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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:30 AM

Microsoft SOA and Business Process Website

We've officially launched a new website dedicated to providing invaluable information around building Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions using the Microsoft platform. As a part of this site , we've released
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:31 PM

Entire US Public Sector Virtual Earth Road Show content now available

I just received the slide decks from the other presenters and published them all to my SkyDrive : Keynote - Increasing Agency Capabilities: Enabling data access, visualization, analysis and insight with Microsoft Virtual Earth Speaker: Kevin Adler Vexcel
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Monday, October 29, 2007 11:07 PM

Windows Server 2008 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

It was announced today on the Windows Server Team Blog that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will return to being available via a separate download for Windows Server 2008 customers. In early betas, WSS 3.0 was included as a component in the Windows Server
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Monday, October 29, 2007 8:37 PM

How to Video: (Programmatically Creating a User Task) Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007

The question that I get most often when I talk to developers about SharePoint Document Workflow is on Sending and Tracking tasks for the people participating in a document workflow.  So, in this 4th part of the series that I am doing on "Building
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:16 PM

Helpful tip on Virtual Machine Configuration using Virtual PC

I'd been racking my brain trying to remember the configuration steps for configuring a Virtual PC -based VM that's running as a Domain Controller (with DNS enabled) to access the internet. I've done this many times in the past and just couldn't remember
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:59 PM

SharePoint Object Model "Hidden Gems"

I was recently presented a scenario by a gentleman who wanted more control over a MOSS 2007 site, list, and item settings. He wanted to essentially "track" changes that were made to these artifacts within a given site collection. In addition, he wanted
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:32 AM

OBA Reference Applications - What would you like to see?

One of the biggest challenges I feel that we ( Microsoft ) face in showcasing the "value" of architecting/developing Office Business Applications is providing what I'll call "solid reference implementations" along the lines of Duwamish Books , Fitch and
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Friday, October 26, 2007 4:12 PM

Compuware IT Exchange Event (Raleigh, NC)

Please find the deck + demos from the event in this link . Thank you for attending and for asking many good questions. Good Luck! Joel
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Friday, October 26, 2007 11:23 AM

Installing SQL Server Management Studio when you already have Management Studio Express installed!!!

Argh, I just beat my head against a wall trying to do this for the last couple hours:(. After a bit of web searching, I finally found this . So if you try to run the SQL Server 2005 installer to install the full version of SQL Server Management Studio
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Friday, October 26, 2007 10:41 AM

Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model

This is an interesting and very useful article for those of us who program against the SharePoint Object Model. The author spends much of the article talking about the impact of how we as developers can have on the SharePoint server and some suggestions
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:07 PM

How to Video: Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (Extracting email addresses and sending emails)

In this 3rd part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating one of the more widely used functions in document workflow: Sending Emails. In this scenario, I have a SharePoint List configured
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:09 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: What's New in the WCF and WF in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5

Sorry for the technical glitches today. I know it's not the most exciting thing to watch my desktop sharing screen in complete silence as I scramble to figure out why my phone stopped working. The deck and code are available here . A recording should
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:03 PM

Designer Dinner (Nov. 7 in Reston, VA): SilverLight for Designers

When: November 7, 2007 - 6:00PM – 8:00PM Where: Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Register today for this FREE Seminar! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032357997&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:15 AM

SharePoint Document Workflow Example: Extracting document details with your workflow

This is a 2nd part of a series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing. You can find the freely downloadable workshops that accompanying these videos on my blog here . The scenario is a company has created
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:01 AM

How to Video: Enabling incoming/outgoing email for SharePoint/MOSS 2007

This is a first part of a series of "How to Videos" that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing. The scenario is a company has created a portal which will accept resume's for job postings, and that via workflow,
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:16 PM

Charlotte Code Camp - PPT and Sample Code

Thank you all for attending my Charlotte Code Camp today session on VSTO! As promised, below is a link to a zip file with the PPT and Sample Code also here is a list of references to VSTO. VSTO Forum http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=16
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 8:21 AM

(How To Videos) Get up to speed on Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe). I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA "issues" it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio
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Friday, October 19, 2007 6:40 PM

Detailed explanation of what's new in the v6 Virtual Earth Map Control

John O'Brien has put together the best walkthrough of what's new in v6 that I have seen. Check it out here . - Marc Technorati Tags: Virtual Earth
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Friday, October 19, 2007 2:12 PM

SOA Security - Enterprise Architecture Perspective

Co-worker and Microsoft Architect, David Chou went to the IT Architect Regional Conference 2007 event in San Diego. A discussion about the myriad of conflicting issues in planning and designing security for enterprise SOA efforts, and some suggested approaches
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:28 PM

