Kirk Allen Evans's Blog.NET From a Markup PerspectiveAbdi Modaressi on Bringing IMS and Web Services Together at AT&T- June 30, 2008 In this interview, Eric Troup talks with Abdi Modaressi, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, about the challenges behind combining web services and IMS to deliver new types of experiences for the device, computer, and TV experiences. Abdi talks about the challenges behind providing quality of service (QoS) for web services that is comparable with the QoS levels of IMS. Eric discusses how work in the TeleManagement Forum has illustrated these capabilities, and how...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/30/abdi-modaressi-on-bringing-ims-and-web-se... Joe DeCarlo on the Microsoft Certified Architect Program- June 30, 2008 I had the opportunity to interview a good friend, Joe DeCarlo, about the Microsoft Certified Architect program. Joe is an Architect at Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta, and came from a deep developer background. In this interview, we discuss the MCA program, its goals and requirements, and we also discuss the types of skills that are needed for architects. Joe also discusses how Turner Broadcasting applies those skills using tools like Visual Studio Team System, and brings it...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/30/joe-decarlo-on-the-microsoft-certified-ar... The Impact of Enterprise 2.0 on the Enterprise- June 30, 2008 When I think of the impact of Enterprise 2.0 in the next 5 years, I can't help but imagine there's a war brewing. Web 2.0 was the big love fest, can't we all just share data and get along with standards Enterprise 2.0, by contrast, doesn't share that same vision. Today's view is, "Can't we all just share data without worrying about the data on the outside" Enterprise 2.0 is much more real to me than Web 2.0. There's just something more tangible about it, something very...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/29/the-impact-of-enterprise-2-0-on-the-enter... RIP, Uga VI... One Heck of a Bulldog- June 29, 2008 Sad... Uga VI, the winningest Georgia Bulldog mascot, passed today. http:tinyurl.com69jesg My wife just brought home the Sporting news College Football '08 issue that shows UGA as 1 for the upcoming year. Here's the lineup. Georgia Ohio State USC Oklahoma LSU Missouri Clemson WestVirginia Florida Illinois It's going to be an amazing year. Sad that Uga VI will miss out on this one, would have liked to see National Champions added to the list of titles under his reign.http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/28/rip-uga-vi-one-heck-of-a-bulldog.aspx Excel Macros to Reduce Repetitive Tasks- June 26, 2008 It's end of the fiscal year for Microsoft right now, which means there's an absurd amount of reports, filling out forms, updating Siebel, and general grunt work that has to be done. One of the things I needed to do was to submit a list of resources into a SharePoint site. That list of resources was provided to me in an email as hyperlinks with text, kind of like this: Microsoft home site MSDN Developers site Silverlight main site Windows Client Community Site Official ASP.NET.http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/26/excel-macros-to-reduce-repetitive-tasks.a... Navic Networks to Microsoft: Will Television Ever Be the Same- June 24, 2008 Interesting post from TVBoard. There are many in the media industry who assume that the operators will not work with Microsoft. But the truth is the cable guys have never shied away from Microsoft and would probably embrace them on the advertising front. Even on the technology side, were they sufficiently motivated to move away from RF and onto an IP platform, Microsoft would win more than a few converts. The U-verse platform from AT&T is an example of what Microsoft can do. It is very...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/24/navic-networks-to-microsoft-will-televisi... Now a Standard Part of My Presentation Tools - ZoomIt- June 23, 2008 I have been using Magnifier.exe to magnify the screen during presentations. Before I do, I usually crack a joke about people with weak constitutions and expecting mothers to look away, because the effect can be disorienting. I just found out about ZoomIt 2.0. It magnifies the screen area in a fluid and easy to use manner (just Ctrl + 1), and even allows you to draw on the zoomed in screen. Perfect for presentations.http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/23/now-a-standard-part-of-my-presentation-to... Hosting WCF in SharePoint- June 22, 2008 I was starting to write some demos on how to host WCF in SharePoint, and ran into some odd problems. I kept getting a System.ArgumentException, pointing to a parameter called "virtualPath". I fought it only for a little while and decided to see if anyone had hit the same issue. Turns out Sahil Malik did and wrote a great blog series on how to host WCF in SharePoint. To host WCF in SharePoint: 1. Create a WCF Home. This is the virtual directory that will host all your WCF...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/22/hosting-wcf-in-sharepoint.aspx Webcast - Visual Studio for C++ Developers- June 19, 2008 Making sure everyone is aware that my colleague, Rob Cameron, is hosting a webcast on Friday, June 20th from 11:00am - 12:30 pm PST: Visual Studio for C++ Developers Visual C++ provides a powerful and flexible development environment for creating Microsoft Windows-based and Microsoft .NET-based applications. In this session, Ale Contenti (Senior Development Lead for VS native development) will cover what's new for C++ native developers in Visual Studio 2008. as well as cover the Visual C++ 2008.http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/19/webcast-visual-studio-for-c-developers.as... Getting Public Key Token of Assembly Within Visual Studio- June 18, 2008 I am in training this week with Andrew Connell (by far the best SharePoint training I have ever attended), learning about SharePoint development. As I get started with my deep dive into learning SharePoint, something that comes up a lot is the need to find the public key token of the current .NET assembly. He just showed a great shortcut. In Visual Studio, go to the Tools menu and choose External Tools. That brings up a new dialog window. Click the Add button and add the...http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/06/18/getting-public-key-token-of-assembly-with... |