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Changing times and changing companies

Its hard to believe that its been almost nine years ago that I started at Microsoft. It seems such a long time ago. During that time I have had the opportunity to be part of some amazing things. But l...

SharePoint for Developers Part 2

Ramp Up (www.MyRampUp.com) is a free online learning program for developers. Weve just launched a new track: SharePoint for Developers, Part 2. This track, along with the other currently offered ones ...

Announcing the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0

This is always something that I hear people ask for The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple tool that installs Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS, Visual Web Developer 2008 Expre...

Introducing the Syndicated Client Experiences Starter Kit Beta & Reader Beta SDK!

This looks pretty cool We are very excited to take the wraps off of our newest addition to .Net client development a Starter Kit designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and c...

A Quick Look at XML Literals

XML literals are new to Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. Simply put they enable the incorporation of XML directly into application code. Essentially this allows a quick way to create XML obj...

Tabbing within Visual Studio

Tabs are everywhere within Visual Studio. By default each time a new window is opened a new tab is creates. Many times a lot of tabs can make moving around quickly seem a bit difficult. Within V...

Have you checked out Ramp Up?

Ramp Up has just launched a brand-new learning track today: SharePoint for Developers, Part I. This track, along with the other currently offered tracks (eg, Visual Studio 2008), teaches the important...

Give us feedback on Silverlight 2

Via Brian Give us feedback on Silverlight 2 Weve put together a short survey to help us improve our Silverlight features and API. Spend 15 minutes and tell us what is good and bad about Silverlight so...

A quick look at the lambda expression

The lambda expression is new to Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2008 and part of the new Linq support. A lambda expression is an anonymous function that can contain expressions and statements. Basicall...

Got a few minutes for feedback?

  Application installation and patching: http://survey.confirmit.com/wix/p761108781.aspx?htype=1   The Windows engineering teams are putting together plans for how application installation a...

Create COOL implementations of Search API 2.0 Beta + Ads

In case you haven't seen this -   During the keynote at PubCon in Las Vegas we announced Project Silk Road which is a collection of services, including a new version of the Live Search APIs for d...

Windows Forms Creating an access key

Question: I am new to Visual Basic and wanted to create an access key for my Windows Form application. How can I do that? Answer: By definition an access key is an underlined character in the te...

Taking on SQL 2008

Whether you are learning new features, increasing job performance and productivity or deepening your expertise, Microsoft Learning can help get you prepared and make you an expert. Microsoft Learning ...

Cool Site of the Day

Very cool site I just checked out at www.dotnetvideos.net. They have over 100+ videos under 10 minutes duration dedicated to .net developers around the world.  All of the training videos are visu...

Ready for Visual Studio 2008?

Some great stuff to check out - Whether you are learning new features, improving expertise, increasing your productivity or just staying ahead of the curve, Microsoft Learning can help you get up to s...

AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft

Very cool AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft is an open-source development tool aimed to bring the Visual Studio experience to building World of Warcraft addons. This is the first release of the proj...

Try Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of...

Adding an InfoPath Editor Control to a Windows Form

One of the new features of InfoPath 2007 is the ability to integrate the InfoPath editor into Windows Forms. Within Visual Studio this is done using the Microsoft.InfoPath.FormControl.dll assemb...

Creating an icon in the system tray

A standard part of many Windows forms applications is the system tray icon. Most commonly it is used to provide an application or event status. Tray icons are added to an application using the N...

New Patterns & Practices Guides

Microsoft patterns & practices recently released the following two guides: patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation ServerThis guide shows you how to make the m...

Architecture Journal Reader

A great download to check out - We're proud to announce a new offline experience for the Journal, called the "Architecture Journal Reader." Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in rec...

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features a...

Announcing: The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster

Announcing: The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster. This very cool poster contains commonly used namespaces and types of the .Net Framework. Should make a great sto...

Presence Samples

I have been looking for some good example of using presence programmatically and ran across these   Microsoft Presence Sample for Smart Client Applications The Microsoft Presence Sampl...

