.NET Guru, David Platt (of Rolling Thunder ) and author of Introducing Microsoft.NET , Programming CAB and SCSF , and Why Software Sucks is giving an online training for Prism 2.0! It's a three day course to be held July 7-9 , and looks like it covers everything from the goals and basic architecture...

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  Find More Code Samples on MSDN using MSDN Code Search Preview… After design revisions to the UI, the addition of MSDN Code Gallery and CodePlex content, and an updated feed from the MSDN Library, MSDN Code Search Preview is now capable of delivering more code samples via search .  How to...

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According to TechRepublic ...... 1: One of the “Big Three” (.NET, Java, PHP) 2: Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) 3: Web developmentWeb 4: Web services (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML) 5: Soft skills 6: One dynamic and/or functional programming language 7: Agile methodologies 8: Domain knowledge 9...

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I host several sites (including this blog) at MaximumASP and have migrated to MaxV - and it ROCKS !!!! Full review coming soon, but becuase I'm having such a great experience with the Hyper-V based hosting I wanted to let you know about it. There is nothing like RDP access to your web server !!!!!! MaxV...

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This weekend I played with Geneva. Microsoft code name “Geneva”, an open platform for simplified user access based on claims. This release consists of three components: Geneva Framework for .NET developers, Geneva Server for IT Pros, and Windows CardSpace Geneva for users. [ Click HERE for...

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I love good Web / CMS applications, but there aren't too many written for ASP.NET. I thought I'd share one I just found and am having some fun with. Check it out. Looks Cool ! http://tandemserver.org/...

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.NET Guru, David Platt (of Rolling Thunder ) and author of Introducing Microsoft.NET , Programming CAB and SCSF , and Why Software Sucks is giving an online training for Prism 2.0! It's a three day course to be held May 18-20, and looks like it covers everything from the goals and basic architecture...

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Here is an interesting opportunity for career development for Technical Professionals. Microsoft is partnering with governments, private, public and community organizations to launch Elevate America; free and low cost resources that provide the skills, training and certifications needed for people of...

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REALLY distributed architectures are playing a bigger and bigger role in application development these days and Azure is an exciting bit of "Cloud" based technology. Check out ..... SQL Data Services Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed...

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The wizards over in the Microsoft patterns & practices group have been at it again and released .... The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) What’s PRISM? The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build modular Windows Presentation...

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