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1 of 16431 | Coming to Melbourne soon! Microsoft Virtual Earth Platform and MapPoint Web Service - Meet the Experts - The Microsoft Virtual Earth team are holding an event on 31st July 2008 in Melbourne office (level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Melbourne) to provide you with all the information you require to integrate Virtual Earth into your business offering. Never before has it been so easy for companies to track assets, find customers, manage a mobile sales force & engineers or make sure customers find you before they find a competitor! Gain real insight into how map-enabling business applications can help create customer satisfaction and an optimised organisation. If you are a technologist you'll be amazed at just how easy it is to access and integrate Virtual Earth into an existing environment. ......

2 of 16431 | Open XML SDK Version 1 released - Version 1 of the Open XML SDK is now available for free download from MSDN. Here are the links: Open XML Formats SDK download link:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120908 Open XML Formats SDK documentation:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx MSDN Forum: Open XML Format SDK:http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1647&SiteID=1 What's New in the Open XML Format SDK 1.0:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc471858.aspx Changes in the April 2008 CTP:http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/3241.aspx Erika Ehrli's blog post has a great overview of this release of the SDK, with many related links to more info. Watch for more information coming......

3 of 16431 | TechEd Announcements and Sessions hitting the Internet - Tech Ed 2008 site Tech·Ed NA Developers Keynote delivered by Bill Gates Also, check out Denny Boynton and other DPE folks doing Tech Interviews. There's quite a who's-who list of folks, interviewers and interviewees. Microsoft PressPass TechEd Virtual Pressroom - with videos and written transcripts   DEV Week Announcements Silverlight Beta 2 Announced Windows Embedded Standard 2009 CTP   IT Pro Keynote Announcements Identity Lifecycle Manager “2” Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate .NET Configuration Service 2.0 Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Beta 1 Forefront Client Security and WS 2008 ...

4 of 16431 | WCF - What's the point? - eek! If you've heard be jabber about WCF, you'll know that one of the key points is the great interoperability story that WCF allows. Greg Leake and team have revved the StockTrader Interop Reference Application to version 2. If you care about interop, this is one to review... What's in 2.0? var addthis_pub = 'allandcp';...

5 of 16431 | Announcing the Open XML Format SDK 1.0 - We have great news for all Open XML developers who have waited so patiently for the fully supported release of the Open XML Format SDK 1.0. Today we published the final bits and online documentation on MSDN. You can get the SDK from the following locations: SDK download site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120908 MSDN SDK online documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb448854.aspx XML in Office Developer Portal: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/xml Open XML Formats Resource Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb265236.aspx What is the Open XML Format SDK? I talked about this before in previous blog entries, but for those of you who are not famil......

6 of 16431 | BizTalk and Systems Center: Operations Manager w/ BizTalk Management Pack - The BizTalk 2006 R2 Management Pack is a rewrite from the original pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM). It is designed around all of the new features of BizTalk 2006 R2 including RFID and EDI. The pack ties into SCOM very nicely and once...(read more)...

7 of 16431 | Biztalk Map Input xml Node Exists ? - Today I figured out the easiest way to Map a xml node to a destination node only if source node exists. if the source node doesnt exist, the destination node doesnt get created at all in the output xml. No need of any functoids. just Drag a map link from the source node to the destination node root. thats it . none of the child elements get mapped with dummy values if the root node itself is not present in the source xml....(read more)...

8 of 16431 | Dynamics CRM platform at PDC - The PDC team have been slowly releasing details of some of the sessions for the upcoming conference. Lo and behold there’s session up there for CRM.  It looks like we might have something to say at PDC about the next release.  Now would probably be a good time to register for PDC as it usually gets sold out pretty early. CRM/Dynamics: Developing Business Applications Developers will learn how to build business applications that integrate with Office applications, Windows Workflow Foundation, and SQL Server analytics through the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application foundation. This session will show developers how to develop business applications and package them to run as a......

9 of 16431 | Friday is the last day to submit late-breaking news for Balisage this August in Montreal. - Friday is the last day to submit late-breaking news for Balisage this August in Montreal. "Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It's all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) — in short, changing the world and the web through the power of marked-up information. It's an XML Conference. It's an XSL Conference. It's a conference about XSD, XQuery, ......