Exploring SPS 2007 and Workflow

Nobody should argue that companies depend on the flow of information and documents. Often these business processes depend on the participation of people to complete a task that ultimately contri...

June CTP for Sandcastle

So I am a little late but if you havent taken a look at - Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML...

InfoPath 2007 and the Multi Select List Box

The Multiple Selection List box is a new control for InfoPath 2007. As the name implies this control enables form users to select more than one option when completing a form. In this example we...

How To: Live Search 101

I have recently started playing with some of the Live Services available at http://dev.live.com. There are some pretty interesting Web Services they have been putting together. I started playing...

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs 2.0

Line and Shape controls, PrintForm component, and Printer Compatibility Library Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs 2.0 includes a new set of Line and Shape controls and updated versions of the tw...

Developing Mobile Applications with the Compact Framework 2.0

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Download the PDF here  Overview Cellular p...

Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0

v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Download the PDF Mobile Web Development with AS...

ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP

This CTP contains updates to the ADO.NET Entity Framework since the Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Beta 1 release, including changes in Object Services, Query, Entity Client, and the Entity Data Mod...

No BizTalk Experience Required

Via Paul This is for .NET developers who are trying out Windows Workflow Foundation and want a server environment to host workflows. The idea is that you create a workflow model in Visual Studio using...

Micheles CardSpace Samples

Check out Micheles CardSpace samples from TechEd available here...

Multi Targeting with Visual Studio 2008 (Beta)

I have been working  with the VS 2008 Beta and a really cool feature is the ability to target your .NET applications for the .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5. Its actually quite easy to do it...

CardSpace Control for ASP.NET

Dominick Baier at LeastPrivilege has made some fantastic progress in  his CardSpace control for Microsoft ASP.NET. Very cool stuff. Check it out here...

So you want to know what CardSpace is?

A quick overview of CardSpace for Architects and Developers Infrastructure Operators...

John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos: BizTalk Services Explained

Check out the cool BizTalk Services video from Channel 9: ?In this video, James Conard talks with John Shewchuk and Dennis Pilarinos about BizTalk Services.  In the simplest definition, BizT...

Microsoft eScrum Version 1.0

eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool for Scrum built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. It provides multiple ways to interact with your Scrum project:...

Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. This download is a set of 10 Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Fo...

WCF Virtual Lab

  A Server Scenario Lab with Windows Communication Foundation Virtual Lab   This MSDN Virtual Lab is built on Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 3.0. It provides an overvie...

CardSpace Demo Video

Christian has a great new demo video using Windows CardSpace to provide a secure way to authenticate and register your users for your ASP.NET Web Application. This is based on his Visual Studio 2005 T...

Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit

This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates using Windows Workflow Foundation for simple task oriented workflow in an ASP.NET web application in a minimal number of lines of co...

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2

   Today marks an important milestone for BizTalk Server customers and the BizTalk team the release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2.  As you know, the product team has a great history...

Configuring IIS7 to support Windows CardSpace sites

Check out the new screencast that Richard just posted on "Windows CardSpace Simple Demo Walkthrough".   In this screencast, he walks through the processes of configuring IIS7 on Windows Vista t...

Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation for the .NET Compact Framework Messaging Stack

Mark has a great post on the basics of WCF for the Compact Framework. Well worth the read! <<Check it out here>>...

Visual Studio 2005 ToolBox for Windows CardSpace

Very cool new toolbox sample by Christian Arnold The Visual Studio 2005 ToolBox for Windows CardSpace enables an easy way to use Windows CardSpace in your ASP.NET 2.0 Web-Application to register and v...

BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March Community Technology Preview is released

Paul talks about the March 2007 CTP for our BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation was released today. BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is an add on for Windows Workflow Foundation i...

Check out the Windows CardSpace Simple Demo Walkthrough

  Windows CardSpace is a new feature of Microsoft Windows that helps you better manage and control your personal information and helps shield you from many forms of phishing attack as well a...

Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - March 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

In case you hadnt heard. We have just released the March CTP for Orcas and the .NET Framework 3.5. Check out the VPC with the installed bits from here. As with all CTPs it is important to provide any ...

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