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Meeting Sponsor: MaconIT September's Presentation: MVC: Free Yourself from Web Forms! by Joey Beninghove Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00! ...
From the Manning web site: Manning Publications User Group Program Manning Publications is proud to support User Groups worldwide with review copies of Manning titles, donations of promotiona...
Meeting Sponsor: UDig Techforce Solutions August's Presentation: SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers by Joshua Carlisle Thursday, August 7, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time ...
I'm not a big fan of having Visual Studio 2008 automatically trying to connect to my TFS server. Sometimes you just want to open VS and bang out some code! I've found the registry hack for TF...
Faroo is P2P web search built with .NET. They only require .NET 2.0 so it wasn't built using WCF PeerChannel. They have add-ins for IE and Firefox. Very interesting. I wonder if...
Richmond Code Camp 2008.1 (April 26, 2008) was great! I am happy that a lot of people attended my sessions.Attached is the WPF Databinding presentation and demo code. ...
Attached is the slide deck and demos for the Intro to LINQ to SQL presentation. Enjoy!...
The 2nd Richmond Code Camp will be held on Oct. 7, 2006 at the ECPI campus in Innsbrook. Saturday, 7, 2006 - 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Location: ECPI-Innsbrook 4305 Cox Road, G...
Fantastic!
From TomArcher:
From the standpoint of someone working at Microsoft and responsible for the Windows SDK, this is incredible news. We are basically acquiring some of the best tools fo...
Marc Mercuri has released updated code samples for Chapters 5, 7, and 9 of the awesome WCF Hands-On book:
Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
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In WCF, you need to register the Xml Web Services with IIS. Formerly you did that with xws_reg.exe with -v -wsat+ command line parameters.
In WCF Beta 2 however, xws_reg has been replaced by Ser...
To install the June CTP of the newly rebranded .NET 3.0, you must first uninstall Beta2 first. The directions to do that are here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AAE7FC...
Want to make MSDN2 look better in Firefox? Me too.The worst part about the documentation on, say, this page, is the fact that the names and descriptions of classes, interfaces, delegates, and enumerat...
Yes, my MVP was renewed for another year. :)Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!| kick it!...
Join the chat on April 19th, 2006 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific time.
The Team System Developer and Tester Tools (Unit Testing, Web
Testing, Load Testing, Profiling, Code Analysis (FxCop and PREFast)...
There are only 21 seats available. If you're interested in attending, register now!
Register at http://www.richmondcodecamp.org.
Saturday, April 22, 2006 8:30 AMECPI Technical College 800 M...
In the April 2006 issue of CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software
Engineering (USA), there is an interesting article called
Army Simulation Program Balances Agile and Traditional Methods With Su...
David Maister, the guru of Consulting, talks about his extensive experience in training:"I now believe that the overwhelming majority of all business training, by me and by everyone else, is a comple...
Howard van Rooijen has an excellent article on setting up Simian to detect duplicate code. Then he takes the next step and creates MonkeyWrangler, an add-in that takes the Simian output and converts i...
Yahoo! has posted a nice Design Pattern Library:Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be
sharing our library with the design and development community. This is
our first d...
A coworker recently sent me a link to this book, QuickTime for .NET and COM Developers. He's put in an order for it, and I'm interested in checking it out. From the back of the book:A general introduc...
Clipcode has released a GoF Domain Specific Language built using Microsoft's DSL tools for Visual Studio 2005. The currently available snapshot build of Clipcode-GoF-DSL supports the
GoF creational pa...
Yes, we've all seen this code a thousand times. However, this blog post does more than just rehash the same old Microsoft KB article. In it Joe Morrison shows how to read line-by-line, how to hack pas...
Wei-Meng Lee wrote an excellent article on how to incorporate a webcam into a .NET 2.0 Windows Forms, oops, er... Smart Client app. I'm not particularly interested in the webcam part, but in it he sho...
Anyone know why the Citeknet filters for MSN Desktop Search are almost always way smaller than IFilterShop's filters?...
