Hi! I'm Alfred Biehler, working with Microsoft UK alongside Claire in Microsoft's Developer platform group. My focus is on all our UK developers, and I've been given the opportunity to attend the MIX conference at Las Vegas. My expectations of the event was high, and I'm not disappointed! For starters: You can join in this amazing event ...

We've been blogging about Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation ever since this blog started, a little over a year ago.   I'm happy to report that, these three technologies, which, along with Windows Cardspace, form the core of the .Net Framework 3.0, have officially been ...

Do you want to learn how to quickly convert your .NET Applications/Components to Service Oriented Solutions?  If so, then that's perfect, because I want to show you how easy it will be with the .NET 3.0 Framework and Windows Communication Foundation.  Register and attend my web cast and I promise very little PowerPoint (just for a bit of ...

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 ...

I just caught wind of these via Paul Andrew.  Paul has links to the new white papers here.  I haven't read them myself, but it's on my list of things to do:).  -Marc tags: Microsoft, .NET, WinFX, .NET Framework 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, Avalon, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, Indigo, Windows Workflow ...

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 ...

The .NET Framework 3.0 - Release Candidate also became available yesterday. Formerly known as WinFX, this Community Technology Preview of .NET Framework 3.0 enables you to continue experimenting with early builds of Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code named "Avalon")Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code ...