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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:33 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight for Developers

Thanks to everyone who attended. Sorry about the audio difficulties. Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do once the webcast starts. The deck is here . The code is here . You will need Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh, Visual Studio 2008 Beta
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:52 AM

SCREENCAST: Adding Closed Captioning to video using Expression Media Encoder (EME) and Silverlight

Do you have a need to produce cross browser video with Closed Captioning that targets both Windows and the Mac? If so, then check out my screencast which shows you how to do it here . - Marc
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Friday, July 27, 2007 5:12 PM

Silverlight 1.0 RC, 1.1 Alpha Refresh, and tools are available for download!

Details here .
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Friday, July 27, 2007 4:02 PM

I was wrong :(

I've been doing quite a bit of LINQ & LINQ to SQL talks lately. One of the things I have told people is that INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations are sent in batch using DataContext.SubmitChanges(). I found out in an internal discussion today that LINQ
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Friday, July 27, 2007 11:28 AM

WEBCAST: What's new in Visual Studio 2008 for Smart Client Developers?

UPDATE: I am aware that the registration link is broken. I am working to get the proper link from the company who sets these up for me. Sorry about the broken link. UPDATE2: The link has been updated and now works:). Come see a demo-rich overview of the
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Friday, July 27, 2007 11:00 AM

WEBCAST: Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight for Developers

Microsoft Silverlight is a technology for delivering rich, cross-platform interactive experiences for the Web and beyond. Silverlight will enable the creation of rich, visually stunning and interactive content and applications that run on multiple browsers
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 5:50 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available for download

Silverlight 1.0 RC will be soon! More details here . - Marc
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:28 PM

Did I fail to answer your question during my VS2008 for Web Developers webcast?

I just reviewed the questions log from the webcast. It appears that some of the questions that were in the Q&A manager disappeared before I was able to view them. I want to sincerely apologize if you felt that I ignored your question. I did not. I
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:33 AM

DEV DINNER FOLLOW UP: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can download the deck and code from here . A question came up that I did not have time to answer deeper than "Yes, you can do it." The question was "Can I update XML using LINQ to XML?" There are two fundamental ways.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:51 PM

(Free) Test Drive SharePoint Server 2007 - No installation needed

Here's the link for the download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&DisplayLang=en Overview The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:39 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures

Thanks for attending! If you missed it, you should be able view the recording here . The deck and code are here . If you are looking for today's code, then make sure you download WebDevVS2008_democode_beta2 and FuturesJuly2007_democode . You will, of
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:04 AM

Preview SDK for the upcoming Silverlight 1.0 RC available

There are going to be some breaking changes in the upcoming Silverlight RC. We want to prepare people so they are aware before we actually release the RC itself. Tim Sneath talks about it here (including links to breaking changes). You can download the
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 3:52 PM

(Recording) Building custom document workflow in SharePoint 2007

*** Updated with the correct link for viewing this recording *** Here's the link to a recording of the demonstration that I did today with instruction on how to access it. Recorded Web Cast: Here are the instructions to view it. Click here and then click
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:19 AM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Build Virtual Earth solutions faster with IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite

Thanks to everyone who attended. If you missed it, you should be able to download the recording from here . The deck is available here . You can find more details on IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite at http://www.idvsolutions.com . If you have any questions,
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Monday, July 23, 2007 4:17 PM

Public Sector OBA RAP (E-Forms Processing) Bits Available for Download

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I'd been working on the Office Business Application (OBA) Reference Architecture Pack for Public Sector , which focuses on providing prescriptive architecture guidance for building e-Forms solutions within Public Sector.
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Friday, July 20, 2007 1:35 PM

Microsoft Access Developer Extension with "Source Code Control" add-in

Over the years, I've been asked about "Source Code Control" for Microsoft Access, since Access is one of more popular tools for a certain type of application development. Although you could always manually check-in/out Access solutions, there was never
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Friday, July 20, 2007 8:45 AM

Learn how to build document workflow in MOSS 2007 (Live Web cast on July 24th)

