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Barack Obama is a master at grabbing and keeping his audience's attention, which is the number one goal of any public speaker. How does he do it? Here are five key lessons from Obama's rhetorical playbook.
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The latest developer information for the United States.
- Messing Around with Blend
Wondering what a Mac-centric design team might make of Expression Blend and Silverlight? Read on. - Windows HPC Server 2008 Training Course
Created for software developers as well as IT professionals, this training course includes videos, white papers, datasheets, presentations, and webcasts?all designed to help give you a thorough understanding of the productive, cost-effective, and high-performance computing solution that Windows HPC Server 2008 and other Microsoft technologies provide. - Register for Tech·Ed 2010 Early to Save US$300
Give the gift of technical education, and save US$300 on the full Tech·Ed conference fee. - Holiday Discount: 30% off All Expression Design Software
Receive 30% off all Microsoft Expression version 3 design software (both full and upgrade versions) through Microsoft Online Store when you buy before December 28. (Promotion applies to U.S. only.) - Watch the Minifuzz File Fuzzer Video and Get To Know How To Detect More Code Vulnerabilities Easily
This 8-minute video will give you a brief overview of the MiniFuzz File Fuzzer and will walk you through how to configure and use MiniFuzz to perform fuzz testing - a required activity in the verification phase of the Microsoft SDL - on an application. The walkthrough launches MiniFuzz as an add-on to Visual Studio and demonstrates integration with TFS, showing automatic creation of work items from detected crashes. - Windows HPC Server 2008 Training Course
Created for software developers as well as IT professionals, this training course includes videos, white papers, datasheets, presentations, and webcasts - all designed to help give you a thorough understanding of the productive, cost-effective and high-performance computing solution that Windows HPC Server 2008 and other Microsoft technologies provide. - Discover Claims-Based Identity
Identity has never been so easy. Whether you develop ASP.NET Web sites or WCF Web services, this self-paced training course will show you how you can take advantage of Windows Identity Foundation, the newest addition to the .NET Framework family, to handle identity and access for your .NET applications in simple and interoperable fashion. The hands-on labs assume no prior knowledge of the subject, covering the most common task first, while more advanced scenarios allow the developers who chose so to explore the topic in more depth. - Are you passionate about the Web?
Join us for MIX10, a 3 day event full of inspiration, content, and networking. MIX10 is a 72-hour conversation to learn about Microsoft's Web platform and tools such as Windows Mobile, Silverlight, Expression, and ASP.NET. Register by January 15th and save US$600 on your pass and US$196 towards a free night at Mandalay Bay. - New - Preventing Security Development Errors: Lessons Learned at Windows Live by Using ASP.NET MVC
Learn how the Windows Live team applied the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) while developing new Windows Live services with ASP.NET MVC. - Windows 7: Build Innovative Applications
Discover new developer features in the Windows 7 operating system with these online resources. Attend a live webcast and learn about using Jump Lists, how to improve robustness and performance, or how the Windows PowerShell?based platform lets you easily monitor multiple data sources. Step into a virtual lab and explore Shell Libraries, Windows Taskbar, and Windows Ribbon, among other features. Watch videos that demonstrate the Windows Touch and handwriting recognition capabilities. Dive into this content today to start learning about Windows 7. - Learn More About Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK 1.0
Learn key features of the Bing Maps Silverlight control, which include data binding, support for multiple languages, Expression Blend, and more. - Get the Resources You Need to Tackle the Recession Head-on ? and Come Out on Top
Visit Thrive today for career advice, training programs, job postings, event listings, and a wide range of tools that can help you stand out and get ahead. - Explore How to Build Solutions on SharePoint 2010
See how SharePoint 2010 is a major step forward as a development platform. Learn how SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools such as Visual Studio 2010 through this self-paced course. - New - Microsoft Silverlight 1.0: An SDL Implementation Story
Learn how the Microsoft Silverlight team met and exceeded the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements for every phase of the Silverlight 1.0 release. - Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform Overview
Join Dan Polivy, Gavin Gear, product team PMs, and Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist, as they explain the Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform, the underlying architecture, and how developers can take advantage of this new and exciting platform. - Dive into Office 2010 Beta Workshop
Discover how Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and see how developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 makes this easy. See online presentations with demos to introduce you to the core concepts and tools. - Windows Media Foundation Team Launches New Blog
The Media Foundation Team at Microsoft has launched a new blog to provide in-depth information about Media Foundation programming, to help get you started with Media Foundation in your own applications, and to get feedback from the developer community. - Download Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta
SharePoint Server 2010 Beta provides an extensible platform to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools such as Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. - Anti-XSS Library v3.1: Find, Fix, and Verify Errors
Anil Revuru (RV), Senior Software Developer from Microsoft Information Security, demonstrates the new features of the Anti-XSS Library v3.1. These include HTML Sanitization, which provides new methods to the Anti-XSS class to strip malicious characters or scripts from HTML and returns safe HTML. - Registration Open: Attend SANS AppSec 2010 Training
Attend SANS AppSec 2010 training with 7 different courses in San Francisco, January 29 through February 3, including "Developer 320: Introduction to the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)." SANS is an SDL Pro Network member. - Get the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP
SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well-managed business intelligence on a self-service basis for your users. MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP today. - Learn: Windows 7 Multi-Touch Overview
Watch Reed Townsend and Yochay Kiriaty as they explore multi-touch in Windows 7. They will cover basic out-of-the-box support for legacy applications, as well as for applications optimized for multi-touch, and explain the "Good, Better, and Best" programming model. - Explore: Windows 7 Libraries - the User Experience
David Washington and Paul Gusmorino demonstrate the key enhancements in Windows 7 for finding and organizing your files. David and Paul show off the ways that the team has simplified the Windows Explorer, the new Libraries feature, which is a virtual collection of your music, photos, and video, wherever they may be, including on multiple machines. You'll also see how to use the Library pane to easily find and filter your data. - Watch PDC09 Keynotes Live This Tuesday and Wednesday
Watch the PDC09 keynotes streaming live in Silverlight! Keynoters Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia kick things off on November 17, and Scott Guthrie and Kurt DelBene will keynote on November 18. Keynotes start at 8:30 A.M. Pacific Time on both days. Don't miss this opportunity to hear about the future of the Microsoft developer platform directly from these technical leaders. As always, the PDC team has a few secret announcements up their sleeve, so tune i