I believe no serious .NET developer has never faced a System.InvalidOperationException with an error message stating "Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created." when trying, for example, to add text...

If you are interested in learning about software development on the new Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform grab your copy of the over 1000 pages long ebook "Programming Windows Phone 7" by Charles Petzold. Topics covered are both SilverLight and XNA programming...

Keith Hill has turned a set of blog posts into an interesting 61 pages long PowerShell ebook. Download your own copy here .

If you need to integrate Bing's searching capabilities or Bing Maps into your web site you should take a look at a couple of web application toolkits freely available from this page .

If you are interested in quickly understanding more about Microsoft Expression Studio 4, on this page you will find short videos that introduce you to most of the tools in the Microsoft Expression suite (i.e. Expression Web, Expression Blend, Expression...

Are you interested in learning to develop using Microsoft SilverLight and aren't sure where to start from? On this page you'll find links to short videos that will quickly introduce you to the technology and the tools. Afterwards, to start building stronger...

If you are interested in learning about Microsoft SketchFlow, the tool that was first provided as part of Microsoft Expression Blend 3 for rapid, iterative and cost effective design and prototyping of application user interfaces, take a look here . From...

I gathered a list of leaning resources on Microsoft products, solutions and technologies and then tought they might be useful to others too. Following are links to free training, videos, webcasts and virtual labs that will hopefully satisfy all of your...

A full set of documents have been released at the beginning of the year to suggest migration strategies of legary WF 3.0/3.5 code to the new WF 4.0 platform. You may download them all here . Documents seem to refer to version beta 2 of WF 4.0 and thus...

If you need to prevent date and time synchronization between a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine and its host machine, look at this post for the necessary steps but if you need to achieve the same result with a Windows Virtual PC virtual machine, you can...

Interested in learning about claim-based identity and how you can leverage it to implement access control in your applications? The Patterns & Practices group in Microsoft has recently released "A guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control...

Moving from the Microsoft Office 2003 suite to the latest Microsoft Office 2010? Having a hard time mapping Office 2003 menu and toolbar functionalities to features in the Office 2010 ribbon tabs? Here you can download a zip containing various PDF documents...

If you need the very latest Windows SDK, you can get the entire ISO file here . If you prefer the web installer version, you can get it here .

Time to update your knowledge of the C# language! :-) Get your copy of the C# 4.0 Language Specification here . You can choose between a Microsoft Word (.doc) and a HTML version of the spec.

Ramp Up is an interesting initiative I discovered today that may help you quickly build your development skills in a few Microsoft technologies. Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that may help...

Last year I noticed that the MSDN site was getting behind in providing the CHM (compiled HTML) version of each month's MSDN Magazine issue. In fact the last CHM file I was able to retrieve was the July 2009 issue. Today, getting back to the MSDN Magazine...

Final release of Visual Studio 2010 is getting near and you need to get ready for it! :-) First of all, you could download the very latest bundle of training material on Visual Studio 2010. From this page you can get the April version of the "Visual Studio...

Microsoft Belux (Belgium) is hosting lots of what I think to be very interesting TechNet videos. Please give a look at them here .

An updated version of the SQL Server 2008 R2 development training kit with over 100MB of videos, demos, presentations and hands-on-labs is available for download here .

For all devs interested in the very latest Microsoft software development technologies there are two new bundles of presentations, hands-on labs, and demos for you to download. First there is the " Windows 7 Training Kit For Developers " (84MB) that will...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual machines are available for Hyper-V , Windows Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 . If you want, you can get the ISO for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 here . Great...

Videos and presentations of the 19 technical sessions that took place in May 09 in London during the "Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2009" are online for you to download them. Covered topics go from Software + Service to IT trends, from Oslo to...

It seems that Visual Studio 2008 updates may break BizTalk projects creation. To fix this situation you need to edit a system registry value. On x86 machines set the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Projects\FAE04EC0...

If you are in the process of evaluating the Biztalk 2009 (the Microsoft platform for EAI, B2B and BPM) you might be interesting in reading the " Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Technical Overview " whitepaper and the " Understanding BizTalk Server 2006...

Today I tried installing the latest version of Wireshark (version 1.2.1 rev 29141) on my Windows 7 x64 laptop. What happened is that installation of WinPcap 4.1 beta5, bundled with Wireshark, failed making Wireshark unusable. What I did next was to go...