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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
This very cool poster contains commonly used namespaces and types of the .Net Framework. Should make a great sto...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Check out Micheles CardSpace samples from TechEd available here...
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...
Dominick Baier at LeastPrivilege has made some fantastic progress in his CardSpace control for Microsoft ASP.NET. Very cool stuff.
Check it out here...
A quick overview of CardSpace for
Architects and Developers
Infrastructure Operators...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mark has a great post on the basics of WCF for the Compact Framework. Well worth the read!
<<Check it out here>>...
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...
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...
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...
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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