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Friday, June 30, 2006 11:03 AM

BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation Update

It’s not obvious from the web site, but a bunch of new BizTalk documentation has recently been made available for download. Specifically: A CHM version of BizTalk 2006 docs Updated install/config/upgrade guides 31 new code samples There is a lot of great
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:15 PM

WCF Workshop – Part 4 (Handling Data between Clients and Services)

In Part 4 of the series, I’ve focused on how to handle data (or more specifically complex data) between Services and Clients, while adhering to the “Share Schema and Contract, not Class” tenet of Service Orientation. The best part is that it is VERY,
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:40 AM

Web Service Software Factory: July Community Drop

"Want to see the Enterprise Library application blocks in action in a realistic service oriented application? And would you like automated guidance to help you build your own applications that comply with a proven architecture? Then check out the July
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:27 AM

.NET Framework 3.0 (WinFX) June CTP has released

Earlier this week, Microsoft released the June release of the .NET Framework 3.0 CTP. Note the change to the name of the framework to its “Official” name: .NET Framework 3.0. You can get the download at the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d09697e-4868-4d8d-a4cf-9b82a2ae542d&DisplayLang=en
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Monday, June 26, 2006 5:20 PM

WCF (Workshop) – Part 3 (ImplementingTransactions)

Adding to the series of Hands-on Workshop content for Windows Communication Foundation, I have release Part 3, which shows how to enable (Distributed) Transactions within WCF. In this exercise, the customer (Bank) has decided that they are going to offer
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Monday, June 26, 2006 4:43 PM

Guide to (Building) Password Security in Web Applications (Web Cast)

I was doing some research for a project that I am working, where I need to chose a method of password storage and I wanted to understand the kinds of things that I need to do to reduce the attack surface of my application (or service in my case). I ran
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Monday, June 26, 2006 4:21 PM

Reading List for a TFS Implementer - get the President on the phone...

I just got off the phone with my friend Jim, and we had a great discussion. He originally wanted to talk about the Requirements Authoring Starter Kit for Visual Studio Team System ( RASK http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/office2003rask2.asp
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Monday, June 26, 2006 7:14 AM

TFS Webcast on Application Life-Cycle Management on June 26th

Sorry for the short notice but check this out: 9am (PST) on June 26th. The abstract is: Many companies struggle with communication, collaboration, and cultural gaps between business users (who drive the competitive need for software development), IT organizations
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Friday, June 23, 2006 10:53 PM

Got some time on your hands and want to build your own XSL Transformation tool?

Mark Campbell wrote and posted (on Coding4Fun) a sweet little demonstration application to build your own custom XSLT tool. I personally like it as a free utility to learn how XSLT works, but for you really smart people, you can follow the article and
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Friday, June 23, 2006 2:39 PM

NOVA SQL - June 2006 Meeting - SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Performance Tuning

The Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group ( www.novasql.com ) is announcing its next session for 2006 to benefit IT Professionals (DBAs, Developers, Admins, etc.) in the Northern Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland areas interested in SQL Server.
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Friday, June 23, 2006 1:00 PM

Windows Communication Foundation (Workshop) – Part 2

As I promised yesterday, in my blog about Part 1 of the series (click here to see it), I am releasing Part 2 of the series today. Part 2 focuses on handling Session State in Windows Communication Foundation, and although it builds on Part 1 of the series,
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:47 PM

Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (Workshop) – Part 1

I am currently working on a set of workshops teaching from the basics to more advanced capabilities of Service Oriented Development with Windows Communication Foundation. Each Workshop builds on the previous workshops and can also be used as a standalone
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:24 AM

ADO.NET, LINQ, and the Entity Framework Oh My!

