The Design-Time Developer

Despite the title, I'm not a cyborg. For those of you who missed that implication, I'll give you a moment... Seriously though, even though I've been a non-MSer for a little over 3 months now, I'm still passionate about technology. You can witness the...

That's going to remain a secret, but those of you who make your way to my blog and want to stay in touch, the "Contact Me" functionality should now work properly. Cheers (and Happy Coding), Jacob

During my three-year tenure at Microsoft, I have met many wonderful people. For those of you I have worked with along the way, I wanted to share my bittersweet news. After three amazing years at Microsoft, I will be leaving to start a new chapter in my...

Hey everybody, After several weeks of planning, Glen Gordon and I have our first webcast in the MSDN geekSpeak program! We've got Jim Wilson as our special guest - he will be discussing mobility and Windows Mobile 5.0 development as well as answering...

As a developer community champion (DCC), I always want to keep my community abreast of training opportunities to keep your tech skills sharp and competitive. To that end, I have compiled a couple of training opportunities that you may want to check out...

Howdy loyal blog readers, We don't have all of the details worked out yet, but I wanted to let you all know about an experimental webcast series that my friend Glen Gordon and I are putting together. Basically, we're going to be interviewing experts...

So I was in Omaha yesterday for the MSDN Event this quarter, and I was overwhelmed by the tremendous enthusiasm that poured forth from the developer community. We usually average about 45% drop-off, meaning that 55 % of the registered customers actually...

At the Saint Louis .NET User Group yesterday night, a fellow in the dark (both figuratively and literally in this case) asked about the Handles keyword in Visual Basic .NET. Although I provided a brief explanation during the event, with the help from...

Friday, July 21, 2005, 2 PM Central View here: Deploying Visual Basic 2005 Applications with ClickOnce Resources for after Friday's webcast Visit the ClickOnce Team Blog Using ClickOnce Check out the ClickOnce FAQ at windowsforms...

Thursday, July 20, 2006, 2 PM Central Register here: Rapid Application Development for the Visual Basic 2005 Developer Resources for after today's webcast Visit the Visual Studio IDE Blog Writing Correct Code See below! Code Snippets...

In 9 Money Rules to Live By [sic] , Liz Pulliam Weston stated, "The average graduate makes 70% more over his or her lifetime than someone who stops with a high school diploma." Without elaborating on the details of the survey or research, this statement...

I'm taking a bit of a breather from all of my event travel of the last few weeks, but I wanted to make sure that you, my loyal blog readers, have advanced notice of a couple large developer conferences coming up in October. For those of you in the...

It's good to be back home in Chicago. I have had a whirlwind tour, going from Chicago to Des Moines, St. Paul, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Phoenix and Las Vegas. I now have a few days of R&R before the ultimate trip - visiting my two beautiful nieces in...

This week, I had the pleasure of driving out to Michigan to present MSDN Events to the developer communities of Grand Rapids and Detroit (Livonia). We had a couple of "unanswerables" from the events that I would like to answer now and share with everyone...

Attend Wednesday's webcast on Visual Basic Migration Time : Wednesday, May 17 at 12PM Pacific Title : Tools and Add-Ins for Visual Basic Migration Registration link : Sign up today for live or on-demand viewing Resources for after the webcast: ...

Howdy, I am so glad that it's Friday. Those of you who attended yesterday's MSDN Event in Roseville, MN can attest to that. To fill you in if you weren't there, my machine started to fail about 15 minutes before my event began. When I say fail, I don...

Attend Wednesday's webcast on VB/.NET Interop Time : Wednesday, May 10 at 9AM Pacific Title : Creating Best-of-Both-Worlds Hybrid Applications with Visual Basic Fusion Registration link : Sign up today for live or on-demand viewing Resources for after...

Wednesday, May 3, 2005, 11 AM Central Details: This webcast explores the what, why, and when of migrating from Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005. We will introduce and explain the migration decision matrix and present migration strategies...

Wednesday, April 26, 2005, 11 AM Central View here: Deploying Visual Basic 2005 Applications with ClickOnce Resources for after Wednesday's webcast Visit the ClickOnce Team Blog Using ClickOnce Check out the ClickOnce FAQ at windowsforms...

Q: In what file are the code snippets you create stored? A: Code snippets are actually stored individually as *.snippet files, making them easy to migrate between developers and machines. --------------------------------------------------------...

I saw this video at 2:25 AM on Wednesday morning and it spoke to me on so many levels, so I knew I had to share it with my small piece of the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HS7D3LRDYw After-blog mint: Unfortunately, as Jim points out, it...

Wednesday, April 19, 2005, 11 AM Central Register here: Rapid Application Development for the Visual Basic 2005 Developer Resources for after today's webcast Review the Q&A from this webcast Visit the Visual Studio IDE Blog Writing...

I'm going out on a limb and trying something a bit radical. Those of you who know me are well aware that my title is Developer Community Champion. What you may not know is that is my public-facing title. Internally at Microsoft, I am known as a Developer...

At the end of my webcast on Data Access in Visual Basic 2005 , the conversation turned from DataSets and ADO.NET to Batman (and all of the lesser superheroes). I feel the need to reiterate that Batman is the ultimate superhero. Despite his deep psychological...

Wednesday, April 12, 2005, 11 AM Central Register here: Data Access with Visual Basic 2005 Resources for after today's webcast Visit the Data Access Team Blog Read about the Data Access Application Block in Enterprise Library 2.0 Can...