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Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:50 PM

Open Government Brainstorm - Check it out and endorse an idea!

Participate in the Open Government Brainstorm that is occurring currently which the Obama Administration is sponsoring as part of the President’s Directive released last week. If you support the goals of having a participatory, collaborative and transparent
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Friday, May 22, 2009 12:59 PM

Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) complements Data.GOV

My colleague Vlad Vinogradsky, who is the lead architect on OGDI has done a great job of describing how OGDI relates to Data.GOV. 1) OGDI is a (government) data publishing solution not a place or location (data.gov today is a place that federates data
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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:41 AM

Microsoft Application Guides DoD Through Earned Value Management Compliance

To help the Department of Defense (DoD) and its contractors streamline compliance with earned value management (EVM) reporting requirements, Microsoft today announced a Project 2007 application tailored for Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) standards.
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Friday, May 22, 2009 11:09 AM

CANCELLED: Developer Dinner in Reston, Va

The facility in Reston, Virginia had some unexpected audio/video failures.  Because of this, the developer dinner for next week has been cancelled.  I am really sorry for this inconvenience.  We will reschedule ASAP once the audio/video
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:40 PM

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Presenting Azure: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus - Raleigh, NC June 18, 2009

Speaker Joel Reyes, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team Register today!! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416713&Culture=en-US Date: June 18, 2009
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:56 PM

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Presenting Azure: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus - West Columbia, SC May 28, 2009

Speaker Joel Reyes, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team Register today!! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032416710&Culture=en-US Date: May 28, 2009
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:34 PM

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners Presenting: Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative – Cloud Computing, REST, AJAX, CSS, oh my! - May 27, 2009 - Reston, VA

UPDATE: The dinner has been cancelled.  Details here.  We will reschedule as soon as possible.  I have removed the registration link to minimize confusion. Speakers Marc Schweigert, Developer Evangelist  James Chittenden, User Experience
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:19 AM

Entity Framework 4.0 Sneak Previews

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . If you haven’t been keeping up on the ADO.NET team blog , but you want to get up to speed with what’s coming in the next release of the Entity Framework (.NET 4.0), then now is the time to start monitoring their
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:11 AM

What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS2010 Beta 1?

Comprehensive whitepaper for Web Development: http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/ - Marc
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Monday, May 18, 2009 3:30 PM

Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I just published a Channel 9 interview with Josh Wall and Josh Blake from InfoStrat about their Windows Presentation Foundation ( WPF ) and Surface controls that make integrating Virtual Earth 3D a breeze. 
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:56 AM

NEWS: PHP SDK for Windows Azure Released

“ We just posted the announcement: Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more! In short we announced today: The PHP SDK for Windows Azure : The goal of the SDK is to provide high-level abstractions that enable PHP developers to interoperate readily
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:07 AM

Talking Points: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus (Part II)

In Part I we discussed the Service and Internet Bus as well as some of the connectivity challenges associated with addressing individual services traversing multiple network boundaries and protocols. Here we will discuss the messaging infrastructure and
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:44 PM

Using code analysis again…

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . This week marks my 5 year anniversary at Microsoft.  Five years ago, I stopped being a “real developer” and became an evangelist.  Ok, I started with a short stint as a SQL / BizTalk Technology Specialist
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:09 PM

Virtual Earth / MapDotNet webcast

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Interested in learning how to build Virtual Earth solutions and lowering the amount of custom code you need to write?  Have a look at the upcoming webcast Jerry just blogged about: Microsoft Virtual Earth May
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:15 PM

Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP - 32 bit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0178e2ef-9da8-445e-9348-c93f24cc9f9d&displaylang=en Joel Reyes
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:28 AM

Talking Points: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus (Part I)

What is a Service Bus? The Service Bus is a common pattern in Enterprises. It is never just one product – despite some products that position themselves as such - but rather a composed set of components used for application integration. For example, Active
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Monday, May 11, 2009 10:56 AM

FREE .NET / C# Tutorial from pluralsight

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . http://www.pluralsight.com/main/olt/Course.aspx?n=dotnet-csharp-tutorial I tend to steer away from making recommendations on training companies and books unless I have actually been through the training or read
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Monday, May 11, 2009 8:33 AM

ShawnWildermuth: Supporting ScreenReaders in Silverlight

http://wildermuth.com/2009/05/10/Supporting_ScreenReaders_in_Silverlight Nice quick post with a video…
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:06 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Technology Conference: HARRISBURG, PA

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:00 AM - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 8:30 AM We invite you to join us for a day of developer-oriented technical sessions, featuring the Microsoft Azure Services Platform, ADO.NET
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:30 PM

Visual Studio 2010 [Functional UI Testing]

Awesome new feature to enable easy yet powerful UI Testing for your projects! check the channel9 10-4 Episode!   Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: Joel Reyes , 10-4 Channel9
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:19 PM

Microsoft announces the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI)

Today Microsoft announced the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI). The goal of OGDI is to encourage the publishing and use of public government data. See the press release here More information on Microsoft’s Open Government Data Initiative can be
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:55 PM

Tool: Code Rush Xpress 9.1 Beta

59 Refactorings, 17 consume-first providers, and a  lot more! Marc Schweigert send us this link I don't think he blogged about it. It is really cool (watch the video!) I think a lot of you will appreciate this tool. More info   Joel Reyes
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:06 PM

Announcing MS Virtual Labs - VIDEOS

A while back I started working with the Microsoft Virtual Labs team to explore the possibility of turning their labs into videos that customers could watch BEFORE doing the labs. The video version can contextualize the labs and provide for a Watch Before
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:52 AM

jQuery & MicrosoftAjax “happy together”

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . I’ve been using jQuery quite a bit lately.  I’ve grown very fond of it.  At the same time, I have been digging into ASP.NET AJAX 4.0.  I just read a post from Bertand Le Roy that made me smile. 
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Monday, May 04, 2009 9:37 AM

MVVM Toolkit for WPF

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . The Model View ViewModel pattern has become very popular for building WPF applications.  Until now, there wasn’t much guidance/tooling from Microsoft to help you get started with MVVM.  The WPF team just
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