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Microsoft Field Evangelist: Egan, Palermo, Terkaly, Villalobos

Most of you know Im pretty very well connected into Microsoft. Mostly because its been my playground for the last few decades. Ive been an MVP since 2003, and Regional Directory since 2011, and my com...

A good book gets borrowed: Version Control By Example

Eric Sink ((@eric_sink on twitter) has written a great book on Version Control Software, titled Version Control By Example. It showed up on my desk again this morning. I say again, because I keep lett...

AZ Entrepreneurship Conference 2011

2010 was a great building year for EventDay.com. One of our great moments came when we donated services to help the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference. Here is a quick video post, talking about 2010,...

My Telerik Interview on Day 2 of the Build Conference

I caught up with Richard Campbell doing Telerik interviews and was able to sit down for a few minutes. It's always fun learning and sharing new technology at conferences. Thank you Telerik for the tim...

Moving to Office365 from Google Apps

For the last few years, Ive been using the free Google apps for my email and calendar solutions. Ive been what I would call a power user on Google Mail falling in love with the keyboard shortcuts, an...

QuickStats Version History

Welcome to the QuickScore wiki! I'm @ScottCate and I created and am maintaining the QuickStats applications. Here I will write a few notes regarding the code for Quick Stats. Quick Stats is a sports r...

Windows Phone 7 App: A Quick Tweet

So I have another application in the Windows Phone Marketplace publish today. Its a nice little application with great functionality. Saving you 10s of seconds at a time :) If you use twitter from a ...

Ive been accepted as a Microsoft Regional Director

Im happy to have accepted the prestigious Microsoft Regional Director award in February, 2011. The Regional Director program is an award that is given to outstanding community members, who support th...

Windows Phone 7 App RejectedCrashes when Offline

I wrote an application for the Windows Phone Marketplace, and it was rejected. I use the internal WebBrowser control, and I never tested it without the internet connection. Here is the hard part the ...

Windows Phone: Working with MediaLibrary.GetPictureFromToken

I struggled with this for a while, so I thought I would throw up a post, to help out people running into this is in the future. From MSDN: Here is the code sample youre lead to, to use the Extras ite...

Azure Boot Camp Trip ReportFeb 5, 2010

This past week, I hosted another bootcamp @Gangplank in Chandler, AZ. This was done in conjunction with AZGroups.org, our local Microsoft Evangelist Michael Palermo( @Palermo4 ) and a few rock solid g...

Windows Phone 7 Unleashed - Post Event Update

Saturday, September 11, 8am to 8pm. All day baby! What a great event. I’m not really sure where to start, so I’ll just start rambling from the beginning and see where it takes us. First, t...

DNSMadeEasy.com Minor OutageKeeps me as a customer

Ive recently been considering GoDaddy.com as a DNS provider. I have 150+ domains registered at GoDaddy.com, and they offer a nice software panel for DNS entries. Ive been using DNSMadeEasy for a very ...

Something New at VSLive?

VSLive is coming the first week of August, 2010, and Ill be speaking at the event, talking about Visual studio. Use and abuse it to the best of your ability. My talks over the last few years have been...

AZGroups May 10 2010 Day of Net

WOW. Another event behind us. What a speaker line up this year huh? Scott Guthrie Scott Guthrie Scott Hanselman Jeffrey Palermo Tim Heuer Scott Guthrie Why is ScottGu listed 3 tim...

Preparing for Microsoft TechEd New Orleans 2010

I’m grateful to have been selected as a speaker to this years Microsoft TechEd North America. I know there are 1000’s of qualified speakers and I’m honored to have had high enough sc...

AZGroups.org Postcard Idea

VistaPrint.com is a place that prints very cheap (free sometimes) business cards and post cards. I’ve used them in the past for my user group business cards. The printing is free, but you have t...

Trip Report: Scottsdale Arizona Event Conference Planning

Monday May 10th, 2010 represents my largest and best event to-date, that I have ever hosted. For the last seven years, I’ve grown a technical audience around Microsoft programming / developers i...

Pulling EasySearchASP.NET Off the Market

Weve been talking about this for a while, and today is the magical day. EasySearchASP.net will no longer be a product sold by myKB.com, Inc. While the product still has a support life, and there are s...

VS2010 Launch Talk: Whats New?

Here are my talking points for the Visual Studio Launch event today. I’m covering the “What’s New” talk. When I put this together, I didn’t want to just show a bunch of f...

Screencast video hosting services compared

Running the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks video blog, I have a lot of screen casts to share. In order to do this, I need to host the videos somewhere. When you think video, first you think of YouTube,...

Microsoft PDC Sessions/Keynotes online for Download

If you’re seen the tech new recently, you’ve heard about the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference). If you couldn’t make the conference (like me) then you’ll be ha...

Taking asp.net app offline with appoffline.htm

Dont beat your head against the wall for this next time Scott just read your old notes. As a gentle reminder (to self :) the file name is app_offline.htm not ... appoffline.htm appoffline.html ...

The Best Online Training is now Free or $500 off from PluralSight

In an announcement that I just received from INETA, PluralSight On Demand training is now free to INETA user group leaders, $500 less for all INETA user group members, and a one month free pass to Use...

DiscountASP.NET Expands Open Control Panel API to include SQL Backup API

(Copy of Press Release: August 4th, 2009) ASP.NET hosting and SQL hosting leader, DiscountASP.NET, announces expanding their Open Control Panel API with the addition of APIs for SQL 2008 Database back...

404 Widget Version 1.0.0.1

After a bunch of requests, this morning I upgraded my Graffiti 404 Widget, to offer the ability to clear your 404 statistics. After all, if you found a 404 with this utility, then fixed it, ...

