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Launch event: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals
Register quickly at https://teams-deliver.com, as this event is sure to fill up quickly. Atlanta GA...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/16/2006
Free .NET 3.0 Training!
Want to learn .NET 3.0? Here's your chance to learn it for free. .NET University Doug Turnure,...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/16/2006
Live From Redmond Webcast Series
How cool is this? I just read about a great webcast series called "Live From Redmond" that has some...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/10/2006
I’ve Got That Buffett Thing Starting to Kick In
This year, I turn 35. There's a song by Jimmy Buffett called "A Pirate Looks At Forty." Most people...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/08/2006
Phased Migration From ASMX to WCF
This question came up on an internal list recently (rephrasing the question slightly): I have an...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/05/2006
Blog from Word 2007 WITH Code Formatting
The past few blog posts that I have made had some code in them, and the formatting was lost. I am...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/04/2006
Great C++/CLI Tutorial
I firmly believe that every developer ought to be at least familiar with C++, preferably have...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/04/2006
Simple WCF Service Behavior: Inspect Messages Through Debug Output
As I demo various web service technologies to customers, inevitably someone is really interested in...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 10/01/2006
Presentation Mode in Vista
I was at a customer the other day, presenting on .NET 3.0, and the desktop background image on my...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/25/2006
James Wants to Hire You for Your Dream Job: Architect Evangelist for .NET 3.0
OK, I love my job. But this posting made me reconsider my current career: I have an open position on...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/19/2006
GeekSpeak This Wednesday, Plus a Little Atlas
I was lucky enough for my friend Glen Gordon to invite me to speak at this week's GeekSpeak. Of...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/18/2006
WCF Outlook Demo - in VB.NET
[Updated: I added the source as a post attachment (thanks, Robert, for the suggestion).] I often...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/28/2006
Shared Source at Microsoft
I did a presentation on web services and WCF recently for a crowd that consisted mainly of Java...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/14/2006
I just got a new XBox 360... now what?
For Father's Day, my wife bought me a shiny new drill. While I was very appreciative, I knew that it...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/24/2006
Shawn Wildermuth's Article on SQL Server 2005 and XML
Shawn Wildermuth wrote a great DevX article on Making Sense of the XML DataType in SQL Server 2005....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/23/2006
Why Can't I Find a List of Zip Codes, Cities, and States?
I am working on a demo, and one of the things I dreamed up involves looking up cities based on a zip...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/16/2006
Buzzword Bingo 2.0
AT LAX, waiting on a plane to Atlanta, I bought a book, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/14/2006
ASMX 2.0 and SchemaImporterExtensions
I like the concept of SchemaImporterExtensions in ASMX 2.0. As you import the schema through proxy...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/13/2006
My ASMX 2.0 Webcast Today
I am presenting a webcast on ASMX 2.0 today from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST, which is 8:00 am - 9:00am...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/13/2006
.NET: The Gospels
A friend looking to get into software development and eager to start his career asked what he should...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/12/2006
.NET 3.0 Treatment Centers?
The CodeRyder blog quoted my posting on .NET Framework 3.0: Kirk Allen Evans clearly stated that...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/12/2006
.NET Framework 3.0: Clearing the Confusion
This past Friday, Soma announced .NET Framework 3.0. Customers are already asking things like "is C#...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/11/2006
Julie Lerman's Webcast on WSE 3.0 Today!
Julie Lerman's webcast on “Introducing Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE)...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/08/2006
Reason #56: Why Hanselman rocks
Tonight I did a bit of referrer surfing, which could be deemed ego surfing. I started looking...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/07/2006
How to Divine What Your Generated ASMX Web Service Proxy Will Be Named
Not long ago, I posted "Why Should You Care About Interfaces in ASMX? Because It Provides...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/06/2006
Microsoft Architect Connections - Harry Pierson Keynote
Today is the day that we host the Microsoft Architect Connections event here in LA at the Omni...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/06/2006
June is Web Services Webcast Month
We have some incredible webcasts to bring you during the month of June. Not only is there a great...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/30/2006
Use DHTML To Create Your Own Sidebar Gadgets
Looks like all that time I spent in the late 1990’s writing JavaScript is going to pay off,...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/29/2006
C# Versus JavaScript Analogies
I was reading the comments on Nikhil’s blog post announcing Script#. Dimitre Glazkov says that...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/28/2006
LoadFest!
Today at the Alpharetta office, some of our team is getting together for a Vista and Office 12...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/24/2006
Lots of Smart Client Information
I recently did a set of Smart Client presentations, and thought I would share out the resources to...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/23/2006
Time to Update That Old Machine With Some New Bits
Wow… lots of publicly available releases being announced. WinFX Beta 2 and Windows Vista Beta...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/23/2006
The SharePoint Show
Gene Kraybill created SharePointShow.com, which sports an impressive collection of information on...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/22/2006
New WS-AtomicTransaction Configuration Tools
Andy Milligan posts on the new WS-AtomicTransaction configuration tools in WCF for the upcoming...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/16/2006
Atlanta Code Camp 2006 - What's New in ASMX 2.0 Resources
Thanks to everyone that attended yesterday's Atlanta Code Camp 2006 session on "What's New in ASMX...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/14/2006
Blogging from Word 2007... Almost
Well, my blogging from Word 2007 didn't go exactly as I planned. But I just figured out why. The...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/12/2006
Blogging from Word 2007
I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 today. I was reluctant to install previous versions of Office 2007...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/12/2006
Free MSAC Invitation - Registration is Filling Up Fast!
Whoa! A lot of folks took me up on the offer for the Microsoft Architect Connections invitation....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/11/2006
Microsoft Architect Connections
Wanna hear some incredible presentations from folks like Harry Pierson from Microsoft, David Sprott...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/10/2006
Psst... Microsoft Gives Away Free Stuff.. Don't Tell Anybody
I have noticed more than a few opportunities for folks to receive free stuff lately. I thought I...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/08/2006
Find the Cheapest Gas Around Your Zip Code
I had no idea this existed. MSN Autos can find the cheapest gas around your area, overlaying the gas...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/02/2006
Atlanta Falcons Pick D.J. Shockley in 2006 Draft
I am so happy for DJ Schockley. After playing 3 years as backup to David Green, it was really...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/30/2006
Dynamically Invoking a Web Service
One of the promises of web services is that you can dynamically discover new services and invoke...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/27/2006