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Thanks to everyone who attended.  A big thanks to Vlad for presenting.  The downloads for the webcast are here . Technorati Tags: robotics , microsoft robotics studio , .net framework - Marc

Due to a typo by yours truly, the announcement here had the wrong date.  The webcast is TODAY from 2-3:30 EST.  I have updated the original post to reflect the correct date.  Sorry for any confusion. - Marc

Unfortunately, there was a configuration snafu with the email address I gave out for you to request access to the project as a contributor.  If you you sent an email from a non Microsoft email address prior to this post, then you received a "Delivery...

UPDATE: Fixed the embedded video. Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008?  I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project!  I just recorded a short...

Scott Guthrie posted an update on Silverlight 2 plus an eight part walkthrough of building a Silverlight 2 application.  In the final part, he turns the Silverlight 2 application into a WPF application reusing the Silverlight 2 xaml and code. ...

Join us this Friday, Feb 29, to explore the Microsoft Enterprise Services Bus (ESB)!!! Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its Application Platform including Windows Server 2003, Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0), and BizTalk...

Please note that this event has been postponed. The Windows HPC Server 2008 “Jumpstart” event scheduled for March 18, 2008 in Washington, DC, will be rescheduled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our intent is to coordinate delivery of this event subsequent...

That's right, we're right on the verge of the Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 launch events.  They start on February 27th in cities across the country.  I'll be presenting the Defy Occasionally Connected Challenges...

For anyone who is looking/waiting for the Microsoft Resource Kit for the Records Management (DoD 5015.2) standard, that kit has been released and is publicly available for download. Here's what's in the resource kit: Overview The DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit...

UPDATE: The date for this webcast in the original post was wrong.  The date of this webcast is February 27, 2008 (updated below).  Hopefully, if you registered, you noticed this.  Sorry for the confusion. Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS...

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Sorry for the technical difficulties with Live Meeting as well as accidentally doing one of my demos out of order.  Hopefully it wasn't too confusing. The deck is here .  The demos I used are split into...

Microsoft has released a set of Power Tools for folks who use Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools. Here's the description of what's in this free download, and it's a lot! This release updates the Power Tools for the Database...

The Microsoft SQL Server team has released the next CTP of SQL Server 2008 (February 2008).  Here's the overview of what's in it: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is...

The Microsoft Visual Basic Team has released an updated version of the Visual Basic Power Pack, and I (as a C# Developer) am jealous! Here's an Overview of what's in the Power Pack: The new DataRepeater control included in this version of the Visual Basic...

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are two very relevant technologies within .NET 3.x for Public Sector applications. WCF represents a total unification layer for building connected systems and WF provides...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  A special thanks to Drew Robbins for presenting.  The deck is available here .  The code samples Drew demonstrated will be available soon.  Stay tuned to this blog.  I'll throw up a post when...

For those of you who are interested in looking at the new Ruby Syntax, but are more comfortable with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework, then you might want to take a look at IronRuby.  IronRuby is an ongoing project to build a version of Ruby...

Brian Jones, Senior Program Manager just broke the news in his post today. Quoting from him: "As promised last month , the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to this, the project to create an open source translator ...

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

Microsoft has released version 1.1 of the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0! These are the tools that you use to build web parts, site definitions, etc. I don't find myself in Visual Studio 2005 as much these days, because I...

I'm really excited to have Drew Robbins speak about IIS7 next week.  To me, IIS7 is the thing that developers will care most about in Windows Server 2008.  Don't miss this opportunity to find out why! Abstract Learn about new developer features...

As reported on Scott Guthrie's (General Manager of the Microsoft .NET Developer Platform Division) blog , Microsoft has released a Hot-Fix Roll-up for Visual Studio 2008.   These hot-fixes address the following issues: HTML Source view performance...

UPDATE: Added VSTO deck and some LINQ lab links (say that three times fast) Joel promised folks. Thanks to everyone who attended!  As promised, I have gathered all the decks and code.  Here are the links:   The Benefits of Visual Studio...

This is a video that's been in existence for a while and some of you may have already seen it, but throughout all of the research that I've done on The Entity Frameworks future, I hadn't seen it. If I hadn't seen it, I was thinking that others may not...