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  Microsoft Web Experiences Events in NYC, LA, and Denver

  If you want to find out about Microsoft’s next generation of technologies such as Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow, IIS 7, ASP.NET Ajax, and you happen to live near New York City, LA or Denver, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:17 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), .Net Communities, Sharepoint
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  New Jersery User Interface User Group

  Chip is wondering if the New Jersey developer community would be interested in a user group focused on building User Interfaces using the various Microsoft tools/technologies. Chip has been looking to start up a user group, but like a lot of us, his interests Read More... Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 4:03 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Adobe Illustrator, New Jersey Developer Community Events
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  First Look at Oracs September 2006 CTP

  I finally got around to downloading the Orcas September 2006 CTP bits, and started to play with it a bit. If you want to play along with me, you can download it here , or if you have a MSDN subscription, it is up there too (and I think the download times Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:10 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), LINQ
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  NJ Code Camp 2 - Preliminary Session List

  I just published the most recent session list for NJ Code Camp 2. Some of the the regular NJ developer community speakers have asked for slots, but haven't submitted abstracts yet, so they are listed as TBD. With 6 confirmed sessions on Orcas timeframe Read More... Posted Friday, May 19, 2006 10:28 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, New Jersey Developer Community Events
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  New Jersey Code Camp 2 - Call For Speakers

  I announced this about a week ago on the NJ Code Camp site , but I’ll put it up here to help get the word out. The next New Jersey Code Camp will be held on Saturday, June 3rd at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ (the same place as the first one). Read More... Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:50 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, SQL Server, New Jersey Developer Community Events
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  Remix - Win a Trip To MIX06 - This Year's "Unplugged" Conference

  Microsoft conference (and marketing blunder) called MIX06 is giving away 3 free trips to what, in essence, is the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) with a different name . The contest is called Remix MIX and is essentially CSS Zen Garden -like Read More... Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 9:49 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, CSS
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  CSS Tutorial – Designing Without Tables and Not Lose Resizable, Custom Borders

  One of my first blog posts (way back in April 2003 and on the old DotNet Weblogs site, now Weblogs @ ASP.Net) was called Pet Peeve – Using HTML Tables to Control Web Page Layout . Since that early post I really haven’t seen much headway made Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 8:47 PM by donxml | 7 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), XML, Adobe Illustrator, CSS
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  XAML + XLinq + VB.Net's XML Literals Equals Classic ASP For WinForms?

  Disclaimer: I do not work for Microsoft, but I am a Microsoft MVP. The following is all derived from public information, and any inferences or extrapolations are entirely the work of my imagination, and is not something that I know that Microsoft is working Read More... Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 4:24 PM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML, PDC
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  Windows Presentation Foundation As Explained By Pablo Fernicola - WPF Group Program Manager

  Well, well, well, Pablo Fernicola finally has a blog . Pablo is a Group Program Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly called Avalon). He will be presentation the following session at the PDC: PRS309 - Windows Presentation Foundation Read More... Posted Friday, August 26, 2005 9:31 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), PDC
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  Most Anticipated PDC 2005 Session

  I recently began the process of reviewing the sessions for the PDC 2005 and setting up my schedule (which I never seem to follow). The way I normally do this is to scan the speaker list, searching for my friends and those that I have mentally tagged as Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:28 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, PDC
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  Microsoft Codename Acrylic Does Not Do It For Me

  First off, I really, really wanted to love Microsoft’s latest graphics tool, codename Acrylic . I down loaded and install the first public beta, and wasn’t impressed, but hey, it’s an early view into what they are doing, so I decided Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:39 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), SVG, PDC, Adobe Illustrator
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  Nautilus Project Team? Spelunking Corporate Secrets Thru Public Job Postings

  Chris Sells mentions that MS has 25 SDE positions with the keyword “Avalon” advertised on their public job listings. Now, since I’m always interested in things Avalon related, I decide to search the complete job posts, and not just for Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:49 PM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  Adobe To Acquire Macromedia

  Hmm, just heard about this news . Does this show how scared Adobe (and maybe Macromedia) is of Avalon and XAML? Over the last couple years there has been 2 major camps within Adobe, the PDF camp and the SVG camp, and both didn’t seem to like each Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 8:37 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), SVG, XML, Adobe Illustrator
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  VB6’ers Need a Hug (Well That And Maybe To Learn COBOL)

  Well you got to feel sorry for those that can’t accept that a love one is dying . No matter how much voodoo they try, they are not going to revive the body. COM was fundamentally flawed and Don Box published an article on that topic in MSDN Mag Read More... Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:55 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn)
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  A More Definitive XAML Definition

  Disclaimer: My name is Don Demsak, and I’m not a Microsoft employee. I am an independent consultant and a Microsoft MVP in the area of XML. Any information on a Microsoft technology contained in this post is publicly available and not covered under Read More... Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:54 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

  Filed under: .Net, WPF (aka Avalon), Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), XML