Tim Sneath just blog’d that Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (code name "Sparkle") is available for download. You can find out all about it from his post at http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/01/24/516706.aspx . Microsoft Expression Interactive...

We're midway through the DC Launch and things are going great. Attendance has been awesome, the venue absolutely rocks, interest from our customers/partners in the new products is super encouraging, the keynote went really well, the partners/exhibitors...

Beta Exam Invitation for MCAD and MCSDs February 13 - March 12. These free beta exams will count toward certification in the same way as the final version of the exam: MCAD Exam 70-552 - Upgrade: MCAD Skills to MCPD Windows Developer by Using the Microsoft...

There is a beta Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider available for download here This component will allow users of VS6 (VB6, VC6, etc) and almost any other IDE that supports the Microsoft Source Code Control Interface (MSSCCI) to use Team Foundation...

I just recently learned about this project. Here's a snippet from a mail that was sent out announcing the project to members of the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) GotDotNet workspace. "We are working on a new project whose goal is to provide...

It's been a while since I've done a screencast. I've been wanting to crank this one out for quite some time now. Here's part of the description I created over at channel 9: ".NET Framework 2.0 and the BackgroundWorker component to the rescue! Marc...

You can order the 180 day trial DVD of Visual Studio Team Suite (includes SQL Server 2005 and Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh) at the following site: https://www.tryvs2005.com/profile.aspx ? There is no charge for the trial software. You only...

One of the questions that we sometimes get involves the best way to pass error information from a web service back to the client. The MSDN article, Handling and Throwing Exceptions in XML Web Services , documents the various options. One good approach...

Happy New Year and best wishes for a succesful 2006! Well, I'm off like a rifle shot in the New Year, and I will be presenting at the DC launch event next week at the DC Convention center. I'm presenting an overview of SLDC support in VS 2005 Team...

The January Customer Technology Preview of Visual Basic 9.0 (codename: Orcas) has been made available at the following linq (uh, I mean link): http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/future/ . For those of you who are well underway with Visual Studio 2005 and...

First, thank you to everyone who attended the DC Launch. A few people asked about how to configure ClickOnce trusted publishers after the Smart Client session at the DC Launch. My co presenter, Brian Noyes, has an article over on MSDN that walks you through...

With the DC Launch coming up this week, the team has been heads down preparing for it so you haven't seen much in the way of new posts recently. I promise as soon as we get beyond Wednesday's event that the the team will be blogging again and that the...

Keith blogged about the Web Service Security Guide earlier. Don Smith just blogged about a series of webcasts based on this guide. The first one titled Securing Web Services with X.509 Certificates in WSE 3.0 was recorded and you can find it here . There...

Earlier this week, the January Community Technology preview of WinFX was made available for download. You can find the details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getthebeta/default.aspx If you want to experiment with building applications...

A number of folks have already blogged this, but just in case... Enterprise Library 2.0 is ready for prime time! Learn more here . -Marc

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/default.aspx " Set of tutorials for the January 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) that guides you step-by-step through the process of developing a complete Windows Presentation Foundation...

Goofus Does it This Way: This just might be my shortest blog posting to date, but my friend Marc recently educated me about everything that I have been doing wrong. As it turns out, a key aspect of blog etiquette (or bletiquette) is NOT to reproduce...

OK, so your proposed SOA design runs just fine on your machine. Well let's go ahead and ship your machine to end users. NOT! What you need is a model of your SOA, and a model of the proposed target data center for the application deployment. This metadata...

In my earlier post found here on Visual Basic 9.0 Technology preview, I spoke a little bit about the LINQ technology. I received an email asking for more details about LINQ and specifically, if it was tied to VB. The answer to the second question (tied...