When Tuesday, July 24 @ 2:00PM EST/11:00A PST, Register by clicking here What This talk will focus on one of the most commonly asked questions about SharePoint (MOSS 2007), and that is: “How do I Building Custom Document Workflow Solutions in SharePoint?”.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:02 AM

Windows Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

Just caught this from James Conard's blog. "The kit includes 15 presentations on topics ranging from IIS7 to the .NET Framework 3.0 technologies, HPC, and virtualization. It also includes 7 hands-on labs, all based on the DinnerNow scenario. These labs
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:21 AM

WEBCAST: What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures

You might want to entertain attending even if you've seen me present this one before. I will be showing new Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 features like LinqDataSource, improved design time experience for ASP.NET AJAX extender controls, AJAX Web Part drag
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:43 PM

ASP.NET 3.5 will have a LinqDataSource

I've been delivering a "What's New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the Microsoft ASP.NET Futures" session over the last few months to various customers and partners. All of the features / demos I have shown were based on Visual Studio 2008
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:32 PM

Looking for SharePoint content?

One of the things I hear from folks interested in SharePoint is that there isn't enough content for SharePoint developers. The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog just blog'd a Tons of New SharePoint Now Content Live on MSDN post.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:53 AM

SQL Server 2008 webcasts

I'm getting ready to dig into SQL Server 2008 a bit over the next few months. While I was surfing around looking for what's available, I came across some recorded on demand webcasts at https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5553
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:31 AM

Webcast Schedule for August 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE August 1 , 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Smart Clients: What's New in Visual Studio 2008? Saurabh Pant Developers August 8 , 2007 14:00
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 8:10 PM

Developer Dinner in DC and VA: Overview of LINQ in Visual Studio 2008

Topic Overview of LINQ Technology in Visual Studio 2008 (codename: Orcas) Where Date/Time Registration Link Address Virginia Wed. July 25 th (6:00-8:00PM) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID= 1032345982&Culture=en-US Microsoft
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Friday, July 13, 2007 8:13 AM

(Videos) Adding custom code to the Office 2007 Ribbon

If you are building macros's for office or want to integrate custom functionality with Office, why not just go ahead and build it in to the Office Ribbon? Check out this series of "Visual How To" videos to learn how. Adding Custom Buttons to the 2007
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:11 PM

WEBCAST: Build Virtual Earth solutions faster with IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite

July 18th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Building Powerful Composite Applications with IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion Suite More and more enterprises are adopting composite applications as a means to create unique blends of internal data and external
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:24 PM

CSLA .NET 3.0

Rocky Lhotka recently released his CSLA .NET 3.0 Business Object framework. I've followed Rocky's work since the days of Professional Visual Basic 5.0 Business Objects (Professional) , Visual Basic 6.0 Business Objects , Professional Visual Basic 6 Distributed
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:19 PM

Validation and Business Logic using LINQ to SQL

I have spoken to quite a few customers about LINQ & LINQ to SQL over the last few months. Oddly enough, very few people have asked me about how one might encapsulate validation and business logic using LINQ to SQL. Scott Guthrie just posted another
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:09 AM

BizTalk Server Product Roadmap Updated

We've made some updates to the BizTalk Server Roadmap that will hopefully shed some light on what the plans are for the product with the pending R2 release as well as future versions of the product. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 will feature a number of updates
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:22 PM

Office Business Applications (OBA) in the U.S. Army

Military experts have often said "An army marches on its stomach" to emphasize the importance of logistics in a theater of operation. While the saying remains true, a new aphorism is evolving that goes something like this: "Bullets kill the enemy, but
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:20 AM

LINQ's relationship to the new C#3 and VB9 features

Daniel Moth has a great screencast on Channel 9 digging into Local Variable Type Inference, Object Initiliazers, Anonymous Types, Extension Methods, Lambda Expressions and Query Expressions. These are all features of C# 3.0 & VB9 that enable LINQ.
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Monday, July 09, 2007 5:19 PM

"How Do I" Videos - Visual Studio Tools for Office on MSDN

The MSDN team has posted some nice videos on how to interact with or "program" Office 2007 with Visual Studio Tools for Office. They are all very short, no more than 13 minutes at the max. Check them out here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb496949.aspx
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Monday, July 09, 2007 9:23 AM

On-Demand Webcasts for June

The on-demand webcast page has been updated to include the webcasts that were recorded in June. As a reminder, the on-demand link is the same as the original webcast link. So, you don't have to wait for us to update the web page before you view the recording.
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Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:07 PM

Know your carbon offset?

