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 ...

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 was inspired by WPF/E and ''Layering'' Content and Using Opacity with a WPFE / Virtual Earth Mashup to try something similar but different.  I wanted to be able to show WPFE content (vector graphics, text, and video) on a map when I hover over a pushpin.  So I hacked away and this is what I came up with: The two ...