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07 December 2007
WPF-Based Yahoo Messenger for Vista Available
As a pretty cool example of the effects that are possible with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Yahoo has just announced the availability of the preview release of Yahoo Messenger for Vista. Download it from: http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php
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02 August 2007
Speaking on WF at NE VB Professionals User Group Tonight (8/2)
Just a reminder that I'll be speaking with the New England Visual Basic Professionals User Group in Waltham tonight (8/2) from 6:15 to 8:30. By request, I'll run through the basics of Workflow Foundation, then we'll devote the remainder of the meeting
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22 June 2007
Announcing: Essential Windows Communication Foundation
Word's getting out, so it's time to acknowledge it on this blog. If you were at TechEd, you may have noticed copies of a sample chapter of Essential Windows Communication Foundation being given out at the Addison-Wesley booth. The eagle eyed among you
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19 June 2007
Embedding Active XAML in PowerPoint
[File under "Cool Presenter Tricks"] Simon Guest posted about a nice little trick for embedding XAML in a PowerPoint slide. What makes it all happen is finding an add-in for PowerPoint to display web pages from a slide. Simon points us to Shyam Pillai's
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09 June 2007
Controlling Page Flow with Workflow Foundation - Sample Available
Matt Winkler gave a session this week at TechEd where he described how to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to control the page flow of a client-facing application. This has certainly been a popular request since the early days of ASP.NET (giving rise
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05 April 2007
Today's Maine Developer Network WCF Presentation Postponed
What's with this white stuff outside my window in April? Well, apparently there's much more of it up in Maine, so we're going to postpone my WCF presentation for the Maine Developer Network today. The new date will be exactly one week out, same place,
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18 March 2007
Roadshow Update - Portland and Manchester
Two more stops made and one more to go on the first tour of Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow! Portland, ME We visited the Portland, ME area and had a great audience brave the should-never-get-this-cold cold to come to the MESDA facility in Westbrook. [Again,
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03 March 2007
The Roadshow Has Begun!
We'd like to extend a big thank you to everyone who attended the first two stops of Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow! Both events were well attended and, equally important, had active and engaged audiences to keep things interesting. We spent each day covering
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12 February 2007
Announcing Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow!
Bob Familiar and I are busting out of our home bases in Massachusetts and taking our long-winded rants and questionable demos on the roads across the Northeast! In the coming weeks, we'll be bringing the latest in developer- and architect-focused content
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02 January 2007
Speaking on WF at Rhode Island .NET User Group - 1/3/2007
I will be giving a session on Windows Workflow Foundation for the Rhode Island .NET User Group tomorrow night, January 3rd, from 6-8 PM at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. There is also a social hour from 5-6 with soda and pizza. Here is the
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13 November 2006
ArcStream Announcement
Bob Familiar , my Architect Evangelist counterpart in New England, has posted details of upcoming events related to the arcStream initiative: December 11th - arcCouncil meeting on "Composite Application Architecture and User Experience" January 11th -
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