10 of 16431 | Implementing Enterprise Integration with Mule ESB - See how Mule ESB, a powerful open-source enterprise service bus, simplifies the implementation of enterprise integration scenarios....

11 of 16431 | Marsa : A 3D Approach to XML read data - WPF : An article on using 3D visualization of an RSS feed...

12 of 16431 | MSBuild Tasks for BizTalk Continuous Integration - If you store BizTalk application settings in Enterprise SSO database and adapt continuous integration you'll find this MS Build task useful. DeploySSOConfigStore task reads settings from XML configuration file and saves them to the SSO database. The...(read more)...

13 of 16431 | Northwind N-Tier Blueprint Application using WPF/WCF/LINQ to SQL - A blueprint application to showcase an enterprise standard architecture using the .NET 3.5 technologies like WPF, WCF, and LINQ to SQL...

14 of 16431 | Office 2007 Deployment Resources for End Users - I get asked a lot from customers about information to help them deploy Office 2007 to their organisation.  Not about the technical bits to make it happen - but the interesting part is about how to get the organisation and the people ready for the new Ribbon User Interface and new Open XML file formats. Here is a list of things I frequently send out, and if you are reading this you could very well have been sent this link in an email from me. The Best Hidden Gems Absolutely the best two major hidden gems you need to be  aware of related to End User Experience with Office 2007 are “Search Commands” and the “Enterprise Learning Framework”. 1) Search Commands – this is a free add in t......

15 of 16431 | Open XML SDK v1 Available From Today - Later today you'll be able to download the Open XML SDK v1 (currently the April CTP - make sure it's changed before you download!). This release includes a set of APIs designed for manipulating Open XML format documents at the part level (ie wrapping a lot of the lower level System.IO.Packaging APIs) as well as samples and documentation. There will be a CTP of v2 of the SDK available later in the summer which offers higher level APIs targetted at the specifica of WordprocessingML, SpreadsheetML etc Technorati Tags: office,open xml,sdk...

16 of 16431 | Podcasting Kit for SharePoint released to CodePlex - Microsoft have been using a Podcasting technology in house for a little while now called "Academy Mobile".  This system allows internal Microsoft staff to record, upload, subscribe, download and listen to internal Podcasts simply and securely from inside or outside the network boundaries. Microsoft have just announced the release of the framework behind this system to CodePlex, the open source community site.   The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint will enable customers, partners and anyone else using SharePoint to rapidly obtain a Podcasting capability within SharePoint. What Can You Do With Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS)?: Listen and watch audio/video p......

17 of 16431 | Rollin’ With Google AppEngine, 80’s Style - Building a web application with Google AppEngine is quick and easy, and you have the power of the google distributed content delivery network and the ‘BigTable’ database at your disposal. So what’s it good for? When I was 14 my Dad bought a Commodore 64. I poured over the manuals, taught myself C64 BASIC, bought C64 programming magazines and created a stack of audio cassettes full of unfinished projects. It was awesome fun being able to create sounds and make things happen on screen. Then about 2 years later I discovered girls and didn’t become interested in technology again for some years. I often wonder if I could have reached Bill Gates-like heights if only I had continued to ......

18 of 16431 | Services Oriented Modeling : Alignement IT / Métier - Lors du Tech Ed 2008, Microsoft Services a dévoilé l'offre SOM - Service Oriented Modeling - qui vient faire le lien de façon pragmatique entre : les aspects Découverte et Analyse des Services qui portent le métier de votre (Offre MSBA - Microsoft Service Business Architecture) et la feuille de route de vos équipes de production en terme d'infrastructure de services (Assessment et Roadmap SOA - SOAMM - Microsoft Service Oriented Architecture Maturity Model) Cette offre vient concrétiser l'expérience des consultants Microsoft Services en terme de mises en oeuvre d'architecture de services, en s'appuyant à la fois sur ces méthodologies (MSBA, SOAMM) et les technologies proposées par Mic......

