October, 2006

OK, so that's probably a pretty provocative statement in some quarters. And while it's not my place to speak for our official policy, I think it's fair to say that we would love for all web developers to be using ASP.NET... Here's the thing, though...

From my friends at RVNUG : Hope to see you at the November RV.NUG Meeting - Thursday, 11/2, 6:00 pm. We have a great, leading edge topic for November. Join us for a presentation on a topic "as it is released by Microsoft". TOPIC: Introduction...

The next meeting of the Federal ASP.NET Web Developers user group will be held tonight at 5:30pm, at EEI Communications in Silver Spring, MD: DBSolutions and EEI Communications would like to invite you to the Federal ASP.NET Web Developers. Please...

Just a quick reminder that at noon eastern time today we'll have another installment of the FAQ Friday devBrainPick webcast. Today's special guest is Andy Leonard, an author and speaker with expertise in SQL Server Integration Services, Visual Studio...

My New Jersey counterpart, Peter Laudati , points to a cool contest from the IE7 team for creating new add-ins. Prizes apparently include a trip to MIX 07 in Las Vegas, and a Zune media player. Free trip means more money for poker (or slots, or whatever...

Catch MVP Russ Nemhauser tonight at 7pm in Tyson's Corner, VA...details at http://www.caparea.net/ !

From my friends at DVSUG : The next meeting of the Delaware Valley Sharepoint User Group will be on October 25th at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA District office in Malvern, PA Meeting Agenda Wednesday, October...

Due to circumstances beyond my control, this week's scheduled Web Wednesday webcast has been cancelled. I'll re-schedule this topic when I'm able. We'll be back and fired up next week with an overview of what's new in IIS 7.0 . And don't forget...

From my friends at the Butler Area .NET User Group : Date: October 26, 2006 Time: 8-8 pm Location: Communifax, Cranberry Township, PA Speaker: Regional Director Mike Snell Topic: Automated Testing using Visual Studio Team Test and Team Foundation...

From my friends at NoVaSQL : Everyone, The Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group ( www.novasql.com ) is announcing its next session for 2006 to benefit IT Professionals (DBAs, Developers, Admins, etc.) in the Northern Virginia, Washington...

A definite don't-miss event this week is this Thursday's Microsoft Integration and Connected Systems User Group, at which Anil John, from the John's Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab, will talk about the state of the WS-* specifications, and discuss...

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the BaltoMSDN user group in Hunt Valley, MD on Windows Presentation Foundation. It was a lively group, with lots of questions, both on WPF as well as on related (and not-so-related) technologies. ...

So I've been working on the web site for .NET University , a site devoted to helping folks train up on .net 3.0, which is the brainchild of my Atlanta counterpart, Doug Turnure . One of Doug's great community guys, Brendon Schwartz , created a nice HTML...

So, I wasn't aware of this, but apparently IronPython 1.0, a dynamic language for the .net Framework 2.0, has been released . And there's more cool stuff coming with dynamic languages soon, so check back soon, and I'll have more to share.

Get it here: http://ajax.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabid=47

Just a quick reminder that today at 12:00 noon eastern time, I'll be talking about data binding in ASP.NET 2.0 as part of my weekly Web Wednesday devCast series. You can register here . Also, Friday at noon will be our next installment of FAQ Fridays...

Well, I finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade my day-to-day work machine to Windows Vista. I've run a number of builds from Beta 1 on as dual-boot OSes, or on secondary machines, but this is my first leap to full-time Vista use. As expected...

This is pretty cool. Automated testing for AJAX apps. Nice stuff.

Hey folks, if you're planning to be in Richmond on Saturday, and particularly if you're planning to attend the 100% FREE code camp, please stop by RichmondCodeCamp.org , and sign up to volunteer. Andy, Susan, Darrell, Frank, and all the other folks who...

If want to get the best developer info the Richmond area has to offer, and you haven't yet registered for this Saturday's Richmond Code Camp 2 , what are you waiting for? Register here ...do it! NOW!

I want to thank everyone who came out for our first FAQ Friday devBrainPick event last week. I especially appreciate everyone's patience with our format hiccups...this being a new series and format, I suppose that's to be expected. :-) We did have...

This week's installment of the Web Wednesdays devCast will feature yours truly discussing the new Provider Model in ASP.NET 2.0. We'll walk through the purpose of the provider models, discuss the built-in providers, and see how you can easily create custom...

From my friends at RVNUG : Hope to see you at the October meeting of the RV.NUG. October is sponsored by INETA (International .NET Association) and brings us world renowned presenter and author: Paul Litwin. Paul will be presenting: ASP.NET 2...