During the recent Public Sector Developer Conference in Washington, DC, I was asked about tools support, beyond the class designer, for modeling WCF services.  My answer was to use the Service Factory Modeling Edition for Visual Studio 2008 from...

I have received a few requests looking for the HOLs from the Windows Server 2008 / Visual Studio 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Launch events.  I just found out they are now available at http://heroes.labmanuals.virtualwide.com/ .  - Marc

I've created a new list on my Windows Live Space so you can easily find My Screencasts .  I have a few planned so keep an eye out for new ones soon. - Marc

Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 (MOSS) is rapidly approaching the 100 million licenses sold milestone and SharePoint consulting services are white hot.  IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion software extends SharePoint to create a visual composite...

Scott Guthrie has a great eight part series titled First Look at Silverlight 2 where he walks you through building a Silverlight 2 sample app from scratch.  The walkthrough highlights almost all of the key features of Silverlight 2 Beta 1. ...

UPDATE: Added link to LINQ deck Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ session yet, but will update this post when I get it.  However, I did promise...

Sorry for the slow follow up post.  For those of you looking for Pete's deck from the webcast, it's at http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2008/03/20/Slides-from-Silverlight-for-Business-Applications-Webcast.aspx . ...

One of the topics that comes up often when I give Virtual Earth programming talks is that there is a point where performance degrades when adding shapes (pushpins, polylines, polygons) to the map.  When depends on the complexity of the shapes you...

During my recent Silverlight 2 talks, I have had a handful of questions around building Section 508 compliant applications with Silverlight 2.  I've mentioned that the accessibility features are not in the current beta, but they are coming. ...