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Dr. Z's Blog

Dr. "Z" lives in Northern Virginia with his family. He tries to stay in touch with developers and architects in the Mid-Atlantic region.

October 2008 - Posts

ASP.NET MVC (Beta Release) Applications in Production
While Microsoft ASP.NET MVC is still in Beta release, it comes with a go-live license. I'm sure many enthusiastic developers and architects will create very creative ASP.NET MVC apps and run them on the Internet or intranet down the road. Luckily I came Read More...
jQuery and AJAX Support in ASP.NET MVC Applications
As ScottGu announed in his blog a month ago, Microsoft will be shipping jQuery (a lightweight open source JavaScript library) with Visual Studio going forward and extend Microsoft product support to jQuery later 2008. jQuery will be used to implement Read More...
TechDays DC Event Contents
Thanks so much for attending the TechDays DC event, " A Day of REST with WCF, ADO.NET Data Services, and ASP.NET MVC." As I promised, I uploaded the the PPT slides from today's sessions and they are available for download. Note: I will post the RESTful Read More...
Windows Azure -- Microsoft's Cloud Computing Platform and Services
This week at the Professional Developer Conference Microsoft announced the new cloud operating system "Windows Azure". You can find much more details at the Windows Azure site. My colleagure Anand Iyer wrote a nice blog about Windows Azure and included Read More...
MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) in DC, Jan. 16, 2009
MSDN Developer Conference is a local version of the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference. This one-day event has three tracks, with 4 sessions in each track. To find the details, visit the MDC site and register today. Experience Microsoft’s Cloud Read More...
Live Services Jumpstart 2009 in DC, Nov 13, 2008 - Nov 14, 2008
Join us at the Live Services Jumpstart event in a city nearest to you to explore the full breadth of the consumer components of the Microsoft ‘Software + Services’ Services – Live Services – in several in-depth technical sessions, hands-on code labs and Read More...
How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2
Pete Brown has put together a two-part series on how to create Facebook Silverlight applications. You can find details at Part I & Part II . Read More...
SharePoint 2007 Best Practices Seminar Series at Reston, VA
Join RDA for a complimentary 1/2-day seminar that will feature: An overview of best practices utilizing the MOSS 2007 platform Proven tips on deployment and customization A discussion of server set-up to optimize performance Advice on management and governance Read More...
MSDN Mid Atlantic Roadshow at Hampton Roads, VA on 11/20/08
Microsoft invites you to attend: MSDN Mid Atlantic Roadshow Creating Web Applications with Microsoft Web Technologies MSDN Roadshow is a series of local Microsoft MSDN events for developers, architects and to some extent designers and database professionals. Read More...
ASP.NET MVC Beta Released!
ASP.NET MVC Beta has just been released and it comes with a Go-Live license that allows you to deploy ASP.NET MVC applications in production environments. Scott Guthrie and Phil Haack have put out two excellent blogs, explaining new features and improvements Read More...
Get cashback from Microsoft Live Search!
Microsoft announced the Live Search Cashback program back in May 2008, and I realized a $200 saving from the program last night when I used Microsoft Live search and purchased an item from eBay using PayPal. All I had to do was search for an item that Read More...
BarCamps in the Mid-Atlantic Region
The Washington DC's BarCamp recently held an event, or "unconference" as it is called by attendees. Kim Hart of Wahstington Post wrote an article " Twittering Types Share Ideas Offline " about the event: "About 120 self-described geeks got together Saturday Read More...
Grady Booch on Software Archcitecture
IEEE Software is delighted to introduce a new regular podcast by Grady Booch. Grady has recorded all of his On Architecture columns from IEEE Software. The recordings are available at http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitecture Grady Read More...
Silverlight 2 is officially released to web!
Download the latest version of Silverlight 2 RTW (2.0.31005.0) at http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ You can find additional detail on Silverlight and what's new in Silverlight 2 from Tim Heuer's blog and debugging Silverlight applications on Mac from Read More...
jQuery, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC
Good news for javascript fans. Microsoft has recently announced that it is going to make jQuery part of its official devevelopment platform. That is, JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. Read More...
Join us for a 3-day TechDays event in the DC area, Oct. 28-30, 2008
If technology is the backbone of your business, you won't want to miss out on the TechDays '08 event in Washington DC. Filled with exclusive product information presented by insider experts, TechDays '08 will show developers, IT professionals, IT executives, Read More...
Microsoft's .NET framework on Linux, Mono 2.0, Released
Novell's Mono 2.0, an implementation of the .NET framework on Linux, has just been released. According to the Mono project leader Miguel de Icaza , the latest release supports most used .NET features, thus leaving some features including WPF unsupported. Read More...
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