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A software architect, Azure expert, and former Microsoft evangelist, Mike Benkovich dedicates huge amounts of his time to helping his fellow developers and burgeoning programmers learn about new technologies and platforms. Mike’s website equips developers with tips and resources to help them get to grips with technologies including cloud, data and devices, and he produces online courses covering areas like Azure enterprise development and serverless computing. Mike is also a chronic sharer of puns, so head over to his Twitter feed if you’re after a laugh (or a groan).

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Title SeriesName Date
MSDN Radio: Office 2010 with John Durant MSDN Radio 5/24/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: A Dive into Windows 7 with Mark Russinovich MSDN Radio 5/17/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers MSDN Radio 5/10/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Visual Studio 2010 for the Database Developer VS2010 101 5/5/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: Chatting with Scott Guthrie MSDN Radio 5/3/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: Expression, Poetry, and the Windows Phone MSDN Radio 4/26/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Visual Studio 2010 Debugging and Intellitrace VS2010 101 4/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: XNA and Windows Phone 7 Series MSDN Radio 4/19/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: The ASP.NET Developer Evolved with Joe Stagner MSDN Radio 4/12/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: From Visual Studio to CodePlex MSDN Radio 4/5/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 VS2010 101 3/31/2010 9:00:00 AM
MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight MSDN Radio 3/29/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, and WCF VS2010 101 3/17/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Getting Started with Team Foundation Server 2010 VS2010 101 3/3/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: what's New in ASP.NET AJAX 4 VS2010 101 2/24/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: what's New in ASP.NET Web Forms 4 VS2010 101 2/10/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: what's New in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 VS2010 101 1/26/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: what's New in Visual Studio 2010 VS2010 101 1/20/2010 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Version Checking and Installer Detection Win7 for Devs 12/17/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: UAC and Privilege Isolation Win7 for Devs 12/15/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Windows 7 Shell Libraries Win7 for Devs 12/10/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Windows 7 Background Services Win7 for Devs 12/8/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Windows 7 Troubleshooting Platform Win7 for Devs 11/25/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Windows 7 Taskbars and Ribbon Win7 for Devs 11/11/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Practical MVC with Jessy Houle BTLOD 10/21/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Practical LINQ to SQL BTLOD 10/7/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Working with SharePoint Server and Silverlight BTLOD 9/16/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Make Visual Studio Your Own, Customizing the IDE BTLOD 9/2/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow BTLOD 8/19/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: XAML Bound for Greatness BTLOD 8/12/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live and On Demand: Diving Deeper into Windows 7 for Developers BTLOD 8/5/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Using the Virtual Earth Silverlight Control BTLOD 6/10/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Introduction to Windows 7 for Developers BTLOD 6/3/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Exploring Silverlight 3.0 BTLOD 5/20/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Building Windows Mobile Applications BTLOD 5/13/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Visual Studio Debugging Demystified BTLOD 5/6/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: An Introduction to ADO.NET Data Services BTLOD 4/15/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Internet Explorer 8 for Developers with Robert Boedigheimer BTLOD 4/8/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Silverlight 2.0 Demystified BTLOD 3/25/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: MVC Demystified with Javier Lozano BTLOD 3/18/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: A Conversation About CSLA .NET with Rocky Lhotka BTLOD 3/11/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: A Lap Around .NET 3.5 SP1 BTLOD 3/6/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: what's New in the WPF Toolkit, Introducing the DataGrid, DatePicker, and Ribbon BTLOD 2/25/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Working with the Data Form Web Part and SharePoint Designer with Raymond Mitchell BTLOD 2/18/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: what's New for Developers in IIS 7.0 BTLOD 2/11/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Using ASP.NET Application Services BTLOD 2/4/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: An Introduction to Visual Studio Team Data Edition BTLOD 1/28/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Working with Expression and XAML BTLOD 1/21/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: DemoFest for SQL Server 2008, Spatial Data, and the Virtual Earth SDK BTLOD 1/14/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Working with LINQ in Visual C# BTLOD 1/7/2009 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: SharePoint Server Features with Scot Hillier BTLOD 12/10/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Practical Applications Using VSTO with John Wiese BTLOD 12/3/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Security Sidebars and Hacker Tricks! BTLOD 11/26/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: LINQ to Amazon to Silverlight to SharePoint Products and Technologies BTLOD 11/19/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Are You Membership Aware? BTLOD 11/12/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: Windows Presentation Foundation Demystified BTLOD 11/5/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: ASP.NET Overview for Non-ASP.NET Developers BTLOD 10/29/2008 9:00:00 AM
