Kirk Evans Blog

I spoke at TechReady 7 in Seattle this week on Windows Workflow Foundation Patterns. I got so many requests for the deck and samples that I am posting them on my SkyDrive (modified to remove the confidential material we discussed in the session, of course...

Andrew Coates has posted a great set of resources on VSTO v3 Deployment , including his PowerPoint deck. I have recently started to see the value of VSTO and have been talking a lot more about it with my customers. Hopefully I'll get off my lazy rear...

Since the TwitterSync Facebook app is broken , I wanted to have a client that updates both Twitter and Facebook statuses. This post shows how I used WCF to update statuses on Twitter. The first thing to do is to create the contract. [ServiceContract]...

OK... how to do the Favorites trick that I just talked about in my post, " My Love Affair With Live Mesh is Getting Deeper ". I originally got the idea from Adam Kinney . I am just enhancing it a bit. Once you've installed Live Mesh, just go to your favorites...

The more I am using it, the more I am in love with it. You can now access your Live Mesh using your phone at http://m.mesh.com . When Live Mesh first came out, I didn't completely get it. Then I started using it more and more. I added my Pictures folder...

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I was surfing around awhile today, and came across David Chou's blog . He has some widgets on his blog that I thought were interesting, including a Live Messenger window that lets you ping him if he's online. That caught my attention, but what I thought...

Could it really, really be? "We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows Vista. "You know it. I know it. It's caused some impact. We're going to start countering...

It's been a long time since I said my phone rocks... three years, in fact, since I actually liked my phone . Today I bought a phone that made me want to share just how cool it is, the Verizon Wireless Samsung SCH-i760 . Despite the horrifically unmemorable...

It's time to submit our FY09 plans, and I am looking for your help. I've got a lot of really cool stuff to share with you around SharePoint this year (Enterprise Social Computing, integrating .NET 3.5 and Silverlight, creating solutions with SharePoint...