In my previous Silverlight Closed Captioning screencast here , I showed you how to use Expression Encoder to import Closed Captioning information to produce a solution without writing a line of code. What if you store your Closed Captioning information in an external data source (database, SAMI file...

Sorry for the technical glitches today. I know it's not the most exciting thing to watch my desktop sharing screen in complete silence as I scramble to figure out why my phone stopped working. The deck and code are available here . A recording should be available soon here . - Marc Technorati Tags: wcf...

October 25th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. These tools were improved on and are now integrated...

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Denver, CO to be held on October 18, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Event Date & Time : October 18, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Microsoft Corporation...

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK to be held on September 13, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Event Date & Time : September 13, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Municipality...

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Juneau, AK to be held on September 12, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Event Date & Time : September 12, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Alaska Permanent...

"Pictures Services is a simple Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service that is returns pictures from the computer in which the service is being hosted. The Picture Services 1.1 sample demonstrates the following: How to build a Syndication Service using WCF and the .NET Framework 3.5 Expose syndication...

Part 2 of the 2-part series on how we migrated Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 is now online. In this installment, we talk about how we designed and built the Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently hosted on Conservation International...

UPDATE: I am aware that the registration link is broken. I am working to get the proper link from the company who sets these up for me. Sorry about the broken link. UPDATE2: The link has been updated and now works:). Come see a demo-rich overview of the new features Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” has...

Thanks for attending! If you missed it, you should be able view the recording here . The deck and code are here . If you are looking for today's code, then make sure you download WebDevVS2008_democode_beta2 and FuturesJuly2007_democode . You will, of course have to wait for Visual Studio 2008 beta 2...

You might want to entertain attending even if you've seen me present this one before. I will be showing new Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 features like LinqDataSource, improved design time experience for ASP.NET AJAX extender controls, AJAX Web Part drag and drop, and anything else I find between now and...

I have spoken to quite a few customers about LINQ & LINQ to SQL over the last few months. Oddly enough, very few people have asked me about how one might encapsulate validation and business logic using LINQ to SQL. Scott Guthrie just posted another in his LINQ to SQL series blogs here . Part of his...

One of the things I get asked quite often is "How does LINQ to SQL affect performance compared to writing my own Data Access Layer?" LINQ to SQL perf is a work in progress of course since it is still in beta. However, if you are curious, check out Rico Mariani's first three of a series of post on LINQ...

For those of you who attended the Developer Dinner tonight (6/26/07), you can find the presentation materials here . If you liked what you saw and want to share what you saw with coworkers and friends, please register for Marcs web cast presentation of the same content by registering below: When : July...

June 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities, and much of the complexity in today’s...

When : June 26, 2007 6:00PM – 8:00PM Where: Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Register today! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032343813&Culture=en-US or call 1-877-MSEVENT (1-877-673-8368) and reference event ID 1032343813...

Some of the WPF sample applications you have seen probably don't resemble the type applications you plan on building. Some of these examples are a bit gratuitous in their use of WPF features because they are trying to show what is possible. Sometimes, after seeing their first WPF presentation, people...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE Ju ly 2, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Building Custom Document Workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...

Thanks to everyone who attended. Links to download my code & deck are here . The tool to help configure Blend to work seamlessly with Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 is here . There were some questions I wasn't able to answer during today's webcast. I'll research them once I get the Live Meeting Q&A...

I've been spending a bit of time getting spun up on what's new in the .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008. With all the buzz around Silverlight & ASP.NET AJAX, you may not have heard about the new tools, APIs, and services for Smart Clients. Here is a list of some of what's coming: WPF "Cider...

Thanks to everyone who attended. The deck is here . The demo code is here . If you missed the webcast, you should be able to follow the recording link here in a few hours. -Marc

This session will cover some of the great new features that will be coming soon with Visual Studio "Orcas" & the "Cider" designer for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). During this webcast, you see how the "Cider" designer & Expression Blend compliment each other. You will also learn more...

Thanks to everyone who attended our Public Sector Developer Conference in Downers Grove, IL. I don't have all of the decks yet, but I figured I would post anyway to get you started. I will update this post when I get the other decks. Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL - deck , demo code What's New for...

This session will cover some of the great new features that will be coming soon with Visual Studio "Orcas" & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures. Learn how web development with .NET will continue to improve and evolve, and talk about some of the upcoming features and how best to use them. We will be covering...

Thanks to everyone who attended! Here's the deck . You can get to my demo code from here and my Virtual Earth code from here .