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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:20 PM

Enhancing PHP on Windows

I'm not sure how many of our regular Public Sector readers use PHP at work. Around here, we, obviously, prefer .Net :) If you are using PHP, however, you might be interested in the following announcement . Basically, this is a technical partnership between
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Monday, October 30, 2006 2:28 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation

When Nov. 2nd 11:00A-12:30P EST (8:00A-9:30A PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313216&Culture=en-US Note : Audio will be via the Internet, so your machine will need a speaker. Abstract
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Friday, October 27, 2006 3:41 PM

Upcoming Developer/Visual Studio Team System WebCasts

We're doing a lot of webcasts to help you get to know our Developer Platform and Visual Studio Team System tools. Feel free to check out our calendar of events and pick one that would interest you. Attached is an email you can send on to your friends
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Attachment(s): WebCast Schedule.doc
Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:29 PM

BizTalk Server 2004 Service Pack 2 Released

For those of you using BizTalk Server 2004, Service Pack 2 has just been released. You can download it here . For a list of fixes, see the Knolwedge Base article 924330 . -David Technorati tags: Microsoft , BizTalk
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:25 PM

Upcoming Visual Studio Team System Chats

There are a couple of interesting chats coming up on Visual Studio Team System. On November 1st, the topic will be the new VSTS DB Pro edition. On November 8th, the chat will include information about the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP). For
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:05 PM

Team Foundation Server Implementation Guidance

Bought Team Foundation Server and now you're wondering where to begin? Team System Implementation Guidance document - Provides an introduction to the Support process during the customers’ adoption of TFS - Outlines the team (us) that can help guide them
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Attachment(s): Team System Implementation Guidance.doc
Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:00 PM

SDLC-in-a-Box version 2.0 Announcement

We're releasing a version 2.0 of SDLC-in-a-Box Training Kit in the next few weeks, so check the site often. We're including a ton of partner product integration, additional presentations and guides, and more information on Team Foundation Server. As always,
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Attachment(s): SDLCinaBoxv2.doc
Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:57 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Purchasing Guide

Many individuals often ask me what the best options are when purchasing Visual Studio Team System products. There is no "right answer," and I certainly won't suggest the full Visual Studio Team Suite unless the higher SKUs are the right product for you.
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Attachment(s): Visual Studio Purchasing Options.pdf
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:56 AM

Developer Dinner: Windows Workflow Foundation for Developers

Great demonstrations, cold Pizza, warm Soda's and a chance to win a XBox 360. A developers dream! What more can you ask for? (Don't answer that question) :) When Wednesday, Nov. 1st from 6:00P-8:00P Where Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:39 PM

Ronan Bradley: Microsoft Making Sense About ESB

In this post , Ronan Bradley gives Microsoft props for taking a sensible approach to ESB. He writes: "What I found striking was how Microsoft, unlike some of the other major players, seems to understand that SOA requires a different view not only of architecture
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Friday, October 20, 2006 10:52 AM

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta is out

Check out Scott Guthrie's announcement here . I'll be digging through what's new and updating my demos and slides over the coming days and weeks. :) -Marc
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:08 PM

Learn how to quickly convert your .NET Applications to Service Oriented Solutions w/NET 3.0? (Web Cast)

Do you want to learn how to quickly convert your .NET Applications/Components to Service Oriented Solutions? If so, then that's perfect, because I want to show you how easy it will be with the .NET 3.0 Framework and Windows Communication Foundation. Register
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:05 PM

Slide deck and demo code from 'Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX' webcast today

Thanks to everyone who attended. You can download the deck and demo code (with more samples that what I showed) here . Sorry for the technical difficulties with desktop sharing for the last demo. Here's a link to a channel 9 screencast I did that is pretty
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Friday, October 13, 2006 8:02 AM

FREE .NET Framework 3.0 E-Learning clinics

"This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics are for experienced Developers and Software Architects who are looking to adopt Microsoft's next generation technology within
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 3:22 PM

DSL Tools Version 1 Released

Last year , I talked about an early build of DSL tools for Visual Studio and put together a simple example for using them. Recently, DSL Tools Version 1 was officially released as part of the VS 2005 SDK Version 3. Domain Specific Language (DSL) Tools
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:44 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to Windows CardSpace

When: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Registration and Details available at: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032313206&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Note
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:24 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX

We reached maximum registration capacity for my webcast on this topic last week. I'm doing it again next week. See details below. I want to set appropriate expectations for this presentation. Even though I will use the new branding Scott Guthrie announced
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:27 AM

Installing ASP.NET AJAX (code-name 'Atlas') July CTP on Windows Vista

You will most likely run into an error if you run the AtlasSetup.msi on Windows Vista RC1 or higher. The error happens during the step where the Visual Studio templates are installed. I'm not sure exactly what the root cause is, but there is a workaround.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:20 AM

What's not in Visual Web Developer Express?

Joe Stagner just posted a nice summary here . -Marc
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Monday, October 09, 2006 2:51 PM

Are you ready for IE7?

The IE team announced that the RTM version of IE7 will be released this month. We've blogged off and on about some of the resources to help you get ready. Friday's post over at IEBlog has a nice summary of resources to help you get ready. -Marc
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Friday, October 06, 2006 6:02 AM

Microsoft and SOA: AMR's Dennis Gaughan gets it

AMR Research Analayst Dennis Gaughan has written an article called " A Study in Contrasts: The Evolving SOA Strategies of IBM And Microsoft ", in which he says " For Microsoft, simplicity from a product portfolio is a vital strength. The number of products
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 9:25 PM

SOA: The WCF governance and management story (long)

Much noise has been made in recent months about SOA governance and management. Acquisitions, pronouncements, etc. One reason I believe that Microsoft’s SOA story is not well understood by many customers and software architects is that we don’t offer much
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:15 AM

Slide deck from today's ASP.NET AJAX webcast

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can download the deck here . This deck has all the updated branding Scott Guthrie explains here . The source code for the demos plus my client-centric demos are here . -Marc
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:56 PM

Microsoft: Real-world SOA

Today, we kicked off the Microsoft SOA/BP Conference. At this conference, we're articulating the Microsoft approach to successful SOA projects. This approach is characterized by 1) choosing smaller high-impact projects vs. the "Big Bang" approach of "build
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:34 AM

Guidance Explorer Beta 2

Have you ever thought to yourself "I'd love to be able to quickly find the raw patterns & practices guidance on [insert your topic here] without having to sift through the verbose documentation and content at http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices?"
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:51 AM

Virtual Labs reminder

I am always surprised to find out how many people DON'T KNOW about the MSDN Virtual Labs . With Virtual Labs, you can "Quickly evaluate or learn how to build great applications for Windows and the Web through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can
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