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In this brief look at Silverlight 4 from the May 2010 Northeast Roadshow, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, confesses he's just looking at the cool stuff here - webcam and microphone support, COM interoperability, printing, and even a bit of rickrolling (shhh! don't give it away).  Get a...

In this screencast, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, provides an updated version of a presentation he gave during the Northeast Roadshow in May 2010.  In about 15 minutes, he provides an overview of ASP.NET 4, from the core services and IIS 7, through ASP.NET WebForms, DynamicData, and MVC. ...

Don't look now, but there's a new pattern in town - Model-View-ViewModel or MVVM.  Within the last year or so, this architectural model has been building up a significant following among Silverlight and WPF developers.  In this session, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, will cover...

It's been over two years since LINQ was released as part of .NET 3.5, but there's still a lot of mystery in terms of how LINQ works.  This session, originally delivered as part of the Northeast Roadshow, starts off with a brief overview of the motivation and history of LINQ, and then goes into full...

At PDC 09, I had a chance to catch up with my former colleagues at Sybase who were in the Big Room demonstrating PowerBuilder 12.  PowerBuilder, the premiere client/server development tool of the mid-90s, boasts hundreds of thousands of deployed applications over the years, and PowerBuilder...

One of the highlights of the Big Room floor at PDC 09 was an Azure IT PAC (Pre-assembled container), the unit of deployment within the Azure Data Centers.  This particular model is the newest, Generation 4, and built to be deployed outside (versus the indoor models used in the Chicago and...

This installment of the Northeast Roadshow screencast series covers a number of core concepts in the CLR.  Beginning with a discussion of the differences and nuances between reference and value types, the topics quickly move into concepts such as boxing, immutability, performance of String versus...

In this episode, Developer Evangelist Jim O'Neil, walks through a example of updating a legacy MDI application to take advantage of most of the features of the Windows 7 taskbar all the while maintaining backwards compatibility to Vista and XP.  You'll get a detailed look into using the...

Microsoft is all about options, and there's no shortage of options when it comes to data access!  You've got ADO.NET DataSets and DataReaders, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services just to name a few.  Each of these technologies can be used - and abused - depending on...

Jim O'Neil concludes his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers with an overview of the new APIs that allows applications to take advantage of cool new features like libraries, jump lists and thumbnails on the taskbar, multi-touch, sensors, the Windows Ribbon, and native...