Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the Microsoft PDC conference in Los Angeles, California. The conference was a three day event, focused on all the new things  a Microsoft Developer would/should care about.  This is a review of that conference.

Ever wonder what you should know before starting a Microsoft Surface development project.  Here are some things the "Getting Started" documents don't tell you.

Here is the demo code I used during the MSDN webcast with Mike Benkovich. This demo project shows how to see what LINQ to SQL is doing under the covers, when you execute a LINQ to SQL query.

 This is the demo code and slide deck that was presented at the Minnesota Developer Conference on Sept 30.

This is the demo code used to present at the August Twin Cities Silverlight User Group.  Download the Silverlight 2 project that has several nice binding and converter lessons in it.

This is the demo solution I presented at the Twin Cities Silverlight User Group on April 23.

When I started exploring Cloud computing, REST was a topic that popped up over and over.  So I purchased two books to read on a four day weekend out of town earlier this year.  “RESTful .Net” by Jon Flanders & “Data-Driven Services   with Silverlight 2” by John Papa (Foreword by Tim Heuer)

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