This post is excerpting / paraphrasing a section that appeared in our July 2008 newsletter . I'd really love to hear your thoughts on this. Over the past months, I have been approached by several different companies to help them clean up someone else’s mess (actually, disaster). Some of these companies...

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 Winkler from Microosft Corp (Remond). Matt is a Workflow...

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...

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 to the P&P team that the CAB was too hard to work...

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 recently released an alpha version of a tool/technology...

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 personally, it was a rather short, intense, jet-lagged...

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 different applications (or modules) that would...

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 lot of procedural steps to accomplish and there are...

This is add-on for VS 2005, offers the project model for web applications like we had for VS 2003 is available as a free download here . There is also another great bonus included in this package - Edit and Continue for web applications ! Here is the official description: The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application...

Yosi Taguri from MS Israel posts that the ASP.NET product team will be visiting Israel next month. There will be a public seminar on March 13th (see Yosi's post for the agenda). There will also be an opportunity for a few teams to work directly with the ASP.NET team on migration their existing 1.1 applications...