As mentioned in my last post , in addition to the website redesign and replatform to MOSS , I also oversaw a project that involved taking one of the customer's primary "eye candy" applications, an HTML/JavaScript-based carbon calculator, and ported it
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 11:04 AM

Two New Internet Websites Launched on MOSS 2007

In the spirit of talking about the cool projects I've been working on as mentioned in a previous post I want to bring your attention to two new MOSS-powered websites that just launched, right at the eve of this year's Live Earth event (that's currently
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:52 AM

Moving your data to the "Cloud": Microsoft's Astoria Data Services

The challenge of exposing data the web is being taken on by the Microsoft SQL Server team with (codename) Astoria project. Here's the description from the Astoria Project Site (where you can get the CTP today): http://astoria.mslivelabs.com/ . Description:
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 6:14 PM

Virtual Earth Survey

The Virtual Earth Developer Blog is asking people to fill out a survey to get feedback on Virtual Earth. Please fill out the survey if you want to help shape the future of VE. Details here . -Marc
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:31 PM

LINQ to SQL performance

One of the things I get asked quite often is "How does LINQ to SQL affect performance compared to writing my own Data Access Layer?" LINQ to SQL perf is a work in progress of course since it is still in beta. However, if you are curious, check out Rico
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:40 PM

Third-Party LINQ Providers

One of the things that may not be apparent if you are new to Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is that you can go beyond the "in box" LINQ to Objects, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to ADO.NET (DataSets/SQL/Entities). OakLeaf Systems is maintaining a running list
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:12 PM

PUBLIC SECTOR WEBCAST: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL (July)

July 11th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities,
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 3:37 PM

Hierarchical Data Source Controls

I found out about these ASP.NET controls by way of Bertrand LeRoy . "These data sources enable Menu and TreeView to declaratively bind to almost arbitrary data." Apparently, they have been around for a while. Bertrand just moved them to Codeplex. Details
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:22 PM

Hardware Virtualization with Virtual PC 2007

I use a Compaq nc8430 as my primary work laptop. I was quite disappointed to find out that the Hardware Virtualization feature of Virtual PC 2007 was disabled and "not supported" on my laptop. I asked around and was told by someone who will remain nameless
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Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:00 AM

"Acropolis" July CTP

It's out! What's new? Features included in Acropolis July CTP includes: - Transition Animation improvements – You can now add transition when changing page in TabLayoutPanes! - Better Design Time support - Better Custom Theming support - Various bug fixing
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:55 PM

Free .NET 3.0 Web Training: WPF, WCF and Workflow

I was just browsing MSDN this morning and found that Microsoft is offering some interesting training on .NET 3.0 (Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation). If you are not already doing .NET 3.0 programming,
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 2:23 PM

WEBCAST ANNOUCEMENT

PLEASE REGISTER FOR OUR WORKFLOW FOUNDATIONS RULES - PART II !!! In this talk you will learn about the WF Rules extensibility mechanisms which are useful in supporting more advanced scenarios. We will walk through an example of how to leverage rules extensibility
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:18 AM

OBA RAP for Public Sector (E-Forms Processing)

As I mentioned in my last post , I've had the opportunity to work on a number cool solutions in recent months. One solution that I've been privileged to work on and help deliver is the Office Business Application Reference Architecture Pack for Public
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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:24 AM

LINQ Cookbook from the VB Team

The VB team just started a LINQ Cookbook series. These are great because they show you how you can easily accomplish programming tasks quickly using LINQ. The first four are: Change the font for all labels on a windows form Find all capitalized words
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