Adlai Maschiach

The Sandcastle Team has announced the Launch of Sandcastle page at MSDN. it seems that last year when Sandcastle was released to the community, the community has requested a website for Sandcastle, well here it is http://www.sandcastledocs.com. The WebSite should provide the usual downloads, blogs, links etc. Unfortunately the website is NOT part of Microsoft.com as well as it has a different branding from Visual Studio products ! For those who are interested in playing with SandCastle here's the June CTP Download

Mike Jones has seemed to take two things and put together: The Information Card new Logo The HTML Kit which he has built ... and put them together, so here's the result http://self-issued.info/wp-content/plugins/wp-infocard/login/login.php

CardSpace has "go live" licence , but no resources or components. That had just changed - Mike Jones has announced the availability, to the public, of two very useful kits: ICardClientKit.zip is the HTML kit. The HTML Kit is a "platform-independent JavaScript and CSS code that can be used to dynamically detect client Information Card support and tailor the web site’s interactions with the user accordingly". This kit is usefull would be usefull for WebSites which are based on JAVA, PHP, Python ... etc. ICardAspNetKit.zip is as the ASP.NET 2.0 Kit. The ASP.NET Kit is a base sample of an intergration for an ASP.NET Role/Membership based site. Take...

Richard Turner has announced "Announcing the Information Card Icon". Due to the fact that currently OpenID is also considered an Information Card, you should take the note into consideration "This icon is NOT a Windows CardSpace Icon. It's an icon to symbolize that a site or application supports Information Cards, regardless of the identity selector used to submit an Information Token associated with any Information Card. ".

Due to the fact that the VB Team was involved in the construction of LINQ, it would more then obvious that they would construct a LINQ Cookbook. I would keep the link for future use ....

Dominick Baier seems to finish his Feature Complete Version of the ASP.NET CardSpace Control , which is now at version 2.5. The post includes also a small documentation which would help to incorperate the control into your application.

Microsoft ESB Guidance at CodePlex has updated to CTP2      Overview The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform and to allow Microsoft customers to extend their own messaging and integration solutions. One of the major changes for me is the fact that the core components have been updated to the R2 release of BizTalk Server ;) 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 HostingThis technical white paper details the deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007 within Microsoft, including the benefits and lessons learned, which may be helpful to other enterprises considering a large-scale implementation of Office SharePoint Server 2007

"Under the Hood" white papers for Fantastic 40 Application Templates and Splendid 7 My Site Templates now available! Windows SharePoint Services Document: Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Under the Hood SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites - Under the Hood

In one of my previous posts MOSS 2007 VirtualPC how to create a VPC of MOSS2007 using evaluation editions. It seems that microsoft has heard the need of begining developers and System Admistrators regarding the matter so they announced the availability of a MOSS VPC (Inc 2007 client) in the VHD Program run by the Server Virtualization team and available for download on Microsoft.com. The VPC includes the MOSS Product Evaluation Guide (on the desktop) and is configured so the walk through at the end of the guide works with the image. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&DisplayLang=en