Today at MIX ‘10 we announced the public availability of WCF RIA Services RC bits. A few months back, at PDC ‘09 when we released our Beta bits we received strong feedback around making deployment of RIA Services applications easier and asking for more...

At PDC 2009 we (RIA Services Team) announced the re-branding of Microsoft .NET RIA Services to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) RIA Services. We backed this branding change with a new Preview release, that has RIA Services built heavily on the WCF...

Over the last year I have been working on .NET RIA Services , a preview of which just went public at MIX. Brad Abrams does a great job on his blog of answering the obvious question you might have - What is .NET RIA Services? . Also be sure to check out...

I wrote the blog post below about 6 months back and just realised that I never actually got around to posting it. I the spirit of 'better late than never' here it is ... .NET Framework 3.5 - Client Application Services In .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET provides...

Later today, I present @ VS Live the following talk ... Building Rich Internet Application using Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 In this session, we will build a Video Search Web Site using Silverlight 2.0. The session will demo – how to use Visual Studio to...

I am presenting at the Avanade Tech Summit in Seattle today on "Building a Rich Internet Application using Silverlight 2.0". Slides for the presentaion are attached to this post ... The App I plan to build on stage is the same one Joe Stegman and Mike...

Am presenting the following talk at DevConnections today - VMS311: Smart Clients: What's New in Visual Studio "Orcas"? Saurabh Pant Visual Studio "Orcas" is about making the rapid application development experience even easier. In this overview we will...

[Update] My introductory post to Client Application Services is available here http://blogs.msdn.com/saurabh/archive/2008/05/16/net-framework-3-5-client-application-services.aspx [Original Post] Continuing further along in with our "Live from Redmond...

[Update 11/27] The talk is now available online here [Click here for zipped download] [Update 11/07] Attaching the Slide Deck from the presentation to the post. [Original Post] Continuing with our highly popular "Live from Redmond" series I shall be presenting...

An Overview of Windows Forms in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 For all the folks that logged into my MSDN talk today morning here is the slide deck from the talk. The talk being demo intensive the deck might not be super helpful but it does have the resources...

As part of the Live From Redmond Series of talks I shall be presenting a talk on Aug 23rd - "An Overview of Windows Forms in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005". Windows Forms application development takes a giant step forward in Visual Studio 2005. This session...

[Update] Have attached the TechEd Slide Deck. The resources section for the deck will alos direct you to the sample code that I demoed during the presentation. [Original Post] Am in Boston this week for TechEd ... and just got done with my talk titled...

Jay Allen of the Windows Forms User Education team has some good coverage of ClickOnce issues on their team blog. Definately worth checking out ... http://blogs.msdn.com/winformsue/archive/category/11821.aspx

Firstly sorry for the delay in this messaging from ClickOnce. Judging by the passionate opinions I have heard around the community on this issue, this is a blog we should have posted a while back. [Hanselman's Blog - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink...

The Decision - With the .Net Framework V2.0 release of ClickOnce, any ClickOnce App deployed from the internet zone can prompt the user for permission elevation. For the earlier Beta2 release of ClickOnce, prompting had been explicitly disabled for internet...

While upgrading from v1.0 to v2.0 of an ClickOnce application, files/assemblies that have remained unchanged (have the same hash) across the update are not redownloaded from the server. Instead they are just copied over locally in the Clickonce store...

The ClickOnce team now has a team blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/clickonce Keep checking it out for tips and tricks, announcamants and other information on the ClickOnce technology and team.

Had Sunday brunch with a friend of mine, Arpan, a Product Manager with the SharePoint team. The discussion turned to Presentation tips and techniques, resulting in this blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/12/04/499944.aspx

Just updated WindowsForms.Net with bunch of Windows Forms 2.0 goodies ... http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=5&tabid=60 Enjoy!

After my 3 year stint at shipping a quality ClickOnce for you guys, I have moved over to some new challenges. I joined the Windows Forms Team as a Program Manager a few weeks back. This should give me a chance to contribute to effective Smart Client Development...

Sameer Bhangar the Test Lead on ClickOnce project recently internally sent out a list of the top ways to learn about ClickOnce. Is by no way the authoratative or complete list but definately good starting point. This should serve as a good resource for...

Am at TechReady1 conference in Seattle today, helping proctor the ClickOnce labs. The labs have not been too busy so With some free time at hand am back to ramblings on Clickonce .... MSI installed ClickOnce Apps? This is a scenario request that keeps...

Seeing the following ClickOnce error log? Well your ClickOnce manifests are not signed ... System.Deployment.Application.InvalidDeploymentException (ManifestParse) - Exception reading manifest from http://foo.application : the manifest could be invalid...

Just got out of a ClickOnce MSDN WebCast titled "Building a ClickOnce Toolkit". It was hosted by William Steele and you can get more info on it, on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/wsteele/archive/2005/06/28/433313.aspx I was primarily there to represent...

The ClickOnce Online discussion forum is at - http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=6 It is looked at regularly by the ClickOnce product team and is ideal to get ansewers to your ClickOnce design/implementation questions.