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14 May 2009
XAMLFest Boston 5/27 – 5/28… and Online
XAMLFest events are a great (and free) way to learn about Silverlight and WPF through a combination of presentations and instructor-led hands-on lab work.  XAMLFest Boston is coming to the NERD facility (One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA) on May Read More...
28 January 2009
XamlFests Return in February
In December, I blogged about XamlFest , a free event in Waltham, MA that gave attendees a chance to learn WPF and Silverlight via instructor led hands-on labs.  That quickly filled up, and so have others, so the ISV Developer team is offering additional Read More...
19 December 2008
2008 Winter Northeast Roadshow - Resources and Summary
The Winter Northeast Roadshow series has run its course!  Jim and I traveled about 2,000 miles to deliver seven events for nearly 600 people across the Northeast, and had a great time bringing developer technology and practices to you. The Goods Read More...
11 November 2008
XamlFest Boston: Come As You Are, Leave Xamlized
Are you excited about the WPF but concerned about the learning curve?  Have you seen Silverlight but don’t know where to get started?  Or are you curious about how tools like Visual Studio and Expression Blend help designers and developers Read More...
22 January 2008
MSDN/Architecture Journal Readers and the Reader SDK
Some very cool news if you're a fan of the WPF-based New York Times reader or Seattle P-I reader . We've just released the Reader SDK which you can use to quickly create similar rich applications for your own purposes. In addition, the MSDN Magazine Reader Read More...
07 December 2007
WPF-Based Yahoo Messenger for Vista Available
As a pretty cool example of the effects that are possible with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Yahoo has just announced the availability of the preview release of Yahoo Messenger for Vista. Download it from: http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php Read More...
26 November 2007
New Deitel Resource Centers: ASP.NET 3.5, LINQ, Popfly, WPF, and SharePoint
Deitel recently released more topics of interest to .NET developers in their excellent Resource Center series . Created to help you find articles, tutorials, blogs, downloads, FAQs, and more, here are the new centers: ASP.NET 3.5 LINQ Popfly WPF SharePoint Read More...
02 November 2007
MIX University Expands with a Free WPF Bootcamp Course
Tim Sneath posted about a great new addition to the already strong lineup of training available at MIX University . Now you can access a full three-day WPF training course (over 20 hours) for the low cost of free. From Tim : "You'll hear a keynote from Read More...
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30 October 2007
Big Changes for the Acropolis Project
If you're been looking into the Acropolis project for building composite applications, take a look at this post by the Acropolis team. The short of it is that the project in its current form (as CTP's) will no longer be versioned (but will remain available.) Read More...
06 July 2007
New CTPs of .NET Framework 3.5, Acropolis, and ADO.NET Entity Framework
This week brought a host of new CTPs (Community Technology Previews) to the MSDN Download Center: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 June 2007 CTP download .NET Framework 3.5 builds incrementally on the new features added in .NET Framework 3.0, for example, 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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