Archive for June, 2008

We have a light week of webcasts this week. One webcast will be on integrating SAP with Office & SharePoint and other is the final installment of the “It’s all about tools” series.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

MSDN Webcast: Integrating SAP Software with Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Server (Level 300)

In this webcast, we provide an overview of how to integrate SAP software with client programs in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We discuss building Web services within SAP, integrating SAP Web services with a custom Microsoft Office client program, and integrating SAP Web services with the SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (BDC). We also provide a brief overview of other ways you can integrate SAP with Microsoft Office. This webcast is appropriate for technologists who are familiar with Web services, understand the basics of SAP, and have some knowledge about programming and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Presenters: Steve Fox, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation and Juegren Daiberl, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

6/30/2008 9:00 - 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)| Duration: 60 Minutes

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MSDN Webcast: It's All About Tools (Part 3 of 3) (Level 200)

In this series of webcasts, Microsoft developer evangelists Russ Fustino and Joe Healy and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Stan Schultes discuss and demonstrate their favorite developer tools. There is something here for everyone, from beginners to experts. In this third webcast of the series, we discuss and demonstrate Microsoft Expression Encoder, Microsoft Silverlight Live, Microsoft Virtual PC, Windows Live Quick Applications, XMLNotepad, Reflector and add-ins, PowerToys for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, CodeKeep, SyncToy, and FolderShare. We include scripts for the demos, so you can recreate our demos at home.

6/30/2008 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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We took a small step on removing some of the registration pages from our on-demand webcasts. If you view most of the recent (past two years) on-demand MSDN or TechNet webcasts on our Webcast Series landing page you’ll notice that the number of clicks it takes to view the webcast went down from seven to just three. Our goal will be to get it down to one.

So why’s this taking so long? I was hoping to get this done months ago, but trying to fix the problem within the existing infrastructure has proven to be frustrating and perplexing. This is a temporary workaround as we work on pulling our content onto new servers and building new landing pages that we hope will make finding the content much easier. So if you view the webcasts through some of our other MSDN and TechNet pages, or using the Search box you might still have to go through the standard registration process but it should be fine using this site. I like these series landing pages anyway as the best way to surf our webcast content. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Try it out. Let me know your thoughts…

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Here are the MSDN developer webcasts for the week of June 23^rd. Topics include Silverlight 2.0, WCF/WF Integration, Office Communicator, ADO.Net Data Services, Exchange Web Services, and OBA.

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Calling Services from Silverlight 2.0 with Jon Flanders (Level 300)

Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 browser plug-in provides an environment for building rich Internet applications (RIAs). Traditionally, these types of applications relied heavily on services such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) for their functionality. In this webcast, we look at the facilities built into Silverlight 2.0 for calling services, and we discuss the options for implementing these services. Presenter: Jon Flanders, Consultant, Pluralsight

6/23/2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)| Duration: 60 Minutes

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Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 4 of 6): Web Services Support (Level 200)

Microsoft Silverlight 2 has a robust networking stack, and it supports  Representational State Transfer (REST), SOAP, WS*, HTTP endpoints, and even cross-domain networking. In this webcast, we examine how to implement calls to Web services from your Silverlight 2 Microsoft .NET-connected applications using a variety of methods, including standard ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services, and REST. Presenter: Lindsay Rutter, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

6/23/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Driving Contextual Collaboration with Office Communicator 2007 (Level 300)

In this webcast, we use the Microsoft Unified Communication (UC) platform to create contextual collaboration solutions using IM, voice, and video communications built directly into applications. We start by building presence information into an application using the Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Presence Controls so users can see if coworkers are available and willing to communicate. Using the Office Communicator software development kit (SDK), we use just a few lines of code to launch IM, voice, video, or conferencing sessions directly from an application. Presenter: Chris Mayo

6/24/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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ADO.NET Data Services Overview (Part 2 of 2) (Level 100)

In this follow-up to part one of our two-part series, Rob Bagby illustrates some of the advanced aspects of ADO.NET Data Services. He explains how to expose your own custom data sources with ADO.NET Data Services. Rob covers consuming ADO.NET Data Services from various client applications, including Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) client applications and Microsoft Silverlight 2. Rob also explores security surrounding ADO.NET Data Services. Presenter: Rob Bagby, Developer Evangelist

6/24/2008 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 5 of 6): Testing Framework (Level 200)

A new testing framework is shipping with Microsoft Silverlight 2. This testing framework enables you to write unit tests for UI and non-UI functionality in Silverlight 2, and it includes more than 2,000 unit tests covering all of the released Silverlight 2 controls. In this webcast, we examine some of the built-in unit tests and how to build your own unit tests or extend the included unit tests, all of which are covered under an open-source license. We also discuss the support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for debugging your Silverlight 2 applications. Presenter: Lindsay Rutter

6/25/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation Integration in Depth with Jesus Rodriguez (Level 400)

In this webcast, we illustrate some of the most common scenarios for integrating WCF and WF, and we explore mechanisms such as Durable Services, Workflow Services, rules-based authorization, line-of-business workflows, and other mechanisms that are best implemented by combining WCF and WF. We also share a series of best practices and techniques that developers can follow in order to implement a seamless integration between WCF and WF. Presenter: Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago, Inc.

