Tomorrow is the conclusion of our first series on S+S! We will have Mark Alexander from I-S Consulting share with us ISC's Hybrid GIS solution which incorporate Software and Services. IS Consulting developed a solution for the City of Miami which is an...

If you have not heard the announcement elsewhere, Enterprise Library 4.0 from patterns & practices is now available .  Martin Bennedik just updated his WPF integration for the Validation Application Block (VAB) to work with Enterprise Library...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE June 20 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Overview...

The broad Software + Services approach unites multiple industry phenomena including software-as-a-service, service-oriented development and Web 2.0 under a common umbrella. The entire industry is converging on a Software + Services approach, with different...

[Cross-posted from Lamont's Blog ] Announced on the SharePoint Team Blog , the SharePoint Deployment Planning Services program has been launched and is geared at helping our Software Assurance (SA) customers sucessfully plan and deploy SharePoint Products...

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 & VSTO sessions yet, but will update this post when I get them.  However, I did promise to have a post...

There are a bunch of videos at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showforum.aspx?forumid=14&tagid=329 digging in to what's new for WPF in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. - Marc Technorati Tags: .net framework , wpf

If you are located in the Charlotte-NC area, please join us this Saturday for our annual Spring Code Camp. You can register here .  Schedule [ Join us Saturday, May 17th in the Information Technology Building at CPCC Central Campus for a FULL DAY...

I just came across this update to the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit from Jonathan Carter .  If you've seen my ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview webcast and are looking for the code, then you will want to download the kit.  I used the kit as...

If you keep up with multiple Microsoft technology bloggers, today is one of those days where you'll see everyone posting similar posts:(.  Such is the nature of blogging.  I get to say what I want, but sometimes that means everyone else is saying...

Pete Brown just let me know about this event in Reston, VA on June 13th.  I just looked over the schedule.  It looks to be jam packed with Silverlight & Expression content.  Details on here . - Marc

As I mentioned here , I have been digging into what's out there for WPF LOB applications.  It's been a long time since I've kept up with the work the patterns & practices group has produced.  One of the things I've seen a webcast/blog post...

These are a set of developer tools designed to complement Visual Studio Tools for Office. These tools provide additional functionality useful in Office-based development. They include Visual Studio add-ins as well as standalone Windows Forms and console...

[Cross-Posted from Lamont's Blog ] Version 2.0 of the OBA Composition Reference Toolkit was released to the web today, on schedule and with all the great new features promised for the release. Version 1.0 of the toolkit was released at the Office Developer...

I'm a big believer that WPF is a great UI technology for LOB applications.  Yes, there are some shortcomings in the designer experience if you compare the WPF designer to the Windows Forms designer in Visual Studio 2008.  Yes, WPF is missing...

I keep a running list of follow up Resources for my presentations/webcasts on my Windows Live Space .  I have received some feedback lately from folks having trouble finding my links, presentations, and demo code.  In an effort to make things...

I have received a few requests from folks about a bad webcast recording.  I've been told that there are some problems with the recording for: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008 Additionally, I have received some requests...

UPDATE: AH FOOEY!  I feel like a goof:).  Turns out my workaround DOESN'T WORK!!!  If you look at the logic from the original post, it makes sense that it wouldn't work because “var map = new VEMap();” is before “var map...

UPDATE: I've updated the code to use the workaround described here .  If you downloaded this code before May 2nd, 2008 @ 7:30 PM EST, then you might download it again.  The URL is the same. I’ve update my primary Virtual Earth (VE) map...

[Cross-Posted from Lamont's Blog ] Zach Rosenfield (a Program Manager on the SharePoint Team) posted an announcment introducing the SharePoint Administration Toolkit . This promises to be a great resource for administering your MOSS and WSS v3.0 deployments...