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January 2009 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

January’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Juval Lowy from IDesign. Juval is a world-famous expert on WCF and Connected Systems and will be...

Heading Off to VSLive Dallas

Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there. Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas . VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 This session...

The WideOpen Web - Confessions of a Rich-Client Bigot

OK - I am not really a Rich-Client bigot and these are not really confessions. However, until recently, my default choice for an applications UI was a rich-client (i.e. WinForms) interface. Of course, we had many cases where a client's requirements quickly...

Check out The Region

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single...

Subset of WCF supported by .NET Compact Framework 3.5

If you are developing mobile apps and want to know what aspects of WCF will be support by NetCF 3.5, you can find he definitive answers over here: http://blogs.msdn.com/andrewarnottms/archive/2007/08/21/the-wcf-subset-supported-by-netcf.aspx

"Acropolis" CTP available for download

The cat is finally out of the bag and available for discussion - Microsoft's "Acropolis" project. Even though I decided to go ahead and port a major project to the CAB (Composite Application Building Block), I have spend the past few years explaining...

Progress Notification for Web Service Calls

In one of our current projects, we had a need to provide progress indication for web service calls that could take a long time to execute (by design - alot of data being transferred). It turns out that this is a perfect scenario for using SOAP extensions...

Back from speaking at VSLive! San Francisco

I just got back from my annual appearance at VSLive! San Francisco (it seems that I have been speaking at one or more VSLive events since February 2000) This year's event, the first under the new management, had a good turnout and was well-run. For me...

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 is Released and Available for Download

If you have been waiting for the released version of the Microsoft AJAX offering, you can now download it from here . This page has separate downloads for the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions as well as for the AJAX Control Toolkit. Congrats to Microsoft ...

ClickOnce Community Resource Kit

A nice new source of practical and advanced information on building Click Once deployments has been developed by Brian Noyes for the MS Patterns and Practices team. Here is the description blurb: Deploying client applications with ClickOnce requires a...
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