I just came upon a great little add-on for Visual Studio 2005/2008 by Mikhail Arkhipov.  It's a spell checker for ASP.NET and HTML pages, meaning that it's smart enough to ignore the script and focus on the text for spell checking.  I haven...

AJAX has been very popular over the past few years, but I've seen it primarily used by developers to reduce page refreshes and to do background data-loading.  Both of these uses are great uses of the technology, but one of the features that I like...

If you've ever build SharePoint Workflow's with SharePoint Designer, you've probably developed a "Love/Hate" relationship with the product.  One of the best things about the tool is that it allows a non-developer (although having a development...

If you are in the midst of learning about the ADO.NET Entity Framework, then you'll want to get the samples that I found on the CodePlex web site. Description Initial samples for Entity Framework Beta 3: includes updated Getting Starting, NorthwindEF...

If you've tried, then you probably had a bit of an "ARGH!" moment when you got this: The first thing you might do is go look for the slipstream installer containing MOSS 2007 + SP1. You'll have another "ARGH!" moment because it doesn't exist yet. Have...

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Microsoft Office Share Point Server Development evening event in New York, NY on February 7, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space...

Here's something that I didn't know that you could do, but should have assumed it: You can actually build custom reports for/about your Development Team (managed in Team Foundation Server) with SQL Server Reporting Services.  I mean it is a SQL Server...

Josh Smith has great article on his approach to building "unit test-friendly" WPF applications by using the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern.  I just love this statement from the article: "If you put ten software architects into...

NOTE:  This is an updated delivery of a similarly titled webcast.  The demos are update for the final release of Visual Studio 2008.  Due to the amount of content, I have pulled out the "ASP.NET Futures" (now called the Microsoft...

Re gister today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE February 1 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Building...

Quite a few questions came up about WPF at our last two Public Sector Developer Conferences in Seattle & Olympia, WA.  I forgot to let people know that I am keeping a WPF Resources list on my Windows Live Space.  I just added a link to a...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  All of my demos are based on Visual Studio 2008 / .NET Framework 3.5 RTM.  Here are the downloads: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL - deck , demo code NOTE: You will need to install both the Northwind (available...

My team is sponsoring a pretty interesting free training opportunity in the DC area January 19th-20th. I'll be there for the whole event. Hope to see you there! Here are the details: Infusion Development and Microsoft are calling all Insomniacs Sleepless...

Robert & James each did a webcast for me while I was away on family leave. I just update My Recorded Webcasts so you can find the recordings. The titles are Advanced SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Silverlight for...

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. These tools were improved on and are now integrated...

For those of you who are interested in SilverLight, especially the upcoming version 2.0, you might want to check out the web cast below.  Summary of the event: In this presentation, learn to use Microsoft ASP.NET to dynamically create HTML. However...

Over on the SharePoint Team Blog is a good post citing resources related to deployments of MOSS/WSS on Windows Server 2008. With the pending launch of the next release of Windows Server, it's important to know the impacts it has on deploying SharePoint...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  You can get the deck here and the code here .  The code has been updated for Visual Studio 2008 RTM.   - Marc   Technorati Tags: asp.net , .net framework , ajax , linq , visual studio

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Albany, NY on March 12, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference...

That is a question I recently asked myself. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I am unable to provide a solid answer. I know some of the high level bullet points about what's new in IIS7, but I really need to spend some time dissecting the things developers...

Join us this Friday Jan 11 for an overview of building Mobile Applications with Windows Mobile 6 and Visual Studio 2008. Michael Saffitz , Program Manager in the Windows CE team will be our guest speaker. The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is a key...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  The deck is here and the code is here .   - Marc Technorati Tags: visual studio , .net framework , windows communication foundation , wcf , windows workflow foundation , wf

I know I promised folks I would have all the updated VS2008 RTM code & slide decks for my WCF, WF, & LINQ presentations published by now.  Unfortunately, I am a little behind.  Due to some laptop configuration issues that required support...