6/25/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration:60 Minutes

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geekSpeak: Silverlight Line-of-Business Applications with Shawn Wildermuth (Level 200)

In this installment of geekSpeak, Shawn Wildermuth discusses the implications of using Microsoft Silverlight 2 browser plug-in technology in line-of-business applications, and he demonstrates consuming and changing database data from Silverlight 2. In addition, Shawn shares his opinion of where Silverlight 2 fits into the broader enterprise development spectrum, including intranet, extranet, and Internet development. Guest Presenter: Shawn Wildermuth, President, Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC

6/25/2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Windows Workflow Communication in Depth with Matt Milner (Level 400)

In this webcast, we cover the underlying communication architecture, how to create custom activities that allow you to wait for events or input, how to perform request/response style communication, and the send/receive activities available in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.  Presenter: Matt Milner, Consultant, Pluralsight

6/26/2008 9:00 - 10:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Building Asynchronous Contextual Collaboration with Exchange Web Services (Level 300)

Attend this webcast to learn how you can build mashups using the data in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). We show you what you can do with Exchange Web Services, and some examples with code such as resource schedules and interactive organizational charts. Also, learn how to move your old Exchange Server applications to the future of Exchange Server development: Exchange Web Services! Presenter: Chris Mayo

6/26/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Demystifying Office Business Applications for the Developer (Level 200)

This webcast provides an introductory look at how you build and deploy Office Business Applications (OBAs), specifically focusing on the what and the how. We discuss Microsoft Office client application customization, integration of custom Office client applications with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, SharePoint Products and Technologies business intelligence (BI) features, and more. This webcast is appropriate for technologists who are familiar with what an OBA is and are looking to take the next step to learn how you might go about building one. You should have a baseline understanding of programming concepts, as we walk through some high-level code samples. Presenter: Steve Fox, Technical Evangelist

6/27/2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 6 of 6): Adaptive Streaming (Level 200)

In the last part of our Microsoft Silverlight 2 webcast series, we highlight adaptive streaming, which is an addition to the rich media capabilities of Silverlight 2. Adaptive streaming enables Silverlight 2 applications to examine the capabilities of the client computer, like CPU and bandwidth, and adjusts the bit-rate encoding of streaming video to handle network congestion and CPU usage automatically. We demonstrate how to implement adaptive streaming in Silverlight 2 applications, and we wrap up our webcast series with a brief look at some other cool features of Silverlight 2 and a glimpse of Silverlight Mobile. Presenter: Lindsay Rutter

6/27/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

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The philosophy for the Google Talk team is to enable real time communication where and how people need it, across different platforms, devices, and operating systems. Towards these goals, we have made Google Talk available through web interfaces like Gmail chat and the Google Talk gadget, as well as directly from the desktop through our own downloadable client and via many XMPP clients. We have faced some challenges in keeping the capabilities for each of these versions of Google Talk up to date, and we have heard your feedback on striving towards more feature parity across all versions.

While recently we have spent more time on web integration scenarios, we have also been developing a new client that allows our downloadable and web versions of Google Talk to move forward together more quickly. The Google Talk, Labs Edition release is a sneak peek into this work. Of note in this Labs Edition release is its use of the open source Webkit engine to host the Google Talk gadget. We've used Webkit to bring the Talk gadget out of your browser, and onto your desktop, able to run in the Taskbar. Google Talk, Labs Edition combines “downloadable client behavior”, like stacking notifications and displaying presence outside the browser, with nearly all of the web behaviors of the Google Talk gadget, such as emoticons, multi-user chat, tabbed conversations, etc. It can also natively display web notifications from multiple sources, such as Gmail and calendar alerts and Orkut scrap changes. A few weeks ago we added invisible mode to the Google Talk Gadget, and this functionality immediately extended to Google Talk Labs Edition.

Google Talk, Labs Edition is a first step towards a more unified experience whether you're using Talk through the web or on the desktop. Some of our savvy users may already appreciate the advantages of this approach, and we are confident that the continued improvements being made will translate into a better Google Talk experience for all our users.

