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Web-based mapping tool gets government data via API from OGDI: http://visualfusion.cloudapp.net

Microsoft partner IDV Solutions has created a terrific mapping overlay tool that can get map data from any KML source. Since OGDI natively emits KML, its a great demonstration of web standards enabli...

WPF Chart Controls!!!

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. YES!  WPF officially has charting controls now:).  Theres a new release of the WPF Toolkit: WPF Toolkit - June 2009 Release Bug fixes PLUS CHART CON...

WEBCAST: Microsoft and IDV Solutions at Work for the Enterprise

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. Jerry asked me to help spread the word. Visual Fusion from IDV Solutions combines with Bing Maps, SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies to create a vis...

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners Presenting: Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative Cloud Computing, REST, AJAX, CSS, oh my! - June 24, 2009 - Reston, VA

Speakers Marc Schweigert, Developer Evangelist  James Chittenden, User Experience Evangelist Vlad Vinogradsky, Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Evangeli...

SnagL: Visualizing Government Data using Silverlight

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. My job at Microsoft is to focus on developers building software for the U.S. Government (directly or indirectly).  When talking to folks about Silverlight,...

Education data set now on OGDI (http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.net)

The OGDI sample site now contains education data from the Federal Education Budget Project sponsored by the New America Foundation. In this case, we just re-hosted the data that they already have for...

Win a Govie Award Submit an Innovative Gov 2.0 Application

Build innovative applications and help make transparent, collaborative and open government a reality! Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase is scheduled to take place on Sept. 8 in Washington, D.C., in conjunction w...

Talking Points: Building App Using .NET Workflow

Windows Workflow Foundation Windows Workflow Foundation first shipped as part of .NET Framework 3.0, and allows you to add workflow capabilities to your applications. Workflow can be described as the...

Microsoft Application Guides DoD Through Earned Value Management Compliance

To help the Department of Defense (DoD) and its contractors streamline compliance with earned value management (EVM) reporting requirements, Microsoft today announced a Project 2007 application tai...

Whats new in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS2010 Beta 1?

Comprehensive whitepaper for Web Development: http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/ -Marc...

Entity Framework 4.0 Sneak Previews

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. If you havent been keeping up on the ADO.NET team blog, but you want to get up to speed with whats coming in the next release of the Entity Framework (.NET 4.0)...

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners Presenting: Microsoft Open Government Data Initiative Cloud Computing, REST, AJAX, CSS, oh my! - May 27, 2009 - Reston, VA

Speakers Marc Schweigert, Developer Evangelist  James Chittenden, User Experience Evangelist Vlad Vinogradsky, Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Evangeli...

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Presenting Azure: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus - West Columbia, SC May 28, 2009

Speaker Joel Reyes, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team   Register today!! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.a...

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Presenting Azure: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus - Raleigh, NC June 18, 2009

Speaker Joel Reyes, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team   Register today!! http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.a...

Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. I just published a Channel 9 interview with Josh Wall and Josh Blake from InfoStrat about their Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Surface controls that ...

Using code analysis again

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. This week marks my 5 year anniversary at Microsoft.  Five years ago, I stopped being a real developer and became an evangelist.  Ok, I started with a ...

Talking Points: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus (Part II)

In Part I we discussed the Service and Internet Bus as well as some of the connectivity challenges associated with addressing individual services traversing multiple network boundaries and protocols. ...

NEWS: PHP SDK for Windows Azure Released

We just posted the announcement: Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure and much more! In short we announced today: The PHP SDK for Windows Azure: The goal of the SDK is to provide high-level abstract...

PART I: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus

What is a Service Bus? The Service Bus is a common pattern in Enterprises. It is never just one product despite some products that position themselves as such - but rather a composed set of compone...

Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP - 32 bit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0178e2ef-9da8-445e-9348-c93f24cc9f9d&displaylang=en Joel Reyes...

ShawnWildermuth: Supporting ScreenReaders in Silverlight

http://wildermuth.com/2009/05/10/Supporting_ScreenReaders_in_Silverlight Nice quick post with a video...

FREE .NET / C# Tutorial from pluralsight

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. http://www.pluralsight.com/main/olt/Course.aspx?n=dotnet-csharp-tutorial I tend to steer away from making recommendations on training companies and books unles...

Visual Studio 2010 [Functional UI Testing]

Awesome new feature to enable easy yet powerful UI Testing for your projects! check the channel9 10-4 Episode!   Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: Joel Reyes,10-4 Channel9...

Microsoft announces the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI)

Today Microsoft announced the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI).  The goal of OGDI is to encourage the publishing and use of public government data.  See the press release here What's ...

jQuery & MicrosoftAjax happy together

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. Ive been using jQuery quite a bit lately.  Ive grown very fond of it.  At the same time, I have been digging into ASP.NET AJAX 4.0.  I just read ...

Announcing MS Virtual Labs - VIDEOS

A while back I started working with the Microsoft Virtual Labs team to explore the possibility of turning their labs into videos that customers could watch BEFORE doing the labs. The video version can...