Virtual Earth Map Control v6 is available

Details here . One of the things that may not be obvious is that the new control is backward compatible with v5. If you have a built your solution on v5, then you can update your script reference to get all the perf enhancements in the new control! All
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:08 PM

WEBCAST: What's New in the WCF and WF in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5

October 25th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. These
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:42 PM

Recorded Webcast: Integrating Groove and Virtual Earth (Mapping technology) with Microsoft SilverLight

One of my colleagues and fellow Developer Evangelist, Michael S. Scherotter has recorded and made available a screen cast that shows you how to embed a Virtual Earth technology into a Groove Workspace. Click here to go to the video. ~ Robert Shelton
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:45 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Building an Application using the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008

Thanks to everyone who attended the webcast today. The deck and code are available here . The recording should be available soon. You can get to the recording by clicking the original registration url here . - Marc
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:34 AM

Microsoft Event in (Virginia): Harnessing the Power of High Performance Computing....

Harnessing the Power of High Performance Computing in the Government Disaster response and toxin dispersion modeling, weather prediction, weapons simulation, risk analysis, financial modeling, image analysis, data mining, and genomics research are just
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Monday, October 15, 2007 5:57 PM

Free Microsoft Event: Building SharePoint Custom Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 (Developer Dinner)

Date Time Location Registration Link Oct. 23rd 6:00-8:00P EST Microsoft Innovation and Technology Center 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190 Click here to register Oct. 25th 6:00-8:00P EST Microsoft Office 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington,
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Friday, October 12, 2007 3:57 PM

Webcast Schedule for November 2007

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE November 2 , 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What's New in VSTO and Visual Studio 2008 Joel Reyes Joel Reyes Developers November 9
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Friday, October 12, 2007 9:15 AM

Free Training: Introduction to Visual Studio 2008 (Check cities below)

Visual Studio 2008 introduces a host of new features and enhancements that dramatically improve the experience of software developers. In this half-day, instructor-led session you will get a chance to see how these improvements are going to make you more
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:44 AM

WEBCAST: Building an Application using the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008

October 16th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) NOTE: Silverlight developers are encouraged to attend. By attending, you will get a feel for the future design experience for Silverlight in Visual Studio. This session will cover some of the great new
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:13 AM

Video: Configuring applications, to allow users to take the data with them with VS 2008

One of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 (which is scheduled to release in Nov.) is the ability to more easily configure applications to allow users to take data with them and synchronize the Add/Edits/Deletes when they reconnect to the network.
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Monday, October 08, 2007 10:02 AM

Free Workshops - Integrating Workflow into your .NET Applications workshop has been moved!

I've recently had to change the workshop series on Integrating Workflow into your .NET Applications for .NET 3.0 download location. They are still freely downloadable. This series of workshops are filled with: Step-by-Step examples Screen shots of almost
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Monday, October 08, 2007 9:19 AM

How to: Integrating Search into your ASP.NET Site

This is a nice (short) article that shows you how to integrate search; in this case: Live and SharePoint, but you could use similar code for "Other" very popular search engines, but I work for Microsoft so we won't discuss them. :) It's got some sample
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 5:09 AM

Free Workshop: SOA Development with Windows Communications Foundation (.NET 3.0) has been moved!

I've recently had to change the workshop series on Service Oriented Application (SOA) Development with WCF for .NET 3.0 workshops download location. They are still freely downloadable. This series of workshops are filled with: Step-by-Step examples Screen
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Friday, October 05, 2007 4:51 PM

SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio Workshop Documents Download Location has changed!

I've recently moved the SharePoint Document Workflow "How To" Workshop. Here's the new location of the downloads. The good news is that they are still free! :) This series of workshops are filled with: Step-by-Step examples Screen shots of almost every
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:19 PM

The Role of Cardspace, Identity Metasystem, in IT Consolidation

Please join me tomorrow Friday, October 5th @2:00PM EST to my Webcast where we will discuss these topics within the context of IT consolidation. The title " Cardspace Heading Up! Are You Ready "... perhaps doesn't do any justice to the context, possible
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 8:18 PM

So What Do Developers Think of Microsoft's Release of the .NET Framework Source Code?

    read on ...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:12 AM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Austin, TX November 14 2007

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Developer Conference in Austin, TX to be held on November 14, 2007. ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!!! Conference Title: Microsoft Public Sector Developer
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Monday, October 01, 2007 11:01 AM

Deploying Silverlight in the Enterprise

I just came across this whitepaper via Tim Sneath . Definitely a must read for enterprises who want to deploy Silverlight. Details here . - Marc
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