Microsoft has just recently released the latest updates to the SharePoint SDK's.  If you are a SharePoint Developer, this is important for you, because there are usually changes/updates in the API documentation and occasionally new Samples. Here...

During my Virtual Earth Workshop at the GIS-T ( www.gis-t.org ) conference, I demo'd how to execute a spatial query in a VE scenario by using JavaScript, WCF, and SQL Server 2008.  The query returned GeoRSS to the browser so the VE map control could...

Windows Mobile 6 offers a great developer experience in Visual Studio 2008. The combined features of WM6 SDK + VS2008 provide excellent new ways for testing your applications for reliability and resiliency. Testing WebServices, however, is not an out...

Is your agency still using FrontPage? Check the latest mind-blowing features of Expression Web 2... <Taken from Expression Web ! unrolled for easy reading...> PHP Open up your PHP websites to the visual world of standards-based design by using advanced...

UPDATED: Links fixed...our apologies for the bad URLs on the images. I just ran across some really nice How to videos from Scott Hanselman on the ASP.NET MVC Preview.  They are very much demonstration-oriented and very explanatory. Here are the video...

We've officially released! If you've been paying attention to the project, you might have noticed that there was a release on March 3, 2008. I know a few of you have been paying attention because there were 58 downloads before we released the latest version...

During my Building WPF Applications in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend webcast on Wednesday I mentioned that Expression Blend is part of your MSDN subscription.  There was some confusion in the Q&A around what level.  According to...

If you haven't yet downloaded this nifty MSDN tool, you should. "The Visual Basic Snippet Editor is a Windows Forms application with UI for creating, editing, testing VB code snippets. You can specify snippet code and metadata (e.g., title, author...

Conference Title Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference Venue Microsoft Downers Grove Office 3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300 Downers Grove IL 60515 Date & Time May 15, 2008 9:00AM – 4:00 PM CST Registration...

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can count on a consistent network.  Rather than simply replicating a database...

Thanks to everyone who attended my 4 HOUR Virtual Earth workshop at the GIS-T conference.  The files I promised are available below: Slide deck Main Demos Hosting Virtual Earth in WPF demo All my demos require Visual Studio 2008 because I use features...

Moving forward within the software-platform continuum inevitably does (and will) involve taking a closer look at the implications of conceiving software as a service both on premise as well as on the cloud.  As a software visionary it means thinking...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE April 9 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Geospatially...

I am excited to have Pete Brown , WPF & Silverlight MVP, present this Silverlight webcast next week!  Pete is by far the most knowledgeable Silverlight developer I know outside of Microsoft.  He's probably the most active person on our internal...

Conference Title Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference Venue Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place NW Washington DC District of Columbia 20001 United States Date & Time April 2, 2008 9:00AM – 4:00 PM...

By way of Rob Tiffany - The new Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008 has been released to the web and can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428E4C3D-64AD-4A3D-85D2-E711ABC87F04&displaylang...

Thanks to everyone who stuck around for my "Defy Occasionally-Connected Challenges With Smart Client Applications" session at the DC Launch.  The deck and demo files are available here: Deck Workflow Services Demo Sync Services for ADO...

NOTE: Even thought this is a WPF session, the focus is on tooling (i.e. VS2008 & Blend).  Silverlight 2 developers who want to understand the future tooling experience for Silverlight should attend this session.  In fact, the UI I created...

One of our team members found a bug.  We fixed it and created a new release today.  Bug details and release download are available at http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=12065 . We are ramping up for our next...

This is a handy little free tool for sharing documents and screen views with your team, close friends and family from anywhere. It is called Microsoft Sharedview ! You can download it here . You can initiate a session directly from Live Messenger or send...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck here and the demo code here .  As always, if you missed it, you should be able to view a recording within 24 hours by following the original registration link .  I have also add...

I didn't’know that we also had a reader for The Architecture Journal . These readers are way-cool! They showcase our latest UI stuff --> WPF as well as smart-client, zero touch deployment, and so on... The best part is being able (after sync'ing) to...

Doug Mahugh posted a good blog on the changes to OOXML SDK here   ( OPEN XML Developer ) Also, here you can find, at the bottom of the page, a video interview with Jean-Christophe Cimetiere discussing the SDK . Joel

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...

I may have posted about this before, but if you have not yet downloaded this amazing reader do it now... you will be Very Impressed and will find yourself reading MSDN more often than never before. Zero touch deployment makes it a breeze and it is a good...