Chad Brooks Web Log
Microsoft and architecture
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
Tafiti - a cool new way to search
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
Collection of Silverlight Links
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
WPF/e - Community preview released (and some great links)
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