19 of 16431 | Silverlight 2 beta 2: cross domain connections, more controls, and animation - Microsoft launched Silverlight 2 beta 2 last Friday (which seemed a bit strange….). I saw this on the same day as some Adobe folks showed me an old thread that showed MLB.tv sneaking a context menu saying “About Silverlight” into the Flash version ;) What is new in the latest beta? Danny Thorpe is looking forward to digging into the “new support for cross-domain connections using sockets, sibling to Silverlight’s existing cross-domain HTTP request.” Full Feature List Animation Support for animating custom data points Object Animation support (animating structs) Deep Zoom New XML-based file format MultiScaleTileSource to wire up your own images and get the Deep Zoom......

20 of 16431 | Store custom objects configuration in separate custom configuration files using EntLib - We are going to have a windows service that will run a few workflow(WF) instances. I want to have configuration information to be stored in  separate config files for each WF instance. I remembered that EntLib has helper classes to store custom objects configuration in separate custom configuration file, but finding good examples in Google wasn't easy(probably I didn't find good search keywords). The links that I finally found(more relevant to the task first) Tom Hollander 'post External configuration files in Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 mostly talks about EntLib provider config sections, but comments are talking about FileConfigurationSource  and custom sections. Alois K......

21 of 16431 | Using CCR with ASP.NET - span.code { font-family: Consolas, Courier, Monospace; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; } pre.code { font-family: Consolas, Courier, Monospace; font-size: 11px; color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; } span.kwrd { color: #0000FF; } span.type { color: #008080; } span.str { color: #800000; } span.cmt { color: #008000; } span.dcmt ......

22 of 16431 | We are doing SOA ! may be not ... Have you heard of Service Based Architecture? - We are doing SOA ! may be not ... Have you heard of Service Based Architecture? This is most common problem that crops up where one embarks on rapid SOA without well defined governance strategy. Look for following problems in your SOA approach that would point to you doing Service... ...

23 of 16431 | WF/WCF Influencer MSDN Webcasts in June - We are launching a series of MSDN webcasts to explore the possibilities of Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework through demonstrations and deep dives on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).   In these series, you will learn from the industry experts on how to build WF/WCF applications. You can find links to our June MSDN Webcasts here:  http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnnetframework35.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=liveall Webcast Title Date/ Time Presenter Beyond the Endpoints with Windows Communication Foundation 6/18/2008 10:00 AM Juval Lowy geekSpeak: Workflow......

24 of 16431 | XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition) Is a W3C Recommendation - 2008-06-10: The XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition). This document specifies XML syntax and processing rules for creating and representing digital signatures; the list of changes from the First Edition is available. The Working Group also published a Group Note Test Cases for C14N 1.1 and XMLDSig Interoperability, which specifies test cases for Canonical XML 1.1 and XML Signature Syntax and Processing, Second Edition. Learn more about the Security Activity. (Permalink)...

25 of 16431 | A bunch of WCF and WF webcasts in June - Our marketing team has launched a series of MSDN webcasts to explore the possibilities of Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework through demonstrations and deep dives on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). You can find links to our June MSDN Webcasts here:  http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnnetframework35.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=liveall...

26 of 16431 | A practical example on how to mock static classes without TypeMock - WCF is the second biggest framework after ASP.NET that sooner or later forces you to use a static "context" property to do anything beyond the trivial stuff. ASP.NET has the HttpContext.Current, whereas WCF has the WebOperationContext.Current for example. My friend Pablo Cibraro proves how you can quite easily make your implementations that depend on such static contexts testable without resorting to black-magic voodoo TypeMock kind of stuff. Any .NET developer can trivially introduce an indirection to make their classes testable, even if they depend on static classes. So, don't buy a product just because you're lazy and want to avoid creating a few wrapper classes and interfaces......

27 of 16431 | BizTalk Server 2006 R2: To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before! - This week I’m going to embark on a dark and mysterious journey, fraught with great danger, both real and imagined. I’m about to begin development of a BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet (BTARN 3.5) project with the assistance of Microsoft Consulting Services...(read more)...

28 of 16431 | Codeplex Developer Tools for BizTalk -   Some of the great and useful tools available at codeplex site for biztalk developers. I listed down few of them here.   BizTalk Server 2006 Documenter Creates compiled help files for a given BTS 2006 installation.   BizTalk Server Pipeline Component Wizard A project meant to ease to development of pipeline components used within a BizTalk Server environment. Supports both C# and VB.NET   BizUnit - Framework for Automated Testing of Distributed Systems BizUnit is a test framework that is intended to test Biztalk solutions.   BizUnitExtensions This project aims to play a kind "NAntContrib" role (where the community has extended NAnt with a bunch of valuable tasks) in the BizUni......