I ran across this excellent site, Free Management Library. There are 75 categories with 675 topics covered....
Microsoft's DDCPX Team Blog has a category for "after-market solutions." Their goal is to "help ease your pain by providing solutions for problems for which hotfixes and service packs dont make sen...
Clarke Ching is working on a white paper that shows how to use Test-Driven Development in Excel to solve Roman numeral problems. He's looking for your feedback!...
Mary Poppendieck is working on a new book, Lean Software Development: An Implementation Guide. As the title implies this book shows how to do all the things we learned in the first book. The web site ...
I was just reading Joel's forward to the book Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Is anyone else tired of the fact that his entire writing these days is consumed with his anti-Microsoft-ity? I read Joe...
Though some people dont like the UML, its value as a
modeling notation cannot be overlooked. Although Im not a strict UML purist,
neither believing in UmlAsBlueprint
or UmlAsProgrammingLanguage
instea...
calling
for presentations!
www.RichmondCodeCamp.org. We hope to see you there! ...
After installing Firefox 1.5 on a brand new laptop, I tried reinstalling trusty old ChromEdit. Unfortunately it doesn't install on Firefox versions later than 1.0.7. After some digging around, I found...
You owe it to yourself to read Scott Allen's post Design Patterns: A Love Story....
Charlie Poole announced the availability of NUnit 2.2.3:
NUnit 2.2.3 is now out. You can get it at our SourceForge site. The release notes are available here.
So far, only the .msi file is available....
Using Managed DirectX I was getting the following error:
An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.InvalidDataException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dllUnhandled Exception: Erro...
If you get the following error while connecting to Subversion using TortoiseSVN:
Error: PROPFIND request failed on '/path/to/SVN' Error: PROPFIND '/path/to/SVN': could not connect to server...
Come join us for the MAD Security Code Camp on Sat, Oct. 29 at the Microsoft Reston Technology Center in Reston, VA.
What's going on
You can check out the full schedule for the Code Camp here.
Can I a...
Who says Microsoft Project can't be agile Introducing the Solution Starter: Scrum for Project 2003.
In addition to the standard burn-down charts, it looks to show something similar to an earned-value&...
From Robert Cialdini's Influence at Work newsletter:
"Gone are the days when the color names were simple. Anyone who opens a new box of crayons will quickly notice that the old common names (e.g., g...
You can now register for the SouthEastern Virginia Code Camp!
Register Here!
Join us for the first SouthEastern Virginia Code Camp. This free, community-driven event is all about the code. Develo...
Announcing the FIRST Hampton Roads Code Camp!
We'll be holding a Code Camp on Saturday, December 10th at ODU in Norfolk, VA (registration will be up soon). Still to be determined is what the trac...
Yahoo CEO belittles Google's expansion - Boston.com:
"Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel belittled rival Google Inc.'s recent efforts to expand beyond its leading Internet search engine, describing the ...
A new book is available called Prefactoring *. From the summary:
"More often than not, developers will stop a large project in the middle of the build stage to rethink and recode the software d...
It's like Google for job searches, Indeed. You type what, and maybe where, and you get jobs from Monster, HotJobs, Dice, CareerBuilder, individual company sites, and more. And searches for "...
Wow, I'm missing a lot of what's going on in the world. As the NY Times reports:
"CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, said last week that Google had told it that the company would not answer a...
My friend Scott Bellware has a TDD podcast on PodcastStudio.NET:
Number Five is alive! We chat with Scott Bellware about Test Driven Development. Scott explains the philosophy behind TDD , why it's s...
Jon Galloway has an excellent tip on running IE 7 Beta 1 side-by-side with IE6. IE has always been terrible about overwriting, which makes testing web sites with different versions of IE... difficult....
Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina's new book Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries is available for preorder on Amazon. The last book Brad Abrams ...
Yesterday the Washington Post ran an article called Boredom Numbs the Work World, Lack of Stimulation Infects Humble and High-Ranking Jobs Alike. According to the article:
"We know that 55 percent o...
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