Thanks to all that attended the recent Real World SOA session. Service oriented architecture describes a technology agnostic architecture that is comprised of loosely coupled services that interoperate to perform a desired business function. SOA is not...

The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting again on Thursday, 11/2/2006. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month Greg Smalter from Red Stapler Software is presenting on "Automatically-generated Data Access Layers". As always, the meeting...

Thanks to everyone that attended my recent presentation on Building Solutions Using the Latest-Generation Microsoft Application Platform. This session covered some of the industry trends and an overview of the .NET Framework 3.0. As promised I have posted...

It’s hard to believe that I have been in Redmond for almost six weeks. I still seem to spend a lot of time lost. I swear they move the streets at various times of the day. Working with the New England developer community was one of the best experiences...

Like many people I spend a lot of time editing, and viewing Word documents. Recently, I switched to Office 2007 (Tech Refresh) and so far have been pretty happy with the results. Except for this morning – that is. You know the situation. I had spent two...

Announcing the V 1 Beta! With ASP.NET AJAX , developers can quickly create pages with rich, responsive UI and more efficient client-server communication by simply adding a few server controls to their pages. This new Web development technology from...

I spent way too much time playing this game as a kid. Now that I have it on my phone – I can spend more time on my phone. Free Invaders Game Attack wave after wave of cunning aliens as they drop towards you on the screen. Tailor your game experience...

A fantastic idea by Doug ! .NET University is a way for anyone to get to a set of overview courseware for each of the 4 new technologies associated with .NET 3.0, which is currently RC1. Each lecture is 75 minutes, each lab is 30 minutes, so all content...

Collection 5134 : Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics...

Don't forget that the Fall 2006 Code Camp is coming up the weekend of Oct 21-22 at the Microsoft Waltham, MA office. Registration and abstract submission are now open at www.thedevcommunity.org , the new home for New England Code Camps. At this site you...

The October meeting of the Boston .NET User Group this Wednesday 10/11 will feature Stuart Jones speaking on Building Web Applications with AJAX from 6:30-8:30 p.m. There will also be a .NET 101 session from 5-6 p.m. on data binding in ASP.NET 2.0 ...

Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features: · Works with or without authored comments...