January 2008 Blog Posts
There’s a range of events coming up in the next few months; In February we’ve got Guy Smith-Ferrier coming to nxtgen Oxford to talk about Astoria ADO.NET Data Services, and a nugget from a new speaker, Marc Gravell on adding operators to generics. If you want to come along please register first, it makes my life easier. What:Ahhh, Ahh, AstoriaThe emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has brought new opportunities and caused us to solve old problems in new ways. AJAX and Silverlight applications need read/write access to data and business objects without performing full page refreshes and without dumbing down...
I know, it really should be implementing an Information Card Security Token Service but lets not scare people! It’s something new for me anyway; webcasting to a global audience, voice only so you needn’t worry about that. You can submit questions though the geekSpeak blog and register for the event on msevents. What is 10am PST in "proper" time anyway? <g> What:MSDN geekSpeakIn this installment of MSDN geekSpeak, Barry Dorrans talks about problems and solutions when implementing a Windows CardSpace identity provider in the real world. If you have a question or comment you would like us to address during...
Just a reminder that Daniel Moth, renowned (should that be infamous?) Microsoft DPE speaker is coming to introduce us to Visual Studio 2008 and v3.5 of the .NET framework on Monday. Daniel is always good value; and, of course, attendance is free, so register and sign up on the nxtgen website so we know you’re coming. What:VS2008 and .NET 3.5Want to know how Visual Studio 2008 differs from every single previous release of Visual Studio? Do the terms "red bits" and "green bits" confuse you? Are you having a hard time finding what exactly is new in the...