Participate in the Open Government Brainstorm that is occurring currently which the Obama Administration is sponsoring as part of the President’s Directive released last week. If you support the goals of having a participatory, collaborative and transparent...

My colleague Vlad Vinogradsky, who is the lead architect on OGDI has done a great job of describing how OGDI relates to Data.GOV. 1) OGDI is a (government) data publishing solution not a place or location (data.gov today is a place that federates data...

To help the Department of Defense (DoD) and its contractors streamline compliance with earned value management (EVM) reporting requirements, Microsoft today announced a Project 2007 application tailored for Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) standards...

The facility in Reston, Virginia had some unexpected audio/video failures.  Because of this, the developer dinner for next week has been cancelled.  I am really sorry for this inconvenience.  We will reschedule ASAP once the audio/video...

Speaker Joel Reyes, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team Register today!! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416713&Culture=en-US ...

Speaker Joel Reyes, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team Register today!! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416710&Culture=en-US ...

UPDATE: The dinner has been cancelled.  Details here.  We will reschedule as soon as possible.  I have removed the registration link to minimize confusion. Speakers Marc Schweigert, Developer Evangelist  James Chittenden, User Experience...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . If you haven’t been keeping up on the ADO.NET team blog , but you want to get up to speed with what’s coming in the next release of the Entity Framework (.NET 4.0), then now is the time to start monitoring their...

Comprehensive whitepaper for Web Development: http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/ - Marc

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I just published a Channel 9 interview with Josh Wall and Josh Blake from InfoStrat about their Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF ) and Surface controls that make integrating Virtual Earth 3D a breeze. ...

“ We just posted the announcement: Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more! In short we announced today: The PHP SDK for Windows Azure : The goal of the SDK is to provide high-level abstractions that enable PHP developers to interoperate readily...

In Part I we discussed the Service and Internet Bus as well as some of the connectivity challenges associated with addressing individual services traversing multiple network boundaries and protocols. Here we will discuss the messaging infrastructure and...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . This week marks my 5 year anniversary at Microsoft.  Five years ago, I stopped being a “real developer” and became an evangelist.  Ok, I started with a short stint as a SQL / BizTalk Technology Specialist...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Interested in learning how to build Virtual Earth solutions and lowering the amount of custom code you need to write?  Have a look at the upcoming webcast Jerry just blogged about: Microsoft Virtual Earth May...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0178e2ef-9da8-445e-9348-c93f24cc9f9d&displaylang=en Joel Reyes

What is a Service Bus? The Service Bus is a common pattern in Enterprises. It is never just one product – despite some products that position themselves as such - but rather a composed set of components used for application integration. For example, Active...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . http://www.pluralsight.com/main/olt/Course.aspx?n=dotnet-csharp-tutorial I tend to steer away from making recommendations on training companies and books unless I have actually been through the training or read...

http://wildermuth.com/2009/05/10/Supporting_ScreenReaders_in_Silverlight Nice quick post with a video…

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:00 AM - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 8:30 AM We invite you to join us for a day of developer-oriented technical sessions, featuring the Microsoft Azure Services Platform, ADO...

Awesome new feature to enable easy yet powerful UI Testing for your projects! check the channel9 10-4 Episode!   Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: Joel Reyes , 10-4 Channel9

Today Microsoft announced the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI). The goal of OGDI is to encourage the publishing and use of public government data. See the press release here More information on Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative can be...

59 Refactorings, 17 consume-first providers, and a  lot more! Marc Schweigert send us this link I don't think he blogged about it. It is really cool (watch the video!) I think a lot of you will appreciate this tool. More info   Joel Reyes

A while back I started working with the Microsoft Virtual Labs team to explore the possibility of turning their labs into videos that customers could watch BEFORE doing the labs. The video version can contextualize the labs and provide for a Watch Before...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I’ve been using jQuery quite a bit lately.  I’ve grown very fond of it.  At the same time, I have been digging into ASP.NET AJAX 4.0.  I just read a post from Bertand Le Roy that made me smile. ...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . The Model View ViewModel pattern has become very popular for building WPF applications.  Until now, there wasn’t much guidance/tooling from Microsoft to help you get started with MVVM.  The WPF team just...