Contagious Curiosity

Have you played with this fun (alpha) tool yet? If not, and you'd like an invite - let me know and I'll get you one. Microsoft Popfly

Watch this great presentation that I had the pleasure of seeing live today in Seattle. simonguest.com : My Recent Presentations

New site - check it out Open Source at Microsoft

Visual Studio 2008 Downloads

I just smiled and smiled when I watched this - Where The Hell Is Matt?

Learning WPF - use these convenient labs. Windows Presentation Foundation Hands-On-Labs

Silverlight Resources

Well, well, check this out, if it isn't the marriage of two interesting technologies (CAML and LINQ). I haven't tried it (yet) - but wanted to pass this along to my readers ASAP. If you are new to LINQ, be sure to attend my free MSDN sessions this quarter...

Keith Brown from PluralSight answers developer security questions - listen here

Facebook | The Facebook Blog - pay attention. Also note (from their blog) about Facebook search: "However, we decided that searches carried out on Facebook had a particular structure that only we could understand and optimize for...Some quick stats about...

Read this book - it's excellent. To understand the book's content, you should read Writing Secure Code 2 first. Michael Howard's Web Log : New Book: Writing Secure Code for Windows Vista

You'll like it - coming soon.

Shows run live each Wednesday 12-1 PST. Guests are here to answer YOUR questions. If you can't make it to the live show - post your questions in advance here , and then Glen or I will ask 'em for ya' during the show. Shows are recorded and will be posted...

My counterpart - Woody Pewitt - has created a SharePoint site to list all User Groups and community activity in this area. Most parts of the site are publicly accessible (meetings, group names, etc...). Check it out!

This has been doing the trick lately.

Check out the Whirlything . Hey, we made it using Silverlight too. It's fun, cool to look at, and, most importantly, gives you useful links to developer resources.

I LOVE this screencast from Channel9 by Daniel Moth . I still remember when I first heard Anders talking about LINQ (at PDC03). I can't believe I get to talk about this topic next quarter - sometimes I really, really like my job. Language geek heaven...

From CodePlex - get this OneNote Web Exporter - Home

Aug 14 - San Diego Aug 16 - LA Sept 20 - Long Beach Sept 27 - Irvine Registration link Session 1 | New Thinking in Data with LINQ and Visual Studio "Orcas" The architecture of LINQ C# and Visual Basic extensions Manipulating data with Visual Studio "Orcas...

Here's a talk about this interesting tool. Here's the URL, in case the video won't load. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140 The Gapminder World 2006, beta

Then you need to get more information! Here's a list of links after my SharePoint Workflow for Developers webcast today. SharePoint Workflow introduction http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx Create a workflow in SharePoint...

This is very well-written article that all SharePoint DEVELOPERS should read prior to attempting to programmatically customize SharePoint search. The article is intended for an ITPro audience, however, my experience has been that it is most often developers...

Although this MSDN article is over a year old, I am finding as I talk to you about Authentication and Authorization systems in your applications, many of you are will benefit from this 'overview of possibilities'. It's a great read. The .NET Developer...

These are great! Check 'em out. - Also coming soon are videos for IIS and C++. ASP.Net videos ASP.Net AJAX videos Devices videos Expression videos Extensibility videos Office/VSTO videos Silverlight videos Visual Basic videos VSTS videos Windows Forms...