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April 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)

Note the special date of April’s meeting and the special registration requirements. This month’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 – Matthew...

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...

Off to TechEd EMEA in Barcelona

I'm completing final preparations for my trip to Barcelona next week for the annual Microsoft TechEd (EMEA) event. I'll be there from Sunday through Thursday and am giving the following presentation Mashups and Windows Live - Not Just for Browsers (WIN203...

Article in the New York Times - Mashups Going Mainstream ?

So, this New York Times article claims that mashups are about to go mainstream - do you agree ? Have you been playing with mashups? Have you build a "real" or at least really usefull mashup application? Previous posts of mine on mashups: http://weblogs...

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

Mashups For The Masses !

As I have mentioned previously , I have recently been researching and playing with mashups and various sources of online data sources, such as Windows Live . Well, this is obviously something that has caught wider interest in Microsoft as well, as they...

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...

Migrating Our Application to use CAB and SCSF

Well over a year ago, we began work on the UI portion of a major project of our for a client in New York. One of the issues we needed to address was an infrastructure or framework for the UI of this application. Since the framework was to encompass many...

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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