November, 2010

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar , and all events entered in Community Megaphone are...

If you’ve been waiting for Visual Basic support in the Windows Phone Developer Tools before jumping into developing apps for Windows Phone 7, then wait no longer, the tools are available now ! via Paul Thurrott

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest: Webinar: Technical Debt Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:00 AM, Online Technical debt is the cost of putting off good...

Just a quick reminder that my fellow DE Rachel Appel and I will be bringing the ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter to the Microsoft Office in Malvern, PA for a full day next Tuesday, November 16th. Agenda: · 8:30 – Registration · 9:00 –  To the Web...

If you are interested in the Windows Azure Firestarter events being run by some of my peers, but there’s not an event in your area, you can also catch the content online. The team will be live webcasting their Dec. 9th event, and you can register here...

I’ve published a new DevNugget screencast on Channel 9, and embedded the video below. In it, I demonstrate some of the new features and changes in Microsoft WebMatrix Beta 3. Learn about the new Html.Raw helper method, new publishing features, and more. Video after the break…

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CNET Download.com and Windows 7 are partnering to provide developers an opportunity to have their application showcased by Microsoft and CNET Download.com, simply by making your application light up on Windows 7 with one of 13 qualifying features, from...

I’ve published a new DevNugget screencast on Channel 9, and linked below. In it, I demonstrate how I quickly added some flair to my Community Megaphone site to help it light up on IE9 on Windows 7. By adding a few <meta> tags, I provide users with shortcuts to some of the best parts of Community Megaphone and my blog…watch the video after the break to see how easy this is…

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Just a quick reminder that if you did not get a chance to make it to PDC this year, you can get a recap of the information and announcements from PDC 2010 at a free event this Friday organized by our partner Applied Information Sciences. Vishwas Lele...

My thanks to all of the folks who came out for yesterday’s Web Platform Firestarter at our DC office yesterday. The room was packed tighter than a can of sardines, and I particularly appreciate everyone’s patience as we got the room squared away in the...

The Northern Virginia Code Camp is coming up next month, and the Call for Speakers is now open! So if you’ve got something cool you’re working on that you’d like to share with your peers, or if you just want to geek out on your favorite new technologies...

The latest episode of the Community Megaphone Podcast is up! In this episode, Dane and Andrew experiment with telecommuting, recording segments at two separate code camps simultaneously. Dane takes the northern end with Philly Code Camp , while Andrew...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest: PGHDOTNET - Advanced Unit Testing with Mocking Frameworks Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:30 PM, Pittsburgh, PA Join Chris...

I will be holding Office Hours tomorrow at the CMAP Code Camp in Columbia, MD. I will be at the code camp all day, and will have my Windows Phone 7 device with me, ready to deploy your application so we can test it on actual hardware. You can find me...

Didn’t get a chance to go to Redmond for the PDC this year? Want to find out what was announced, and what it all means, in an environment that will allow you interact with your peers and ask local experts questions about the technologies involved? Then...