For those of you (like me) who are interested in Accessibility and/or need to ensure your websites remain in compliance with section 508 you'll be interested to know that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on Nov. 3, 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it ...

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Here are the download links I promised: Deck: Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 Code: My Digg Sample The sample app is based on Scott Guthrie's First Look at Silverlight 2 blog series.  I added some things here and there.  If you want to see the same basic demo ...

Are you interested in using Silverlight in SharePoint?  If so, you will definitely want to check out the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint.  It's chock full of samples that show you exactly how to do it! There are 6 samples including the obligatory Hello World WebPart, how to interact with SharePoint lists, call WCF services, create ...

Robert & James each did a webcast for me while I was away on family leave.  I just update My Recorded Webcasts so you can find the recordings.  The titles are Advanced SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Silverlight for Designers. -Marc Technorati Tags: sharepoint,windows workflow foundation,visual ...

My team is sponsoring a pretty interesting free training opportunity in the DC area January 19th-20th.  I'll be there for the whole event.  Hope to see you there!  Here are the details:   Infusion Development and Microsoft are calling all Insomniacs Sleepless – is back and this time bringing the best of SharePoint, Office ...

One of the biggest challenges I feel that we (Microsoft) face in showcasing the ''value'' of architecting/developing Office Business Applications is providing what I'll call ''solid reference implementations'' along the lines of Duwamish Books, Fitch and Mather, Global Bank, LitwareHR, other many other solutions we've released.  Sure, we have ...

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTERS TARGET AUDIENCE November 2, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What's New in VSTO and Visual Studio 2008 Joel Reyes Developers November 9, 2007 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast VSTO Demos  Marathon ...

Part 2 of the 2-part series on how we migrated Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 is now online.  In this installment, we talk about how we designed and built the Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently hosted on Conservation International's newly re-launched, MOSS powered, ...

You may recall in a previous post, I wrote about how I led a couple of projects to migrate Conservation International's public websites to SharePoint Server 2007 as well as implement a Silverlight v1.1-based Carbon Offset Calculator that is currently hosted on Conservation International's newly re-launched ...

As mentioned in my last post, in addition to the website redesign and replatform to MOSS, I also oversaw a project that involved taking one of the customer's primary ''eye candy'' applications, an HTML/JavaScript-based carbon calculator, and ported it to Microsoft Silverlight v1.1 Alpha.  We solicited the services of a couple of talented ...