29 of 16431 | Green Computing- Software for a Green Landscape - A friend of mine Denny Boynton and I were talking at TechEd last week about green computing and it started me thinking. He mentioned that he and some other architects were discussing green computing platforms (server vitalization, cloud computing,etc...). That started me talking about: What is the responsibility of the software developer in this emerging green computing grid? Many infrastructure groups over the last few years have been moving to virtual servers and environments initially to save on capital expenditures slow the ever growing demand for data center real estate. Now after establishing the foundation for vitalization operations groups are seeing tertiary benefits form this pro......

30 of 16431 | How to implement retries on BizTalk ESB Off-Ramps - I'm sitting in the Vancouver airport reflecting on a very successful and interesting 2 day deep dive training course that we ran for our west coast partners. This was the first time that we ran the course over two days, and it allowed us to get a...(read more)...

31 of 16431 | HP MediaSmart Server does NOT support 64 bit clients - Seriously, WWWWW TTTTT FFFFFF ?!?!?!?! From http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01212412&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3548164&lang=en: NOTE:        The HP MediaSmart Server does not support client computers running 64-bit operating systems. And I already got mine, and now it's a piece of useless (though nice-looking) crap. Can't get the client connector to install.   DAMN IT!!!   Update: there's a way to set it up, and it's working fine so far. phiuuu!!!...

32 of 16431 | Live Mesh Everywhere: open source and cross-platform - You have probably read or listened all the (maybe a bit vague) information about the Mesh Operating Environment (MOE): a platform that will allow multiple applications and devices to participate in the Live Mesh. Let's get to the more technical details now, and leave the end-user marketing to someone else ;). At the core of Live Mesh is FeedSync, a public spec by Microsoft, evolved from the "old" days of SSE. It didn't get its deserved attention IMO back in the day, even though you could put together the pieces from Ray's announcement and later adoption by other products and figure out Live Mesh was coming sooner or later. Ed Jezierski got me interested in it WAY back,......

33 of 16431 | Live Mesh FeedSync: an overview of the protocol under the hood - I already mentioned why I think Live Mesh is cool and that I think the most important part of it, FeedSync, is being largely ignored by reviewers. Fortunately, there's an extensive interview with the team that goes quite deep in FeedSync and how it works. Go watch it, it's good info. At the most basic level, FeedSync is a mechanism to associate versioning "headers" to arbitrary objects (items), and an algorithm to merge and detect conflicts based on that header information. Replace "header" with "extension element" and "arbitrary object" with "RSS/Atom Item" and you have the XML feed version of it: < item xmlns:sx ='http://feedsync.org/2007/feedsync'> &......

34 of 16431 | MSDN Evening "Building setup packages with WiX": recording online - The MSDN evening session from last week has been recorded and can be watched online on our Chopsticks platform. In this session, Martijn Beenes, coming specially from the Netherlands for this session, explains how to use the installer tools, MSI's, WiX toolset (Windows Installer XML), and shows how to create a fully customized Windows installer packages using WiX. View the session online: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=455 (you will need to login for this as it's premium content). Together with the recording you can also find the PowerPoint presentation by clicking the Resources tab. Martijn, thanks for the great session, we hope to see you again in Be......

35 of 16431 | SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 8 of N - I have taken a bit of detour the last few episodes, and in this eighth one, I am going to get back to the world of Capabilities and Microsoft IO, App Plat IO, ESOMM Maturity Model and how Service Enablement Fits In. For a reminder, the series so far is: Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What is a Service? The Four Tenets of SOA Service Architectural Patterns The Current State of SOA and How to Make the Paradigm Shift Realization of SOA with Web Services, Web Services Standards, 1st Gen and 2nd Gen......

