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In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) David Kelley discusses composite application development in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). He covers the Silverlight Designer/Developer workflow, tooling, design patterns, anti-practices, and working with...

In this episode of geekSpeak, we explore how to write accessible applications using Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight with Robert Altland, a principal consultant with Neudesic. Robert provides a quick review of UI automation, the new accessibility framework...

One of the things we like to do from time to time on geekSpeak is feature technology contributions that come out of the developer community. A very prominent contribution is the Mole project, a very popular and powerful visualizer for Visual Studio. Mole is a community project that’s been developed...

In this geekSpeak, Paul Sheriff focuses on LINQ to XML and reveals lots of tips for getting up to speed with it. We loved seeing the new techniques for building XML documents using the XDocument type that are tremendous time savers. He helps us understand what is LINQ, what’s LINQ to XML, and what...

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right.

Steven also spends...

Here's a very practical geekSpeak that's loaded with tips on how to incorporate LINQ into existing architectures and applications. Our guest Jim Wooley has a longtime background with databases, coming out of the Access and Foxpro world. He shares his insights about how the advent of LINQ brings with...

For your viewing enjoyment, here is a very thought provoking geekSpeak episode.  James Kovacs is the guest, and he really shows us the the shortcomings of tightly coupled architectures from the perspective of testing and maintenance.

James gives lots of guidance on how to avoid introducing dependencies...

Recorded on March 12th, 2008.

In this installment of geekSpeak, Cal Schrotenboer walks us through various ways of creating animations in Silverlight. In addition to the raw XAML, Cal shows us some interesting tips inside of Visual Studion and Expression Blend. There are some very effective ...

Recorded on February 13th, 2008.

In this installment of geekSpeak, Reza Madani shows you many useful tips for extending Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) with scripts. Highlights include learning the proper way to pass parameters to scripts, how to log effectively, and more. ...

This episode of geekSpeak (recorded February 6, 2008) features Barry Dorrans talking about problems and solutions when implementing a Windows CardSpace identity provider in the real world.

After giving some great explanations and analogies about identity management on the web, Barry dives into some...