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We're baaaack! Bob and Chris hit the road in September...
Chris and I are about to embark on another road trip visiting all our favorite haunts here in the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/22/2007
Code Camp 8: Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
Technorati Tags: Silverlight, Code Camp Chris Bowen has announced Code Camp 8: Rise of the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/17/2007
Pluralsight offers a Double Feature / WCF + WF
Technorati Tags: .Net 3.0, WCF, WF, Pluralsight Pluralsight offers some of the best courses...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/17/2007
Silverlight, Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend
What do these products have in common? Well they just moved one step closer to being released. And...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/10/2007
Microsoft SoftGrid Job Openings
Technorati Tags: SoftGrid, Jobs SoftGrid is expanding their capabilities and facility. They are...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/09/2007
Code Camp 8 - Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
Technorati Tags: Silverlight, Code Camp Chris Bowen has announced the next code camp event to be...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/03/2007
PluralSight offers Applied .Net 3.0 Course
Technorati Tags: PluralSight, .Net 3.0, Training I highly recommend that you attend the upcoming...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/11/2007
VS2008, SQL 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Launch Date Announced
Today (July 10th) at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Kevin Turner announced that Visual Studio...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/10/2007
Index of Silverlight Games
Chris Bowen has cataloged a nice collection of Silverlight games most of which come with source....
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/30/2007
AJAX and Silverlight @ the NYC arcCouncil June 2007 ReCap
I had a great time presenting at the New York City arcCouncil event hosted by Bill Zack at the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/29/2007
Breaking changes between Silverlight 1.0 Beta and RC1
Joe Stegman has a detailed blog post on the breaking changes between Silverlight beta and version...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/25/2007
Yummy Silverlight Nibbles!
A new site with on-line Silverlight tutorials, build completely in Silverlight by the way, has been...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/21/2007
MSDN Enterprise Architecture Site Launched
The Enterprise Architecture site has been launched on MSDN. Enterprise Architecture has become a...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/19/2007
Silverlight and Silverlight Streaming Nuts and Bolts
Danny Thorpe has a great post on how to get your Silverlight applications working with the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/15/2007
CardSpace and Silverlight at the VB.Net User Group
It was great to see everyone at the VB.Net User Group meeting in Waltham, MA last night. I enjoyed...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/08/2007
MSDN Event - AJAX + Silverlight
I had a great time speaking at the MSDN Events this week on the topics of Microsoft ASP.Net AJAX and...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/08/2007
'Acropolis' CTP for WPF Development Released
The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/06/2007
SQL Server 2008 'Katmai' CTP Is Now Available
Click SQL Server “Katmai” June CTP release to get started. Here are the 4 main functional areas that...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/06/2007
Microsoft Web Experience events in Los Angeles and Denver
Microsoft is hosting free Microsoft Web Experience events at the Los Angeles Microsoft officeon June...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/06/2007
File under way cool!
Multi-touch display technology has been demonstrated in the realms of R&D conferences and now...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/30/2007
FYI: Pre-Release copies of Vista about to Expire
On May 31, 2007, pre-release versions of Windows Vista will expire. If you are running a pre-release...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/22/2007
Making sense of WPF and Silverlight
Microsoft is releasing technology at the speed of light (Silverlight to be precise). This may or may...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/21/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow May Event Content Available...
The content from the May 2007 Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow has now been posted to the...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/21/2007
WPF based Digital Publishing Application Launched - Xiine
Xiine, pronounced 'zeen', is a WPF application that you can download that provides access to digital...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/15/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow May 2007 Recap
Chris and I had a great time in Burlington VT, Rochester NY, Hartford CT, Portland ME and Nashua NH....
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/12/2007
Bob and Chris's MSDN Roadshow coming in May!!!
We've decided to take our long winded rants and questionable demos to a city near you. And if you...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/29/2007
Windows Server Longhorn Beta3 has arrived...
To find out more about how you can 'light up' your applications on the latest beta release of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/26/2007
Aspiring Architect Web Casts
If you are a developer and want to understand what it takes to transition to architecture, these Web...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/25/2007
.Net Pub Club Syracuse, NY
.NET Pub Club @ Pizzeria Uno’s Carousel Mall, Syracuse, NY Food and soft drinks Sponsored by...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/10/2007
Windows Workflow Foundation Starter Kit
The Windows Workflow Foundation Starter Kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates using...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/07/2007
Xaml and WPF - A Primer
Xaml (pronounced zammel), eXtensible Application Markup Language, is a new declarative XML-based...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/04/2007
Expression and MSDN Announcement
Based on community feedback, we are pleased to announce that we will be making Expression Web...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/03/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow: Code Camp Edition
Those of you who had wanted the Roadshow to swing through Massachusetts now have access at Code Camp...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/28/2007
Bob and Chris MSDN Roadshow Recap - Farmington CT
Another great turnout for the MSDN Roadshow. A big thanks to the architect and developer community...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/22/2007
New Visual Studio Toolkit for Cardspace
Kim Cameron has just blogged Christian Arnold’s release of a Visual Studio Tookit for Cardspace that...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/22/2007
Job Openings at Softricity in Boston!!!
The Boston based Microsoft Softricity product group has job openings for Program and Project...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/16/2007
3rd Party XAML Tools
At a recent MSDN event I was asked about tools for doing 3D rendering that would generate XAML...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/16/2007
Get yourself to MIX07, Las Vegas, April 20th-May2nd
Not sure if you should attend MIX07? Then listen up... You should attend MIX07 because... MIX will...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/14/2007
arcCouncil April 12th 2007 - Microsoft/SAP Interoperability
Please join us on April 12th at a local Microsoft office for the next arcCouncil meeting on...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/13/2007
Content Posted for Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow - March 2007 Edition
We have uploaded our content from the March 2007 Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow event. You can...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/12/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow Recap - Manchester, NH
Thank you to the architect and developer community in New Hampshire!!! The folks who attended were...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/09/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow Recap - Portland ME
Thank you to the architect and developer community in Maine!!! The folks who attended were great and...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/07/2007
Windows Cardspace errata
During this current Bob & Chris MSDB Roadshow, I've been presenting on the topic of Windows...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/02/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow Recap - Burlington VT
Thank you to the architect and developer community in Vermont!!! A special thanks for Julie Lerman...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/02/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow Recap - Rochester, NY
Thank you to the architect and developer community in upstate New York!!! Chris Bowen and I had a...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/02/2007
Architecture Headlines on MSDN
User Interface - Part 3 in Ted Neward’s series on Pragmatic Architecture Ted Neward sneaks a glance...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 03/02/2007
WPF Applications For Your Review...
Here is a list of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications that are availabe to use or get...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/20/2007
Composite Application Architecture Site Goes Live on MSDN
Composite application Architecture site goes live on MSDN....
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/14/2007
Web 2.0 ARCouncil Content Posted
The presentations from the Feburary 12th arcCouncil by Michael Platt, Dion Hinchcliffe and Ibrahim...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/14/2007
Bob and Chris' MSDN Roadshow Coming to a City Near You
Chris Bowen and I are busting out of our home bases in Massachusetts and taking our long-winded...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 02/14/2007