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 ...

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 ...

I just came across this recently published article.  A significant portion of it covers accessibility.  You'll also want to download the Writing Accessible Web Applications document from MSDN Downloads.  The document talks about accessibility with AJAX. -Marc

If you've attended any of my Virtual Earth presentations, then you've heard me talk about and show a prototype of a ASP.NET AJAX based Virtual Earth server control.  Chris Pietchsmann has released an alpha of his PietschSoft.VE v2 control.  Have a look at his announcement here. -Marc

Wow, Jan has released an update to his SmartPart that provides support for ASP.NET AJAX.  In his implementation, he made use of Eric Schoonover's AjaxBasePart class that he talks about in this post. Read more about it here.

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Sorry for the technical difficulties.  I really appreciate the fact that most of you stuck around.  I am not sure how/why I dropped of the conference bridge.  I'm just glad I was able to get back on before the majority of you gave up.  The slide deck and code ...