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Things are really starting to heat up around here as we get ready for the PDC.   Just this week I have talked to folks on Silverlight, Visual Studio, Azure, ASP.NET, .NET RIA Services, MEF that all have very cool new stuff to talk about at the PDC.    We just recently announced the Scott Guthrie will be giving one of the keynotes, so you can be sure that will be fun.. You can bet Scott will be talking about the latest from ASP.NET, Silverlight, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio!    I will also be there to talk about building business application in Silverlight… no rotating images or dancing videos in this talk, it will be all about saving you and your end user’s time by taking advantage of the latest...

First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-fifth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." At the end of my crazy babies talk at PDC ( Tips on how I prepared here ) I had a big demo where I gave a URL to a Silverlight version of BabySmash that Grant and I built for the show. You can watch the presentation online if you like and fast forward to the end (around 60 minutes in) and see the big demo. Basically we had the Silverlight BabySmash talk via ADO.NET Data Services (I'll post in detail in the near future) to a SQL backend. Then I had an MVC reporting site that had some charts that would update as folks smashed. There...

At our talk on Framework Design Guidelines at the PDC , Krzysztof and I were asked about resources for wrapping a native code library in a nice managed code framework.  This is an extremely common pattern.  Organizations frequently have large "heritage" investments in C\C++\COM code and now they need to expose that functionality is way that is productive and familiar to .NET developers.   Wrapping the native functionality in a well-designed managed library maximizes the productivity of the breadth of .NET developers.  I promised to blog a few resources on how to best accomplish this.  Jesse Kaplan recent PDC talk is relevant: Managed and Native Code Interoperability: Best Practices CLR Inside Out: Marshaling...

The full 83 minutes of my PDC talk are available on the Channel 9 web site . You can watch the session online (using Silverlight) or download the video in a number of formats. Slides and source code for the demo are also available. Watch online: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC32/ Download MP4 / iPod , Zune , WMV or WMV-HQ . Slides: http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/PPTX/PC32.pptx Demo code (contains MIT and MS-PL licensed JavaScript files): http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/ZIP/PC32.ZIP Another talk you may be interested in is Stephen Walther's . Stephen did an amazing job explaining how jQuery and ASP.NET Ajax work and fit together. The talk is very accessible even if you have no prior knowledge of jQuery: http://channel9...

The great folks that work tirelessly behind the scenes here at the PDC have already gotten the Framework Design Guidelines Video posted .    http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC58/     Enjoy! Read More...

After the amazing great reception MEF got during ScottGu's keynote yesterday we had tons of people ask about a MEF session.  So we are VERY happy to be able to repeat Glenn's MEF session... Please come if you can. TL33-R Managed Extensibility Framework: Overview [REPEAT] Wed 10/29 | 4:45 PM-6:00 PM | 409A Presenter: Glenn Block Glenn Block Please Note: This session is a repeat of TL33, which originally took place on October 27th at 1:45PM. The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new extensibility model in the .NET framework that provides a simple declarative model for application developers and extenders to build openly extensible applications. Come to this session and you'll learn about our Composition model and the...

We created a very cool poster that shows off the new stuff in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4.    Thanks to Kit George for running this effort to get a very cool view of .NET Framework 4 and for the great folks at Addison Wesley for helping with the creative end and the printing costs! And of course, here is the DeepZoom version ! (use your mouse wheel or click and control-click to zoom in and out) Download the .NET Framework 4 Poster PDF for high quality printing. Enjoy!  We'd love to hear what you think! If you are at PDC08 please drop by the Addison Wesley booth in the Big Room and get your copy... You can just tell them I sent you ;-) Oh, and if you are a Microsoft employee in Redmond, drop KitG an email...

Yesterday, Krys and I did a talk on Framework Design Guidelines and how they changed from when we started in 1998 to now in 2008.  They should have the video of the talk up soon, I will post a link when it comes up... in the meantime, check out the slides on SlideShare ...     Enjoy! BTW -- if you made it to PDC2008 , please take a minute to fill out the eval for sessions that you attended, we'd love to have your feedback!    Session Evaluation You can access evaluations easily by locating the ( ) icon next to each specific session in the PDC Timeline .   thanks! Read More...

Before giving a presentation, I review Scott Hanselman’s top 11 presentation tips . Well I have a twelfth tip that Scott needs to add to his list, and he’ll vouch for this. A couple of hours before Jeff and I gave the ASP.NET MVC presentation, we played some RockBand in the Big Room (exhibition area). Playing Eye of the Tiger before a big talk has a great way of both pumping you up and loosening you up at the same time. When I ran into Scott and told him this tip, he said he did the very same thing, playing Eye of the Tiger on RockBand before his talk. In his case, I think he played for two hours. In any case, I felt like my talk went well. Jeff was entertaining as always and provided that taste of real-world relevance to what we’re doing with...

I’m flying to San Jose tonight for tomorrow’s OpenAjax Alliance face to face meeting , which Microsoft is hosting. On Friday, we are also hosting a new event that aims at establishing a dialogue between JavaScript library developers and Microsoft. We’ll have talks from the IE, Visual Studio and ASP.NET teams, as well as talks from members of the community. This should be very interesting. Then I’ll be flying to L.A. for the PDC . If you’re going to be there and want to chat, feel free to drop me a note at bleroy at Microsoft. I’ll be in the room during Stephen Walthers ’ session on jQuery and ASP.NET on Tuesday from 5:15 to 6:30 (403AB). I’ll also do a short demo in Scott Hunter ’s talk on the ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap on Monday from 1:45 to 3:00...