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DevDinnerOnDemand: Overview of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

With the .NET Framework 3.5 (the version native to Visual Studio 2008) coming up on its first anniversary, Microsoft is poised to release the first update to the framework in the form of Service Pack (SP1).  This Service Pack is unlike your standard Service Pack, in that it will introduce new features/capabilities to the .NET Framework .  Some of these features where originally planned to be in the initial release of the framework and others are features/capabilities added to enhance or further secure the core .NET Framework.  The August Developer Dinner is going to focus on some of the new features as well as a few of the new enhancements, to give you an introduction of the improved capabilities of the Microsoft Developer Platform...

HOL: MSDN VIRTUAL LABS

Part of the survey result was overwhelming feedback about hands on experiences during our dev events. I know that trying to do these at work is nearly impossible because of all the other work priorities and interruptions, but with the Virtual labs you can do them from anywhere - a coffee shop with wireless is ideal. List of labs Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 Virtual Labs Virtual Labs - Visual Studio 2008 SharePoint Server Virtual Labs Check the rest of the categories on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/default.aspx Enjoy it! Joel Technorati Tags: MSDN Virtual Labs Read More...

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on ASP.NET MVC

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck and links to the code here: You’ll find the code for my ajax samples and links to other samples I showed there.  Normally, I write my own demos and make code code available for download.  However, this time around, most of my demo code was based on the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.  I blogged about the kit here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/08/18/free-training-on-net-framework-3-5-sp1-and-asp-net-mvc.aspx The kit has just about everything I showed in my demos and more!  I did make some updates to the training kit code to reflect ASP.NET MVC preview 5 and my own coding preferences.  However, I need to check with the team that built...

FOLLOW UP: Developer Dinner on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck and links to the code here: Normally, I make my actual demo code available for download.  However, this time around, my demo code was based on the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit.  I blogged about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/devkeydet/archive/2008/08/18/free-training-on-net-framework-3-5-sp1-and-asp-net-mvc.aspx The kit has everything I showed in my demos and more!  I also promised to link to a bunch of good content out there on the various topics. General MSDN -> Data Platform Development “How Do I?” Videos — Data Platform Development ADO.NET Entity Framework MSDN Library -> ADO.NET Entity Framework ADO.NET Team Blog Entity Framework...

Free training on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and ASP.NET MVC

Looking for free introductory training on the .NET 3.5 SP1 & ASP.NET MVC?  Head over to Jonathan Carter's blog to get all the details on the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit RTM .  What will you find?  Information and links to download a kit that has presentations, demos, and labs covering what's new in ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Routing, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ADO.NET Data Services, ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF, and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  If you've seen any of my 3.5 SP1 or my older "ASP.NET Futures" presentations, then you are already familiar with some of the content in the kit.  I used an early release of the kit as the foundation for some of my demos.  The kit has come...

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control Samples

John O'Brien , a Windows Live Developer MVP, has been cranking out samples of how to use the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control .  He's also blogging over at www.liveside.net now.  His latest post is titled Server Side Clustering and comes complete with videos!  John has also created a site where you can see his samples live and download all the samples at http://veasp.soulsolutions.com.au/ .  He's organized the samples in a similar fashion to the Virtual Earth Interactive SDK .  If you are leaning towards using the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control , then you'd be silly not to check this stuff out! - Marc Technorati Tags: virtual earth , asp.net , ajax Read More...

WEBCAST RECORDING: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX

First, let me apologize since I promised to make this recording available almost two months ago.  I was trying to get the recording uploaded to the same Live Meeting servers as my other webcasts.  Needless to say, I had some challenges.  I decided to upload it to Silverlight Streaming .  I had to split the presentation into two files since this is a 90 minute presentation and Silverlight Streaming has file size limits. In this presentation, I show you the fundamentals of the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.1 using JavaScript.  Then, I show how you can use ASP.NET AJAX and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to make building Virtual Earth solutions easier.  Finally, I show you how you can host Virtual Earth in...

FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Nashville, TN)

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Sorry about the overflow into the hallways.  There was much less dropoff between registration and attendance than we normally see.  Some of the content isn't published yet.  Once it is, we'll make sure to update this post with the appropriate links. Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 Building WPF Applications in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend - deck , code Data Access with Language Integrated Query Overview of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & ASP.NET MVC - deck , code We also mentioned some downloadable tools that folks were interested in using.  Here are the ones I remember: Visual LINQ (to SQL) Query Builder LINQPad If I forgot one, please...

FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Downers Grove, IL)

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the links to the decks and code for the sessions.  I don't have the content from the LINQ & VSTO sessions yet, but will update this post when I get them.  However, I did promise to have a post up this morning. How Visual Studio Team System 2008 will benefit your organization? - deck Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Overview of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 & ASP.NET MVC - deck , resources , code (links to a post explaining how to get the code I based me demos on) Office Development with VSTO  and Office Open XML Format If you are interested in other content, I have a list of recorded webcasts in My Recorded Webcasts list.  There is a session similar to Joel's LINQ...

UPDATED WORKAROUND: Intellisense for page level map variables using the Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper

So I have been playing around with other approaches to the workaround described here .  The first thing I tried was:   On the surface, this seemed like a reasonable workaround.  However, there were still some scenarios where JavaScript errors would pop up.  For example, switching to 3D mode would cause the map control to raise an error:   A similar error would happen when you close the browser.  One could argue this annoyance is a small price to pay for JavaScript Intellisense for the map control:).  However, it is still very annoying.  Good news!  There's a better workaround.  I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier:).  The idea is to move the page level map variable...