Howdy, After a brief round of non-code related posts, I am back with one for the developers in the audience... literally. At my event in Bloomington, IN today, one of my MSDN Events attendees ("Visualize the 20" - a brief inside joke specifically for...

Do you own a webcam? Do you send email? Why not download the Outlook 2003 Add-In for Video Email ? I came back from dinner tonight to a video email from a colleague, which pretty much blew my mind, especially since the file ran about 123 kilobytes for...

Here's the quick link to the offer . Continue reading for the editorial edition . As several of you may know, I drive to the majority of my MSDN Events . Living in Chicago, I'm just about smack dab in the middle of my event territory of Illinois, Indiana...

So, I may have made the biggest mistake of my professional career yesterday afternoon. I saw a post on Craig's List for a GameCube, with 4 controllers, 7 games, and 2 memory cards. The deal was so good I couldn't pass it up. Your initial reaction may...

This demo-packed event will offer valuable insight into object-oriented programming fundamentals in Visual Basic® .NET, programming with MapPoint® Web Services, ASP.NET 1.1 Web applications, plus ASP.NET 2.0’s new Membership and Personalization features...

I wanted to let you all know that I will be presenting 2 webcasts in September (and 1 at the very beginning of October). If you can't attend my live events, check out my “mirrors”. I am sneak-previewing some of the October-December MSDN Events content...

Today was an interesting day. I had an eye appointment to get my annual prescription and maybe a new pair of glasses. They asked me whether I wanted a full checkup, so I enthusiastically said "Sure!". I discovered that "full checkup" apparently includes...

During my MSDN Event yesterday in Milwaukee, I received a couple of questions related to details behind-the-scenes in ASP.NET 2.0. I had been meaning to read this article earlier this week, which explores everything we don't see but need to know, from...

I had a really fun time in Milwaukee this evening, presenting 'Programming with WSE 2.0' for the Wisconsin .NET Users Group . Chris Mayo, my DE counterpart, had the idea of leveraging LiveMeeting to simulcast the live event as a webcast for the group...

After my Green Bay MSDN Event today, some audience members stuck around and we explored some additional features of ASP.NET 2.0. One control of particular interest was the ObjectDataSource . In today's session, I had demonstrated tying the ObjectDataSource...