Thanks to everyone who stuck around for my "Defy Occasionally-Connected Challenges With Smart Client Applications" session at the DC Launch.  The deck and demo files are available here: Deck Workflow Services Demo Sync Services for ADO.NET Demo Server Database The demos require Visual Studio 2008 and depend on a SQL Server 2005 ...

Thanks to everyone who attended my 4 HOUR Virtual Earth workshop at the GIS-T conference.  The files I promised are available below: Slide deck Main Demos Hosting Virtual Earth in WPF demo All my demos require Visual Studio 2008 because I use features of the .NET Framework 3.5 in places.  I still need to clean/package up my Virtual ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck here and the demo code here.  As always, if you missed it, you should be able to view a recording within 24 hours by following the original registration link.  I have also add the recording link to my list of recorded webcasts here. -Marc Technorati Tags: windows ...

NOTE: Even thought this is a WPF session, the focus is on tooling (i.e. VS2008 & Blend).  Silverlight 2 developers who want to understand the future tooling experience for Silverlight should attend this session.  In fact, the UI I created during the session is the EXACT SAME UI I will be using for my upcoming Silverlight 2 ...

Josh Smith has great article on his approach to building "unit test-friendly" WPF applications by using the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern.  I just love this statement from the article: "If you put ten software architects into a room and have them discuss what the Model-View-Controller pattern is, you will end up with ...

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 ...

.NET Framework 3.0 Release Candidate (RC) was made available for download on September 1st.  I have been holding off on blogging about it because all of the relevant tools were not yet available until yesterday.  Rob Relyea has a nice post here pointing you to all the bits.  -Marc tags: .NET, WinFX, .NET Framework ...