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Architect Breakfast at the Atlanta Launch

For those of you who would like to hear the Architects point of view at the Atlanta Launch, please...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 04/24/2008

Ford Sync

I recently did a piece on the new Ford SYNC for the Birmingham FOX news affiliate. It was quite a...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 04/10/2008

Visual Studio Team System Briefings

I am pleased to announce a series of briefings that are coming up soon in a city near you!  The...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/12/2008

Jackson, MS Visual Studio Event

I would like to thank the community in Jackson for having us down to speak, and in particular, New...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/10/2008

Silverlight Announcements: 2.0 expected to go Beta in Q1

With the enhancements to Silverlight that are being made with the next release, we realized that...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 11/29/2007

Holiday Loadfest and Game Night

We are hosting a Holiday Loadfest on December 3rd, in conjunction with the Atlanta .Net User Group...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 11/26/2007

Visual Studio 2008 and Performance Improvements

If you have not heard yet, VS2008 was just Released to Manufacturing!  If you have an MSDN...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 11/26/2007

What Flavor of LINQ to use?

Check out another colleague of mine (Bill Zack) who talks about the three types of LINQ flavors...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 11/16/2007

Instructions on Installing Silverlight Streaming Plugin for Expression Encoder

One of my peers has put up a very interesting post on where to get the Silverlight streaming plugin...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 11/16/2007

Publishing to IIS7

Over the years, I get asked this question quite often. How do I publish my code to IIS? Well there...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 11/16/2007

Interested in Biztalk?

And just dont have any experience with it? Or maybe you have experience, but just need to brush up....

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 10/23/2007

Silverlight, and an Architects Point of View

One of my peers up in the Northeast, Bob Familiar, has put together a great article on his Blog that...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 09/27/2007

Chad and Doug Roadshow coming to Atlanta

Due to many requests coming, Doug Turnure and I will be bringing our Next Web Roadshow to Atlanta in...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 09/27/2007

Weather Channel launches updates to Virtual Earth Radar

The Weather Channel just released an update to their Virtual Earth based radar control. You can now...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 09/12/2007

Silverlight 1.0 and Expression Media Encoder Released!

On September 5th, we launched Silverlight 1.0 along with a release of Expression Media Encoder. Here...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 09/12/2007

Silverlight and the Mono Project - MOONLIGHT

I am excited to annouce our support for the Moonlight project that Mono is working on. What is it?...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 09/12/2007

REMIX07 - Boston

You, my loyal readers are invited to ReMix07 in Boston! There is a discount involved that you will...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 08/31/2007

Silverlight 1.1 VirtualEarth Viewer - by Greg Schecter

Silverlight 1.1 VirtualEarth Viewer Greg Schecter has released up to the Silverlight gallery a great...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 08/28/2007

If you have not seen it, check out Tafiti. Tafiti is a swahili word, meaning "Do Research". If you...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 08/28/2007

Chad and Doug MSDN Roadshow

Doug Turnure, Developer Evangelist, and I will be hitting the road in the Georgia and Alabama this...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 08/27/2007

Brian and Chad MSDN Roadshow

Brian Hitney, Developer Evangelist, and I will be hitting the road in the Carolinas. What's the...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 08/27/2007

Alaska Trip

Several people have asked me where I have been the last month. The reality is that I have been in...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 07/25/2007

Search client for Windows Mobile

Its been a long time since my last post, but I thought I would update everyone on a very great tool...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 07/24/2007

And Another Silverlight Game....

This time its Silverlight 1.1 and its called Zero Gravity, written by Terralever. A colleague...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 06/29/2007

Silverlight Games built on Virtual Earth

Ok, so my favorite two technologies just came together with one of my favorite hobbies. Andy...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 06/29/2007

Acropolis CTP1 Released!

After many months, we can finally announce the public availibility of Acropolis! You can find the...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 06/06/2007

Facebook releases an SDK

An interesting development occurred yesterday. Facebook, 20+ million members, decided to open up...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/25/2007

SilverLight Textbox control

I beat my head against the wall for quite some time on this one. Silverlight is great, but what do...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/24/2007

Here is an awesome collection of Silverlight links thanks to Doug Turnure, Developer Evangelist here...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/24/2007

Problems removing GAT/GAX

I had a couple of folks reach out to me in regards to my last post. Apparently they were having...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/23/2007

Smart Client Software Factory V2 - May 2007 Release

Here is the latest version of the Smart Client Software Factory. If you have implemented SCSF or...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/22/2007

Microsoft Popfly - Bringing Mashups to the Masses

On May 18th we announced an exciting new tool designed to put Silverlight creation in the hands of...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/21/2007

Weather Channel Windows Vista Gadget

The Weather Channel just created a fantastic Vista gadget that provides your local weather and shows...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/16/2007

Mix07 Sessions - watch them free!

So if you didnt go to Mix07, you can still see all of the content. We have posted videos and most of...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/15/2007

Silverlight Airlines demo from Mix

Did you see the Silverlight Airline Demo at Mix? Wish that you had seen it? Well you can download it...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/09/2007

Silverlight Announced

It used to be called WPF/e, and now its Silverlight! There are so may good things about Silverlight,...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 05/09/2007

WPF Smart Client (hear Anna talk)

This is a great example of a WPF Smart Client, and its really cool to boot. I havent seen the source...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 03/29/2007

Error Code 2869 when installing Guidance Automation "x...." on Windows Vista

So, you are getting this error too? Here is the fix: Uninstall Guidance Automation Extensions if you...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 03/26/2007

Convert Flash to WPF/e (SWF to XAML)

Sounds interesting, eh? Well it just so happens that Mike Swanson has created a tool to do this very...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 03/20/2007

Must have tool for every web developer

I had the pleasure of accompanying Jeff Prosise, during a recent trip to the Carolinas. The subject...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 03/19/2007

Speaking at the Magic City Technology Council Software Conference

I wanted to let everyone know about an upcoming event that I am speaking at - The Magic City...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 03/15/2007

Architect Council - Microsoft/SAP Interoperability

arcStream Please join us on April 12th at a local Microsoft office for the next arcCouncil meeting...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 03/15/2007

Providing Software as a Service

For those of you who decide to build services that extend the power of desktop applications, enhance...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/28/2007

Well we just released the first publically availible WPF/e code. Why do I think this is newsworthy?...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/21/2007

Cool WPF applications

With the advent of the new UI in Windows Vista and the capabilities of the Windows Presentation...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/20/2007

Web 2.0 Architect COuncil content

For those of you who attended and those of you who wished you could have attended, here is the...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/14/2007

Performance Testing Guidance

JD Meier, a Program Manager in the Patterns and Practices Group, let me know about a new set of...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/14/2007

Gates on Web 2.0

A poster on my last blog entry really got the wheels turning in my brain. Am I becoming one of those...

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 02/09/2007

What is Web 2.0 anyway?

Author: Chad Brooks Date: 01/30/2007

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