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Once again, here are some very rough notes on the general session that just ended, typed in real time. If I have time later, I may do an edit pass. Eric Rudder Thanks everyone for coming. Announcing Windows Workflows Foundation (WWF), supports...

Here are my rough (very rough, completely unedited) notes from the Bill Gates/Jim Allchin keynotes today at PDC 05. They aren’t intended to be my final thoughts on the topic, I’m just getting what they said down on paper. This ISN'T verbatim, it's just...

It's Monday night, and I've been in LA since Saturday. How's it going so far? I spent most of Sunday in the Windows Internals pre-conference with David Solomon and Mark Russinovich . It was good, although I didn't have any big epiphanies. They covered...

Last Thursday I went to MAVBUG to do a presentation on XPath and XQuery . We implemented XQuery in SQL Server 2005 so that people could query XML stored in the database. XQuery has the same relationship to XML that SQL does to relational data. That's...

Hey, I did my first podcast! Joe Stagner 's DevRadio site now has a weekly technology news podcast. I co-presented the inaugural show . It was a lot of fun, spending time selecting technology news items to cover and then chattting about them. Some...

I'm flying to Tinseltown tomorrow for the PDC . Frankly, I'm excited. I'm looking forward to the Office 12 content, the .NET 3.0 content, and the Longhorn Windows Vista content. The Longhorn Windows Vista/Office 12 timeframe will be the first time since...

I went to a great session a couple of weeks ago on " Building Custom Data Bound Windows Forms Controls " at CapArea.NET . Clyde Barretto did a great job, despite getting tons of questions on every aspect of Visual Studio 2005, some of which had nothing...

List of upcoming developer user group meetings in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia...

For the last week, I've been glued to the television watching news from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, wishing I could go down there and save people. It's been an astonishing and distressing week. Folks in our local developer community probably...

In the past, I tried to write a blog entry for every user group meeting in the territory, but I failed dismally. It's just too hard. I have a new strategy: Write a summary list every two weeks of all the user group meetings I know about. Blog...

Hi! I wanted to let everyone know that Microsoft is a gold sponsor of the CFUNITED conference ( http://www.cfunited.com/ ) in Rockville on June 29 th – July 1 st . There’s a mixture of MacroMedia and Microsoft developer content at this conference...

Visual Studio Team System is Microsoft’s new toolset for software development projects. Team System provides design, development, test, and communications tools for architects, developers, and testers, integrated into Visual Studio and Microsoft Office...

Baltimore SQL Server Users Group just announced that Microsoft's Jim Dugan will be the speaker at their meeting on Thursday this week. Jim will be covering the "Top 30 Features in SQL Server 2005." This meeting takes place in Linthicum at SM Consulting...

Balto SQL Server Users Group has a meeting next Thursday in Linthicum at SM Consulting starting at 6:30 PM. Topic is to be determined.

MAVBUG has a meeting in a couple of weeks, on a topic to be announced. The meeting will start at 6:30 PM and will be at Light Industries .

Have you noticed that the word extreme had been undergoing a popularity fad lately? There's extreme programming , extreme ironing , and now Extreme Development on the .NET Database . Despite the name, this should be a useful event. The focus is the new...

The next meeting of the Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009-1277. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. and usually...

Panelists: Gene Gaines, President, Gaines Group Dennis Courtney, Systems Administrator, Inter-American Development Bank, and President, CPCUG This discussion will be moderated by Gene Gaines, a consultant to the wireless industry. Dennis Courtney will...

Ken Thibodeau of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be the speaker at a meeting about NARA’s Electronic Records Archive . Dr. Thibodeau is the Program Manager for NARA’s Electronic Records Archive program . NARA’s vision is to...

I see from the web site that we currently have an open slot for a developer evangelist (DE) to work with independent software vendors (ISVs.) You can apply here . This job is based in Washington, DC.

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Sahil Malik points out that when we write object-oriented programs, we represent the real world by using objects. In order to transport or store the objects, we need to convert them to some form of representation. Most often, this is done by serializing...

Next week I will be delivering a webcast extravaganza: On Tuesday 4th, I'll be talking about Creating Custom Controls in ASP.NET . On Wednesday 5th, I'll be doing my ASP.NET 2.0 Overview Presentation . On Friday 7th, I'm doing Application Performance...

Philly .NET is having a meeting at SEI in Oaks, PA on January 19th. There are two great speakers. Mitch Ruebush , an architect with ING Direct in Wilmington and author , will talk about code generation tools. Rocky Lhotka , MSDN Regional Director and...

Stan Spotts (Greater Pennsylvania developer evangelist) and Reed Sutton (Greater Pennsylvania technology specialist) are organizing a series of hands on labs at the Microsoft office in Malvern, PA. Reed will be leading the following workshops: February...