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Steve Fox (@redmondhockey) said he “… presented one of ten sessions on the integration between SharePoint and Windows Azure. (It’s amazing to see this topic area grow, and as I see the excitement with developers here I can only surmise it will continue to grow exponentially over the coming months)” in his Using Windows Azure to Connect LOB Data to SharePoint Online using Business Connectivity Services post of 10/5/2011. However, I was able to find only the following seven (eight, if you count the repeated Out of the Sandbox and into the cloud: Build

your next SharePoint app on Azure session) with a search on Azure. I’ve asked Steve to let me know which sessions I missed. I’ll update this post if and when he replies.  BA Insight: Enterprise Search and the Cloud: Unifying Information across SharePoint, O365, LOB systems, and more Speaker(s): Guy Mounier, Jeff Fried Level: 300 Abstract: Office365 and Azure provide great capabilities from the cloud - but how do they work with the information in your other systems? Enterprise Search technology can bridge information...(Read whole news on source site)

Silverlight 5 Toolkit is now available in CodePlex site. This is the first version of Silverlight 5 Toolkit targeting Silverlight 5 RC build. This is also a first release of Silverlight Toolkit after April 2010. It took more than one year to release this bits. No Silverlight 4 toolkit available yet.   In this post, I am going to share the downloadable location as well as the new components available in this release. Read to know more about them.   Download Silverlight 5 Toolkit This is the 8th and newest release of the

toolkit targeting the Silverlight 5 RC. Download the Silverlight 5 Toolkit directly from CodePlex site. Here is the direct link of the same: Download Silverlight 5 Toolkit – September 2011 Bits What are the Components Available? There are various components available in Silverlight 5 Toolkit. Here is a list of new and improved components of this build: ...(Read whole news on source site)

A while ago, Glen posted an article on his blog on how to set homepage of a folder using ADO and later he posted a version of that script which uses the EWS managed API to do this in this MSDN forum thread. However, he wrote it for the first version of the API, and the EWS Managed API 1.1 has a slightly different object model. Since someone on the MSDN forums had difficulties to update the script to work with the EWS Managed API 1.1, I thought I just post an updated version here: private static

void SetFolderHomePage(IEnumerable pathFragments, string url, ExchangeService service) { var folderWebviewinfoProperty = new ExtendedPropertyDefinition(14047, MapiPropertyType.Binary); var root = Folder.Bind(service, WellKnownFolderName.MsgFolderRoot); var targetFolder = root; foreach (var fragment in pathFragments) { var result = service.FindFolders(targetFolder.Id, new SearchFilter.IsEqualTo(FolderSchema.DisplayName, fragment), new FolderView(1)); if (result.TotalCount == 0) { throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("Folder fragment {0} was not found.", fragment)); ...(Read whole news on source site)

My colleagues at MSR Cambridge in the research games team have releases a Facebook app called “Project Waterloo” (http://apps.facebook.com/msrwaterloo).  The app allows users to play the two-player turn-based game called Blotto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blotto_games) with other Facebook users. Blotto is an incredibly interesting game which is well known in the game theory community.  We would like to invite you to play this game with family and friends, and give us your feedback.  Your feedback would be highly appreciated and would help us improving this and future applications for game theory research. Please send us your feedback and comments on: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Some

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Phil Trelford has a nice set of slides from a recent talk in Belfast called F# Eye for the C# Guy.

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Previously on Visual Studio Toolbox, I showed how to use LINQ to XML to query data from Web sites. In this episode, I show how to use LINQ to XML to write XML. I start with a simple example that stores personal settings in an XML file, and then retrieves wines from Wine.com and writes them to an XML file. This provides offline storage of the wines data. (You can think of this as the second half of our review of LINQ to XML, but last week's episode was a robust 40 minutes long while this one is a

crisp 15. So it's really more like the last quarter!) You can find this episode at http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Visual-Studio-Toolbox-Using-LINQ-to-XML-to-Write-XML or watch it here. The code I used is attached for your viewing and coding pleasure. Note that this code includes both the reading data from the Web from last time and the writing XML code from this time. ...(Read whole news on source site)

Roslyn, Microsoft’s project to open up the VB and C# compilers to support ‘compiler as a service’ scenarios, looks to be a post-Visual Studio 2012 deliverable.

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Microsoft is taking the wraps off its Xbox Live TV service. What’s powering it? I believe it’s a combination of Silverlight, Mediaroom IPTV and other elements connected to the company’s “Project Orapa.”

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With Windows 8 Microsoft also introduces their Windows Metro App Marketplace also known as the “Windows Store”. According to SlashGear Microsoft intends to charge a 30 percent cut on the Windows 8 apps designed and sold through the store. Most apps will have a huge advantage of being sold through the store and most developers [...]

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New iPhone 4S: How Tim Cook Borrowed Steve Jobs's Presentation Secrets - Speakeasy - WSJ

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