November 2006 - Posts
Announcements Welcome Leisure Suit Larry and fellow console creatures. December is the launch of The Gaming Lounge , a set of gaming and XNA forums for the inner-gamer in all of us. Plug in and let us know what you think. Prizes Congratulations to the
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Outlook 2007
I installed Office 2007 Professional RTM a couple of days ago. I've noticed that while Outlook 2007 is receiving email in the background it slows down my computer to the point that it freezes and sometimes beeps at me. I have 2GB of RAM and a duo core
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I'm proud to announce the launch of Live Chat and Messenger on this site using CuteSoft's Cute Chat and Web Messenger components. Not only can you get your questions answered and answer questions, but also hang out with others in the developer community
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Dev Connections Day 4
I wasn't feeling too well today, so I only attended 1.5 sessions. I first went to a session where Steve Smith presented on TDD and unit testing with VSTS. The next session was about using transactions and the instructor was Juval Lowy. I've had a good
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Dev Connections Day 3
Today was a short day for me at Dev Connections. I only attended two sessions. First I attended Juval Lowy's session on Windows Communication Foundation. It was very informative. Next I was off to attend Stephen Walther's session on ASP.NET Web Parts.
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SQL Server 2005 SP2 CTP Now Available for Download
A couple of hours ago the CTP for SQL Server 2005 SP2 was released. It mainly includes security improvements such as a new type of trigger that can be triggered against the logon event allowing you to do things like write policies for when a user is allowed
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Dev Connections Day 2
Today was filled with a lot more varity as it was the first day of Dev Connections. The beginning of the day started off with Scott Guthrie doing a keynote speach called Bringing the Web to Life with ASP.NET AJAX where he demonstrated Microsoft AJAX on
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Office 2007 and .NET Framework 3.0 are RTM
For those that didn't catch it in my blog entry from last night, .NET Framework 3.0 and Office 2007 are now RTM. From what I've heard at Dev Connections, it sounds like Vista is very close to being RTM. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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Dev Connections Day 1
Today was the pre conference for Dev Connections. I attended Windows Forms - Beyond the Basics and the speakers were Ken Getz and Robert Green. It was rather informative and the topics covered were threading, GDI, data binding, and printing. After the
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IronPython for ASP.NET
I just noticed today that Microsoft has released a CTP for IronPython for ASP.NET. Looks interesting. You can take a look at it here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Dev Connections
From 11/4-11/12 I'll be in Las Vegas for Dev Connections. Dev Connections is 11/6-11/9, but the rest of the time is sort of like a mini-vacation. I've never been to Las Vegas before, so it should be interesting. I hate losing money, so I doubt that I
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