You are cordially invited to join us in a full-day event for developers and designers. Our first TechFest series will focus on how to use Microsoft latest web design and development technologies and tools such as Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and Expression...

I finally completed encoding all videos from the one-day Microsoft TechFest Silverlight Event , and uploaded them to my Silverlight Streaming account. Due to file size limit, I have broken each session into multiple parts and posted five of them. The...

Silverlight Streaming is a free service that Microsoft offers to the public. With the service users receive 10 GB free space that they can use to host video contents. Unlike the service provided by youtube.com, Silverlight Streaming does not add Microsoft...

The emerging technology macro-trend today is the convergence of the Web and physical worlds, often referred to as the disappearing boundaries between the on-line and off-line worlds. This trend underscores a shift from using web browsers on personal computers...

Happy New Year! It's good to be back to the office from a holiday vacation. I have received questions regarding the .NET framework 3.5, how it is different from previous versions, can applications based on .NET 3.5 co-exist with applications based...

I remember one of my Silverlight discussions with customers was about if it was possible to allow users to zoom on an image on the web, to see detail of the image. A few months ago, my response was that it would take some custom coding to acquire that...

Thanks for attending the Microsoft S+S and Windows Azure event at Reston VA. You can download the presentation at one of the links below. PowerPoint Version Here PDF Version Here

I recently completed an asp.net application that shows how to integrate with two leading online payment service providers, PayPal and Google Checkout. It is based on the classified app from the asp.net starter kit. Development tools and technologies include...

Inaugural Meeting Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform. At this meeting, you'll hear about Microsoft's vision of Software + Services and what it can mean for you. As part of this presentation, you'll see a demo of how a cloud application...

We officially kicked off the Mid-Atlantic Influential Architects program yesterday at Microsoft Reston MTC. A total of 11 architects representing Microsoft partners and customers in the region attended the gathering. We were very fortunate that David...

The Washington, DC event will celebrate the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The event will bring together IT Pros and Developers to get an in-depth, up-close look at the new products and will give attendees an opportunity...

Please join us for our Mid-Atlantic Architect Roundtables. See agenda and registration information below. Agenda 10:30 - 11:00am 11:00 - 12:15 12:15 - 12:30 12:30 - 1:45pm 1:45 - 2:00pm Arrival and Welcome Featured Presentation...

The Richmond event and the Baltimore event will celebrate the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The event will bring together IT Pros and Developers to get an in-depth, up-close look at the new products and will give...

The 7th summer social event organized by Pittsburgh Technology Council is coming up this Thursday. See detail below. Developers, leave your code at the office; DBAs, forget Oracle and SQL for one night; CIOs, you can worry about the information technology...

8:30-9:00 Registration and Welcome 9:00-10:15 Web Development Basics 10:15-10:30 Morning Break 10:30-11:45 What's New in the .NET 3.5 Framework for Web Developers and Intro to ASP.NET MVC 11:45-12:30 Lunch Break 12:30-1:45 AJAX Development...

While Microsoft ASP.NET MVC is still in Beta release, it comes with a go-live license. I'm sure many enthusiastic developers and architects will create very creative ASP.NET MVC apps and run them on the Internet or intranet down the road. Luckily I came...

You can visit the Microsoft PDC site now to view recorded PDC sessions there. .NET Framework [16] Ad Platform [2] ADO.NET [3] ASP.NET [11] Azure [39] CCR [1] Dynamics [5] Entity Framework [3] Expression [4] ...

At PDC Jeff Atwood showed an ASP.NET MVC application at Phil Haack's session. You can find the presentation and sample code at the PDC site or Channel9 . The cool application is up and running at http://stackoverflow.com/

Creating Web Applications with Microsoft Web Technologies MSDN Roadshow is a series of local Microsoft MSDN events for developers, architects and to some extent designers and database professionals. They are delivered by your local Microsoft evangelists...

In this interview Steve Michelotti , senior solution architect at e.magination , discusses what his team had to do to build a highly available 64-bit based web solution that supports a demanding service level agreement (SLA): more than 3 billion daily...

BizSpark is a Microsoft worldwide program that provides startups with affordable software tools and technologies for application development and solution hosting. The program is supported by local Microsoft representatives or champs, and delivered in...

Join RDA for a complimentary 1/2-day seminar that will feature: An overview of best practices utilizing the MOSS 2007 platform Proven tips on deployment and customization A discussion of server set-up to optimize performance ...

Pete Brown has put together a two-part series on how to create Facebook Silverlight applications. You can find details at Part I & Part II .

MSDN Developer Conference is a local version of the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference. This one-day event has three tracks, with 4 sessions in each track. To find the details, visit the MDC site and register today. Experience Microsoft...

You can find the latest info on Silverlight 2 RC0 at http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/sl2rc0.aspx An important note: you can only use the RC for development right now - you can't go live with the new APIs until the final release is shipped (which...