If you write database applications using ADO.NET (which means almost everyone is still reading this), then a MUST HAVE blog in your RSS reader is the Data Access blog . It is the “Data Programmability team blog for data access in ADO.NET and System.Data
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Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:42 AM

The future of ASP.NET (Webcast)

Normally I would “pooh-pooh” anyone’s prediction of where Microsoft is going with any technology, let alone something as wide-spread as ASP.NET; even when I hear a Microsoft employee making the prediction. However, in this case, the prediction is coming
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:23 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Pro and Team System trials now available for direct download via MS.COM

The Visual Studio 2005 Pro and Team System trials are now available for direct public download. The trials are available at the following locations: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 90-Day Trial Details Page Link => http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B2C27A7F-D875-47D5-B226-E2578A116E12&displaylang=en
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:00 AM

Learning how to add Localization to your ASP.NET 2.0 application (video)

For those of you who need to be able to support multiple cultures (languages, right-to-left screen presentation, non-US currency, etc.) in your web applications, here’s a great video that walks through the steps to add localization in just a few steps.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 8:34 AM

Article on “Ensuring .NET Framework 2.0 Compatibility”

For those of you who want to understand Microsoft’s approach to handling compatibility issues between the different versions of the .NET framework (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0), check out this article by Jesse Kaplan, Program Manager on the CLR team. Jesse is responsible
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:35 PM

Project GlidePath Software Factory

While federal developers aren’t exactly MicroISVs , the Project GlidePath software factory still may be of interest. It provides some useful information on developing with the .Net Framework 3.0 and is a great example of a Software Factory . For information,
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:24 PM

Database Object Name Refactoring with VS 2005 DB Pro - A good name is better than precious ointment.

"A good name is better than precious ointment." - Old Testament. All I can say is that they must have had some mighty fine ointment back then. As a matter of fact, just the other day as my wife was layin' down a heathly slathering of Desitin, I couldn't
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:19 PM

Neat stuff going on in Microsoft “Robotics Studio”…check out the video…

There’s some interesting stuff going on in the Microsoft “Robotics Studio.” It’s funny, as an employee of the company for over 4 years now; I didn’t even know that we had a “Robotics Studio!” Anyway, check out the video on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=206574
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:21 AM

MSDN Webcast: Exposing your content as a Service using WCF

Tomorrow @ 11:00A EST, the MSDN team is putting on an Architectural talk on exposing your “content” via Windows Communication Foundation. The registration link is: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032299346&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
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Friday, June 16, 2006 10:37 AM

Karsten’s 5 day WPF boot camp

So you are interested in getting up to speed on WPF, but don’t know where to start? Karsten Januszewski just posted a recipe to be up and running in 5 days. Check it out here . I like that he has guidance for both developers and designers. -Marc Technorati
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:26 AM

Customer Council on Interoperability

Interoperability is increasingly important in today’s world of heterogeneous technology. Last year we explained the emphasis that we were placing on building software that is interoperable by design. As a further step in this process, we’ve established
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:33 PM

Simplifying XMLHTTP programming with ASP.NET “Atlas”

Here's another "Atlas" screencast. I've been sitting on this one a bit. I just returned from a short vacation and didn't get all the "production work" done before I left. This one took ended up quite a bit longer than I expected so I split it up into
Posted by FederalDev | 10 Comments
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:31 PM

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition CTP

We've release the first CTP of SQL Server Everywhere Edition. If you aren't familiar with SQL Server Everywhere Edition, here's the description from http://www.microsoft.com/Sql/Everywhere : "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition offers essential
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:19 AM

.Net Framework 3.0 Community Site

To coincide with TechEd, a new community site for the .Net Framework 3.0 has launched. This site incorporates the existing WF ( www.windowsworkflow.net ) and WPF ( www.windowscommunication.net ) sites and adds new sites for Windows Presentation Foundation
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Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:25 AM

WinFX is now .NET Framework 3.0

Today we announced the rebranding of WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0 See Soma's blog for the full story...but to net it out...it's just a rebranding. -Darryl
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Friday, June 09, 2006 4:54 PM

Soccer Scoreboard App -- World Cup 2006

Are you a soccer fan? Want to keep track of the FIFA World Cup 2006? This cool little app will help you do that: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=df6a6e6e-21af-4786-ad1d-a38e8bfda82f&displaylang=en Enjoy!!! -Darryl Technorati
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Friday, June 09, 2006 3:21 PM

Windows Live Dev Beta Launched!

