NOTE: This was cross posted from here . For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) is “A Microsoft-wide initiative and a mandatory policy since 2004, the SDL introduces security and privacy early and throughout...

REGISTER TODAY!   Click the link above OR call   1-877-673-8368 and reference event ID 1032432795 Registration:   17:30 Event Date: Thursday, December 03, 2009 6:00 PM - Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada...

Day 10 : Windows7.DirectX11 New version of DirectX with numerous improvements: more efficient, multi-core processor aware, sophisticated shading and texturing, smoother 3-D animation and graphics.

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Thanks for taking the time to attend our developer day!  For resources from my Windows 7 for .NET Developers session, see this post: http://tinyurl.com/Win7DevDinner The two decks and the GuestBook demo I used...

Day 11 : Windows7 .Domain Join The Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate editions are designed to join a domain quickly and more securely. Just follow the easy-to-use wizard, which prompts you to enter your network credentials. A few moments later you're...

REGISTER TODAY! Click the link above OR call 1-877-673-8368 and reference Event ID 1032431147 LOCATION: Please note that this event is NOT taking place in the Microsoft Reston office Sheraton Reston Hotel 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston...

Windows Azure Platform Windows Azure SQL Azure .NET Services Short, sweet, clear.  Brilliant! -Marc

Register at http://www.uspsvle.com/developer-agenda.aspx today ! Do not miss this unique opportunity. On November 10th at 9 am (PST)/12 pm (EST) you are invited to join Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Vice President Curt Kolcun and top technology leaders...

I would like to thank those who attended our Conference in Harrisburg and Tallahassee. It is always a pleasure for us in the team to be able to interact directly with our customers.   Below is a link with the resources we promised to make available...

Our team is looking to connect with customers at PDC.  So if you work or are doing work (as contractor, consultant, etc.) for a US Government organization, then drop us a line here .  We’d love to connect at PDC. -Marc

An Invitation for partners in the LA area or those that are attending PDC: if you are a Public Sector partner or HLS customer please see below! Please join us at the Figueroa hotel for cocktails, dinner, and discussion at the Public Sector/Healthcare...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here .   SQL Server Management Studio Support for SQL Azure http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds/archive/2009/11/10/9920168.aspx More details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee621784.aspx One of the things they don...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Thanks to everyone for coming out.  As I mentioned at the dinner, we will skip December due to the holidays.  We will start up in January again.  Topic and date TBD.  Here’s the deck I used today...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Every time I talk about ADO.NET Data Services, I mention that they can be consumed by any API that allows you to make http requests.  I usually show how you can use the Add Service Reference feature of Visual...

Thanks to everyone who attended the SharePoint as-a Platform events in DC/Reston and Online. Below are links to the recordings and decks from the Event. Enjoy! MSDN Video: SharePoint as a Development Platform (Part 1 of 4): Keynote & Visual...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I’ve been waiting for this to happen!  The Surface team ported their Manipulation and Inertia APIs to Silverlight 3+.  They’ve made them available for download at: http://tinyurl.com/SurfaceManipSilverlight...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR10 I missed this session at PDC.  There were so many good sessions, it was hard to choose.  The good news is that the sessions are now showing up at http://microsoftpdc...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Robert Levy from the Surface team and Anson Tsao from the WPF team gave a great session on: Multi-Touch on Microsoft Surface and Windows 7 for .NET Developers The session is definitely worth watching if you are...

  I know it isn't the norm for Public Sector developers to travel to conferences and such, so let the conference comes to YOU! Here is a link to all the PDC09 Videos http://microsoftpdc.com/Videos

PDC 09 (premier Professional Developers Conference) was held in Los Angeles, CA from Nov. 15 th -19 th 2009. We covered some exciting technologies (Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Azure, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 and Sharepoint Server 2010, etc...

Thank you for attending the 2009 Microsoft Windows Azure Tour in Reston, VA on 9/23/2009. To view an interview with David Chappell, please click on the link below: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=2a9ae93f4d0e8e5bbda4076e811714c8cf65b316e4d3c8b561390143435ec59c

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . MVVM is a pattern.  There are all sorts of MVVM frameworks popping up that help make implementing the pattern easier.  If you select the MVVM tag off of www.codeplex.com , you will find a number of them...

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference - Sacramento, CA REGISTER TODAY! Click the link above OR call 1-877-673-8368 and reference Event ID: 1032431198 Event Date: December 10, 2009 Registration: 08:30 Event Time: 09:00...

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Want to get up to speed on the latest release of Bing Maps including both the Ajax and Silverlight controls as well as the SOAP web services?  Don’t miss the upcoming roadshow in Reston, Va.  Details:...

With the same behavior as the many other project types developers are familiar with in Visual Studio, the VSTS 2010 release includes new projects specific to SharePoint 2010. I will be walking through each of these types of projects & how you can...