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Getting Public Key Token of Assembly Within Visual Studio
I am in training this week with Andrew Connell (by far the best SharePoint training I have ever...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/18/2008
How to Build a Networked Zune Game with XNA
Dan Waters has a great video series as well as code download showing how to build a networked Zune...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/16/2008
How Movies and Video Games are Made With Motion Capture at Motus
I finally got these videos posted! This was an incredibly fun day for me. I was fortunate to spend...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/16/2008
Channel9 Interviews Posted
I have procrastinated forever it seems on getting some of my videos published onto Channel9. Well, I...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/13/2008
SharePoint Firestarter Webcast Event
Wow! There are currently 265 people on the SharePoint Firestarter webcast event. This is a live...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/11/2008
Mod_Rewrite on IIS7 (well, kind of)
No, we didn't directly port Mod-Rewrite to IIS7. But there is a great implementation of a URL...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/08/2008
A Day of SharePoint Developer Training
A Full Day SharePoint WebCast Wed June 11thThe recent SharePoint developer webcasts have been such a...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/08/2008
Review: Vista 64 Bit and Lenovo T61P
Over the past week, I have had the pleasure of seeing how Vista is supposed to run. I have been...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/29/2008
Microsoft and Web 2.0 Resources
Thanks to the folks at Lexis Nexis who attended my talk on "Microsoft and Web 2.0" today. I went...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/28/2008
Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation
My friend, Ali Mazaheri, has co-authored a paper on MSDN, "Developing Workflow Solutions with...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/27/2008
MS CUI Patient Journey Demonstrator - Secondary Care
Very cool demonstration of how Silverlight is much more than just delivering HD video. MS CUI...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/27/2008
Caught That Old Time Religion
What an appropriate title coming from an Architect Evangelist J I have come to learn from my short...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/20/2008
Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008
If you try to install MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008, you are going to get an error that there is...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/16/2008
TIBCO Announces Interoperability with WCF and Adoption of Silvlierlight
As I work with various telcos, I have run across opportunities to integrate .NET solutions with...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/15/2008
Thanks to Lexis Nexis!
We are about to start a great day showing technologies like .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/30/2008
What You Need To Know: WCF, WCF, ADO.NET SyncServices, and ClickOnce
I had a great time visiting with a great team at Verizon this week. I was able to present on a...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/23/2008
LabCast: Enterprise Search with SharePoint 2007
What a fantastic idea... online training with a hands-on virtual lab. This is what I'm talking...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/23/2008
Watch the Masters Live... Using Silverlight
Very cool... AT&T is broadcasting the Masters via Silverlight! The site includes a player that...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/12/2008
Using the Virtual Earth Control in SharePoint
I have been using the Virtual Earth control a lot lately for various demos, mostly by putting...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/12/2008
Calling Web Services via AJAX - Part 2
Looks like this is an interesting topic to a lot of people since part 1 of this series made it to...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/09/2008
Compressing Huge Virtual PC Hard Drives
I have several upcoming demos where I'd like to show off Windows Server 2008. I broke out my MSDN...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/06/2008
Creating RESTful Services Using WCF
A question popped up on an internal email distribution list today about how to expose a WCF service...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/03/2008
Calling WebServices via AJAX Part 1
Several months ago, one of my customers asked me a fairly pointed question: how do you call web...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/03/2008
AT&T Announced the Surface in their Experience Stores
Getting the Surface into the AT&T Experience Stores is something that I have gotten to be a part...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/02/2008
Digital Asset Management and IMM
My wife says I have the humor of a 13-year old at times. Maybe she's right. I was able to interview...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/30/2008
Doin' The Hulu Dance
I am in love with Hulu.com. It's slick. The video is crisp, the site is incredibly easy to navigate,...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/27/2008
Agile Architecture with Don Browning and Peter Provost
Way back in November 2007, I visited Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, Georgia for an on-site event...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/27/2008
The .NET and Java Interoperability Message Is Starting to Get Out
When it comes to web services interoperability between .NET and Java, the choice used to be limited...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/26/2008
WPF and DataBinding
If you are a regular reader, you will have noticed that I don't often blog about UI type stuff....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/21/2008
Where The Heck is "Add Web Reference" in Visual Studio 2008?!?!
I was working on a demo for a customer and needed to use ASMX web services. I crufted up my sample...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/18/2008
DataBinding WPF to a WCF Service, and Leveraging IValueConverter for Encoded XML
I met with a customer the other day who had an interesting question: how do I databind a WPF app to...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/17/2008
They Won!!!
After 19 games, the last game of the season... my son's hockey team finally won a game! My son...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/16/2008
JavaScript Intellisense for Virtual Earth
One of my favorite things about Visual Studio 2008 is the JavaScript support, getting debugging and...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/07/2008
I Want My MTV. For Free.
I have been working with the Communications Sector at Microsoft for about 4 years. My role has...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/06/2008
Silverlight to run on Nokia
CNet is reporting "Microsoft Silverlight coming to mobile devices this year". Seems like a great...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/04/2008
Joe on Communications as a Service (CaaS)
A great article by my teammate, Joseph Hofstader, was posted to the MSDN Architecture Center called...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/03/2008
Communicating - Live on Channel9!
Our new show, "Communicating", is live on Channel9. My teammate, Michael Scherotter, posted a great...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/03/2008
Windows Mobile Fortunate Advertising Placement
I loaded up Windows Live Messenger, and up pops up the Windows Live Today window. Under MSN...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 02/15/2008
Preview Handlers in Vista and Outlook
I have been meaning to blog about this for a long time. Tim Heuer wrote a great code preview handler...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 02/02/2008
LINQ to SQL vs. LINQ to Entities Smackdown!
OK, maybe not a smackdown... but it sure sounded like a good title. There's a great paper on MSDN...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/29/2008
WCF and Custom Bindings
In this post, I am going to create a custom binding on the service side that does the same exact...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/24/2008
Finally... Justice for my Friend, Rocky
Since I don't live in Atlanta anymore, I hadn't gotten the news that Rodney Battles was finally...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/18/2008
Another Great Day to be a Dad
I just got this email from my wife about my 5-year old daughter. Avery just called home... she's...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/17/2008
What's In a WCF Binding, And What Can My Service Do Right Now?
I saw an interesting question in an internal mailing list, asking how to show the binding name for...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/09/2008
Modify Message Content With WCF
Plenty of resources talk about extensibility in WCF, and mention IClientMessageInspector and...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 01/08/2008