36 of 16431 | Soaring to New Heights in Telemedicine and eHealth - I am writing this from Tromso, Norway, where later today I will deliver a keynote address at the Tromso Telemedicine and eHealth Conference.  Preceding me on stage is Dr. Clayton Christensen of Innovator's Dilemma fame.  I believe my message on healthcare delivery innovation and the power of commodity IT will reverberate well with what Dr. Christensen has to say. Tromso is a town of about 60,000 residents in Norway's north.  It is so far north, on the same latitude as Barrow, Alaska, that the sun never sets during the summer months and likewise never rises during the winter.  Tromso is also home to the University of North Norway, the northernmost university in the wor......

37 of 16431 | Upcoming talks and webcast - I've got a couple of fun talks coming up this month.  First, I'm going to be doing an MSDN webcast on Windows Workflow Foundation - Communication in Depth.  I'm going to dive into the core communication architecture, discuss how some of the OOB activities use it, and how you can build your own activities to take advantage of it.  We'll cover one way communication between the host and the workflow, but we'll also look at how to do two-way communication to get a response back from the workflow.  The talk information can be found at this link: Windows Workflow Communication in Depth This talk is also part of a series where you can find other talks from my friends Jon Fland......

38 of 16431 | 10 Questions for Mark Mandel on Transfer ORM - Ahead of the WebDU conference next week, Mark Mandel just yesterday released version 1.0 of Transfer ORM. If you’re wondering what the hell Transfer ORM is and why you should care, I asked Mark to answer a few questions to explain it all to us. This post is in the same series (and uses the same questions) as the Geoff Bowers on FarCry and John Farrar on COOP. Hi Mark! Give us your elevator pitch: summarize the essence of Transfer in a sentence or two. Transfer is an Object Relational Mapper for ColdFusion. It generates and populates CFCs that are Objects that represent the data in your application based on an XML configuration file. From there, it is able to automatically insert, update, ......

39 of 16431 | A Day of SharePoint Developer Training - A Full Day SharePoint WebCast Wed June 11th The recent SharePoint developer webcasts have been such a huge success that we are running an entire day of SharePoint developer-focused webcasts on June 11th.  This will be on-site in Redmond as well as broadcast on the web.  Register Here.  Also, take a peek at the schedule (times listed are PST):       8:30 am - 9:00 am Introduction to day & Keynote Mithun Dhar & Ben Hickman 9:00 am - 10:00 am Whirlwind SharePoint on Visual Studio - VSeWSS Paul Andrew 10:00 am - 10:15 am Break   10:15 am - 11:15 am Silverlight on SharePoint Steve Fox 11:15 am  - 12:15 pm Web Parts on SharePoi......

40 of 16431 | BI Data Integration Using Web Services - A lot of discussion has been kicking-up lately about BI and SOA as combined forces in the IT enterprise. Much of the discussion has been around similar, or dissimilar skill sets and strategies of these architectures. Not to mention, is BI or is SOA a solution, architecture or strategy? To be honest, unless there is a driving and obvious business need to utilize SOA mechanisms in a BI solution, we cannot put forth a compelling argument to do so. Without that business case, we are just implementing architectures for technology's sake, not for the business' sake. And in the end, it will be the business that drives the decision. So let's take a look at how data integration for your BI system c......

41 of 16431 | Creating Localization Tool with Silverlight - Since Silverlight 2 is in Beta 2 phase it’s definately time to create small application with it. Together with my friend we’e created small example application called Localization Tool. Idea in our example application is pretty simple... allow end users to modify texts used in application. And for the end user it should be easy, intuitive and of course fast. We used a lot of information available from internet in order to help us in the implementation (see links at the end of this post). Before going into implementation details you can check out the final solution in action (click the image to open video in new window):   In our solution we took WCF + LINQ + SQL approach and created ......

42 of 16431 | High Performance Computing with F# and MPI - Matthew has written a great guide getting going with MPI on .NET, using F#. Here's an excerpt: In my previous post, I looked at some of the options we have for concurrency programming in .NET applications.  One of the interesting ones, yet specialized is the Message Passing Interface (MPI).  Microsoft made the initiative to get into the high performance computing space with the Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Server SKU.  This allowed developers to run their given algorithms using MPI on a massive parallelized scale.  And now with the Windows Server 2008 HPC SKU, it is a bit improved with WCF support for scheduling and such.  If you're not part of the beta an......

