I've given a number of presentations on Virtual Earth development over the last couple years.  The first thing ASP.NET WebForms developers say to me is how bummed they are that they have to write JavaScript.  That's understandable.  ASP...

[Cross-posted from Lamont's blog ] An interesting panel discussion video was recently released to the TechEd Online Library that focuses on extending the role/disciplines of the Architect into the area of providing mentoring. Taken from the TechEd...

Interesting win-back from the browser for WPF. Whats are the two take-aways for public sector developers and decision makers? First, user experience has a huge impact on adoption. This is an example of Software Plus Services at work. Its not something...

In this screencast, I build off of the concepts shown in my previous screencast and show you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server...

In this screencast, I show you how to draw a polygon on a Virtual Earth map and save it using ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008. Screencast: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts...

http://vs2008sp1docs.msdn.microsoft.com I've found the ADO.NET Entity Framework , ADO.NET Data Services Framework , and ASP.NET Dynamic Data sections very helpful lately. - Marc Technorati Tags: .net framework , visual studio

I'd have to say that my weakest area of development is probably SharePoint.  I know how to build a basic SharePoint web part and that's about it.  I'm pretty much a dunce when it comes to SharePoint.  One of the things I've been telling...

First, let me apologize since I promised to make this recording available almost two months ago.  I was trying to get the recording uploaded to the same Live Meeting servers as my other webcasts.  Needless to say, I had some challenges. ...

I've been having some issues getting my VPC updated to SQL Server 2008 RC0 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta so I can record a couple screencasts on using Virtual Earth with SQL Server 2008.  I swear I read through the readme docs:).  However...

I talk to people about programming with Virtual Earth quite often.  Beyond the developer APIs, my Virtual Earth knowledge somewhat limited.  I get asked all sorts of interesting questions about the technology behind Virtual Earth.  My answer...

The Patterns & Practices team has recently released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF which provides guidance for "componetizing" the development of enterprise-class WPF applications across multiple development teams, with each team owning...

At MIX 08, Chris Pendleton announced that the Virtual Earth team is working on a Silverlight 2 control.  The idea of being able to use managed code instead of JavaScript to build your Virtual Earth applications is very appealing to many.  I...