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If you're going to either week of Tech-Ed this year (or even better, both), here's an event you'll...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/30/2008
Video: Silverlight and DeepZoom in Action
Adam Kinney just posted an amazing video showing a demo of Silverlight and DeepZoom, based on one of...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/30/2008
geekSpeak Today with Pete Brown
Local Silverlight guru Pete Brown, from Applied Information Sciences, will be our guest on geekSpeak...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/28/2008
Register Today for PDC 2008
PDC 2008 will be here before you know it, and registration is now open! PDC always sells out, so...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/28/2008
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release Available
From Scott Guthrie: This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/28/2008
Video: Windows 7 and Multi-Touch
Windows 7 was (briefly) unveiled tonight at the All Things Digital conference. Not clear if this is...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/27/2008
Microsoft Health Patient Journey Demonstrator
Found this via K. Scott Allen, a very cool demo of how Silverlight 2.0 might help doctors to track...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/27/2008
Proud to be a Geek?
Show it this Sunday: Geek Pride Day is celebrated May 25th. The date coincides with the premiere of...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/23/2008
RIAs and Silverlight 2
My colleague Bob Familiar has a nice series on the subject: This series of articles takes a look at...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/22/2008
PHP Support in Expression Web 2
For those who might wonder about how open Microsoft is to third-party development tools and/or...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/22/2008
Homestar rocks!
IsTwitterDown.com is now saying "of course," with the text linking here. As a reluctant twitterer...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/21/2008
Encoding Resources for Silverlight Streaming
During a recent discussion on Silverlight Streaming, someone shared this link to some resources on...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/16/2008
First Moonlight Release
From Miguel de Icaza: Today we are making the first public release of Moonlight, supporting the...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/14/2008
JD, Nic, and Brian Podcast - Episode 7
I was privileged to join JD Lewin, Nic Fillingham, and Brian Johnson for the latest episode of their...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/14/2008
Well, after endless haranguing by one of my co-workers, I finally broke down and got on Twitter. I'm...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/13/2008
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and Silverlight Tools Beta 1
Important note for folks who are planning to try the beta of Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Microsoft...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/13/2008
ScottGu on Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Scott has a deep and informative post on what's coming in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/12/2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now
Read the whole thing here: Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/12/2008
Screencasts with Community Clips
My colleague Allan de Costa Pinto shares a cool (and free) tool: Start creating your own screen...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/12/2008
Demo - Games for Zune
Since writing about games for Zune on Wednesday, I found a couple of demo games over on...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/11/2008
Zune Clock Has Arrived!
You know you've wanted it, you know you've been waiting for it. So...BEHOLD...I GIVE YOU...The ZUNE...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/10/2008
TechBash Tomorrow
Don't have plans for the weekend yet? Head up to Nanticoke, PA for Techbash 2008: Since its...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/09/2008
Death, Taxes, and Deep Zoom
No, this isn't a political post. I just came across a cool use of Silverlight's new Deep Zoom...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/09/2008
XNA Team Blog : Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP)
Very cool...time for games on Zune! Today, we are delivering the first Community Technical Preview...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/07/2008
Graffiti CMS
For several weeks now, I've been working with a new tool from the folks at Telligent (they wrote...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/07/2008
Microsoft ESP Developer Conference - May 22, 2008
This sounds really cool: About the Conference Join us for a day of developer-oriented technical...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/07/2008
Zune 2.5 Available for Download
The Zune team has dropped the latest software and firmware, and you can download it from zune.net,...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 05/06/2008
Finding User Groups in Mid-Atlantic
Are you looking for a .NET or SQL Server User Group? I'm hoping to make your task a little easier by...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/29/2008
Mid-Atlantic User Groups
Here's a map of the developer and SQL user groups in Mid-Atlantic. Not seeing your group? Contact...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/29/2008
SharePoint for Developers Content
Doug and his peeps have turned out another great course for .NET University. If you haven't checked...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/17/2008
I Love Code Camps!
Here's a free preview of what folks will be reading in the next MSDN Flash newsletter for...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/16/2008
3D LED Cube - Do Want
OK, so now I'm torn...should I pine for the day when I can have my own Surface device in my living...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/15/2008
INETA gets a new look
Check it out at: https://ineta.org/
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/14/2008
what would you do if you were a Microsoft Evangelist?
Anand asks a great question, and one I'd love to hear feedback on as well: I've been a Microsoft...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 04/11/2008
More Mid-Atlantic Heroes Happen Here Launch Events
I've mentioned these a couple of times in the local MSDN Flash newsletter, but it bears repeating,...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/28/2008
Visual Studio Project MRU Utility now open source
Michael Kennedy, who wrote a useful utility for managing the recent project list on the Visual...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/27/2008
Microsoft Health & Life Sciences DevCon
Want to learn more about Silverlight, AJAX, MVC, SQL Server and more? Want to get a chance to lay...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/26/2008
.NET DEvHammer...now in German...
...and French, and Spanish, and Italian, and Chinese, and Japanese, etc.: This is a pretty cool...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/18/2008
DO WANT!!!
Take a look at the video here, and see if you don't think this is potentially one of the most...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/14/2008
New release of FolderShare
Passing this along for folks who may not have heard of FolderShare, or folks who have used it and...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/13/2008
Richmond SQL Tonight
From my friends down south: The March Richmond SQL Server Users Group meeting is Wednesday 12 Mar...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/13/2008
Terralever Silverlight case study
My colleague Tim Heuer shares a case study of a company building casual games with Silverlight: The...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/12/2008
2 Cool Show Off Apps from MIX
One of the fun events at MIX this year was Show Off, which was basically a contest in which the live...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/07/2008
Hard Rock Memorabilia App
One of the coolest examples of Silverlight 2 that has been announced at MIX is the Memorabilia...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/06/2008
Silverlight 2 for Business Applications Webcast from Pete Brown
Pete Brown from AIS will be presenting a webcast on Silverlight 2 focusing on business apps...more...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/06/2008
Slide.Show
I've been playing with some newer web tools lately, including some blog/CMS software (which I'll...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/03/2008
Visual Studio 2008 at CapArea.NET
The folks at the Capitol Area .NET User Group are centering their meeting this month around Visual...
Author: DEvHammer Date: 03/01/2008