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Friday, September 29, 2006 4:27 PM

Building a better ASP.NET 2.0 user experience with Microsoft AJAX technologies

When Oct. 5th 12:00P-1:30P EST (9:00A-10:30A PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032311753&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Note : Audio will be via the Internet,
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Friday, September 29, 2006 8:52 AM

Developer Dinner on Building Executive Dashboards in SharePoint 2007

Topic Introduction to Building Executive Dashboards in SharePoint 2007 (with Microsoft Business Intelligence Platforms) When October 4, 2006 - 6:00PM – 7:30PM Where Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 How
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:56 AM

Security Summit East (This week! With Secure Development Track)

Policy, Process, and Technology September 27-28, 2006 Washington DC On behalf of Microsoft Public Sector, we are pleased to invite you to the 11 th Microsoft Security Summit, “Policy, Process, and Technology ” on September 27 th and 28 th at the Washington
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:18 AM

How HPC is joining the Mainstream -- webcast

Join Scientific Computing and Microsoft to explore the shift in HPC -- this webcast is tomorrow (9/27/06) Register here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5497288 Please let us know (post a comment here) if you have an interest in HPC so we can make sure
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:01 PM

NOVA SQL: September 2006 Meeting - SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) Best Practices

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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Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:59 AM

Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are available for download

Just announced. MSDN landing page is here . "Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, Tools or Samples for you to use with Visual Basic 2005 to make developing great applications even easier! Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:09 PM

WCF Workshops updated to Release Candidate 1

I've just finished updating all of the Windows Communications Foundation Workshops to the Release Candidate 1 build. There's been a lot of changes from the Beta 2 builds, so if you've had a chance to work the labs within the workshop you might want to
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Monday, September 18, 2006 9:47 AM

First drop of the Web Client Software Factory is available

Edward Jezierski just announced it here . "The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering currently under development that will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET,
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Monday, September 18, 2006 8:44 AM

Building Executive Dashboards in SharePoint 2007 Web Cast

When Sept. 20th 2:00P-3:00P EST (11:00A-12:00P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032309956&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Note : Audio will be via the Internet,
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Friday, September 15, 2006 5:06 PM

Visual Studio SDK v3 Ready for Download

Just posted for download and represents a big step forward. Download here: http://www.vsipmembers.com/ If you wait a few days, I think the requirement to log into VSIP will be lifted. Read all about the new feature here: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2006/09/14/755158.aspx
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:16 PM

Vista RC1 available to the public

Windows Vista Customer Preview Program RC1 download is available here . -Marc tags: Windows Vista , VISTA
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:50 PM

New .NET Framework 3.0 white papers published

I just caught wind of these via Paul Andrew . Paul has links to the new white papers here . I haven't read them myself, but it's on my list of things to do:). -Marc tags: Microsoft , .NET , WinFX , .NET Framework 3.0 , Windows Presentation Foundation
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:24 PM

Windows Communication Foundation Screencasts

Mike Taulty just blog'd a nice summary of a bunch of WCF Screencasts he did here . Robert mentioned Mike's Workflow screencasts here . I haven't looked at his WCF screencasts, but the WF were excellent. -Marc tags: Microsoft , .NET , WinFX , .NET Framework
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:46 AM

New Windows Forms/WPF interop blog

Scott Berry is blogging about WinForms/WPF interop. His first post is is a nice list of gotchas. I suspect many people will incrementally introduce WPF into their Windows Forms based applications in places where taking advantage of the rich visualization
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Monday, September 11, 2006 4:40 PM

Our “Age of Anxiety” is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools—with yesterday’s concepts. New TFS Power Toys relieve anxiety today!

Great, well just give me today’s TFS tools already. If you’re anxious to get the best tools available to do today’s work that was more that likely due yesterday, then check out Brain Harry’s blog posting about the new TFS Power Toys with VS 2005 IDE integration.
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Monday, September 11, 2006 3:43 PM

"Atlas" 1.0 Naming and Roadmap

Hot off the presses! Scott Guthrie has announced the new names for the ASP.NET "Atlas" technologies. The "Atlas" client script library becomes the Microsoft AJAX Library . The server controls become the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions . The "Atlas" Control
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Monday, September 11, 2006 10:20 AM

Expression Web Beta 1

I just blog'd about the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit here . If you are a web designer who has tried to use Visual Studio and found it lacking as a tool for CSS dev, then you will definitely want to check out Expression Web . Expression Web has a great
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Monday, September 11, 2006 9:41 AM

New version of the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit

Brian Goldfarb announced the new version here . Scott Guthrie has a nice walkthrough here . The toolkit itself comes with a tutorial. You can get the toolkit here . Are you saying to yourself "Great, but what the heck is it?" Many of the ASP.NET 2.0 server
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Friday, September 08, 2006 10:41 AM

.NET Framework 3.0 RC1 and tools available

.NET Framework 3.0 Release Candidate (RC) was made available for download on September 1st. I have been holding off on blogging about it because all of the relevant tools were not yet available until yesterday. Rob Relyea has a nice post here pointing
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:38 PM

Benefits of SOA

Software re-use is a frequently cited perceived SOA benefit. David Chappell provides his perspective on the reality of re-use in SOA in the latest edition of his Opinari newsletter . For those interested in the subject, it is a quick and illuminating
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:40 AM

XML Notepad 2006 (Free utility for editing XML Files)

If found this little utility over the weekend that helps with creating/editing XML files, which I hate having to do by hand. It's a FREE download from Microsoft Downloads. Here's some of the features: Tree View synchronized with Node Text View for quick
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Friday, September 01, 2006 1:22 PM

Join the VSTS Chat on Wed. September 6th

Visual Studio Team System Public MSDN Chat Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Architect, Developer and Tester editions and Team Foundation Server. There will be experts
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Friday, September 01, 2006 1:10 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Internet Security Reference Implemenattion

I've been on vacation and doing some other things so I haven't blogged much lately. I've pretty much been "unplugged" for the majority of that time. I'm slowly catching up on reading others blogs, etc. and came across this on J.D. Meier's Blog . "The
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