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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 
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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 [...]
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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
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I recently had a project that required a custom subset of data from a database be stored in an XML file. Each “row” of data also had a related image on a separate server. The project required that both the data and the image be transferred to a client for subsequent consumption by [...]
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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
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Today I am in Roanoke, VA at the MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow. This Microsoft event highlights Web development and .NET 3.5. Web Development Basics - 9am to 10:30am Presented by Andrew Guthrie, Microsoft Technology Evangelist. Andrew presents a nice history and overview of web development, from HTML/X
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Back in February I posted the beginnings of a project to wrap Authorize.Net credit card transactions in C# .NET code. I have been working on this project off and on, in conjunction with a new website we are developing, and have been meaning to post the production version for some time. Today, I am p
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In support of the Authorize.Net project, I have updated the Free Code page: DevelopingForDotNet.Extensions - updated with many new Extension Methods. DevelopingForDotNet.RegexSupport - contains a list of useful Regular Expression Patterns.
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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
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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
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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 [...]
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"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. "
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Yesterday I wrote about updating to ASP.NET MVC Preview 5. Today I tested the changes I made and they failed, so I obviously had a little more work to do. First, I had to update the Web.config file in several places (just like I did going from Preview 2 to Preview 3.) The only [...]
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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
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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
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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