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 changed my mind so that the right choice was...

I took the opportunity to sit the WCF Beta exam a few days ago and I must say, it was very hard. Being beta, I don't find out the results until about 8 weeks later, but I reckon I didn't fare too well. I did book the test a little impulsively, however I saw the opportunity to do it, and only had a free...

Following in the footsteps of last year's event, Microsoft Israel is repeating the Microsoft Developer Academt event (tomorrow, November 27, 2007). This full-day event offers 6 parallel tracks of presentations and panel disucssions, across 5 time slots. Lots of of real-world and new technology sessions...

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) 6 November 2007 Start: 15:15 Finish: 16:30 Although...

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.asp.net/jackieg/archive/2007/05/30/mashups-for-the...

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 view into the blogs of all of these technical...

OK, don't thow out your keyboard and mouse just yet, but Microsoft unveiled last week a prototype of what the future could very well look like - coffee table-sized desktop with direct manipulation of displayed items and images, as well as interaction with items placed on the desktop. Check out the information...

We've done it again... first Juval visited our shores to deliver the WCF Master Class - the most in-depth class that we've seen on WCF to date. In April Ian Griffiths delivered the WPF sibling - Applied WPF and next on the Readify Industrial Strength Master Classes’ schedule is Patrick Tisseghem delivering...

Sonu Kapoor asked I mention a competition he has running on his DotNetSlackers site. All you have to do is write an article, and your automatically in the running to win an Xbox 360 Core system! Sounds easy enough right? Well head on over to here and start writing....

Microsoft has released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers (Membership, Role Management, Profiles, Web Parts, Site Navigation, etc, etc). You can read all about it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442772.aspx There is also 130+ pages of whitepapers that walk...