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Post #8 – Updated Facebook Developer Toolkit for .Net
V3.0 of the Facebook Developer Toolkit was just released on Codeplex . Major Updates: • Provide better doc and samples • Provide support for Silverlight • Provide support for ASP.NET MVC • Provide improved support for WPF • Provide improved support for Read More...
Post #7 – Serializing Dictionary<string,string> to/from XML
I spent a bit of time searching for the magic of how to use XmlSerialize with the Dictionary type this morning and thought I’d share the easy-to-use result: Assuming you have an object, let’s say it’s called “data” that is of type Dictionary<string,string>, Read More...
Post #6 - “First-time Experience” with the Arch Tools
Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager, for the Visual Studio “Team Architect” group, has a great blog post about discovering the new modeling tools within Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Check it out! Read More...
Post #5 – Great post by Dane Morgridge on Model First Development
Using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to do Entity Framework Model First Development for Visual Studio 2008 Read More...
Post #4 – Copying VSIX extensions to the Experimental Instance
When using Visual Studio Extensions (aka VSIXs), sometimes you may want to use those Extensions when debugging in the Experimental Instance of Visual Studio. However, when installing VSIXs via the Extension Manager or by double clicking on a .vsix file, Read More...
Post #3 (a bit delayed)
While I "fell off the horse" of daily blogging, I'm climbing back on and will still do a post-per-day, it's just that I'm going to do 5 of them today :) Today's post is about the "sticky toolbox" feature you can use with the UML designers. So many times Read More...
Post #2 of NaWriSOMyBloMo (National Write Something On My Blog Month) - Visual Studio 2010 Extensions aka VSIX
Yesterday I started a personal challenge of writing something on my blog every day this month. Today's hint for Visual Studio 2010 is that it would be very wise to start coming up-to-speed on the new Visual Studio Extension mechanism known as VSIX. You Read More...
National Write Something Month...
All over the world people have taken inspiration from the folks at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and are creating other types of month-long creative self-challenges (vlogging, etc.) so I'm going start my own and see Read More...
Update on MicroISV Evangelism
For the past 4 years I have had the enjoyable task of being the MicroISV Evangelist for Microsoft. Recently based on some organizational changes and task assignment realignment, I have begun to focus my attention full-time on other efforts and thus, effective Read More...
Update on Microsoft Blueprints
Most of you who read this blog know that for the past 3 years I’ve been driveing a project that was first called Project Glidepath, then Software + Services Blueprints and finally Microsoft Blueprints. You may have also noticed recently that the Codeplex Read More...
Lang.Net 2009 is underway
Missed it last year but I did manage to attend Lang.Net 2009! Very interesting to hear what programming language designers and implementers are thinking in this brave-new-web-world. Check it out for yourself:  http://www.langnetsymposium.com or follow Read More...
Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) S+S Blueprint Now Available
The MTDA (Multi Tenant Data Access) S+S Blueprint is now online. You can get more details by watching the Channel9 interview I did with Eugenio Pace: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MichaelLehman/MultiTenant-Data-Access-MTDA-SS-Blueprint-Released/ Download Read More...
Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint (Beta 2) available
The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is now online on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/sl4sp This latest update works with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Read More...
New CodePlex site: Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint now live!
The new CodePlex site for the Sliverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint is now live! Currently the code for this S+S Blueprint is in beta and we are actively revising it to work with the recently released Silverlight 2 Beta 2 . Head on over to http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP Read More...
Got myself a cool new gig - Senior Architect for S+S Blueprints and Software Factories!
Just after I joined Microsoft, nearly 4 years ago, I had the opportunity to learn about a super exciting brand new(at least to me) concept called Software Factories.  At the time I was fortunate to be working in a group that enabled me to spend a Read More...
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