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...

This year’s PDC is all about the cloud (or cloudy as I call it) and the .NET Framework 4.0. No one at Microsoft has ever told me that Windows Forms are dead (quite the opposite) but looking at the list of sessions for this year’s PDC I can only see WPF . So the question remains: Are Windows Forms dead...

Not sure if everyone knows of the various options that there are for communicating with Microsoft so I wanted to let you know about some of them here. Bugs or problems You can log these on the various forums that we have, the forums are found here .  Read More......( read more )

I'm proud to announce the second coming of the Iowa Code Camp. This sequence follows the amazingly successful event held in Iowa City of May of this year. Nearly 200 people attended for 90% of the event, we gave away upwards of $20,000 dollars in prizes and software and had a generally great time talking...

The second Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 27th and 28th, 2008, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. Register for free here I’ll be presenting Saturday 27th at 3:45 pm follow by a Geek Dinner. On Sunday I won’t miss Woody Pewitt’s presentation about Microsoft Live . Code camps...

This is great news for me.I personally love seen my ugly face on the Tech-Ed main page, that reminds me the day I declined the offer to get my picture professionally done. http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/cc531163.aspx

Luís just broke the news on our LINQ with C# book. I was honored with the invitation from Luís to write this book with him for FCA , for which he has already published a few books [ ^ ] [ ^ ] [ ^ ] before. This will be an entry level book in Portuguese targeted to anyone wanting to learn LINQ with C#...

So you started using Silverlight and you wanted to download a RSS feed, talk to a web service or download a few images from a website to realize that many of the requests you made come back to you empty or you get the 404 error. How do I get the error when I know that web page or image is there? There...

While I like to think of my blog as a “must read”, I wanted to give out a list of some of the blogs that I think are really important to keep up with, either by visiting the blog or by subscribing to the RSS feed. Microsoft Update WSUS WSUS issues Security Read More......( read more )

I haven’t seen a whole lot of information coming out about how Microsoft can help you optimize your IT infrastructure so I thought I could mention it. You can read more about the whole program at http://www.microsoft.com/optimization/default.mspx There Read More......( read more )