This morning the Windows Live Platform team launched Windows Live Dev ( http://dev.live.com ) as a portal for developers looking for information on the Windows Live Platform. The site includes information on developing with Live Services, including Virtual
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:43 PM

Register for Webcast on NEW Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals This new product offering expands Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) to include the Database Professional role and enables software teams to collaborate more effectively in creating reliable, data-driven
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:22 AM

My take on the “Atlas” Client Script Library

So I sat down to write a blog entry about the “Atlas” Client Script Library and the client-centric programming approach it enables as a lead in to a bunch of screencasts I am recording. I, of course, spent some time reviewing all the blog posts, documentation,
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:13 PM

Team Foundation Power Toy Video Posted! - One of television’s great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs. Hitchcock.

Team Foundation Power Toy adds all manner of functionality to the already rich set of source control features surfaced through Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Inspired by the great directors of the big screen, I decided to slip into my Ferragamos and
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:15 PM

Want to see what's possible with WPF?

The folks over at http://thirteen23.com/ have some snazzy examples of "the art of the possible" when using the Windows Presentation Foundation. You can download 4 WPF application samples. You'll need to install WinFX Beta 2 . If you don't want to install
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:50 AM

patterns & practices goes mobile

"The Microsoft patterns & practices team has released the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) for the Mobile Client Software Factory. The factory will help architects and developers design and build mobile LOB solutions. The Mobile Client Software
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Monday, June 05, 2006 11:38 AM

New Team System VPC Available to MSDN Subscribers

Team System VPC Available to MSDN Subscribers The much anticipated Team System VPC (a single-server, evaluation install of Team Foundation Server + Team Suite) is now available for download from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Look under "Developer Tools"
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:30 PM

LINQ May CTP Smart Tag C# IDE workaround

If you have installed the LINQ CTP, then you've probably had the unpleasant surprise of Smart Tags not working correctly with C# code. This was a huge bummer for me because I use the "resolve" feature like it's going out of style! If you aren't familiart
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 5:41 PM

Add “Atlas” controls to the toolbox

The “Atlas” controls don’t get added to the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox by the either the core framework or toolkit installer. Here’s what I did to add them: Create an “Atlas” and “Atlas Control Toolkit” tab on the toolbox by doing a right-click on the
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 2:58 PM

http://www.seewindowsvista.com

Take a look at the newly launched http://www.seewindowsvista.com site to see a sampling of the 'art of the possible' on Windows Vista. I think they've done a great job with this site...congrats guys! -Darryl
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:09 PM

New VS 2005 Database Pro Edition Announced - Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

In case you hadn't noticed, VS 2005 is getting real traction. To add to the momentum, we announced yesterday, a new role-based edition for Database Professionals. IMHO, most developers are relational database designers, testers, maintainers, versioners,
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:38 PM

Examining the "Atlas" Control Toolkit

Here is the last of the “server-centric” screencasts. Let me know if there is anything I haven’t covered that you wanted to see. You can view the latest screencast here . Here’s the Channel 9 description: “Building on concepts from his previous screencasts,
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:27 AM

Reston Code Camp June 10th

The schedule for the Reston Code Camp is now up. I was planning on being there, but I’ll be out of town for my goddaughter’s birthday. For those of you going, have fun! -Marc
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:16 AM

Whitepaper: Migrating from Business Objects Crystal Reports to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

I just saw this on Brian Welcker’s blog . How to migrate from Crystal Reports to Reporting Services is a frequently asked question I get all the time. Now we have some documented guidance. Here’s a description of the whitepaper: “This document focuses
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 8:45 AM

How to add Atlas to an existing site

I've been blogging a bit about "Atlas" and showing how easy it is to AJAX enable existing ASP.NET pages with the new "Atlas" controls (ScriptManager, UpdatePanel, Control Extenders, etc.). However, I've probably left many of you wondering what you need
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