I just found this free course on MSDN, amongst others that are offered for free. I am in the process of getting smarter on BizTalk 2006, so that I can understand it from an SOA perspective and have been looking for as many free resources to help me get...

Our friends at MSDN have been so good as to release a multi-chapter online tutorial on how to build ASP.NET solutions in C#. So, although I would not call this a "Beginners" tutorial, in that you are going to need to understand either some C#, VB.NET...

Rob from the Public Sector Virtual Earth team just sent me an email pointing to a game called "Destroy All Invaders" where you fly around in a helicopter shooting down flying saucers that have invaded the earth. The game was created by Andy Beaulieu ...

If you or your company is thinking about what Windows Server 2008 (code name: Longhorn) in your environment, but are not quite sure what to expect from a scalability and availability perspective. Well, check out how the Microsoft.com team is putting their...

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can download the deck here and code here . -Marc Technorati Tags: LINQ

I just got an email from a friend of mine asking how he could get his hands on SQL Server 2008 "Beta." Well, we don't have a BETA per se, since over the past year or so Microsoft has been trying to be more "transparent" on our software releases/progress...

Thanks to everyone who attended and stuck it out for the close to 2 hour presentation! The deck is available here and the code is here . If you liked what you saw in the brief LINQ to SQL demo, then you might want to attend my Introduction to LINQ + LINQ...

For those of you who attended the Developer Dinner tonight (6/26/07), you can find the presentation materials here . If you liked what you saw and want to share what you saw with coworkers and friends, please register for Marcs web cast presentation of...

I've just viewed a very interesting web cast (hosted by Channel9) by Pravin Indukar (Program Manager for Microsoft), where he talks about how WCF and Workflow are integrated in Visual Studio 2008. I've done quite a bit with both WCF and Workflow (even...

By Nigel Watling | Technical Evangelist | DPE This is the Webcast postponed from June 12 Audience(s): Developer. Duration: 90 Minutes Start Date: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Register Here Users of Web sites today face...

Microsoft is offering a "free copy" of Visual Studio 2005 Standard, an estimated retail value of $299.00. Well, it's almost free, you have to register and watch two FREE VB.NET Lab Cast. Not a bad deal: You can learn something and get a free copy of Visual...

Thanks everyone for joining our Webcast this morning. Per my promise please find below a link to the PPT (Also available for download from the Webcast itself) and pointer to sample code. PowerPoint Deck , External Ruleset Toolkit , All Samples I hope...

If you are looking for a nice quick way of understanding some of the WPF fundamentals, then head over to Josh Smith's blog . Josh does a great job of explaining concepts like routed events, dependency properties, and attached properties. Definitely worth...

June 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities...

On behalf of James, Joel, and myself, I would like to thank everyone who attended the Public Sector Developer Conference in New York City. Here are the downloads: Implement the Process: Real World SDLC Using Visual Studio Team System - deck Building Office...

John Shewchuck & Dennis Pilarinos have a video over at Channel 9 explaining BizTalk Services here . I just watched it. If buzzwords like SOA and ESB grab your ear, then you will want to check out this video. -Marc

If so, check out the tutorials on this site, it looks great and is done in SilverLight 1.0. Much "props" to the developer Celso Gomes! Here's the link: http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ ~ Robert Shelton

This is an article that outlines the best practices for using VB6 and VB.NET code in the same project, albeit not in the same IDE. It outlines how to build "COM Callable Wrappers" to allow communication between the VB6 and .NET code and has sample code...

An interesting 2 part article has just been published by Patrick Tisseghem of U2U, on writing custom code for Widows SharePoint Service 3.0 which is the underlying technology to MOSS 2007. Here's the summary of the article: "Learn the skills you need...

Head on over to the SharePoint team's blog to read about the newly pre-released Community Kit for SharePoint. -Darryl Technorati Tags: SharePoint , MOSS , Microsoft , Blog , Wiki , Web 2.0

I've had a couple people mention to me that they did not have a pleasant upgrade from ctp experience. Details and fix are here . -Marc

When : June 26, 2007 6:00PM – 8:00PM Where: Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Register today! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343813&Culture=en-US or call 1-877-MSEVENT...

Is so, check this site out: www.kbshortcuts.com . It's got tons of application shortcuts in it and if you are like me, you want to take your hands off of the keyboard as little as possible when you are working. Thanks Emad for telling me about the site...

WCF has been out for a while now, but I just found an interesting article (circa March 2007, revised May 2007) which talks about all of the options for hosting or supporting your service using: Self-hosting IIS as a Host Windows Service (aka., NT Service...

I just viewed a great, almost all demo presentation (recorded video) of building Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation applications in Visual Studio 2008 (code name: "Orcas"). This was presented last week (June 7, 2007) @ TechEd 2007...