Found via Twitter : Ryan Lanciaux posted this awesome Theme Generator for Visual Studio …you give it 3 colors of your choice, and a contrast value, and it generates a theme with complementary colors for the various types of keywords and types, etc. I...

Great idea from Chris Williams and the Twin Cities XNA User Group : The Twin Cities XNA User Group is throwing their first ever charity event! Admission to this event is $10 (ten bucks!!) and that covers entry into what just might be the biggest Halo...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:00 PM: CapArea .NET August Meeting - WCF in SharePoint 2007, presented by Sahil Malik In this session, Sahil uses a pure...

The Richmond community is celebrating the launch of SQL Server 2008 with their Community Launch Event featuring information on SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Food, fun, giveaways, and best of all, free education! When: Saturday, August 16th,...

This announcement from Nikon has me drooling: TOKYO – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of its newest DX-format digital SLR, the D90. More than just a new camera, the D90 represents a new era of digital SLR fun and creativity....

It’s out: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en Make sure to read the setup notes on the download page. For more information on SP1, see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio...

Are you a SharePoint professional? Do you run a SharePoint user group? Then you want to know about ISPA, the International SharePoint Professionals Association . In their own words: The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the...

This looks interesting…local C# MVP Kevin Hazzard is moving up in the alphabet with a series for beginners on F# , the new functional programming language out of Microsoft Research . First two installments are already up…definitely one I’ll be following...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:00 PM: The Baltimore/Washington .NET Developers August Meetup - Meet other local .NET developers to discuss the programming...

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting at VSLive! New York in just over a month. I’ll be presenting on troubleshooting and managing AJAX and Javascript in applications where you may not have full control over the application . I may also have...

Great day yesterday. Drove up to Baltimore to spend some quality time with the community up there. Beautiful day to be in Charm City. Had lunch with Randy Hayes (President of the CMAP user group ), Ed Mullin (President of BaltoMSDN ), and Christopher...

The Channel 9 Wiki has a listing of Silverlight user groups. If you’re looking for a group, check it out. If you run a group, make sure it’s listed so folks can find you (and while you’re online, make sure you sign your group up in Codezone , and add...

Back this week after an offsite meeting last week, and here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so): Monday, August 11, 2008 6:00 PM: SoMD .NET User Group - August Meeting - Dynamic Data by James Pendarvis. One of the cool...

And Tim Heuer has a couple of cool accelerators to share: I first saw the accelerators (the artists formerly known as activities) during The Code Trip, when Woody created an IE8 activity for Wikipedia.  It was a convenient tool to have in your right...