The Patterns & Practices Team have recently released v1.0 of the web services security guide (in PDF format) that shows how to make the most out of WCF.  With end-to-end application scenarios, it shows you how to design and implement authentication and authorization in WCF. Learn how to improve the security of your WCF services through ...

  The Patterns & Practices team has recently released the Composite Application Guidance for WPF which provides guidance for ''componetizing'' the development of enterprise-class WPF applications across multiple development teams, with each team owning a piece of the application, and then seamlessly integrating these pieces into one ...

We are celebrating Visual Studio Myth Week from June 2-6.  Are you curious to find out what it is all about? Please stop by during/after the week at http://www.mythweek.com to learn more.  We hope you can join us. -Nandita

I found this great article by Rachel Wireman and how-to documentation on building Outlook integration functionality with C#, and it has downloadable source code. She covers, General Outlook integration issues Creating an Outlook Contact with C# Programmatically sending emails to your Outlook contacts It's short and the code samples are easy to ...

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

Messenger Apps have evolved into a full-blown platform for communication. We see messenger-aware applications everywhere. We have also seen specific application of messenger technology for Customer Service integration. So we have seen messenger invading other apps. How about the reverse? Extending Live Messenger so that it can offer context ...

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 ...