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  • Twin Cities .NET User Group - A lap around Microsoft .NET Services

    I'm happy to be giving a talk at the upcoming Twin Cities .NET User Group on December 4 at the Microsoft office. I'll be talking about the Microsoft .NET Services component within the newly announced Azure Services Platform. I'm going to cover the Service Bus, Workflow Service and Access...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 11-20-2008
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  • MSDN Developer Conference - Jan 13 in Minneapolis

    For those of you in the Twin Cities area that missed the PDC , don't fret, we've got the highlights for you. The MSDN Developer Conference is coming to Minneapolis on Jan 13 with a full day of Azure , WPF/Silverlight, and coverage of "Oslo" and VS 2010. I'll be talking on one of...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 11-20-2008
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  • PDC Keynote Day 2: Windows 7

    Today we got to see Windows 7 (the first time for me and many others) which had some cool features in the user experience around the taskbar and notification area. There are also new features around quickly jumping to certain documents and applications, managing window layouts, and managing documents...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 10-28-2008
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  • "Geneva" identity framework

    I sat in on a session today that showed off the "Geneva" set of identity tools. I have to say that the presentation was very well done as it showed how easy it was to take a normal ASP.NET application that was using .NET constructs like IsInRole and PrincipalPermission to do dynamic display...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 10-28-2008
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  • PDC Keynote- Day 1

    Ray Ozzie set the stage by talking about how cloud computing is all about moving to the next level of web applications and services that need to reach your customers. The traditional data center model takes a lot of resources to manage all of the data centers, servers, etc. involving dealing with resources...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 10-27-2008
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  • Slides and Demos from Heartland Developers Conference

    I had the pleasure of presenting at both the Minneapolis and Omaha Heartland Developers Conference this year. This is a great conference in the central region where national and regional speakers participate to create a great conference offering. I did a presentation on BizTalk Services in both cities...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 10-21-2008
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  • Code and slides from MDC '08

    I had a great time this week presenting two sessions at the Minnesota Developers Conference . For those of you who attended, I've posted the materials from my talk on LINQ as well as the materials for the ADO.NET Data Services talk. I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did! You can get the slides...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 09-12-2008
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  • First BizTalk Double Feature

    I'm excited to be teaching the first BizTalk double feature class coming up October in Irvine. Now I know what you are thinking: "of course you are happy to get out of Minnesota and go to sunny California", but I actually like fall in MN. No , this class is going to be cool because it allows...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 09-12-2008
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  • Code Samples from todays webcast

    For those of you who attended my webcast today on workflow communications, the demo code is attached to this post. It includes the base activities used for communication activities (more on these in a later post) and it provides simple example of local communications and web services. The two-way communication...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 06-26-2008
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  • Upcoming talks and webcast

    I've got a couple of fun talks coming up this month. First, I'm going to be doing an MSDN webcast on Windows Workflow Foundation - Communication in Depth. I'm going to dive into the core communication architecture, discuss how some of the OOB activities use it, and how you can build your own activities...
  • My Tech Ed Demos

    Thanks to everyone who came to my session on port binding options in BizTalk Server yesterday. You can find the demos here including the visual studio solution, binding files for BizTalk and the PowerShell script I used for setting up and running my demos.
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 06-07-2008
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  • Not just a service pack (VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1)

    Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don't get confused, this is not just a simple set of bug fixes, this thing is big! Entity Framework and LINQ to entities ADO.NET Data Services (formerly project "Astoria") Dynamic data web sites (highly...
  • Applied BTS R2 in the Windy City

    I've been teaching mostly WF and WCF lately, so I'm excited that in a couple of weeks (April 22) I'll be getting a chance to teach our core BizTalk course again in the lovely city of Chicago. I'm excited because there is a lot of cool stuff for this particular open enrollment. 1) R2 - need I say more...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 04-10-2008
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  • Elegant Code Podcast

    Last week I had the pleasure of teaching a class for Healthwise in Boise, and while there met David Starr. David has a website called Elegant Code and we got a chance to sit down for a podcast during the week. We chatted about WF, WCF, BizTalk, "Oslo" and being a Pluralsight instructor. Have a listen...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 03-17-2008
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  • Minneapolis Developer Roundtable - REST and stuff

    I recently got to sit down with some local smart guys here in Minneapolis and we chatted about REST versus SOA. It wasn't any kind of religious discussion, but it was fun to talk to people who build apps and work with developers every day to hear what they think about this topic. You can find the audio...
    Posted to Matt's Musings by matt-milner on 03-13-2008
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