Verio is offering a sweet little free hosting deal to developers and designers to promote Microsoft-based hosting for products and technologies like Expression, Visual Studio, and Silverlight.  The Plan includes: .NET Framework 3.0 (I am told 3.5 will be made available eventually) SQL Server Express ASP.NET 2.0 (Including ASP.NET AJAX 1.0) ...

Details here. -Marc

It's been a while since I've done a screencast.  I get quite a few ''How Do I?'' questions in my inbox from customers.  Quite often, the initial answer to your question is ''I don't know.''  When that's the case, it gives me the excuse to try it out:).  I am trying to get better at sharing the answers with everyone via the ...

This little nugget just landed in my inbox.  Thanks to Jason for putting it together! http://choosing-a-blog-url-sucks.blogspot.com/2007/04/implementing-smartcard-authentication.html -Marc

As promised, you can get my decks and demos from www.publicsectordeveloper.com (direct link).  The demos are ''as-is'' but feel free to let me know if something doesn't work anymore. A more detailed explanation of the WPF deck and demos can be found here.  If you are interested in WPF, then don't forget to check out the WPF ...

I'm trying to get back into the habit of answering customer questions via the blog so all of you get the benefit of the answer.  Here's a question which showed up in my mailbox recently: ''I have a very large project in ASP.NET 1.1. If I upgrade the server to ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX, will the project possibly break down in places and have to ...

When Oct. 5th  12:00P-1:30P EST (9:00A-10:30A PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032311753&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Note: Audio will be via the Internet, so your machine will need a speaker. Abstract The ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions is a new ...

Edward Jezierski just announced it here. ''The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering currently under development that will provide comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build web solutions using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Workflow Foundation, etc).'' This is the fourth Software Factory the ...

Hot off the presses!  Scott Guthrie has announced the new names for the ASP.NET ''Atlas'' technologies.  The ''Atlas'' client script library becomes the Microsoft AJAX Library.  The server controls become the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions.  The ''Atlas'' Control Toolkit becomes ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.  Even better ...

I just blog'd about the CSS Control Adapter Toolkit here.  If you are a web designer who has tried to use Visual Studio and found it lacking as a tool for CSS dev, then you will definitely want to check out Expression Web.  Expression Web has a great CSS design time experience.  There are quite a few videos in the ...