Due to a typo by yours truly, the announcement here had the wrong date. The webcast is TODAY from 2-3:30 EST. I have updated the original post to reflect the correct date. Sorry for any confusion.
The robotics webcast is TODAY!
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Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper codeplex project update for those who want to contribute
Unfortunately, there was a configuration snafu with the email address I gave out for you to request access to the project as a contributor. If you you sent an email from a non Microsoft email address prior to this post, then you received a "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" response. I have fixed the problem, but it may take some time to replicate to all of our servers. Please try again, if you still get a failure response, wait a day. I assure you the email address is valid:).
I have completed refactoring source code project structure to enable better distribution of work across multiple contributors. I’ve also created work items ready to be assigned to contributors. So don’t be shy about contributing:). The more contributors we have, the faster this turns into a useable solution for everyone!
This will be the last time I blog from here about ongoing project issues. All further project specific communications will be done via the codeplex project discussions tab. I will, of course, make announcements about release on this blog:).
I will publish basic getting started instructions for contributors in the next day. I will put the instructions on the discussions tab.
JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control
UPDATE: Fixed the embedded video.
Have you ever wished you could get JavaScript Intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control in Visual Studio 2008? I have, so I came up with a solution and started a codeplex project! I just recorded a short 10 minute channel 9 screencast explaining the solution. The screencast is here. I have also embedded the video in this post for those of you who prefer that. Once the video has started, you can double click it to go fullscreen.
The project is not finished. I need people to volunteer to contribute so we can release full intellisense for the Virtual Earth Map Control 6.0. Instructions for people who want to contribute are in the screencast. The more people willing to contribute, the faster we make this available for everyone!
The codeplex project is http://codeplex.com/vejs.
https://channel9.msdn.com/EmbedVideo.aspx?PostID=386000&Silverlight=true
Want a sneak peek at Silverlight 2 before MIX?
Scott Guthrie posted an update on Silverlight 2 plus an eight part walkthrough of building a Silverlight 2 application. In the final part, he turns the Silverlight 2 application into a WPF application reusing the Silverlight 2 xaml and code. Check it out here!
It’s Launch season!
That’s right, we’re right on the verge of the Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 launch events. They start on February 27th in cities across the country. I’ll be presenting the Defy Occasionally Connected Challenges with Smart Client Applications session in DC on March 25th. Go the launch site and register if your are interested in attending.
WEBCAST: Microsoft Robotics Studio – An Introduction
UPDATE: The date for this webcast in the original post was wrong. The date of this webcast is February 27, 2008 (updated below). Hopefully, if you registered, you noticed this. Sorry for the confusion.
Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. Technologies comprising MSRS are applicable to a wide range of domains, including command and control, sensor networks, financial transactions processing, server management and many others. With Microsoft Robotics Studio, robotics applications can be developed using a selection of programming languages, including those in Microsoft Visual Studio® and Microsoft Visual Studio Express (C# and VB.NET), as well as scripting languages such as Microsoft Iron Python. Third-party languages that support the Microsoft Robotics Studio services-based architecture are also supported. This session will provide an overview of MSRS, its application model and Visual Programming Language as well as peek under the hood at the MSRS technology foundation – Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR), and Decentralized Software Services (DSS).
What you will learn:
- How to get started with Microsoft Robotics Studio
- How to easily create services for a wide variety of robot hardware using the Visual Programming Language
- How MSRS makes Asynchronous Programming easy with the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) which simplifies programming to handle asynchronous input from multiple robotics sensors and output to motors and actuators
- How the Decentralized Software Services (DSS) application model makes it simple to access, and to respond to a robot’s state, using a Web-browser or Windows-based application thereby allowing real time monitoring of robotic sensors and response to motors and actuators.
When
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)
Register at this link:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032366273&Culture=en-US
Note: Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker.
WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008
Thanks to everyone who attended. Sorry for the technical difficulties with Live Meeting as well as accidentally doing one of my demos out of order. Hopefully it wasn’t too confusing.
The deck is here. The demos I used are split into a few downloads. The ones built from scratch are here. The SimpleExpenseReport demo is here. This is the one where both the client service and the workflow service are hosted in the client .exe. I hope to publish a channel 9 screencast next week some time showing, step by step, how to build it. Both the “Long Running Work via Messaging” and the “Conversations” demos are part of the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit which is a free download.
WEBCAST: Building Workflow Services (WF+WCF) with Visual Studio 2008
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are two very relevant technologies within .NET 3.x for Public Sector applications. WCF represents a total unification layer for building connected systems and WF provides a powerful foundation for process reengineering. Combine them and you have an unbelievable set of capabilities for building robust enterprise application that involve both process automation as well as human and machine to machine workflow and process communication. Come learn the basis of how to build WCF services using workflow foundation in Visual Studio 2008.
When
Friday, February 22, 2008
2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)
Register at this link:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032366132&Culture=en-US
Note: Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker.
WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: Introducing Internet Information Server 7 for Developers
Thanks to everyone who attended! A special thanks to Drew Robbins for presenting. The deck is available here. The code samples Drew demonstrated will be available soon. Stay tuned to this blog. I’ll throw up a post when the code is available.
WEBCAST: Introducing Internet Information Server 7 for Developers
I’m really excited to have Drew Robbins speak about IIS7 next week. To me, IIS7 is the thing that developers will care most about in Windows Server 2008. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out why!
Abstract
Learn about new developer features that help make Internet Information Server (IIS) 7 the most flexible, extensible and customizable Web server on the planet. We have rebuilt the extensibility model for IIS7 to be more modular and customizable. We’ll cover the new extensibility architecture in IIS7. In IIS7, the core IIS web server functionality is implemented using the same platform that you will use to build your extensions to the server. We’ll also show off the new distributed configuration system and how easy it is to deploy applications, including IIS configuration, through simple XCopy deployment. You’ll learn about improved support in IIS7 for common Web programming languages like PHP as well as how to do applications using the best of PHP and ASP.NET.
When
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00P-3:30P EST (11:00A-12:30P PST)
Register at this link:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032366128&Culture=en-US
Note: Audio will be via the Internet. Your machine will need a speaker.
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