Here's a tidbit I've been meaning to blog about for months... If you install Windows Vista as our guest OS using Virtual PC 2007 (or Virtual Server for that matter), you may initially be disappointed by the fact that you only get the Windows Vista Basic...

If you've attended any of my Virtual Earth presentations, then you've heard me talk about and show a prototype of an ASP.NET AJAX based Virtual Earth server control. Chris Pietchsmann has released an alpha of his PietschSoft.VE v2 control. Have a look...

There are two new controls (ListSearch and SlideShow). They've also added support for localization, JavaScript comment/whitespace stripping, and ASP.NET Themes/Skins. The details are at http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/03/02/lost-sk-in-translation...

I just came across this recently published article. A significant portion of it covers accessibility. You'll also want to download the Writing Accessible Web Applications document from MSDN Downloads. The document talks about accessibility with AJAX....

I was catching up on some blog reading and came across two posts that I think those of you interested in the 3D feature of WPF will find helpful: Bootcamp Lecture deck from the WPF 3D Team Blog New Lab Posted: Creating 3D Content with Windows Presentation...

When March 22nd, 2007 - 6:30PM – 8:00PM Registration Link http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032333344 Where Greenbelt Marriott 6400 Ivy Lane Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 301-441-3700 Due...

One of the questions I get asked about like clockwork when I do Virtual Earth programming sessions to government customers is "How do I get my 'ESRI data' onto the map?" I always caveat that I don't know much about ESRI products. I then tell people that...

So, I must admit, I thought that if I wanted to build ZIP (compression) into a .NET Application, that I would have to use some 3rd party control, like WinZIP. Well, I just learned today, that NO, it's actually built into the framework. Check out this...

It's official, after almost 6 years of speculation, the era of Visual FoxPro (formerly FoxBASE and FoxPro) is coming to an end. Those of you who, like myself, once proudly proclaimed "I am a PROFESSIONAL FoxPro programmer" or more recently Visual FoxPro...

UPDATE: I promised I would post the running list of WPF controls and XAML capable tools. Mike Swanson keeps it here . Thanks to everyone who attended. You can download my deck here . The demos & code I showed (plus more) are all available from http...

When March 21st, 2007 - 6:00PM – 7:30PM Registration Link http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032332975 Where Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 What Do you collaborate...

So, I like many others, have been spending some time trying to get smart on all that is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (aka. MOSS 2007), you know the "new SharePoint Portal" as it were. As a side note, it's much more than an upgrade for SharePoint...

UPDATE: Changed the url for the collections sharing site to the official Windows Live site. Thanks Rob ! UPDATE2: All of our webcasts are recorded. You can get to the recording by clicking the original registration link of any webcast. The recording for...

UPDATE: CORRECTED THE DATE. SORRY ABOUT THE CONFUSION. When March 29th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032331002&Culture=en-US Note ...

Sorry for those of you who expected this post to show up yesterday. You can find my updated deck here and the gadget which uses ASP.NET AJAX for web service calls + client side data binding here . -Marc

The latest and potentially last version of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK's is out and available for download here . Overview of the SDK (From the download site...) This is the official Visual Studio 2005 software development kit that allows developers to...

When March 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032331000&Culture=en-US Note : Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract...

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Los Angeles , CA to be held on April 11, 2007. Event Date & Time : April 11, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Microsoft Los Angeles Office...

SandCastle is a documentation compiler for managed class libraries, that will output your comments/documentation with a MSDN "look and feel". Here's the link to the March CTP: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E82EA71D-DA89-42EE...

UPDATE: The LINQ+ LINQ to SQL webcast originally on the 26th has been rescheduled to the 24th. Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK TARGET AUDIENCE April 4, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Creating Controls...

Yes, Microsoft still is producing and improving on one of our most historically popular developer platforms: Visual FoxPro. Many of you, like me, started out as xBase programmers (dBase, FoxBase, Clipper...gosh I can't remember them all.) Anyway, for...

Microsoft has released a new set of code snippets for Visual Studio 2005 for developers who are building around the Office 2007 UI. From the download site: Overview This download includes Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# code snippets...

While I don't frequently suggest people study my face, I do suggest that antsy developers interested in discovering what's around the bend take a look at our Visual Studio developer tools roadmap at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb407307...

Check it out here . Man I wish I had this when I started learning WPF! -Marc

This update is for those developers who are doing Visual Studio 2005 development ON the Windows Vista platform. Meaning, if you have the Visual Studio 2005 IDE installed on your Windows Vista desktop. Here's the link for the update download: http://www...