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Monday, July 31, 2006 1:31 PM

learnwpf.com

http://www.learnwpf.com . This is another helful site for learning the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in addition to the http://wpf.netfx3.com community. There are some nice quick hit tutorials on this site. There's an RSS feed as well. Although
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Monday, July 31, 2006 12:33 PM

Calling web services hosted outside of your application with “Atlas”

UPDATE: I changed the question I am answering through this post in an effort to be less confusing. There is some good feeback going on in the comments. Feel free to chime in with your opinions. What scenarios do you think you would use one approach over
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:16 PM

WCF Workshop Part 5 (Securing your Service Part 1)

In Part 5 of the series, I’ve shown how to build "Transport-Level" security into your Service to secure the communication between the Service and the Client. In essence, this workshop shows you how to build a WCF Service that will work over HTTPS. In
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Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:25 AM

Slide deck and demo code from Friday’s “Atlas” webcast

You can download the deck and demo code from Friday’s webcast here . The source code includes my demos from the Wednesday webcast as well. The code is a hodge podge of C# and VB.NET code (and JavaScript of course). Think of it this way. I’m making all
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Friday, July 21, 2006 1:00 PM

Wednesdays “Atlas” recording and today’s live webcast

Here's the link for the recording of my MSDN Webcast: Building AJAX-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET Code Name "Atlas" (Level 200) from Wednesday. I delivering my second talk in about an hour (2pm EST). This one is focused on client-centric programming
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Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:52 PM

Slide deck and demo code from my "Atlas" MSDN Webcast on 19JUL2006

You can download both here . The initial username and password in the membership database is Administrator and password1 . It's a REALLY GOOD idea to change it to whatever you want after you download the sample. I didn't show "EnterMediaAmazon.aspx,"
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:01 PM

Wrap up of my first “Atlas” webcast this week

Thank you to everyone who attended the webcast. I hope you found it valuable. There were TONS of questions. I want to thank Robert Shelton for the helping with the arduous task of manning the Q&A queue while I was presenting. I just did a quick scan
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:59 PM

Windows Communication Foundation Webcasts (On Demand)

Over the past month, a number of webcasts on Windows Communication Foundation have been recorded. Here are links to some of the more interesting ones: The Lifetime of a Message in Windows Communication Foundation A Sneak Preview of Windows Communication
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:13 AM

MSDN Webcast: Building AJAX-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET Code Name "Atlas"

Just a quick reminder about my "Atlas" webcast tomorrow... MSDN Webcast: Building AJAX-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET Code Name "Atlas" (Level 200) Summary Microsoft ASP.NET code name "Atlas" is a set of Web development technologies that integrates
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:59 AM

NOVA SQL - July 2006 Meeting - Pair Programming

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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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:14 AM

Virtual PC is now FREE!

That’s right! Go get it now at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualpc . Virtual PC is definitely a best friend of a developer / tester. If you aren’t familiar with the technology, you will find some helpful whitepapers and demo’s at the link above. -Marc
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:50 AM

3D isn’t for the chosen few anymore!

One of the great new features of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the ability for mere mortals like myself to introduce 3D into a windows application. I have ZERO 3D programming background. However, I was able to get comfortable quickly after
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:56 PM

MSDN & Technet Virtual Labs update / reminder

Just a quick reminder about the MSDN & Technet Virtual Labs. These are great learning tools! Here's a description: New Labs are Here! Great new content was just released for both TechNet and MSDN Virtual Lab groups. MSDN: · More Visual Basic 2005
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Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:16 PM

My upcoming "Atlas" MSDN Webcasts

I am delivering two MSDN Webcasts this month on ASP.NET "Atlas." Here's the details: MSDN Webcast: Building AJAX-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET Code Name "Atlas" (Level 200) Summary Microsoft ASP.NET code name "Atlas" is a set of Web development technologies
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Friday, July 07, 2006 9:19 AM

SQL Server Everywhere Edition Screencasts

Steve Lasker recently posted 3 great screencasts on SQL Server Everywhere Edition: Video of installing the SQL Server Everywhere Edition CTP Screencast of Deployment Options for SQL Server Everywhere Edition ADO.net Programming options for SQL Server
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Friday, July 07, 2006 9:11 AM

Helpful site for those of you building Virtual Earth solutions

The Virtual Earth v3 control supports using GeoRSS as a datasource. To see how, select "Work with layers->Add GeoRSS layer" from the treeview at http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ . One of my coworkers made me aware of a nice little tool which will
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Friday, July 07, 2006 9:07 AM

Developers Without Borders Challenge

Microsoft and HP have teamed up to create a contest that should be of interest to federal developers and architects: Choose a charitable organization that you would like to help, understand the business challenges that it faces, and propose a solution
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Friday, July 07, 2006 8:14 AM

FIPS 140-2 Compliant Mode For SQL Server 2005

One of the benefits of SQL Server 2005 SP1 is that you can now run SQL Server in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode. This means that SQL Server will only use FIPS 140-2 certified encryption algorithms, which is a requirement for some government agencies. Knowledge
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:35 PM

Web Service Software Factory Webcast

I mentioned here that I hadn’t had the opportunity to get caught up on the progress with the Web Service Software Factory . I noticed Don Smith blog’d about a webcast he recently gave on this very subject. I just love screencasts and webcasts because
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:25 PM

ASP.NET “Atlas” June CTP

The “Atlas” June CTP was release while I was at CFUnited. As Scott and Nikhil point out, this is primarily a bug fix and UpdatePanel enhancement release. The UpdatePanel enhancements open up a bunch of new scenarios to use the UpdatePanel where it wasn’t
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:13 PM

Cold Fusion United Conference

I had the distinct pleasure of presenting 1 hour of a 3 hour ASP.NET 2.0 & “Atlas” extravaganza at the Cold Fusion United conference last week with G. Andrew Duthie and Russ Fustino . I learned a valuable lesson from my time spent with Mr Duthie and
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