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The Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) is an initiative led by Microsoft Public Sector Developer Evangelism team. OGDI uses the Windows Azure Platform to make it easier to publish and use a wide variety of public data from government agencies. OGDI is also a free, open source ‘starter…

In this screencast, Marc highlights some tips and tricks for improving perceived startup performance of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and a Splash Screen. The walkthrough focuses on using the .NET Framework 4.0. However, MEF…

In this screencast, Marc shows you how to run a SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 report in Windows Azure using the ReportViewer control that ships with Visual Studio 2010. As an added bonus, he demonstrates using ReportViewer against an OData service through the use of WCF Data…

A common need for Windows 7 touch user interfaces is to react to a touch gesture. In this screencast, Marc demonstrates a very simple and easy way to interpret single touch gestures using MouseGestureTrigger from the Expression Blend Samples. To learn more about Behaviors, Triggers, and…

ASP.NET Ajax has a great feature that helps make it easy to enable back/forward button and bookmarking support in your Ajax applications. However, most people think you need ASP.NET WebForms and the ScriptManager control to take advantage of this feature. Furthermore, most people think you…

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering "Implementing Modern User Experiences with Expression Blend & Silverlight" held on January 27, 2009 in Reston, Va. Building off the sample app built during the Building Business-Focused Applications…

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering "Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2 and Beyond" held on January 15, 2009 in Reston, Va. Business-focused applications, sometimes referred to as Line Of Business (LOB)…

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 held on August 20, 2008 in Reston, Va. This presentation is a demo focused walkthrough of the new features and functionality in SP1. You will see demonstrations that will include:  Making…

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering ASP.NET MVC held on October 15, 2008 in Reston, Va. ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for…

Marc Schweigert builds off of the concepts shown in his previous screencast and shows you how to render a polygon on a Virtual Earth map using REST, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), LINQ to SQL, and the new geography data type in SQL Server 2008.To learn more about the GeoRSS utility library,…