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Matt Powell
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been out since June 6th and the number of sites that have taken advantage of the go-live license has taken off. In addition there are probably hundreds of sites that hav...
Okay, I work for Microsoft on Silverlight and specifically run the http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight site among other things. This was a big weekend for us since NBC decided to use Silverligh...
I've had the opportunity to talk to quite a few Web developers at conferences and so forth, and the good news is pretty much everyone has heard of Silverlight. The bad news is that quite a few h...
I just got back from vacation and right before I left my washing machine broke down. It wouldn't pump the water out of the tub (it was doing a constant beeping...and then when I unplugged it, le...
I had the opportunity during Mix07 to hand out posters that map out the capabilities and classes that are available in Silverlight 1.1. They were pretty popular so I think I handed out about 120...
Tonight we announced the official name of wpfe....Microsoft Silverlight! This is the beginning of a bunch of work my team has been doing which begins tonight at NAB 2007 and culminates wit...
I'm building the Virtual Machines for a number of the Hands On Labs that will be available at MIX and at TechEd.
I had not worked much with Virtual PC before and obviously when you are running two cop...
Scott announced that Microsoft joined the OpenAJAX Alliance today. I think this does a lot for Microsoft and for the AJAX community. We are certainly striving to be a big player in making ...
One of the cooler things about my relatively new position here on the Web Platform and Tools Marketing Team is that I'm deeply involved in the planning for a number of upcoming conferences. One ...
My wife was in an accident last night. Someone turned left on a two lane road right in front of her. She hit the back end of their car at a high enough speed that the air bags deployed.&nb...
Time is getting short for folks to sign-up for ASP.NET Connections from Nov. 6 - 9th in Las Vegas. Microsoft is promising some exciting announcements at the show and you will be able to attend t...
Scott announced today the future of our Ajax product plans. The stuff that has been code named "Atlas" in the previous CTPs is now solidifying into a real product with a real standard Mic...
It has been awhile since I've done much Web development. My technical focus for the last few years has been on Web services, which certainly qualifies as Web development, but is only a part of t...
Web service developers are often using virtual servers to setup a virtual netwrk of services. Well now you can get Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free.
-Matt...
A Bald Eagle just flew by my window. This is one of the benefits of living in the state of Washington. I was probably twelve years old before I saw my first wild bald eagle. Where di...
Jeffrey Schlimmer points out that these three specs have been submitted to the W3C.
-Matt...
Kirill Gavrylyuk and Jorgen Thelin talk about the WCF interop Plug-Fest on Channel 9 where WS-* implementations from different vendors are tested to make sure they work with one another. D...
William Tay just published the second article in a two part series on WCF over on The ServerSide.NET. This one on Securing WCF Services. Check it out.
-Matt...
If you haven't already heard, the WinFX January CTP released a couple days ago. You can find more information here.
-Matt...
I'm currently looking for a Content Strategist to work on my team here at MSDN. If you want to be the face of Microsoft to the developer community on the biggest developer web site in the world,...
With the Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 launch, MSDN made a few changes too...
For starters, with a new product like Visual Studio 2005 we assume that most people are eith...
The Oasis standards body created a technical committee today to finalize WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation and WS-SecurityPolicy. It's name: The Web Services Secure Exchange Technical Committee.&n...
Yasser Shohoud, Program Manager on the Windows Communication Foundation team, introduces the concept of WCF Channels which provides a mechanism for plugging in different transports for passing yo...
Jorgen pointed out that Oasis announced the formation of a technical committee on WS-TX yesterday. Then points out the article on CBDI that says great things about the WS-* effort and the whole ...
At MSDN, we are frantic about getting ready for the upcoming launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL 2005 and Biztalk 2006. The launch events are being organized, the VPs are all getting in line, Stev...
The latest Community Technology Preview of Web Services Enhancements 3.0 is now available. Yes, it is the October WSE 3.0 CTP. This will be the last CTP before the final release in Novembe...
Richard Turner and Payam Shodjai talk about the Windows Communication Foundation (you know, Indigo) on PodcastStudio.net. They talk about the Indigo Roadshow (one more date today and one more on...
One of my back teeth needed a crown so I went to the dentist about a month ago where they fitted me for the permanent crown, and put on a temporary one. As I'm laying there with my mouth open th...
If you didn't make it down to PDC in Los Angeles, or if you did and would still like to see the final slides and/or sample code from the presentations, head over the public Commnet web site (Comm...
MSN felt that they reached critical mass with their technologies for developers so during PDC they launched the MSN Developer Center. Included in their offering of developer technologies are Web...
The single biggest take-away I had from the PDC came from the first keynote. It was the reality that Microsoft will be releasing Windows Vista and Office 12 at the same time next year. ...
It's always fun to see how Microsoft gears up for the PDC. Here at MSDN we are scrambling like mad to stay on top of all the different technologies that are being announced and have content arou...
What a mouthful!
That's right, we've changed our name, our layout and what we talk about. The MSDN Web Services Developer Center is now the MSDN Web Services and Other Distributed Technologies D...
Two problems were found with the just published WSE 3.0 July CTP.
1. The Add Web Reference feature in the July CTP version of Visual Studio 2005 does not generate a WSE enabled prox...
The WSE team has put out an update to their earlier WSE 3.0 technical preview, but before you rush out and install it be aware that the new WSE 3.0 July CTP REQUIRES the July CTP of .NET Framewor...
One of the most common questions I'm getting here at TechEd is, "What's new in WSE 3.0"
The single biggest answer is that it is completely integrated with Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Fr...
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