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VSTO: How to Add a Button into the Office Ribbon

Jennifer Marsman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how to add a button into the Office Ribbon using the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).

NOTE: the VSTO Power Tools, which were shown briefly, can be downloaded from here.

How to use a delegate

Jennifer Marsman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:36:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how to utilize a delegate in your code, using a real example where a delegate produced cleaner code.

VSTO: The Basics

Jennifer Marsman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:29:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman gives an introduction to Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) with simple coding demos that illustrate how to utilize Windows Forms controls in Office documents, execute code when a value in a spreadsheet changes, read and write data to a spreadsheet, and create a document action pane.

Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 2: Countdown Calendar

Jennifer Marsman — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:54:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman will walk you through creating a simple Silverlight blog badge which promotes a conference, using Expression Blend. In Part 2, she shows you how to create a flipping clock which counts down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the conference.

Note: this webcast assumes that you have seen Part 1 of this webcast series.

Creating a Silverlight Blog Badge, Part 1: Animation to Catch the Eye

Jennifer Marsman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:24:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman will walk you through creating a simple Silverlight blog badge which promotes a conference, using Expression Blend. In Part 1, she shows you how to create an animation to attract attention and create a button to take the user to the conference registration page.

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to make an animation follow a path

Jennifer Marsman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT

In Part 3 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman creates a spotlight animation that traverses in a slow circle using the Expression Blend tool.

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to start animations on events

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:45:00 GMT

In Part 2 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through wiring up animations to start based on events using the Expression Blend tool.

Animation Using Expression Blend: How to create an animation

Jennifer Marsman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:12:00 GMT

In Part 1 of the "Animation Using Expression Blend" series, Jennifer Marsman walks through creating DoubleAnimations and ColorAnimations using the Expression Blend tool.

C# 3.0 Part 2: The Power of LINQ

Jennifer Marsman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:22:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman completes the code refactoring by utilizing LINQ to retrieve data. She demonstrates using LINQ to query against objects, XML, typed datasets, and SQL.

C# 3.0 Part 1: New Language Features

Jennifer Marsman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:51:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman walks through refactoring C# 2.0 code to use some of the new features available in C# 3.0.

Long Running Work via Messaging in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman highlights the different ways we can communicate with services using the Send activity in Windows Workflow. We'll walk through using the Send activity to call a Request-Reply MEP, a datagram (one-way) MEP, and by using a messaging approach to explicitly model sending and receiving.

Duplex Messaging in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman walks through duplex messaging, where two workflows communicate with each other. This is accomplished by explicitly forwarding the callback context to the service and letting it use that to message back to the caller.

Context Exchange and Management in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how context is exchanged between two parties in a conversation, and how we can obtain the context and explicitly manage it to enable additional clients to participate in the workflow.

Durable Services in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates using a WPF calculator to call a durable instance of a WCF service, which will store its state within a persistence database, similar to what happens with Workflow.

AMG Mercedes WPF Demo

Jennifer Marsman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:35:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates the AMG Mercedes Prototype, which is a XAML browser application built using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This website gives a glimpse into the compelling user experience that WPF can create.