43 of 16431 | PipelineTesting 1.1.3.0 Released - I just uploaded a new update to my PipelineTesting library. This one comes courtesy of Gregory Van de Wiele, who kindly made me aware of a nasty bug: The library wasn't handling schemas with no targetNamespace correctly when adding them to the pipeline context. Because of this, you needed to specify the documentSpec name as "#root" instead of simply "root". This has now been fixed in this version and I added a new unit test to make sure it doesn't come up again. Thanks a lot Gregory! As usual you can download the updated code/binaries from here. BizTalk Server, Testing ...

44 of 16431 | Security Track Speaker Bits- Tom Hollander - So for our next Speaker Introduction we have Tom Hollander who graciously agreed to give a session at tech Ed after I begged him to share his awesome wisdom around how to create a secure development framework. Bio: Tom Hollander is a Solution Architect in Microsoft’s Solutions Development Centre in Sydney, responsible for driving the technical design and delivery of complex customer projects. Prior to joining this team, Tom spent over three years in Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond working as a product manager in the patterns & practices team. In this role Tom helped deliver many patterns & practices deliverables including Enterprise Library, the Guidance Automatio......

45 of 16431 | Silverlight Cream for June 07, 2008 -- #293 - I've got 17 links here tonight... Welcome to SL2B2.. :) ... Many are by the same folks, so I'm just going to list names: Scott Guthrie (duh), Michael Scherotter, Joel Neubeck(2), Kathy Kam, Walt Ritscher, Jesse Liberty, Shawn Wildermuth(2), David Anson, Tim Heuer(4), WPFEDevCon, Mike Taulty/Mike Ormond, and Mike Snow. Wow... what a bunch of links! ... I tried not to pull all the "Silverlight 2 Beta 2" links since we're all posting that. There are a lot of people echoing the information on Silverlight.net, and I tried to only pull the ones that also have other details or info to offer so enjoy... there's a couple week's worth of reading in this one post... and that doesn't count 50 video......

46 of 16431 | Successful IT Architect Regional Conference in New York - On May 22nd and 23rd  the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) held its first annual two-day IT Architect Regional Conference where I was a speaker.  This event received the highest rating of any conference run by IASA to date.  It was considered so successful that we are already planning the 2009 version.  IASA is a vendor-neutral association of/for/by architects all over the world.  The New York IASA chapter is one of the most successful IASA chapters in the United States. Sponsors of the event included Sun, Oracle, Microsoft and Robert Half.  Although this was a regional conference attendees came from a......

47 of 16431 | Tech Ed - Working the ARC Area - So instead of trying to do these Tech Ed posts on a day-to-day basis, I'm just going to be doing them topical instead. So let's talk about working the ARC area. As an MVP, we're given an opportunity to attend Tech Ed under a work program. We commit to working 16 hours in one of the TLC areas, and in exchange we get free admission to Tech Ed. I submitted and was selected for the program, being assigned to the Architecture area (or ARC). Now, I had gone to Tech Ed in 2005, and I knew there were people sitting at the various areas, but I really had no idea why they were there or what they actually did. In working at the ARC area, I had no idea what to expect either. I supposed that people ......

48 of 16431 | BizTalk RFID sessions at Tech-Ed Dev week - This week at Tech-ed dev week I had 1 session on BizTalk RFID titled "Microsoft BizTalk RFID in Real World Deployments: Connecting Movements in the Physical World to Enterprise Applications". We showed how developers could use BizTalk RFID and very easily collect events from RFID devices and integrate those events into backend applications using BizTalk Server. I think session was well received. We had 65+ attendees in the session with overall score of 7.73 which is in top 5 sessions in our track. Other than this I also recorded a video for my first video podcast. Tech-ed team had done a great job of having production team onsite to record 20 minutes sessions. Title of our sess......

49 of 16431 | My Tech Ed Demos - Thanks to everyone who came to my session on port binding options in BizTalk Server yesterday.  You can find the demos here including the visual studio solution, binding files for BizTalk and the PowerShell script I used for setting up and running my demos.  ...

50 of 16431 | Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released - Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today.  You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here. Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download that takes less than 10 seconds to install on a machine.  It does not require the .NET Framework or any other software to be installed for it to work, and all features work cross-browser on both Mac and Windows machines.  These features will also be supported on Linux via the Moonlight 2 release. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial application......