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To ease navigation and be more in synch with our security colleagues within Microsoft, we have moved to a new blog address: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc

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 Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Custom Content Types (Level 200)

In this webcast, we show how to create a custom content type and explain how to associate an event handler with the new content type to do data validation. Content types define what documents or other content types are used in SharePoint Products and Technologies document libraries. Content types can have several aspects associated with them, including custom menus and custom processing. Presenter: Robert L. Bogue, Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server, Thor Projects LLC

6/18/2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) | Duration: 60 Minutes

 

Beyond the Endpoints with Windows Communication Foundation with Juval Lowy (Level 100)

In this webcast, we describe the power and productivity of WCF and demonstrate how it is a “better .NET Framework.” We focus on the key system features of WCF so you can make educated decisions on aligning your product road map with WCF and assess the advantages of using WCF. We begin the webcast with a brief overview of WCF and the WCF architecture, and then we demonstrate data contract tolerance, instance management, transaction propagation, automatic synchronization, queued calls, and automatic security. Presenter: Juval Lowy, Principal and Software Architect, IDesign

6/18/2008 10:00 AM -  11:30 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 90 Minutes

 

Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 6): WPF UI Framework Continued (Level 200)

In the second part of this webcast series, we continue our investigation of the Microsoft Silverlight 2 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) UI framework. We discuss data-binding support and the ability to customize the appearance of your controls with the templating and skinning model in Silverlight 2. Learn how data-binding support in Silverlight 2 enables you to bind UI elements to business objects for rich data scenarios with model, view, and container separation. Presenter: Lindsay Rutter, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

6/18/2008 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

 

geekSpeak: Workflow Services in .NET 3.5 with Jon Flanders (Level 200)

In this installment of geekSpeak, Jon Flanders from Pluralsight introduces you to workflow services , and he describes how workflow services unites WCF and WF and provides great new features for building solutions. Guest Presenter: Jon Flanders, Consultant, Pluralsight

6/18/2008 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

 

Behind the Scenes with Communications Server 2007, Communicator 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300)

We examine the server infrastructure of Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 and explain how to integrate those servers into your infrastructure. We discuss security, transport, and messaging to implement common developer scenarios. We also provide an overview of session initiation protocol (SIP) for UC development and explore how common principles like presence publication/subscription are applied in your solution. Take a look "under the hood" of UC and get everything you need to start creating killer applications with communication! Presenter: Chris Mayo, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

6/19/2008 10:00 AM -11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

 

It's All About Tools (Part 2 of 3) (Level 200)

Do you ever feel inundated with developer tools? Do you feel you are missing something that could make your life easier as a developer by being a power user? There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with them. Tool familiarity continues to be one of the top developer challenges. In this series of webcasts, Microsoft developer evangelists Russ Fustino and Joe Healy and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Stan Schultes discuss and demonstrate their favorite developer tools. There is something here for everyone, from beginners to experts. In this second webcast of the series, we discuss and demonstrate Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tools for the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Popfly, Line Services Tool Bar, Windows Live SkyDrive, Windows Live ID with CardSpace, and Tafiti. We include scripts for the demos, so you can recreate our demos at home. Presenters: Russ Fustino, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation, and Stan Schultes, Systems Architect and Developer, Microsoft Corporation

6/19/2008 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

 

MSDN Webcast: Demystifying Office Business Applications for the Business Analyst (Level 100)

This webcast provides an introductory look at what Office Business Applications (OBAs) are, specifically focusing on the what, why, and, at a high level, the how. This webcast is appropriate for those business people and technologists who are looking to learn the fundamental business and technical value of OBAs to not only understand how you might implement them in your environment, but also how you can talk to your customers about them as well. Presenter: Steve Fox, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

6/20/2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration: 60 Minutes

 

Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 3 of 6): Introducing Deep Zoom (Level 200)

The Deep Zoom feature in Microsoft Silverlight 2, which is based on SeaDragon technology from Microsoft Research, allows users to easily and cleanly navigate through very large images and only download the portions of the images needed. In this third part of our Silverlight 2 webcast series, we take an in-depth look at Deep Zoom. We discuss the considerations that you must make when working with large images and we explain how Silverlight 2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and Microsoft Expression Blend enable you to implement Deep Zoom in applications easily. Presenter: Lindsay Rutter, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

6/20/2008 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time | Duration:60 Minutes

 

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Hey Messenger users, Aaron here. We are seeing an issue where Messenger versions 8.1 and 8.5 are experiencing a technical issue that is causing a blank white box to appear in the conversation window. If you are the 9.0 beta you might be seeing an Office Logo. Believe it or not this is the same bug. The issue does not impact your ability to send and receive messages. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working hard behind the scenes to lose the box and the logo. Hang tight, it should be back to normal before you know it!

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