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Thursday, May 31, 2007 3:26 AM

Building Add-Ins for Windows Live Messenger

Messenger Apps have evolved into a full-blown platform for communication. We see messenger-aware applications everywhere. We have also seen specific application of messenger technology for Customer Service integration. So we have seen messenger invading
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:52 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Building a WPF Application using the "Cider" Designer in Visual Studio "Orcas"

Thanks to everyone who attended. The deck is here . The demo code is here . If you missed the webcast, you should be able to follow the recording link here in a few hours. -Marc
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:25 PM

Do you have questions about MOSS (SharePoint) 2007 and Older version of Office Clients? If so, check out this document.

Microsoft has released a white paper to describe how different versions of Office Client will work with MOSS 2007 (SharePoint 2007) Server. If you are looking at rolling out MOSS 2007 but wonder how your Client Desktops, running Office 2003 or before,
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:12 PM

MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) receives US DoD 5015.2 Certification for ECM and Records Management

Here's the official announcement link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-29SharePointDoDPR.mspx Here are some of the details, for quick reading, as taken from the article pertaining to Records Management and Compliance for MOSS 2007.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:58 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Building a WPF Application using the "Cider" Designer in Visual Studio "Orcas"

This session will cover some of the great new features that will be coming soon with Visual Studio "Orcas" & the "Cider" designer for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). During this webcast, you see how the "Cider" designer & Expression Blend
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:16 PM

SCREENCAST: Using the UpdatePanel and tab controls from the AJAX Control Toolkit to build an "in place" master details

It's been a while since I've done a screencast. I get quite a few "How Do I?" questions in my inbox from customers. Quite often, the initial answer to your question is "I don't know." When that's the case, it gives me the excuse to try it out:). I am
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:58 PM

SharePoint Document Workflow "How to" - Sending an email with SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)

As a part of the series that I am blogging on the "How To's" of Document Workflow in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS), here's a tip on how to send an email from your workflow using SharePoint Designer. This is a long how to post, so my suggestion is to check out
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:13 PM

Free Web Conferencing Solution by the Microsoft Live team

If you or your company is looking for a way to do "collaboration" (e.g., Web Conference) over the web or simple desktop sharing, but cannot afford enterprise solutions like LiveMeeting or WebEx, you might want to try out this great little tool by the
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Monday, May 21, 2007 11:38 AM

All About Silverlight - Shawn Wildermuth

Scott Lock informed me that Shawn Wildermuth is presenting 2 hour "All About Silverlight" session for the Capital Area .NET Users Group tomorrow. Definitely worth checking out! Details here . -Marc
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Monday, May 21, 2007 9:20 AM

Developer Conference Follow Up

Thanks to everyone who attended our Public Sector Developer Conference in Downers Grove, IL. I don't have all of the decks yet, but I figured I would post anyway to get you started. I will update this post when I get the other decks. Introduction to LINQ
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 2:16 PM

Smart Client Software Factory v2 is now available

Enhancements include: Windows Presentation Foundation interoperability CAB extensions and View with presenter recipe Offline application blocks and recipes; the application blocks support asynchronous calls to WCF web services. Richer ClickOnce Deployment
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Friday, May 18, 2007 4:13 PM

RAD Tool for building Workflow for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007

SharePoint Designer (SPD) is a great Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for building workflow (Document and other) for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 product. It is a tool that both developers and non-developers can use, albeit at a
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Friday, May 18, 2007 3:47 PM

Free Download - SharePoint 2007 Templates

This week Microsoft has offered for free download a set of Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites and custom Templates designed form MOSS 2007. Here's the download link Overview Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites are custom templates designed
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Friday, May 18, 2007 10:38 AM

(Recording) Building document workflow in SharePoint 2007

Some of you have asked if I recorded my web cast on Building custom document workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007. I did, so I am posting the URL below and also reminding you that I am doing it again "Live over the Web" on June 19th @ 10:30EST. Here are
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:52 AM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio "Orcas" & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures

