June 2007 - Posts

29 June 2007
Index of Silverlight Games (Most with Source)
In my experience, many corporate developers by day are actually gamers by night (after putting the kids in bed, of course.) So when an interesting technology like Silverlight comes along, a good way to learn what it can do is to see gaming concepts applied, Read More...
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26 June 2007
C# Day Report
This Saturday (6/23), we gathered at the Microsoft offices in Waltham for the first "C# Day" event . Thanks to Michael de la Maza for volunteering his time and effort to run the session! There was a great turnout - so good in fact that the room filled Read More...
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22 June 2007
Announcing: Essential Windows Communication Foundation
Word's getting out, so it's time to acknowledge it on this blog. If you were at TechEd, you may have noticed copies of a sample chapter of Essential Windows Communication Foundation being given out at the Addison-Wesley booth. The eagle eyed among you Read More...
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21 June 2007
Microsoft Growing in Cambridge, MA
We'll be expanding our available space in the Boston area by way of One Memorial Drive, Cambridge: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/06/21/room_to_grow_for_microsoft/ "Microsoft will be leasing 136,000 square feet in the 17-story Read More...
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21 June 2007
Easy to Digest Tutorials for Blend and Silverlight
[Via Dave Campbell - a blog you should read if you're into Silverlight.] Just launched is the beta of a great (Silverlight-based) site by Celso Gomes with some simple to use tutorials for Blend & Silverlight: http://www.nibblestutorials.net/ Currently, Read More...
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20 June 2007
Free Microsoft Online Developer Courses
The Microsoft Learning site has a number of self-paced eLearning courses on current technologies (e.g. .NET 2.0 & 3.0 and VS2005.) I've pulled the subset of the developer courses that are free and listed them below, but take a look at the full developer Read More...
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19 June 2007
Silverlight Browser Add-In for Reflector
Lutz Roeder's Reflector keeps getting more useful. There's now a Silverlight-related add-in for Reflector called "Silverlight Browser" . Silverlight Browser is very handy for "how'd they do that?" developer use. Open Reflector, choose File->Open Silverlight Read More...
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19 June 2007
Embedding Active XAML in PowerPoint
[File under "Cool Presenter Tricks"] Simon Guest posted about a nice little trick for embedding XAML in a PowerPoint slide. What makes it all happen is finding an add-in for PowerPoint to display web pages from a slide. Simon points us to Shyam Pillai's Read More...
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14 June 2007
Whitepaper on Website A/B Testing
Dare blogged about an interesting whitepaper from the Microsoft Experimentation Team about the concept of A/B testing and applications for websites. "Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to your Customers not to the HiPPO" Note Read More...
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13 June 2007
TechEd News Roundup
The good thing about having too much work to do when I got back from TechEd is that by now other people have gotten the word out about items from the conference, so all I need to do is link to them. :) (BTW, If you couldn't make it to TechEd - or even Read More...
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11 June 2007
C# Day in Waltham on June 23rd
Interested in learning C# (for free)? Michael de la Maza is coordinating a community hands-on C# learning event on Saturday, June 23rd right here in Waltham! What: Microsoft C# Day When: June 23rd, 9am - 4pm (8:30am - 9am registration) Where: Microsoft, Read More...
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09 June 2007
Controlling Page Flow with Workflow Foundation - Sample Available
Matt Winkler gave a session this week at TechEd where he described how to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to control the page flow of a client-facing application. This has certainly been a popular request since the early days of ASP.NET (giving rise Read More...
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