Details here. -Marc

I was asked by someone in my management chain, let's call them Manager X, to build a sample Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that would be of potential use to our US Public Sector customers.  Since many Government employees travel and many consultants working for the US Government use the GSA Per Diem Rates, we decided to go with a rate ...

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 ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can find links to the downloads from previous posts here and here.  The per diem gadget I showed should be ready in the next couple weeks. -Marc

When April 18th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334426&Culture=en-US Note: Audio will be via the Internet.  Your machine will need a speaker. Abstract Windows Sidebar Gadgets are lightweight programmable objects that provide real-time, ...

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 ...

You can download the deck and code from the presentation here.  A recording of the webcast is available here.  -Marc

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 ...

Here's the updated deck and code.  Many folks asked about support for mobile devices.  Although we don't have an API/SDK for mobile devices yet, we do have a nice consumer app which works on both Java and Windows Mobile based phones.  More details here. Also, Kevin Adler from the Public Sector Virtual Earth team asked that I share ...

Sorry for those of you who expected this post to show up yesterday.  You can find my updated deck here and the gadget which uses ASP.NET AJAX for web service calls + client side data binding here. -Marc