Brian did a fantastic job showing us how to use a little-known feature of Silverlight. Local messaging between instances of Silverlight controls, and even out-of-browser apps, is pretty neat. Below is a reply of our geekSpeak webcast followed by resources...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 3:00-4:00 ET A powerful feature of Microsoft Silverlight is the ability for different Silverlight controls to communicate, even with instances running out of browser. In this geekSpeak, Silverlight guru Brian Lagunas shows us...

We had an awesome geekSpeak last week with Jeremy Likness . Recording is below, followed by links from the show. If you want to download or save the video, view the show on Channel 9 . Links StatLight – http://statlight.net/ Testing posts by Jeff Wilcox...

In this episode of geekSpeak, Chris Rolon gives us a look under the hood of Microsoft SQL Azure to see how was constructed. Chris discusses the issues involving high availability, failure detection, automatic failover, and the distributed data fabric...

There hasn't been a better time to migrate to the newest Microsoft source control offering, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, because Microsoft Visual SourceSafe support is ending soon and Team Foundation Server will be part of Microsoft...

MSDN geekSpeaks return in January with two fantastic guests. Wednesday, January 6 – SQL Azure Under the Hood with Chris Rolon In this episode of geekSpeak, Chris Rolon gives us a look under the hood of Microsoft SQL Azure to see how was constructed. Chris...

Join us this Wednesday, September 23 for this geekSpeak. MSDN Webcast- geekSpeak- The Dynamic Language Runtime in .NET 4 (Level 200) (click to register) In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Kevin Hazzard will show us how new caching...

This geekSpeak barely scratched the surface of how Composite Application Development can help you with code reuse. Lot of resources are below. Watch the recording here . David's Blog Prism: patterns & practices Composite Application Guidance for WPF...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve scaled back the geekSpeak series in recent months, so we can focus on bringing you higher quality experiences in each one. Our next geekSpeak is August 19th , when we’ll have David Kelley explain Composite Application...

Here are resources for our August 5 geekSpeak with Mark Rosenberg on the Web Deployment tool . Links The MS Deploy blog is a good one to follow. Vishal Joshi is the Program Manager for the tool, lots of good info at his blog . Vishal’s blog post 0 + 20...

In this geekSpeak, Mark Rosenberg introduces us to the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool and shows us how the tool is used to easily move configuration information, content, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, and other types of data associated with...

Hello, geekSpeak fans. Just a quick note to let you know you aren’t missing any episodes – we’re taking a short break for July but will return in August with some great guests and topics. In the meantime, have a look at our channel 9 site to see if there...

Join us this Wednesday for a practical look at how to deploy WCF services from a guy who’s been there. Our guest Keith Elder is a team leader and senior software engineer for Quicken Loans, so he’s been on the frontlines of running services in an enterprise...

Kudos to Christopher and Rob for helping bring our geekSpeak attendees up to speed on the evolution of UI patterns. If you missed this geekSpeak you can catch a recording here . Below are links/resources mentioned on the show: WPF Architectural Patterns...

In this episode of geekSpeak, we explore UI architectural patterns, such as MVVM (ViewModel), with two Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Christopher Bennage and Rob Eisenberg. Christopher and Rob will share their experiences developing WPF and Silverlight...

Here is some info: - My blog is at: http://blogs.harborobjects.com/RezaMadani/ - Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the code are attached.  2.0 version does not include the ‘drop shadow effect demo’. - System requirements: Visual Studio 2008 – sp1...

Here are follow up resources for Paul Sheriff’s geekSpeak on WPF for the Business Developer . Be sure to visit Paul’s websites for demo code shown during the geekSpeak. http://www.pdsa.com/event/geekspeak Some examples of WPF charting http://telerikwatch...

Many thanks to Shawn Wildermuth for giving us all some insight into what’s coming for Silverlight 3. Here are the show notes. Watch or downloading the recording here . Useful links from the show Silverlight 3’s new pixel shaders How to enable hardware...

Wow, what a title! This Wednesday, join one of our favorite geekSpeak guests Michele Leroux Bustamante as she enlightens us about the .NET Access Control Service. The .NET Access Control Service is part of the Azure Services Platform. It allows applications...

Microsoft Modeling Platform code name " Oslo " is the forthcoming platform for model-driven applications. In this episode of geekSpeak, industry guru Jon Flanders introduces us to the "Oslo" project and the Microsoft code name "M"...

Here are the resources mentioned on Mike Vincent’s geekSpeak for 2/4/2009 . VSTS 2010 offers rich support for hierarchical work items. Here’s are some helpful articles by Cameron Skinner http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/archive/2008/11/25/model-and-work...

Many thanks to Jeffrey Richter for coming on geekSpeak to introduce the version of his Power Threading library especially for Silverlight. This geekSpeak episode was graced with the first public appearance of several new features, and we had a lot of...

For this first February geekSpeak, our returning guest Mike Vincent will share some perspectives about how VSTS is a good investment in these tough economic times. Mike illustrates some of the ways the Visual Studio Team System 2008 can deliver value...

Tune into geekSpeak this Wednesday for a chance to ask your SQL Data Services questions of James Johnson. Come on, we know you’ve got questions about this exciting new cloud/database thingy. So register at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails...

Here are the links from the January 8th geekSpeak with John Papa . John’s blog http://johnpapa.net John’s book: Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 (plus a sample chapter !) Source code for the demos from the webcast John’s articles in MSDN Magazine...