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) ...

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 ...

A while back, I blogged about using WPF/E & Virtual Earth together.  The post is here.  I've also blogged about adding Virtual Earth in a Windows Forms application here (last paragraph).  What about WPF?  Given that the Virtual Earth v4 Map Control is delivered as a set of JavaScript libraries, the same approach we ...

When Feb. 27th 2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST) Where Register at this link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032325327 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, ...

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 ...