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In an earlier screencast, Henrik Nielsen illustrates how the Microsoft Robotics Studio, building on top of the CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) and DSS (Decentralized Software Services) technologies, exposes a RESTful service-oriented architecture.

In this companion screencast, Andreas...

Office Open XML evangelist Doug Mahugh has visited more places in the past few months than many folks see in a lifetime. I asked him to name the places he's been recently, to deliver workshops on OOXML, and he rattled off the following list:

Let's see, New Delhi, Sydney, Czech Republic, Belgium,...

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen used to work for the World Wide Web Consortium on some key pieces of infrastructure including the HTTP specification and libwww. He left the W3C in 1999 and now works for Microsoft where his current project is Robotics Studio, whose tagline is: "A Windows-based environment...

In today's installment of my Microsoft Conversations series I talked with John Shewchuk about BizTalk Services, a project to create what he likes to call an Internet Service Bus. The project's blog, with pointers to key resources, is here. There's also a Channel 9 video on this same topic,...

In the latest episode of my Microsoft Conversations series I talked with Pablo Castro about Astoria, a layer of middleware that makes data readable and writeable by means of a RESTful interface. Even if you don't know or care about the buzzwords, it's easy to show what Astoria does and to explain...

In the latest episode of my Microsoft Conversations series I got together with Bill Buxton to talk about the design philosophy set forth in his new book Sketching User Experiences. Nowadays Bill is a principal researcher with Microsoft Research, and before that he was chief scientist at Alias/Wavefront,...

In version 3.5 of the .NET Framework, the Windows Communication Foundation will define a set of types that abstractly represent syndication feeds and items in feeds, and will provide mappings from those abstractions to RSS and Atom. In this conversation we discuss how this new support for syndication...

More than 25 years ago, Allen Wirfs-Brock created one of the early implementations of Smalltalk. He was working at Tektronix at the time, as was Ward Cunningham who became the first user of Tektronix Smalltalk. Allen later served as chief scientist of Digitalk-ParcPlace and CTO of Instantiations,...

On the Friday before MIX, I recorded this podcast with John Lam. He's the creator of RubyCLR and, as it happens, he joined Microsoft on the same day I did. John's been running silent since then, but no longer. In this conversation we discuss the dynamic language runtime (DLR), a generalization...

This quick screencast (WMV, Flash) shows how an Office Live customer can create a database table in the cloud, add data-collection and -display widgets to pages of an Office Live site, then manage the data both through the web and from a remote Access client.