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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:39 AM

Thanks to Lexis Nexis!

We are about to start a great day showing technologies like .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and SharePoint technologies. I thought I'd be proactive and post the materials beforehand. Make sure to check out Rob Cameron's blog for additional information.
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:17 AM

What You Need To Know: WCF, WCF, ADO.NET SyncServices, and ClickOnce

I had a great time visiting with a great team at Verizon this week. I was able to present on a number of technologies, including ADO.NET Sync Services, WCF, WF, and ClickOnce. I was going to send this in an email, then I realized that there are some great
Posted by kaevans | 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:33 AM

LabCast: Enterprise Search with SharePoint 2007

What a fantastic idea... online training with a hands-on virtual lab. This is what I'm talking about... finding interesting ways to help you learn about our stuff. I love this because you get the benefits without having to fight traffic to get to a training
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:28 PM

Watch the Masters Live... Using Silverlight

Very cool... AT&T is broadcasting the Masters via Silverlight! The site includes a player that provides viewers with a mosaic type interface that allows for multiple live video feeds of different content simultaneously. You can choose how live and
Posted by kaevans | 1 Comments
Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:01 PM

Using the Virtual Earth Control in SharePoint

I have been using the Virtual Earth control a lot lately for various demos, mostly by putting customized maps into SharePoint Content Editor web part. It's a cool effect, and can be an incredibly useful tool for your company's intranet. For instance,
Posted by kaevans | 6 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:20 PM

Getting Started as a SharePoint Developer

I was lucky enough to take a SharePoint development class with Ted Pattison almost a year ago. Unfortunately, I haven't developed much anything with WSS or MOSS since then. I did retain some concepts and knew what I wanted to achieve, but it's not as
Posted by kaevans | 3 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:43 AM

Calling Web Services via AJAX - Part 2

Looks like this is an interesting topic to a lot of people since part 1 of this series made it to the front page of Digg today. Good thing that I was already working on part 2 :) In Calling Web Services via AJAX - Part 1 , I highlighted how easy it is
Posted by kaevans | 4 Comments
Sunday, April 06, 2008 2:36 PM

Compressing Huge Virtual PC Hard Drives

I have several upcoming demos where I'd like to show off Windows Server 2008. I broke out my MSDN DVDs and installed WS2008 Enterprise and Visual Studio 2008, and the file size quickly ran up to 10GB. This drive is going to serve as the base for other
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:11 PM

Creating RESTful Services Using WCF

A question popped up on an internal email distribution list today about how to expose a WCF service using WebGet and how to post POX (plain old XML) to that service using the .NET 3.5 WebInvoke attribute. That part's easy, but the harder part is figuring
Posted by kaevans | 5 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:37 PM

Calling WebServices via AJAX Part 1

Several months ago, one of my customers asked me a fairly pointed question: how do you call web services from JavaScript? At least, that's what they asked me, but not really what they meant (I'll explain what their real question was in a subsequent post).
Posted by kaevans | 19 Comments
Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:06 PM

AT&T Announced the Surface in their Experience Stores

Getting the Surface into the AT&T Experience Stores is something that I have gotten to be a part of, and I have to say that it's great that the cat is finally out of the bag. Imagine if you are able to actually experience the device you are about
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