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  • What .NET Library Features do you use?

    Published on 15 Oct 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    Scott Hanselman posted a survey (one little question) on what features do you use in the .NET framework: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SurveyTimeWhatNETFrameworkFeaturesDoYouUse.aspx If you havn’t already taken this quiz on Scott’s site, it is an easy one question quiz that will help out Read full article

  • Free download: Silverlight 2.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

    Published on 14 Oct 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    The Add-on package for Silverlight 2.0 has released (version 9.0.30729.143) for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Here’s what’s in the download: Overview This package is an add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2. It can be installed on top of either Visual Studio 2008 Read full article

  • Free Online Training: SQL Services Analysis Services

    Published on 13 Oct 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    For those of you, like myself, who are interested in learning more about building data warehouses for the use of building Business Intelligence Applications and Key Performance Indicator Dashboards, you might want to check out this free online training from Microsoft. Here’s the details: What you’ll Read full article

  • SharePoint How to: Changing the text of the Automated Email for site Access

    Published on 13 Oct 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    I had a customer who sent me an email on how to change the automated email text sent when a user request access to a site. Although I won’t get into the specifics of what that customer was looking for, I was able to find a great example of how to change the text across the site. Now, let me warn you Read full article

  • 13 Great Free Backup Programs for Windows, Mac, and Linux [Digg]

    Published on 12 Oct 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    Making sure you've got a reliable backup solution is a must for any user - and more so for an administrator. Why? Well, mostly because your users probably aren't very good at remembering to back up their own files. And so it falls to you to provide the right software for the job! Read full article

  • Add Your Twitter Status To Your Blog

    Published on 11 Oct 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    For the longest time I have been wanting to add my Twitter status to my blog in place of my quote right under my blogs name in the header. (see above) Today I sat down and figured out what I needed to do to accomplish this and to my surprise it only took all of [...] Read full article

  • Microsoft Goes Open Source! Well At Least for One Project [Digg]

    Published on 10 Oct 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    InfoWorld was the first to report that Microsoft has released a new Touchless SDK to help developers kick the tires on multi-touch technology.But it was TechCrunch that pointed to perhaps a more significant aspect of the release: it's open source Read full article

  • Threading in the .NET Framework

    Published on 01 Oct 2008 from Brian Finnerty's Blog | InnerWorkings

    Threading has emerged as a red hot topic in our roadmap as increasing numbers of developers seek to build applications with multiple threads of execution. What exactly are threads you ask? Wikipedia defines threads as “a way for a program to split itself into two or more simultaneously (or pse Read full article

  • Just Announced: Visual Studio 2010 is the “Official Name”!

    Published on 29 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    Just in case you haven’t heard it yet, Microsoft has decided on the new name and time frame for the next version of Visual Studio (2010), A full list of all of the features has not yet been released (they will be coming sometime soon, probably around the time of the Professional Developer Conference Read full article

  • Visual Studio 2010 to come with airline like 'black box' [Digg]

    Published on 29 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    In the next version of its developer tool suite, to be known as Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft plans to include the ability to record the full screens of what testers are seeing, as well as data about their machine. When a test application crashes, the technology will enable developers to see the bug Read full article

  • jQuery and Visual Studio Shipping Together

    Published on 28 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    I have been a huge fan of jQuery ever since I started working on IdeaPipe about 10 months ago. Mostly because of its simplistic DOM access using standard CSS syntax that we all have to learn anyways in the modern Web 2.0 world. In addition to the ease of finding elements on your [...] Read full article

  • Exclusive: Sarah Palin [Digg]

    Published on 25 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    "Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation. Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you. " Read full article

  • Free training: Developer Ramp up kit for Microsoft CRM (Dynamics) 4.0

    Published on 24 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    I am starting to spin up on Microsoft Dynamics, and if you are a SharePoint Developer you should be looking at this as well (it handles a lot of the lower-level SharePoint Developer scenarios). In my searching around, both internally (to Microsoft) and externally (the Web) I have found a few good re Read full article

  • How NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements

    Published on 24 Sep 2008 from Nick Berardi's Coder Journal

    About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I wanted to improve the read times because our new Facebook Application was being launched and I anticipated an increase in our traffic to the serv Read full article

  • New SharePoint Developer-focused site by Microsoft

    Published on 24 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    If you are a SharePoint Developer you should know that Microsoft has launched a new SharePoint Developer portal site. In addition to the interesting new UI for the site (I am trying to get used to it myself, see pic below), Microsoft has bought many of the major “Developer Topics” to the forefront o Read full article

  • Videos: All of the new Windows Ads in one place

    Published on 24 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    I just received an email from someone looking for all of the new Microsoft Ad’s (aka., Seinfeld and “I’m A PC” ads) in a high-res (I.e. not YouTube) variation. Microsoft has published them all, the first two waves were officially called (Gates & Seinfeld, and Windows vs. Walls). You can find the Read full article

  • Podcast: Microsoft AppV (Application Virtualization)

    Published on 24 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Director of the Windows Client division has done a great Podcast on the features AppV 4.5, Microsoft’s newest version of the Application Virtualization software formerly known as Softgrid. It’s a downloadable Windows Media file (.WMA). Karri does a great job of talking about t Read full article

  • How to videos: Building REST-based services with WCF

    Published on 23 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    One of my colleagues (Rob Bagby, Developer Evangelist) has released a great 10-part series of videos about how to build RESTful Services with Windows Communication Foundation (part of the .NET Framework). Here’s the list of his videos (Linked to his blog): REST in WCF - Part I (REST Overview) REST i Read full article

  • Beta Downloads: Windows Live Messenger v3, Live Writer v3, and more

    Published on 23 Sep 2008 from sheltonblog.com

    This past week Microsoft released “Wave 3” of the Windows Live product line, and two of the most popular tools is Live Messenger (Microsoft IM Client) and Live Writer (Microsoft Blogging Software, which is the one that I use). I’ve been using the Beta software for a while and so far so good from my Read full article

  • Free Diagram Designer from Nevron

    Published on 23 Sep 2008 from Nevron News

    Nevron Diagram Designer is a freeware diagram editor powered by Nevron Diagram. It is suitable for creating various kinds of diagrams and performing different layout algorithms on them. The Diagram Designer also can make you familiar with the features...(read more) Read full article