We are excited to announce the launch of the U.S. Public Sector Web pages on the Microsoft Partner Portal. The Education, Health, Federal and State & Local Government pages provide you with a “one-stop-shop” for the most relevant and current industry...

Cloud Computing Bringing Cost Effective and Pragmatic Change to the Public Sector Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST Register today for this FREE seminar: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target...

The establishment of the .NET framework as the default intellectual platform for Microsoft software development has enabled the creation of great software by all developers alike – including my 10 year old son! Equally important, the platform has matured...

Windows PowerShell is a command line shell for Windows that relies upon and deeply integrates with the .NET Framework . PowerShell includes a scripting language, development framework, and a re-hostable runtime. It takes best ideas from popular command...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! Date Time Location Title and Registration Presenter Audience February 26, 2009 14:00 - 15:30 EST Webcast Cloud Computing Bringing Cost...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can find the deck and demo code here: Slide 40 of the deck has links to get the demo code.  Once the next preview release of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX is published, I will blog about where you can get the samples...

“The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client line of business applications. These types of applications typically feature multiple screens, rich...

[CORRECTION ADO.NET *NOT* ASP.NET DATA SERVICES] – DON’T WRITE BLOGS AFTER 7-HOURS DRIVE] Customers demand for richer experience on the web has created the requirement for data access at the point of need – the client. With the traditional post-back model...

Here’s a chance at some free WPF and Silverlight training.  XamlFest is an event touring around the US enabling developers to ramp up their WPF/Silverlight skills quickly.  Here is the description of the event: “Are you excited about the WPF...

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Cloud Computing Bringing Cost Effective and Pragmatic Change to the Public Sector Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Time: 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST Register today for this FREE seminar: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target...

Microsoft has recently published the first 9 or 40 Azure Services Platform “How Do I” (HDIs) videos for public consumption. The intent of the HDI videos are to provide additional training and resources around building cloud-aware applications on the Windows...

In this age of doing more with less, government software developers are constantly having to shrink the “time-to-release” and in some instances even compromise quality. Development teams have to content with picking up new skills/technologies, while maintaining...

Web 2.0 basically refers to the use of the Internet as an interactive and collaborative platform for applications like social networking. Web 2.0 encompasses things like Web-based communities, wikis, blogs, mashups, podcasts, and tagging, which facilitate...

Building off the sample app built during the Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond Developer Dinner, James Chittenden will cover all the basics that every designer and developer of WPF and Silverlight applications needs...

How about a WPF app that is a live demo of all of them?  Mike Taulty recently published a ClickOnce app that might tickle your fancy… http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/02/03/silverlight-wpf-control-browser.aspx...

I am pleased to announce the creation of the Government Software Developers Group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=66858710691 . This group has been created to improve our ability to communicate ‘digitally’ with YOU - software developers...

Attend this event for your chance to win an Xbox 360 Xbox 360 will be raffled at the conclusion of the dinner. Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:00 PM - Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 5:30 PM Microsoft Reston...

I’ve been working with a number of partners lately on building Microsoft Surface apps.  Infostrat is one of them.  They have done some of the best Virtual Earth integration work I have seen so far.  Have a look at this video that highlights...

The February Update of the Azure Services Training Kit has released and is ready for download . Below is a brief overview (taken from the download site ) of what's included in the latest release. Overview The Azure Services Training Kit includes a...

Starting with this entry I am adding a Talking Points session to our blog intended to give you… Talking Points on a particular topic with an easy to read bulletized approach accompanied (if/when available) with a link to a video from channel-9 or some...

All entries in our PublicSector blog should now also appear on Twitter.   Joel Reyes

Visual Studio 10 and .NET 4 are around the corner… Here are a series of videos from Channel 9 to help you stay abreast of the awesome set of capabilities that are part of this release. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/10-4/   Joel Reyes Technorati...

Don't ask me why but I felt compelled to post this entry… We’ve come a long way with .NET and I feel tremendous reward knowing that I was right there at the very beginning of it all… evangelizing .NET Beta… Today we have the most robust software framework...

A question came up last week at the Designer Dinner about unit testing Silverlight applications.  I promised to follow up with a link to the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework .  I forgot to add the link to the follow up post for the...