BenkoTips Live & On Demand: 10 Ways Your Applications Can Be More Secure on Windows Vista BTLOD 10/22/2008 11:00:00 AM
24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Reach Users with the 2007 Office System SQL MasterClass 6/3/2008 12:00:00 PM
24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Reporting Services Designer Improvements SQL MasterClass 5/8/2008 9:00:00 AM
Working with Membership Providers Popcorn Topics 4/30/2008 9:00:00 AM
IIS 7.0 in Windows Server 2008 for Developers Popcorn Topics 4/16/2008 9:00:00 AM
SharePoint Server 2007 and Silverlight SharePoint For Developers 3/27/2008 9:00:00 AM
SharePoint Server 2007 and AJAX SharePoint For Developers 3/20/2008 9:00:00 AM
SharePoint Server 2007 and Authentication SharePoint For Developers 3/13/2008 9:00:00 AM
Customizing SharePoint Server 2007 SharePoint For Developers 3/6/2008 9:00:00 AM
Load Balancing, Deployment, and Performance for Windows Communication Foundation Framework MasterClass 10/29/2007 12:00:00 PM
Writing Custom Channels for Windows Communication Foundation Framework MasterClass 10/22/2007 12:00:00 PM
Management and Diagnostics for Windows Communication Foundation Framework MasterClass 10/17/2007 9:00:00 AM
Working with Windows Communication Foundation Framework MasterClass 10/1/2007 12:00:00 PM
Framework Masterclass: LINQ to Entities Framework MasterClass 9/24/2007 12:00:00 PM
Framework Masterclass: LINQ to XML Framework MasterClass 9/17/2007 12:00:00 PM
Framework Masterclass: LINQ to SQL Framework MasterClass 9/10/2007 12:00:00 PM
Framework Masterclass: Working with LINQ Framework MasterClass 9/4/2007 12:00:00 PM
Developing Windows SharePoint Services Workflows SharePoint For Developers 7/6/2007 12:00:00 PM
SharePoint Server 2007 and Business Intelligence SharePoint For Developers 6/22/2007 12:00:00 PM
Sites and Templates in SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio SharePoint For Developers 6/15/2007 12:00:00 PM
Web Parts and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio SharePoint For Developers 6/8/2007 12:00:00 PM
Business Data Catalog Overview SharePoint For Developers 6/1/2007 12:00:00 PM
Windows SharePoint Services and Forms Services SharePoint For Developers 5/25/2007 10:00:00 AM
Windows SharePoint Services and Content Types SharePoint For Developers 5/18/2007 10:00:00 AM
Workflow and Windows SharePoint Services SharePoint For Developers 5/11/2007 10:00:00 AM
SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers (Part 3 of 4): Site Conversion to Windows SharePoint Services SharePoint For Developers 5/4/2007 11:00:00 AM
SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers (Part 4 of 4): Windows SharePoint Services and Access 2007 SharePoint For Developers 4/30/2007 1:00:00 PM
SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers (Part 2 of 4): Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2007 SharePoint For Developers 4/16/2007 1:00:00 PM
SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers (Part 1 of 4): SharePoint Server 2007 as a Development Platform SharePoint For Developers 4/13/2007 1:00:00 PM
Workflows (Part 2 of 2): State Machine Workflows Framework MasterClass 2/15/2007 1:00:00 PM
Managing Team Data with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 2 of 2) Team Systems 2/15/2007 10:00:00 AM
Managing Team Data with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Part 1 of 2) Team Systems 2/12/2007 10:00:00 AM
Custom Activities Framework MasterClass 1/29/2007 10:00:00 AM
Workflows (Part 1 of 2): Sequential Workflows Framework MasterClass 1/15/2007 10:00:00 AM
Introducing the New ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions AJAX 101 11/21/2006 10:00:00 AM
ASP.NET Code-Named "Atlas" Novice to Pro: "Atlas" for the Masses AJAX 101 11/14/2006 12:00:00 PM
SQL Server MasterClass: Tuning Your SQL Server 2005 Database SQL MasterClass 11/13/2006 11:00:00 AM
ASP.NET Code-Named "Atlas" Novice to Pro: Understanding XmlHttpRequest AJAX 101 10/23/2006 10:00:00 AM
ASP.NET Code-Named "Atlas" Novice to Pro: Writing JavaScript AJAX 101 10/16/2006 10:00:00 AM
ASP.NET Code-Named "Atlas" Novice to Pro: AJAX Components AJAX 101 10/9/2006 10:00:00 AM
ASP.NET Code-Named "Atlas" Novice to Pro: Introduction to "Atlas" AJAX 101 10/2/2006 12:00:00 PM
SQL Server 2005 Essentials (Part 14 of 14): ADO.NET 2.0 SQL MasterClass 8/18/2006 1:00:00 PM
SQL Server 2005 Essentials (Part 13 of 14): Enhancements to the SqlClient Data Provider SQL MasterClass 7/7/2006 10:00:00 AM
Working with Data Mining in SQL Server 2005 BI 101 6/15/2006 9:00:00 AM
Advanced SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation Services (DTS) Workshop BI 101 6/8/2006 9:00:00 AM
Integration Lab BI 101 6/1/2006 9:00:00 AM
Advanced SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Workshop BI 101 5/25/2006 9:00:00 AM
Creating Custom Client Applications Using ADOMD.NET and MDX Queries BI 101 5/18/2006 9:00:00 AM
Creating Analytical Multidimensional Expression (MDX) Queries BI 101 5/11/2006 9:00:00 AM
Integrating Office Data Analysis and Charting Tools into a Client Application BI 101 5/4/2006 9:00:00 AM
Building a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Database BI 101 4/27/2006 10:30:00 AM
Integrating SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Reports into a Client Application BI 101 4/27/2006 9:00:00 AM
Building Data Transformation Services (DTS) Packages BI 101 4/20/2006 9:00:00 AM
Business Intelligence Core Concepts and a Quick-Start Solution BI 101 4/6/2006 9:00:00 AM
SQL Master Class: Using Report Builder SQL MasterClass 2/28/2006 9:00:00 AM
SQL Master Class: Reporting Services Basics SQL MasterClass 2/7/2006 9:00:00 AM
SQL Server Master Class: User-Defined Types SQL MasterClass 1/31/2006 9:00:00 AM
SQL Server MasterClass: Common Language Runtime Integration SQL MasterClass 1/10/2006 9:00:00 AM