Live Info Casting of #MIX09

If you’re not able to Make it to Microsoft’s MIX09 conference this year, I have good news for you. I’ll be ( let’s call it ) live casting several of the sessions, mainly the ke...

WPF: To Screen Stack or Load On Demand ??

In WPF which is better, to Screen Stack, or Load on Demand. By ScreenStack, I mean to load all the screen dynamically onto a stack, and then set the visible property of all to false, except the one y...

Today @GangPlank Brown Bag Lunch: ScreenCast Focused Video Blogging

I’ve been forced into @GangPlank, and I’m scared! Not really, but kinda! GangPlank Headquarters is a very community oriented tech group in Mesa, and I’ve heard about all the communit...

Graffiti 404 Manager

If you've been following my blog recently, you know I just switched from a mix of my old school home grown solution and the Microsoft ASP.NET welblogs to GraffitiCMS. One thing I started wondering was...

I don't know: Can you display the file size in Visual Studio Solution Explorer

A reader asks… When viewing the Solution pane in Visual Studio 2008, is there a way to display file sizes? Most of my web applications have files in the project besides ASPX and the like (i.e.,...

GraffitiCMS Wish List: Support for Internationalization

I have several offers to convert my Tech content into other languages. Currently, GraffitiCMS doesnt support any internationalization. I hope this is on the radar.This work is licensed under a Creativ...

Whats new in jQuery 1.3? Drew Douglas Answers

This is well worth your time, Drew Douglass spends a few minutes creating a very detailed post about what’s new in jQuery. http://nettuts.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/everything-you-need-to-kno...

Great Silverlight Cache for ASP.NET Drop Down Lists

Most Silverlight examples are about the User Interface. XAML here, and video there, pretty this, and shaded that. But this post today on SilverlightShow.net is different. They use the isolated storag...

Presenting AJAX Client Templates from ASP.NET v4 Preview

Tonight (Jan 13, 2008 5:30-8pm) at the Arizona.net User Group, Ill be presenting AJAX client templates currently available in the ASP.NET v4 Preview hosted on CodePlex. Below is a quick code sample t...

ScottCate.com is now Mobile Enabled

Thanks to a new Mobile theme, and a Mobile Theme selector from the GraffitiCMS Extras project on CodePlex, you should be able to hit this site, and read it pretty easily on your mobile device. This is...

Microsoft Tag for ScottCate.com

At conferences I’m always giving out my blog URL. With this image I can simply display my blog, and anyone with Microsoft Tag installed on a smart client, can point and browse :) Now that my&nb...

Moving ScottCate.com to GraffitiCMS

I started VSTricks.com as a community new years resolution last week. To get started, I wanted something that was easy and fast to setup on my own servers, and I decided to check out all the hype arou...

Why Three ScottCate Feeds

I think it’s the best way to split content to what you may be interested in. The /VSTricks Feed will only contain Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. The /ScottCate Feed will have all content. Includ...

Graffiti Chalk Checking a Custom Field CheckBox Value

If you create a custom field in GraffitiCMS – can can use chalk to check if the field is turned on or not with the following chalk code snippet 1: #if($post.Custom("fieldNameCheckBox&q...

December 9,10,13th, 2008 - A Busy week in PHX with MSFT

December 9th Noon-5pm Architect Council | Cloud Computing and Impact on Architecture Details Below :: Must Register here to attend. December 10th 11-5 (plus an after party sponsored by GoDaddy)...

C# 4.0, ASP.NET4.0, Silverlight Toolkit, Rest Toolkit Oh My!

On December 10th, 2008 (11-5) I'm speaking at an MSDN event in Phoenix. I'm excited to have an hour to talk about ASP.NET 4.0 and the new Silverlight Toolkit. Registration is required, because there ...

WallyM on WebForms Routing

Last night I was talking to some folks about routing in MVC, and how that would also be useful with WebForms as well. Today I see a podcast from WallyM on the subject, http://is.gd/3J4T Here are the ...

When Email Attachments Fail. TransferBigFiles to the rescue!

I've talked about http://TransferBigFiles.com in the past. And just for the record, I don't have any stake in the company, it's just a great service that has worked for me hundreds and hundreds of ti...

CIO.com has a nice preview of Visual Studio 2010

Esther Schindler does a great job introducing Visual Studio 2010. If you're currently using Visual Studio this article offers a nice preview. PDC this year will surely have more goodness to offer. My...

Sys.StringBuilder.appendFormat(mask, args[])

I'm speaking this week at TechEd New Zealand, and TechEd Australia. As part of my talk, I show how Microsoft AJAX offers object oriented LIKE behavior. There are a ton of examples that I have build ...

NBC Silverlight Install End User Experience

I fired up my iMac this morning and ran over to www.NBCOlympics.com full of excitement to see the video experience that I've heard Microsoft and NBC talking about for the past few months. I've never ...

TechEd Orlando :: Compiler Tricks

Here is the download project for my Compiler Tricks talk at TechEd Orlando, 2008. The talk focuses on what the C# 3.x compiler does with new syntax, and how you can use most of the 3.x syntax, when t...

Working with Fiddler on LocalHost

Developing ASP.NET AJAX (or any AJAX really) is tremendously easier if you can watch the traffic going across the wire. There are a lot of ways to accomplish this, but I think Fiddler is the most popu...

Presenting with Visual Studio 2008

I just got out of a meeting with the famous Sara "tip of the day" Ford. These are always great meetings, because you're guaranteed to leave knowing more about Visual Studio than when you arr...

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