October, 2008

Local C# (and more) guru Kevin Hazzard got interviewed at PDC, and is now famous: You go, Kevin! For those interested, the MDC Kevin mentions is the MSDN Developer Conference, and you can find out more, including your local event date/location, at http...

Just found out from one of our local luminaries in the Philly area, John Baird, that he’s going to be presenting at an event being run by our partner RDA in Philly and Reston, VA next month. The seminar is free, and will cover the following: ...

Did you know that there are samples built right into the Help section of Visual Studio 2008? I didn’t, but VB geek Chris Love pointed it out to me: So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided...

I mentioned recently that we announced that we will be shipping the jQuery JavaScript library moving forward in Visual Studio and related products. Well the jQuery folks haven’t wasted any time making development of jQuery-enabled aps in Visual Studio...

Many of you are probably aware that Microsoft is running a little event for developers this week called PDC . Some of you may already be there, but given the number of developers in the U.S. compared to the size of the LA Convention Center, it’s a good...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 PM: Capital Area .NET UG October Meeting: Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Framework - The ASP.NET Framework is Microsoft...

For folks who are not able to make it to PDC next week, fear not…there’s some good developer stuff for you, too, if you’re in the DC area. TechDays DC will be running October 28th-30th in Arlington, VA. Here’s the agenda: Oct. 28th – WebDev Fundamentals...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (note the CMAP Code Camp THIS SATURDAY!): Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:00 PM: DC ALT.NET - A Look at Kanban Software Development - Kanban is gaining popularity...

Keith Elder has what I think is a nice analogy of the difference between ASMX web services and WCF services : This question comes up a lot in conversations I have with developers.  “Why would I want to switch to ASMX services?” One analogy I have...

A day late, due to the Columbus Day holiday, but here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (note in particular my upcoming appearance at BaltoMSDN this Wednesday, and the CMAP Code Camp on the...

Here’s a couple more links relevant to today’s launch of Silverlight 2: Tim Heuer on the launch Peter Laudati on debugging Silverlight 2 on the Mac

That is all. Details at Silverlight .net, and of course Jesse’s blog .

I’ve been having a great time traveling for some cool events over the last few weeks. I’ve gotten to present a couple of MSDN Events in Reston and Richmond, VA. Along with my peers Zhiming Xue and Ashish Jaiman , I presented at MSDN Roadshows in Roanoke...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP Main Meeting: ASP.NET MVC - This session will introduce attendees to the new ASP.NET MVC framework while building...

I want to say a big THANK YOU (I did say big, didn’t I?) to everyone who attended the MSDN Roadshow events this week in Roanoke, VA and Baltimore, MD. Several people requested copies of the slides and demos for the presentations, and I’ve uploaded the...