Verio is offering a sweet little free hosting deal to developers and designers to promote Microsoft-based hosting for products and technologies like Expression, Visual Studio, and Silverlight. The Plan includes: .NET Framework 3.0 (I am told 3.5 will...

Mike Taulty has a really nice overview video here . I have spent much more time looking at LINQ to SQL than LINQ to Entities (which is just using LINQ queries against the ADO.NET Entity Framework). I plan on digging in to the ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Thanks to everyone who attended! If you missed it, you should be able to watch a recording soon here . I've uploaded the updated code & deck to my Windows Live SkyDrive folder here . My list of LINQ resources I find helpful is here . Someone mentioned...

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that this post is confusing. Recently, our team moved to individual blogging. My individual blog is at www.devkeydet.com and is hosted on Windows Live Spaces. However, my team still maintains a blog that is...

Part 2 of the 2-part series on how we migrated Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 is now online. In this installment, we talk about how we designed and built the Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that...

August 29th 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...

Overview The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and...

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The top three requests I hear from customers regarding WPF controls are something like the DataGridView in WinForms, Office 2007 Ribbon, and behavior similar to how Visual Studio allows you to drag & drop / dock / undock windows like the toolbox,...

Well, the internal conversation that lead me to this post continued while I was on vacation. It turns out that the license you agree to when you install the ASP.NET Futures does have the Go Live text. However, the team asked me to remind people that the...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE September 18, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What’s New in SQL...

Windows Live Folders is now Windows Live SkyDrive ( http://skydrive.live.com ). I started using it in the early beta stages. If I would have read the fine print I would have known that they warned people that the urls would change. Therefore, all of the...

Tim Sneath has some details here , plus there is a great video that was just published on Channel 9 here . - Marc

You may recall in a previous post , I wrote about how I led a couple of projects to migrate Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 as well as implement a Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently...

Thanks to everyone who attended! All of my latest VE content is available here . Direct links: Deck VE Map Control (v5) / ASP.NET AJAX Demo Code (requires VS2008 Beta 2) WPF Demo Code (requires VS2008 Beta 2) ClickOnce Deployed WPF Demo (requires that...

If you've seen one of my deliveries of "What's new for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008..." presentation, then you have seen the three new controls in ASP.NET 3.5 (ListView, DataPager, LinqDataSource). Daniel Moth just shared some links here to some...

This is a very good overview of how to setup/accomplish development on WSS 3.0. I will be posting a series of Workflow for SharePoint with Visual Studio (Developer Topic) within the next week or so and I often get questions about how to setup my environment...

Charlie Calvert published a video where Matt Warren (C# Principal Architect) & Luca Bolognese (Lead Program Manager) have a very deep discussion of LINQ to SQL internals. I you're like me and you really like to know how all the moving parts work,...

I have been tinkering with different JavaScript Intellisense scenarios in Visual Studio 2008. I just stumbled onto a feature I did not know existed thanks to an internal discussion. First, if you use a ScriptManager in your page to reference other JavaScript...

I have a 3 monitor setup at home. Both the WPF & Web (ASP.NET/Html) designers have a "split view" capability which allows you to see markup and the design surface at the same time (and keep them in sync). If you "split" vertically and stretch VS across...

Charles Sterling has put together a great 3 part Hands on Lab where you start off using Visual Studio 2008 and the new WPF Designer (code name "Cider") to build an Browser Application (.xbap). Then, he walks you through how a designer could pick up the...

In short, no. I promised to follow up on this question that was asked in my What's new in Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers webcast this week. The ASP.NET Futures "contains an early developer preview of features providing a wide range of new functionality...

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From here on out, I will be uploading all of my publicly available downloads to Windows Live Folders . I have already begun the movement. None of the old links will break, but all new links will point to Windows Live Folders . I've already updated the...