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Monday, March 30, 2009 1:04 PM

Talking Points: Computing Forecast: Cloud[s]!

Nothing like a sunny day with clouds! With the arrival of Spring I look forward to awesome sunny days… but it wouldn't be perfect without Clouds! … and in terms of computing forecast, the future is just as sunny with Cloud Computing at the center stage
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:05 PM

RALEIGH: Developers Dinner

If you attended the Dev Dinner in Raleigh on Thursday, March 26, 2009 then here is the link to download the material I used. I have also included additional resources below from my peer Marc Schweigert (the god of Virtual Earth). I am sorry I could not
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Friday, March 27, 2009 8:51 AM

A MUST READ: Silverlight Deployment Guide

Everything you ever needed to know about deploying Silverlight within your enterprise. David Tesar wrote this paper… I encourage you to check it out. Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: silverlight deployment , Joel Reyes
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:59 PM

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on Expression Web and Designing with Standards

NOTE: This was cross posted from here Thanks to everyone who attended last night!  You can find the deck and demo code here: Here’s the essential links I gave towards the end of the talk: - Download Expression Web trial at: http://expression.microsoft.com
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:02 AM

MIX09: Building Accessible RIAs in Silverlight

NOTE: This was cross posted from here My team focuses on US Government customers and partners.  To say that building accessible applications is important for our customers/partners would be a huge understatement.  I just watched the following
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:15 PM

CODEPLEX: Most Popular Projects

Most Popular Projects TraceMyNet: a network tracing tool Rawr Silverlight Toolkit AJAX Control Toolkit ASP.NET Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Microsoft SQL Server Product Samples: Database Google Book Downloader DotNetNuke® Community Edition !exploitable
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:46 AM

DevDinnerOnDemand: What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I decided not to publish the last Developer Dinner in favor of pointing you to newer sessions last weeks MIX 09 conference.  These sessions basically cover everything I covered at the dinner and more. Microsoft
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:40 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference - Albany, NY April 15, 2009

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Albany, NY on April 15, 2009. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference Title Microsoft
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:29 PM

A MUST READ: Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview

Came across this very good paper on Microsoft .NET RIA Services. “.NET RIA Services address the complexity of building n-tier applications through framework, tools and services. Framework components support prescriptive patterns for writing application
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Friday, March 20, 2009 6:04 PM

NEWS: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Well, old news really since it was announced 3 days ago by Scott Guthrie during MIX09, but here is a link to the bits . Here is a MIX09 session on Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM , Joel Reyes
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Friday, March 20, 2009 3:36 PM

READERS COMMENTS: performance of EF vs. LINQ to SQL

Original Comment: “ EF ObjectQueries seem to create some pretty poorly performing queries compared to LINQ in my experience. 2. If you are saying Entity SQL performs really well, what are you comparing this to, ObjectQueries or other data access technologies
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Friday, March 20, 2009 10:35 AM

Talking Point: to ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 (CTP1)

A while back we hovered over ADO.NET Data Services. Last night I thought it would be good to take the opportunity to review the 1.5 CTP1. This Talking Point covers enhancements made on both the server and client APIs. Server Enhancements Row count Server-side
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:23 PM

Final CTP for Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) v1.3 Released

The final March 2009 CTP for the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (v1.3) has now been recently released. Head on over to Paul Andrew's Blog (Paul is a Technical Product Manager on the SharePoint Team) for a rundown of the new capabilities
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:53 PM

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Introduction to Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.2 for Developers - Raleigh, NC - March 26, 2009

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners Presenting Introduction to Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.2 for Developers Where Date/Time Registration Link Address Raleigh/Durham, NC Thurs. March 26th (6:00-8:00PM) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407769&Culture=en-US
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:50 PM

Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web - March 25, 2009 Reston, VA

Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web Where Date/Time Registration Link Address Reston, VA Wednesday, March 25th (6:00 - 8:00PM) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=CA-62-B8-9E-67-44-86-36-DF-86-44-26-89-88-04-8A&Culture=en-US
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Monday, March 16, 2009 12:00 PM

Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part II)

In Part I   we saw how WCF has been extended to support RESTful services natively! We discussed how the primitive constructs of the web (HTTP Methods) enable communication patterns that are simple yet very flexible and powerful. We saw how WCF serves
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:55 PM

All the 10-4’s

Visual Studio 10, Framework 4… New 10-4 Videos Now available from the Framework and Tools Evangelism Team! 10-4 is a new video podcast created by the Visual Studio Evangelism team in DPE which will take a look at a different capability of Visual Studio
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:36 PM

InfoStrat releases a Virtual Earth control for both WPF and Surface to CodePlex

I’ve been waiting for this day to happen for a LONG TIME .  I’ve been working with WPF, Virtual Earth, and Surface for quite a while now.  If you’ve followed my blog, you’ve seen some hacked up samples showing various ways of getting Virtual
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:35 PM

Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint v2.0 Released

Hi Software and Microsoft recently released version 2.0 of the Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint. The intent of this solution is to provide a accessible development framework for Office SharePoint Server environments. Key features of AKS v2.0 include:
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
Monday, March 09, 2009 10:54 AM

Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part I)

An expanded Web Programming Model is now available in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 3.5. This Web Programming Model allows developers to build Services using a RESTful architecture. Services built using this new architecture approach is growing
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Friday, March 06, 2009 7:31 PM

NEWS: Astoria “Offline” Alpha Preview

This feature enables developers to add data-synchronization behavior between a client application and an ADO.NET Data Service, allowing the client to be offline without an interruption in use. The offline project is _very_ early, and is still largely
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Friday, March 06, 2009 7:23 PM

NEWS: ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1

In case you haven't seen this... here it is, check it out http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam/archive/2009/03/01/announcing-ado-net-data-services-v1-5-ctp1.aspx   Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: ado.net data services
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Friday, March 06, 2009 6:49 PM

Webcast Schedule for April 2009

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S OWNER TARGET AUDIENCE April 08 , 2009 14:00 -15:00 EST Webcast Understanding the ADO.NET Entity Framework Diego Vega Joel Reyes Developers April 22 ,
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:51 AM

10-4: Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0

From Brian Keller, Drew Robbins, Jason Olson, Jonathan Carter Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 In this eleventh episode of 10-4 , we introduce another new feature of ASP.NET WebForms 4.0: Routing. The ASP.NET Routing engine
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:10 PM

Resources: IE8 Content

  Tons of content on IE8!! I came across this internal email and through it would be of interest to you as well, so here it is: Channel 9 videos : http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/IE-8-On-the-Path-to-Web-Standards-Compliance-ACID-2-Test-Pass-Complete/
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:28 PM

NEWS: ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 is Out!

This release is representative of the RTM release that’s around the corner… Key changes: Removal of System.Web.Routing.dll and System.Web.Abstractions.dll both of which are in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Server Install mode – as the descriptions implies
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 10:33 AM

PARTNER SHOWCASE: Northrop Grumman - Innovating for the War Fighter with Microsoft Surface

I’ve been a Developer Evangelist for 3+ years now.  For the first 3 years, I spent the majority of my time focusing on delivering public presentations at conferences, for webcasts/screencasts, onsite at customer facilities, and at local community
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Monday, March 02, 2009 12:42 AM

Talking Points: ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC)

Much has been written about ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC, but my Talking Points would be incomplete without it. In fact the first Talking Point was on a subject central to the ASP.NET MVC architecture: Routing . MVC pattern is new to our Microsoft Web Dev
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