This session will cover some of the great new features that will be coming soon with Visual Studio "Orcas" & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures. Learn how web development with .NET will continue to improve and evolve, and talk about some of the upcoming
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:29 AM

Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation Rules

Event Description: This session provides an introduction to the rules engine capabilities provided in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). In this webcast learn more about the WF Rules mechanisms, which also supports more advanced scenarios. See an example
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Monday, May 14, 2007 11:13 PM

Webcast Schedule for June 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE June 1 , 2007 11:00 -12:30 EST Webcast Building Add-ins for Live Messenger Joel Reyes Developers June 6 , 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast
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Friday, May 11, 2007 9:42 AM

Building Custom Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (Live Webcast Demonstration)

Why Think of it as an "investment" in your career . SharePoint (or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) and the ability to build Workflow's are two of the most highly sought after capabilities in the IT Market today by the Government, Private Industry,
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:58 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight

Thanks to everyone who attended! Here's the deck . You can get to my demo code from here and my Virtual Earth code from here .
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:49 PM

Visual Studio codename "Orcas" solution with MOST of the Silverlight QuickStarts

One of the things I did when I was originally learning Virtual Earth programming was to create a Visual Studio solution that was essentially my personal walkthrough of the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK and share it with anyone interested. Well, in preparation
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:06 AM

Microsoft Solution Sharing Network (SSN) Program

Microsoft’s SSN (Solution Sharing Network) Program is a successful global initiative that promotes and enables the sharing of solutions and best practices within the Public Sector. The SSN 3.0 Portal is a key component that is offered through the SSN
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:58 PM

Updated Virtual Earth with Silverlight samples

I've received quite a few requests to update my Virtual Earth + Silverlight and WPF + Virtual Earth + Silverlight samples. Both codebases are old code. Therefore, they no longer work against the current releases of Silverlight (1.0 Beta or 1.1 Alpha)
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:03 AM

Document Workflow in MOSS 2007: How to extract an email address from an email sent to your Document Library for Workflow

In my last posting, Document Workflow in MOSS 2007: How to enable the portal to receive external emails found here , I showed you how to enable a document library to receive external/internal emails with attachments. So, if you wanted to get the email
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Monday, May 07, 2007 3:08 PM

Document Workflow in MOSS 2007: How to enable the portal to receive external emails

Here's a scenario: A company, we'll call them "Some Company, Inc." wants you to build an external job web site, where people can find a list of all of the available jobs that Some Company, Inc. is trying to fill. However, Some Company, Inc. would like
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Monday, May 07, 2007 12:28 PM

Harness the Power of High Performance Computing in the Public Sector, Reston VA, May 29, 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the High Performance Computing in Public Sector Conference in Reston , VA to be held on May 29, 2007. Event Date & Time : May 29, 2007 , 9:15 – 16:00 Event Location Microsoft Innovation and Technology
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Monday, May 07, 2007 12:11 PM

Public Sector Developer Conference, Downers Grove, IL May 16, 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Downers Grove , IL to be held on May 16, 2007. Event Date & Time : May 16, 2007 , 9:00 – 16:00 Event Location Microsoft Downers Grove Office 3025 Highland
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Friday, May 04, 2007 12:36 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBAST: LINQ, MapDotNet Server 2007, and Microsoft Silverlight

I'm doing 3 webcasts next week. I will be presenting two of them and a partner will be presenting one: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL May 8th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational
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Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:58 PM

Patterns for Supporting Information Cards on Web Sites: Personal Cards for Sign up and Signing In

Just Release! This document describes patterns for implementing Personal Information Card support on Web sites. Web site developers can use this document to create sites that take advantage of Information Cards to improve the ease of use and security
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 12:38 PM

On Demand Webcasts

Many of you have been asking if there is a way to view recordings of the public sector developer webcasts that you may have missed. It turns out that most of our webcasts are recorded and are available from the original registration link. Sometimes, however,
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