Tool: Code Rush Xpress 9.1 Beta

59 Refactorings, 17 consume-first providers, and a  lot more! Marc Schweigert send us this link I don't think he blogged about it. It is really cool (watch the video!) I think a lot of you will...

MVVM Toolkit for WPF

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. The Model View ViewModel pattern has become very popular for building WPF applications.  Until now, there wasnt much guidance/tooling from Microsoft to hel...

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on Silverlight 3

NOTE: This was cross posted from here Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry to put you in the tough position of choosing between two MVPs (Sahil Malik and Pete Brown).  We try to prevent ...

Albany Developer Conference Content

To all attendances to the event, THANK YOU! We hope you found it informative. The links below contain all the PPTs and one sample app that illustrate an end-to-end scenario for the Virtual Earth talk!...

Developer Dinner for Partners: What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 - Reston, VA April 29, 2009

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners Presenting What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3     Where Date/Time Registration Link Address Reston, VA Wed. April 29th (6:00-8:00...

Azure Services Training Kit - April Update - Released

The April Update of the Azure Services Training Kit has released and is ready for download. Below is a brief overview (taken from the download site) of what's included in the latest release. Overview...

New Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 released!!

Whats in this Release?   Included in this release are three new hands-on labs covering: -          Interception (with Policy Injection Applicati...

Trip Report from Gov 2.0 Camp

Over 500 techies, policy makers, civil servants, vendors, media and academia gathered at Duke Ellington School on March 27-28 for the first ever Gov 2.0 Camp unconference. Lets get two explanations ou...

Talking Points: Computing Forecast: Cloud[s]!

Nothing like a sunny day with clouds! With the arrival of Spring I look forward to awesome sunny days but it wouldn't be perfect without Clouds! and in terms of computing forecast, the future is ju...

RALEIGH: Developers Dinner

If you attended the Dev Dinner in Raleigh on Thursday, March 26, 2009 then here is the link to download the material I used. I have also included additional resources below from my peer Marc Schweiger...

A MUST READ: Silverlight Deployment Guide

Everything you ever needed to know about deploying Silverlight within your enterprise. David Tesar wrote this paper I encourage you to check it out. Joel Reyes Technorati Tags: silverlight deployme...

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on Expression Web and Designing with Standards

NOTE: This was cross posted from here Thanks to everyone who attended last night!  You can find the deck and demo code here: Heres the essential links I gave towards the end of the talk: - D...

MIX09: Building Accessible RIAs in Silverlight

NOTE: This was cross posted from here My team focuses on US Government customers and partners.  To say that building accessible applications is important for our customers/partners would be a hu...

CODEPLEX: Most Popular Projects

Most Popular Projects TraceMyNet: a network tracing tool Rawr Silverlight Toolkit AJAX Control Toolkit ASP.NET Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Microsoft SQL Server Pr...

DevDinnerOnDemand: Whats new in ASP.NET 4.0

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. I decided not to publish the last Developer Dinner in favor of pointing you to newer sessions last weeks MIX 09 conference.  These sessions basically cover...

A MUST READ: Microsoft .NET RIA Services Overview

Came across this very good paper on Microsoft .NET RIA Services. .NET RIA Services address the complexity of building n-tier applications through framework, tools and services. Framework componen...

READERS COMMENTS: performance of EF vs. LINQ to SQL

Original Comment: EF ObjectQueries seem to create some pretty poorly performing queries compared to LINQ in my experience. 2. If you are saying Entity SQL performs really well, what are you comparing ...

NEWS: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Well, old news really since it was announced 3 days ago by Scott Guthrie during MIX09, but here is a link to the bits. Here is a MIX09 session on Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC Joel Rey...

Talking Point: to ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 (CTP1)

A while back we hovered over ADO.NET Data Services. Last night I thought it would be good to take the opportunity to review the 1.5 CTP1. This Talking Point covers enhancements made on both the server...

Final CTP for Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (VSeWSS) v1.3 Released

The final March 2009 CTP for the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint (v1.3) has now been recently released.  Head on over to Paul Andrew's Blog (Paul is a Technical Product Manager on th...

Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web - March 25, 2009 Reston, VA

Microsoft Developer Dinner Presenting Design your ASP.NET Application with Standards using Expression Web     Where Date/Time Registration Link Address Reston, VA Wednesday, March...

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Introduction to Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.2 for Developers - Raleigh, NC - March 26, 2009

Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners Presenting Introduction to Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.2 for Developers     Where Date/Time Registration Link Address Raleigh/Durham, N...

Talking Points: WCF and RESTful Services (Part II)

In Part I  we saw how WCF has been extended to support RESTful services natively! We discussed how the primitive constructs of the web (HTTP Methods) enable communication patterns that are simple...

All the 10-4s

Visual Studio 10, Framework 4 New 10-4 Videos Now available from the Framework and Tools Evangelism Team! 10-4 is a new video podcast created by the Visual Studio Evang...

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