Contagious Curiosity : Vista development

Free WPF training near LAX on April 24 and 25 – will you be there?

llangit — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:28:24 GMT

UI matters. Does yours look like this?

If you are interested in Windows Presentation Foundation development training delivered by two top-notch instructors, then check this event out, by registering here. If you are not a MS-partner, follow the instructions on the linked blog post. This event is targeted at all .NET developers, not just partners.

CodeRush Xpress for C#

llangit — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:11:17 GMT

I'm all for free developer productivity tools. Check this one out.

CodeRush Xpress for C#

I tell Geoff everything (again!)

llangit — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:07:34 GMT

Check out Geoffrey Emery's interview with me at PDC Underground.

Language Specialist Meets BI Expert Held together by Girl Geek power this and more with Lynn Langit

Getting your REST

llangit — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:53:09 GMT

Did you even know this was here? Pretty useful stuff - check it out.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) REST Starter Kit

Windows FireStarter | Dec 12th FREE Technical info for Developers and ITPros

llangit — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:00:09 GMT

My colleague, Mithun Dhar is running one of those great FireStarter events again. This time it's all about Windows - FREE technical content for Developers and ITPros. The coolest thing is that Mithun SIMULCASTS his Redmond-based events, so that you can just jump onto the Live Meeting if you can't make the trip to Redmond to attend the event live.

Here's the Registeration link for the Live Meeting version: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032396930&Culture=en-US

Check out Mithun's site for the agenda and speakers. Veni, Vidi, Velcro... : Windows FireStarter | Dec 12th (Friday)...

Oslo and SOA and more...

llangit — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:36:47 GMT

We launched a cool new site to help you understand and use real-world SOA (service-oriented architecture). I particularly like the section explaining Oslo. I also like the Solutions section. What do you think - is this site useful?

Microsoft SOA Products: Oslo

Cloud Computing and User Authentication

llangit — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:32:43 GMT

My colleague, Microsoft Architect Evangelist, David Chou, recently authored a very well-written explanation of this topic for the The Architecture Journal.

In particular I like his visual summary of authentication considerations.

Strong User Authentication on the Web

Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives

llangit — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:59:45 GMT

Buy an interesting book and help Katrina Survivors. The author, Sarah Ford, works on the CodePlex team at Microsoft.
Read her blog to get the full story - link below.

Sara Ford's WebLog : Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives

Cool PDC2008 Contests

llangit — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:58:11 GMT

The Professional Developer's Conference (Oct 27-30, 2008) is already my favorite public, Microsoft technical event because of it's pure geekiness - I mean where else will you find sessions like "Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio" or "Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing Resources" and get to hear presenters like Don (Box) and Anders (Hejlsberg)? Oh and there's this new Open Space thing being run by ubergeek himself, Jason.

All this goodness in my town and now fun contests too. Hey, why don't YOU enter one of these contests?

PDC2008 | Social | Contests

MSDN geekSpeak: Workflow Services in .NET 3.5 with Jon Flanders

llangit — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:46:55 GMT

Tune in to tomorrow's (June 18) geekSpeak w/MVP WF/WCF/BizTalk expert and all-around brainiac Jon Flanders. Oh btw, I happen to think he's one of the best technical instructors I've ever had the pleasure of hearing teach as well. I am looking forward to 'seeing' you on geekSpeak tomorrow.

MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Workflow Services in .NET 3.5 with Jon Flanders (Level 200)

The Code Trip is on it's way to SoCal, will you be there?

llangit — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:19:02 GMT

There are 5 places to catch the Code Trip in SoCal:

1. San Diego .NET Users Group 6p-9p on Tuesday, March 25^th - you must register here

2. Microsoft Irvine 6p-9p on Wednesday, March 26^th - you must register here

3. Cal State Fullerton 11a-1p (Engineering/Computer Science Building) Thursday, March 27^th

4. USC, Los Angeles, 5p-7p (Room 101 in the Salvatori Computer Science Building) Thursday, March 27^th

5. And a secret event sponsored by RedBull from 7p-10p Friday, March 28^th(You need to come to another event to get an invitation!)
**Tip from me - you won't be disappointed by this one :)

We will present different content at each event, so feel free to come to them all. Generally we'll be focusing on presenting examples of all of the interesting things that Microsoft announced at MIX08.

The Code Trip

Download LINQPad

llangit — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:30:34 GMT

Free, easy, useful and fun - get it!

Download LINQPad

SoCal Code Camp

llangit — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:10:42 GMT

Check out my pictures on faceBook of this weekend's SoCalCodeCamp and 'Sleepless in LA' for SharePoint developer's events.

Over 80 sessions and over 400 attendees - thanks to all for supporting these GREAT, local events!

SoCal Code Camp

MSDN geekSpeak - whole 'lotta shows for Dec 2007/Jan 2008

llangit — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:51:53 GMT

We've got great guest experts - join us live Wednesdays from 12 to 1pm PST for the virtual chalktalk - geekSpeak. If you can't make the live show, catch recorded shows at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/geekSpeak.

Dec12 - Brian Loesgen - BizTalk Adapters

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359319&Culture=en-US

Dec19 - Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359088&Culture=en-US

Jan 2 - Michele Leroux Bustamante - CardSpace – Why should you care? Who’s using it today and how?

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362458&Culture=en-US

Jan 9 - Kevin Goff - SQL Server 2008 Programming for Application Developers

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362462&Culture=en-US

Jan 16 - Kate Gregory - The Vista bridge for .NET programmers

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362711&Culture=en-US

Jan 23 - Paulo Morgado - The Web client software factory in action

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362714&Culture=en-US

Jan 30 - Jim Wilt - Best Practices for Private Security from a Public, Anonymous WSS 3.0 Site

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032362721&Culture=en-US

Visual Studio 2008 shipped today

llangit — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:54:01 GMT