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[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This a quick post to announce a few upcoming events for those in the UK. I’ll be presenting in Glasgow, Scotland on March 25th...

I got an email from David Marsh telling me about this new world from MS. Let me share a little… Way back when…LOGO was one of the first languages I learnt as a kid. Moving a turtle around on a page with commands such as PenUp, PenDown, RightTurn etc etc...

[ In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Hope you all had a great holiday – welcome to 2010! Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe...

Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog . This morning at PDC ’09 ScottGu just announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta. Later on today I am going on to present the latest improvements around networking and web services and I’ll link to the full talk as soon as it is available online. In this post I’ll provide a quick summary of today’s announcements, with more detail to follow. On the high level, we are announcing an exciting alignment between the different web services...

I’m excited to announce a new program – WebsiteSpark – that Microsoft is launching today. WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others.  It enables...

Today we officially shipped the final release of Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 Features Silverlight 3 is a major update and delivers a ton of new features and capabilities.  Some of the new Silverlight 3 runtime capabilities include: HD Media Silverlight...

Often, i have noticed my colleagues ask me information on this.However, Microsoft has come up with a quick answer on this and has provided a new bundle to integrate silverlight applications into Sharepoint/MOSS 2007 portals in Codeplex. The Silverlight...

Cross-posted from the Silverlight Web Services Team Blog . Silverlight 3 Beta introduces a new way to improve the performance of web services. You have all probably used the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service item template in Visual Studio to create a WCF web service, and then used the Add Service Reference command in your Silverlight application project in order to access the web service. In SL3, the item template has undergone a small change that turns on the new binary message encoder , which significantly...

Hi guys, If you're looking to get into how to host WCF Services on Azure, showing some cool graphics, then these samples are for you. Silverlight v3.0 (beta), and important samples showing how to take your existing WCF Services and hosting/housing...

Hi folks, Windows Azure is Microsoft's cloud services operating system, based on Windows Server 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1. Azure is currently in a Community Technology Preview stage and you can register and try it out for free on this page . Many of you may have wondered what is the experience of hosting WCF services in the Azure cloud. We have created a full set of samples on our newly launched Code Gallery site: WCF Azure Samples The samples show hosting WCF services for use by Silverlight...