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Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:17 PM

I've updated my list of recorded webcasts

Details here . - Marc Technorati Tags: .net framework
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:42 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Microsoft Robotics Studio – An Introduction

Thanks to everyone who attended.  A big thanks to Vlad for presenting.  The downloads for the webcast are here . Technorati Tags: robotics , microsoft robotics studio , .net framework - Marc
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:13 AM

The robotics webcast is TODAY!

Due to a typo by yours truly, the announcement here had the wrong date.  The webcast is TODAY from 2-3:30 EST.  I have updated the original post to reflect the correct date.  Sorry for any confusion. - Marc
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:32 PM

Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper codeplex project update for those who want to contribute

Unfortunately, there was a configuration snafu with the email address I gave out for you to request access to the project as a contributor.  If you you sent an email from a non Microsoft email address prior to this post, then you received a "Delivery
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:38 AM

JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control

UPDATE: Fixed the embedded video. Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008?  I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project!  I just recorded a short
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Monday, February 25, 2008 1:44 PM

Want a sneak peek at Silverlight 2 before MIX?

Scott Guthrie posted an update on Silverlight 2 plus an eight part walkthrough of building a Silverlight 2 application.  In the final part, he turns the Silverlight 2 application into a WPF application reusing the Silverlight 2 xaml and code. 
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Monday, February 25, 2008 10:13 AM

Get On The Bus!!! - The Microsoft Enterprise Services Bus (ESB)

Join us this Friday, Feb 29, to explore the Microsoft Enterprise Services Bus (ESB)!!! Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its Application Platform including Windows Server 2003, Windows Communication Foundation (.NET 3.0), and BizTalk
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 5:55 PM

EVENT POSTPONED - HPC Server 2008 - 1 day Clinic - Washington, DC March 19, 2008

Please note that this event has been postponed. The Windows HPC Server 2008 “Jumpstart” event scheduled for March 18, 2008 in Washington, DC, will be rescheduled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our intent is to coordinate delivery of this event subsequent
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Friday, February 22, 2008 5:11 PM

It's Launch season!

That's right, we're right on the verge of the Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 launch events.  They start on February 27th in cities across the country.  I'll be presenting the Defy Occasionally Connected Challenges
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Friday, February 22, 2008 4:34 PM

Free Download: SharePoint Server 2007 DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit

For anyone who is looking/waiting for the Microsoft Resource Kit for the Records Management (DoD 5015.2) standard, that kit has been released and is publicly available for download. Here's what's in the resource kit: Overview The DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit
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Friday, February 22, 2008 4:25 PM

WEBCAST: Microsoft Robotics Studio – An Introduction

UPDATE: The date for this webcast in the original post was wrong.  The date of this webcast is February 27, 2008 (updated below).  Hopefully, if you registered, you noticed this.  Sorry for the confusion. Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS)
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Friday, February 22, 2008 4:07 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Sorry for the technical difficulties with Live Meeting as well as accidentally doing one of my demos out of order.  Hopefully it wasn't too confusing. The deck is here .  The demos I used are split into
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:13 PM

Free Download: VS 2008 Database Edition Power Tools

Microsoft has released a set of Power Tools for folks who use Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools. Here's the description of what's in this free download, and it's a lot! This release updates the Power Tools for the Database Edition
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:12 PM

Free Download: SQL Server 2008 February CTP

The Microsoft SQL Server team has released the next CTP of SQL Server 2008 (February 2008).  Here's the overview of what's in it: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:11 PM

Free Download: Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0

The Microsoft Visual Basic Team has released an updated version of the Visual Basic Power Pack, and I (as a C# Developer) am jealous! Here's an Overview of what's in the Power Pack: The new DataRepeater control included in this version of the Visual Basic
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:11 PM

WEBCAST: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are two very relevant technologies within .NET 3.x for Public Sector applications. WCF represents a total unification layer for building connected systems and WF provides
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:18 PM

WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introducing Internet Information Server 7 for Developers

Thanks to everyone who attended!  A special thanks to Drew Robbins for presenting.  The deck is available here .  The code samples Drew demonstrated will be available soon.  Stay tuned to this blog.  I'll throw up a post when
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:08 AM

How to: Ruby on .NET (IronRuby), versus Ruby on Rails

For those of you who are interested in looking at the new Ruby Syntax, but are more comfortable with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework, then you might want to take a look at IronRuby.  IronRuby is an ongoing project to build a version of Ruby
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Monday, February 18, 2008 12:53 PM

Binary Documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) and Translator Project Site are now live

Brian Jones, Senior Program Manager just broke the news in his post today. Quoting from him: "As promised last month , the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to this, the project to create an open source translator (binary
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Monday, February 18, 2008 9:34 AM

Webcast Schedule for March 2008

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE March 14 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Building WPF Applications in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend Marc Schweigert Marc
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Friday, February 15, 2008 5:49 PM

Free Download: Updated Visual Studio 2005 tools for SharePoint Development

Microsoft has released version 1.1 of the Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0! These are the tools that you use to build web parts, site definitions, etc. I don't find myself in Visual Studio 2005 as much these days, because I
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Friday, February 15, 2008 2:02 PM

WEBCAST: Introducing Internet Information Server 7 for Developers

I'm really excited to have Drew Robbins speak about IIS7 next week.  To me, IIS7 is the thing that developers will care most about in Windows Server 2008.  Don't miss this opportunity to find out why! Abstract Learn about new developer features
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Monday, February 11, 2008 10:33 AM

Free Download: Hot-Fixes for Visual Studio 2008 (Web Development)

As reported on Scott Guthrie's (General Manager of the Microsoft .NET Developer Platform Division) blog , Microsoft has released a Hot-Fix Roll-up for Visual Studio 2008.   These hot-fixes address the following issues: HTML Source view performance
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Friday, February 08, 2008 9:08 PM

DOWNLOAD LINKS: Public Sector Developer Conference (LA / San Diego)

UPDATE: Added VSTO deck and some LINQ lab links (say that three times fast) Joel promised folks. Thanks to everyone who attended!  As promised, I have gathered all the decks and code.  Here are the links:   The Benefits of Visual Studio
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Friday, February 08, 2008 10:32 AM

Video: ADO.NET Entity Framework... One year later

This is a video that's been in existence for a while and some of you may have already seen it, but throughout all of the research that I've done on The Entity Frameworks future, I hadn't seen it. If I hadn't seen it, I was thinking that others may not
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:21 PM

Pete Brown: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, Ajax - Which One is for Me?

Pete just gave me a heads up on a blog entry he wrote.  I just read through it.  If you you are asking yourself the same question, then you might be interested in Pete's thoughts .   - Marc Technorati Tags: silverlight , windows presentation
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:56 AM

Thinking or worried about getting your Microsoft Certification for SQL Server 2008?

If you are thinking about getting a Microsoft Certification for SQL Server 2008 or thinking about renewing your certification with SQL Server 2008, you may want to attend this Live Meeting (scheduled for Feb. 06, 2008, at two different times during the
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:25 AM

Free Training: New Microsoft Expressions Virtual Labs

Microsoft has recently released a new series of Virtual Labs (pre-configured Windows environments that you can Remote-Desktop into and learn how to use our products/technologies) for Microsoft Expressions.  For those of you who are not aware of what
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