I thought I'd post the contents of an email that was sent to contactable Developers in the US in the event you're on our ''do not contact'' list and therefore wouldn't have seen this important information. ________________ In 2005, the United States government passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act changes the start and end dates for ...

I've just finished updating all of the Windows Communications Foundation Workshops to the Release Candidate 1 build.  There's been a lot of changes from the Beta 2 builds, so if you've had a chance to work the labs within the workshop you might want to take another look. :)    Here's a list of the 6 parts Part 1: Introduction to ...

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 ...

Scott Berry is blogging about WinForms/WPF interop.  His first post is is a nice list of gotchas.  I suspect many people will incrementally introduce WPF into their Windows Forms based applications in places where taking advantage of the rich visualization of WPF makes sense.  This should prove to be a helpful blog for those of ...

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 ...

Brian Goldfarb announced the new version here.  Scott Guthrie has a nice walkthrough here.  The toolkit itself comes with a tutorial.  You can get the toolkit here. Are you saying to yourself ''Great, but what the heck is it?''  Many of the ASP.NET 2.0 server controls render out of the box using html tables.  This ...