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Friday, January 30, 2009 10:35 AM

WEBCAST: Web 2.0 and the Next Generation of Computing for State and Local Governments

February 11: 11-12 PST. Web 2.0 basically refers to the use of the Internet as an interactive and collaborative platform for applications like social networking. Web 2.0 encompasses things like Web-based communities, wikis, blogs, mashups, podcasts, and
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:34 PM

FOLLOW UP: Designer Dinner on Silverlight Animation

Hey Everyone, Thanks for all that stuck out the bad weather and were able to make the dinner last night! I received lots of great feedback from last night’s content and we will definitely continue to collaborate our developer and designer focused sessions
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:24 PM

Follow Us… We’ll Follow You…

Our Microsoft DPE Public Sector team is now on twitter . Feel free to follow us in our endless  journey towards dev platform nirvana . This will be a quick and convenient way to keep you posted on the happenings (‘platformic’ and development) that
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:03 PM

IE8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) Is Out!

find out everything about the release here http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/26/internet-explorer-8-release-candidate-now-available.aspx If you are currently beta testing Windows 7 the plan is to get an updated IE8 with the next update of Windows
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Monday, January 26, 2009 12:42 PM

DevDinnerOnDemand: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond

Business-focused applications, sometimes referred to as Line Of Business (LOB) applications, are almost universally about working with data in some shape or form.  At it’s a heart, a business app needs: A way to move data between tiers A way to shape
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:06 PM

Designer Dinner – Animation 101

Continuing to build off of Marc Schweigert’s developer dinner session , we’ll explore how to take the next steps in making your UI effective. Don’t miss our next Designer Dinner in Reston on 1.27.2009 @ 6:00pm . The dinner is free and registration is
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:56 PM

Web Platform Installer 1.0 released!

How cool is 1 installer that installs the Microsoft Web platform?  Well, you decide I guess. What do you get? The Web Platform Installer can install: •Internet Information Services 5.1 on XP SP3 •Internet Information Services 6.0 on Server 2003 SP2
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:25 AM

Silverlight: Streaming History… In High Definition

Today is a unique movement in the history of our country and technology is there enabling it all… including streaming in real time and HD the inauguration of our next president! Microsoft Silverlight was chosen as THE technology to make it possible for
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Friday, January 16, 2009 8:52 PM

Do you live in Columbia.SC?

If so, please join me on January 29, 6:00PM at the Midlands Technical College for our first Microsoft Public Sector Developer Dinner Series. We will hold an introductory discussion on ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) . You can find registration information
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Friday, January 16, 2009 3:00 PM

Patterns & Practices: Composite WPF & Silverlight

For those of you indulging in developing apps with our latest UX technologies I just want to refer you to this patter which I think you will find very useful. The Composite Application Guidance for WPF can help you split the development of your WPF client
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Friday, January 16, 2009 9:23 AM

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications

Thanks to everyone who attended!  I want to thank Pete Brown for co presenting with me. There were quite a few comments about the facility we used not being conducive to hosting the dinner.  I appreciate your honest feedback.  I will definitely
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:14 AM

Update to Azure Developer Tools released

On 1/14/09, Microsoft released an update to Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio. It contains some bug fixes, speed improvements as well as better integration with Visual Studio among other things. Go get it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=80e3eabf-0507-4560-aeb6-d31e9a70a0a6&displaylang=en
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Monday, January 12, 2009 1:23 PM

Webcast Schedule for February 2009

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! Date Time Location Title and Registration Presenter Audience February 11, 2009 14:00 - 15:00 EST Webcast Web 2.0 and the Next Generation of Computing for State and Local Governments Erika Cheley Developers February
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Monday, January 12, 2009 12:10 PM

Developer Dinner registration issues

There are some issues with the registration system for this Thursday’s Developer Dinner on Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond .  At first, I thought the issues were intermittent.  Unfortunately, that’s not
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Monday, January 12, 2009 10:28 AM

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3

I’m not much of a SharePoint dev.  I’ve taken a SharePoint development class, but that’s it.  I keep telling myself that I am going to dig in to SharePoint more.  I know that many of the folks that attend the Developer Dinners are doing
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:58 PM

DEVELOPER DINNER: Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond

IMPORTANT NOTE: This developer dinner will not be at a Microsoft facility.  Please make sure you take note of this. Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:00 PM - Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 5:30 PM Reston
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Monday, January 05, 2009 11:20 AM

Silverlight 2 Datagrid Control…

In case you didn’t know, a new download is available which contains an updated version of the Silverlight 2 DataGrid control. You can find the details here   Joel Technorati Tags: Silverlight Controls , DataGrid
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Friday, January 02, 2009 10:16 AM

10-4 on Channel9

10-4 explores the power of the dynamic duo Visual Studio 10 and .NET Framework 4. Episode 3: ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 Happy New Year everyone! In the third episode of 10-4 we’ll begin seeing how Visual Studio 10 and .NET Framework 4.0 offer compelling new
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