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ARCast.TV - Albert Pascual on how he built GeoTwitter

Brian H. Prince sits down with Albert Pascual at the MVP summit to talk about how he built GeoTwitter.org. We talk about how he designed his system to leverage multiple mapping engines (Virtual Earth, etc.), and discuss what GeoRSS is, and why you might use it.

Renaming jQuery UI Tabs

The following article demonstrates how to use rename jQuery's UI tabs at runtime.

Free .NET Profilers and Some Paid Ones Too

Profiling is an important part of your software development process and allows you to determine improvements in your applications. In simple words, it is tuning your application to increase its performance. Here are some free and paid .NET profilers to do the job for you

Smarten up your UI with Task Dialogs

Put your message boxes on steroids. Take advantage of the new-look dialogs in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in your applications and smarten up your UI.

PDC09 - Session Video & PPT List by Greg Duncan

Greg Duncan has cleverly put together a page that lists the PDC09 sessions with links to videos and PowerPoint's. Way to go Greg!

Securing REST-Based Services with Access Control Service

The Access Control Service (ACS), part of Windows Azure platform AppFabric, makes it easy to secure REST-based services using a simple set of standard protocols. In addition to enabling secure calls to REST-based services from any client, the ACS ... [More] uniquely makes it possible to secure calls from client-side script, and enables federation scenarios with REST-based services. This webcast will provide a tour of ACS features and demonstrate scenarios where the ACS can be employed to secure REST-based WCF services and other web resources. You'll learn how to configure ACS, learn how to request a token from the ACS, and learn how applications and services can authorize access based on the ACS token.

Presenter: Michele Leroux Bustamante [Less]

Silverlight 4 - Review of all the Cool New Features

Check-out this comprehensive blog post by Tim Heuer - who outlines all the cool new SL4 features announced at the PDC in November - with links to videos and code samples to help you get started with each new capability. Here is a link to his ... [More] complete blog post: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx [Less]

BuzzTap - Tapping into Fresh Sports News with IE8

BuzzTap (www.buzztap.com), has built a aggregated sporting news engine, and allows people to consume via a traditional web site and Twitter feeds. This staff looked at how Internet Explorer 8 could enhance their efforts, immediately jumped into ... [More] action, and created a unique set of IE8 add-on's.
The results are web slices for every major sports franchise and major colleges and a unique spin on visual search. Buzztap.com is not a household name yet, but they certainly utilized Internet Explorer in a big way. Consider that they have filtered news for NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB, Premier soccer, and a host of college teams - and a considerable Twitter following (sporting news by team). [Less]

A Lap Around Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010

Wondering what's coming in the next version of Visual Studio?

Come learn how Visual Studio 2010 advances developer productivity with new tools for application debugging, and designers for key technologies such as Sharepoint. See how the new ... [More] modeling tools allow you to explore application structure while validating that implemented code conforms with architectural design.

Finally, experience how the ALM tools in Team Foundation Server 2010 support agile project management and improve quality assurance efforts by facilitating great collaborations between developers and testers. Check-out this video from the PDC presentation at: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT60 [Less]

Windows 7 Books for Developers and Administrators

Microsoft Press has recently released "Introducing Windows 7 for Developers". Samples are presented in C++ and C# managed code. See the table of contents below.