The Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter is a one-day event providing developers and designers information on the concept behind Silverlight as a technology, what tools are useful in development and the knowledge in order to start building their own applications. The eight sessions listed, are available to watch...

This is really cool, Sacha Barber has put a neat way to browse Amazon.com by using WPF's ability to do 3D. He has a detailed write up of the application over at Code Project. Sacha even has a video of the interface in action.   Source : Coding4Fun

A list of free on-line courses from Microsoft provided by US ISV Developer Evangelism Team   Collection 5134: Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Collection 6261: Developing Rich Experiences using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008...

" We are pleased to announce the release of the EntLib 4.0 March 2008 CTP and invite your feedback. This release has been adapted to work with WMI version 2.0 and version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. Enterprise Library 4.0 has the Allow Partially-Trusted Caller attribute (APTCA) on all assemblies...

" For this week's release in our patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance project , we added new sections to our WCF Security Application Scenarios .  We added sections for analysis, code and configuration examples.  The analysis section explains the rationale behind some of the...

There are some great enhancements coming to .NET 3.5 with the SP1 release scheduled for later this year.  If you'd like to get started with these new enhancements early, and want some great training on them this is the way to do it.  All you need to do is download the kit from here:  http...

Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks intended for use by developers who build complex, enterprise-level applications. Enterprise Library is used when building applications that are typically to be deployed widely and to interoperate with other applications and systems. In addition...

patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security (Beta Release) Welcome to the patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF project site! This guide shows you how to make the most of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). With end-to...

Are you living in Kuwait , a Community Open Day will be organized in Saturday February 16th . here is the announcement by AntonDelsink Read the full announcement here

A nice tip by Tobias Hertkorn about how to downgrade A VS 2008 solution or project file to Vs 2005 corresponding one. Read the tip here Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005