Soma just blogged about VS 2008 Performance Improvements . There is some good info in his post. One of the things he mentioned was: "For example, with the new LINQ facility we set a goal that LINQ performance be significantly better than using a SqlDataAdaptor...

For those of you not familiar with Virtual Labs, they are a great way to try out technology without having to install a bunch of stuff or download a VPC. As Robert likes to say, "Virtual Labs = Free Training:)." I just came across these Visual Studio...

1. "Context Exchange Protocol" slide, an instanceID is returned to client. How to deal with load balanced services in that case if the client tries to access service instance on another server? That instance ID is the instance ID of the workflow...

I found this great article by Rachel Wireman and how-to documentation on building Outlook integration functionality with C#, and it has downloadable source code. She covers, General Outlook integration issues Creating an Outlook Contact with C# Programmatically...

Brian Harry, of the TFS team has listed all of the final Team Foundation Server 2008 features on his blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/08/final-tfs-2008-feature-list.aspx . I've published the list of new features in Visual Studio...

If you are curious to know what the new features of Visual Studio Team System 2008 (The client to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008), then check out this feature list. Note, there are some features of Team Foundation Server 2008 mentioned, but...

For the benefit of those of you experimenting with Visual Studio 2008, particularly building Workflow Services. Visual Studio Beta2 (v9.0.20706.1) has a small flaw involving strong name validation. So if you try to debug say a Sequential Workflow Service...

Recently, at the National Association of Government Webmasters conference , a few people tried to download my presentations, but could not open them. As you might guess, I use Office 2007. All of my recent presentations have been saved in the new file...

These are six products for which Microsoft is leveraging the power of the Workflow Foundation Engine: BizTalk Server : Next Major Version - known internally as V.Next will use the WF runtime. Office SharePoint Server 2007 : Public Beta now includes workflow...

The US Public Sector DPE Team, in partnership with the Public Sector Virtual Earth & Vexcel Teams, is excited to announce the Virtual Earth Road Show! Event Date & Location: Date & Time Location Registration...

September 26th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005...

I'm here to present sessions on Silverlight & Virtual Earth. I just sat through an EXCELLENT session on accessibility: "Section 508 / W3C Standards - Zoe Gillenwater Starting with a general overview of the W3C/ Section508 standards and guidelines...

The fourth and most likely final (they take a lot of time to write) part of this workshop series tackles one of the most common questions that I run into with SharePoint developers. The question revolves around creating, sending (via email), and handling...

Since Records Management is a HOT topic these days for people in the SharePoint world, I thought that you might be interested in a free Virtual Lab that Microsoft has been offering for you to get your "Hands wet" in a safe/virtual way. Microsoft gives...

Joel Reyes has been doing Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) presentations at our dev conferences and as webcasts. During our conference in Juneau, AK, someone in the audience asked him something to the effect of: "The new Office 2007 file formats...

Thanks to everyone who attended. I'd also like to thank Jack Bradham for presenting! Jack's deck is available here . I've asked Jack to come back and do some code focused deeper dives on the foundational topics he covered today. Stay tuned in the coming...

This question came up at the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK. I'm trying to answer all customer questions like this via my blog so everyone has the benefit of the answer. There are a number of ways to do it, but my favorite (because...

Microsoft Corporation in partnership with the United Service Organizations (USO) is recognizing the contributions of the military community – the friends, family, and other individuals who support U.S. troops throughout the world – with the creation of...

In the majority of the Public Sector organizations today, forms processing is a highly manual, paper intensive, and labor intensive undertaking. Technology and automation provide numerous opportunities to optimize related end-to-end processes that could...

Last week Microsoft released version 2.0 of the Visual Basic (.NET) Power Pack, and is freely downloadable here: Click to go to download . Here's an overview of what's in it: Overview The new Line and Shape controls included in this version of the Visual...

In Part 2 of this workshop series, I focused on how to allow Administrators to set the "Default Behavior" of a document workflow using the Association Form. For this (Part 3) of the workshop series I will focus on how to prompt a normal (non-Administrator...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE October 5, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Security: CardSpace...

Jack Bradham will be presenting on my behalf. I'll be on the webcast to introduce Jack and help out. I'm looking forward to this one myself:). September 18th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) This session will present new features in SQL Server 2008...

We are pleased to announce that registration for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 is now open! You requested to be notified when registration became available, so we invite you to join us for this monumental event by registering today! The event...

In Part 1 of the Workshop series, I focused on how to get your Development Environment configured and how to build a basic document workflow for SharePoint using Visual Studio. In Part 2, I am expanding on the subject by tackling the subject of " getting...