silverlight...

One of the fun events at MIX this year was Show Off, which was basically a contest in which the live audience got to take a look at user-submitted videos of cool applications written using various new technologies, like WPF, Silverlight, and XAML, but...

One of the coolest examples of Silverlight 2 that has been announced at MIX is the Memorabilia viewer app created by Vertigo for Hard Rock Cafe: The application allows you to drill down into a selection of the Hard Rock Cafe's massive collection of rock...

Pete Brown from AIS will be presenting a webcast on Silverlight 2 focusing on business apps...more info and registration link below: The registration link for my March 19 Silverlight 2 webcast is now on-line. If you're interested in developing LOB applications...

I've been playing with some newer web tools lately, including some blog/CMS software (which I'll write about later) and one of my new favorites, a Silverlight-based photo gallery control called Slide.Show . Slide.Show, written by the folks at Vertigo...

The folks at the Capitol Area .NET User Group are centering their meeting this month around Visual Studio 2008, in honor of the launch of same. The meeting will feature Paolo Del Mundo talking about and demonstrating some of the new features of Visual...