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

March 2009 - Posts

Windows Azure: .NET Services March CTP Update
This March CTP release makes further enhancements to support for web standards and interoperability, and makes it simpler for developers to connect cloud applications and services across platforms. Specifically, this CTP is introducing expanded support Read More...
Mobile Tagging: A Mobile Solution that Turns Color Codes to Useful Information
Do you know you can get a digital business card by using the camera on your mobile phone to read a color symbol? Or, find more information on a product and service by visiting a company's web site from your mobile phone without typing the url address? Read More...
Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing UG Presentation
Scott Zimmerman delivered a presentation " Understanding Windows Azure (Compute & Storage)" at our second Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing user group meeting. You can download his presentation at the link below. Look forward to seeing you at our next Read More...
IE8 is Officially Released
Be the first to download it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . It is faster, safer and better... Read More...
Web SuperPreview - A Super Solution for Testing Browser Compatibility
At MIX09 Microsoft announced the availability of a new product named Expression Web SuperPreview (currently in beta). It basically allows designers and developers to compare how a web application renders in different versions of the IE browser and fix Read More...
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Microsoft Web Platform Installer makes installing the latest components of the Microsoft web platform and open source ASP.NET and PHP applications much easy. One nice thing about the installer is that it lists all required components for an applicaiton Read More...
Silverlight 3 Beta 1 is Available
Thanks to ianwij for commenting this latest info at the mix09 site, http://visitmix.com/News/For-the-Audience-at-Home Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 SDK Beta 1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d09b6ecf-9a45-4d99-b752-2a330a937bc4 Read More...
MIX09 is Happening Today at Las Vegas
Interested to find out what's new with Silverlight 3 and hear what leading web designers and developers have to share, check out speakers and their sessions at MIX09 web site at https://content.visitmix.com/2009/speakers/default.aspx If you are not attending Read More...
Learn New Features of IE8 in 15 Minutes
Watch these videos and learn new and enhanced IE8 features such as Accelerators, Web Slices, Compatibility, Security and Privacy in a fun way. Read More...
SQL Data Services Supports Full Relational Database Capabilities
SQL Data Services as one of the key developer services of the Azure Services Platform will deliver full relational database capabilities as a service in the cloud, supporting Transact-SQL (T-SQL) over TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol. Detail at SQL Read More...
Adding Microsoft Silverlight to your Java Applications
A France-based company Soyatec has just released a Eclipse Tools for Silverlight that enables Java developers to use the Eclipse platform to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight runtime platform. More info on the tool and download Read More...
Is "Private Clouds" of Windows Azure a Possiblity ?
The answer now is YES. Steven Martin, senior director for developer platform product management at Microsoft, just made the announcement in an interview. Read more detail from the ComputerWorld article " Microsoft: Enterprises will be able to self-host Read More...
Silverlight Photo Gallery Wall Application at CodePlex
I just published a Photo Gallery Wall Application at CodePlex . The original version of Photo Gallery Wall was created by Jeff Paries and is available to view . Though it was based on Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 and JavaScript, it works in Silverlight 2. Read More...
Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight
Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0, including the Stock Trader Reference Implementation , is available to download at the MSDN and Codeplex site. The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you Read More...
Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group (MCC)
Understanding Windows Azure (Compute & Storage) Presenter: Scott Zimmerman at Microsoft After giving an overview of the Azure Services Platform, this session will focus on Windows Azure and demonstrate the Compute & Storage capabilities. We'll Read More...
Microsoft Enterprise Developer & Industry Solution Conference 2009
Please join us for the 7th annual Microsoft Enterprise Developer and Industry Solutions Conference 2009 where you will learn about solutions in Microsoft technologies relevant to the Financial Services and Health & Life Sciences industries, as well Read More...
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