The patterns & practices team plans to create some new Web guidance and we needs our help prioritizing the requirements through a survey that went live. They have split the effort into 2 projects. The first project will be to update the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) to run on Visual Studio 2010. The second project will take a fresh look at creating new Web Guidance. Your feedback from the survey will help define the scope for this second project. If you ever used patterns and practices building blocks you’ll know how useful those...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak in front of a large audience about Microsoft's Live Services, available to developers, in a Microsoft hosted event called "The Next Web Now". Although I had to write this presentation twice, as I lost my first one with my stolen laptop, and had to prepare the second one in just a few hours, I was glad to do it as I always enjoy speaking and communicating with other developers. In general I believe it went well, even with all the computer related problems Panos' laptop had ;-). The event's sessions were video recorded so they're...

If your interested in incorporating all or some of the new cool Windows Live technologies in your web site then you'll find Windows Live Quick Applications very useful. Currently there are two samples available Contoso Bicycle Club (code) which Connects membership organizations with the content, information and communities they care about using Rich media experiences, Sharing and storage, Communication, Find and locate (maps) Windows Live Technologies. and Contoso University (code) which is intended as a University sponsored site for students and staff to connect with the university events and social organizations. This demo uses quite a few cool things, like the Contacts...

You’ve probably seen or worked with a number of them, but here’s the complete and admittedly rich list of Shared Source Licensing programs for developers offered by Microsoft. It sure is worth checking out.

The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting library is an encoding library designed to protect ASP.NET applications from cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This library differs from other encoding libraries in that it uses the the principle of inclusions technique to provide a high degree of protection against XSS attacks. For those of you that build Web Applications this is a library that should always be used.