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22 January 2008
MSDN/Architecture Journal Readers and the Reader SDK
Some very cool news if you're a fan of the WPF-based New York Times reader or Seattle P-I reader . We've just released the Reader SDK which you can use to quickly create similar rich applications for your own purposes. In addition, the MSDN Magazine Reader
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16 January 2008
.NET Framework Source Now Available
Scott Guthrie has just posted the excellent news that everything is now in place for people to access the source code for the .NET Framework! You can now configure Visual Studio 2008 to step through your code and directly into the source for classes in
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03 January 2008
New MSDN and TechNet Series in the Northeast
The next series of MSDN and TechNet events is coming in January and February, and there are ten events planned for the northeast. Each day is split with TechNet in the morning (8-12) and MSDN in the afternoon (1-5). MSDN: " Explore IIS7, ASP.NET and Tackle
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29 November 2007
GameDev Day '07 Agenda and Additions
GameDev Day '07 is this Saturday at Harvard and I'm very pleased with how well the agenda has come together. We have an incredibly strong group of presenters from the gaming industry with interesting sessions throughout the day. First, a change in logistics.
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18 November 2007
GameDev Day '07 Boston - XNA, Gaming, and Game Development
Like games? Wonder how they're made? Want to know how to make them yourself? Come to GameDev Day '07 , a free event being hosted at Harvard University on December 1st, sponsored by Microsoft in association with the Harvard Interactive Media Group ( HIMG
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31 October 2007
C# Day Event in Waltham on November 13th
Michael de la Maza has run three very successful (and free!) C# Day events in Waltham since the summer. I'm glad to say he's ready to run another one on November 13th from 8:30 - 4:00 at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. C# Day is a great way to take
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03 October 2007
.NET Framework Libraries - Source Code Coming!
Big news again from Scott Guthrie. We're announcing coming availability of the source code for the .NET Base Class Libraries! From Scott's post : "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download
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02 September 2007
Webcast Series for Becoming a Better Developer
Here's a chance to take a step back from the technology treadmill and consider your career. John Bristowe posts that my colleagues with Microsoft Canada are hosting a series of 5 webcasts, not on technology X or Y , but on the fundamentals of being a
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02 August 2007
Code Camp 8: The Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
The fall is rapidly approaching, and with that comes another fantastic weekend of code, technology, and developer community called Code Camp. Save the dates of September 29th and 30th for Code Camp 8: "The Rise of the Silverlight Surfer" (thanks to Andy
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30 July 2007
Controls and Control Libraries for Silverlight
Though the jury is still out on what controls we'll see in or alongside Silverlight 1.1 when it's released, there are a number of reusable controls and libraries emerging to help make development more efficient and familiar to developers used to WinForms
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29 July 2007
A Guide to the Newly-Released Developer Updates
Though I managed to sneak away for some vacation time this week, it's clearly been a busy time for the product teams. Here's a summary of the recently-released betas and updates with links for more information: Silverlight Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate
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05 July 2007
C# Day - August 3rd in Waltham
After the successful first run in C# Day community learning event in June, Michael de la Maza is offering his time to run it again in August. Michael has made a number of changes to the day's format and timing, so to be prepared for what to expect, please
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05 July 2007
Online Introductory C# Workshop
Jeromy Walsh at GameDev.net is hosting a free 9+ week online C# Language Workshop : This workshop is designed to aid people in their journey to learn beginning C#. This workshop is targeted at highly motivated individuals who are interested in learning
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29 June 2007
Index of Silverlight Games (Most with Source)
In my experience, many corporate developers by day are actually gamers by night (after putting the kids in bed, of course.) So when an interesting technology like Silverlight comes along, a good way to learn what it can do is to see gaming concepts applied,
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20 June 2007
Free Microsoft Online Developer Courses
The Microsoft Learning site has a number of self-paced eLearning courses on current technologies (e.g. .NET 2.0 & 3.0 and VS2005.) I've pulled the subset of the developer courses that are free and listed them below, but take a look at the full developer
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