The Design-Time Developer

To continue the Visual Basic 2005 webcast series in May, we will be exploring tools and techniques for migrating your skills and applications to Visual Basic 2005... when it makes sense to do so. 5/3/2006 9:00 AM Pacific - Tools and Techniques for...

The Chicago Access Users Group (CAUG) has cordially invited me to present in April at their monthly meeting! See below for the details. The meeting is open to everybody - hope to see you there :-) Microsoft Office is more than a killer productivity...

During today's Language Enhancements webcast, I received a question about what's going on with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - we briefly touched upon VBA and some of the other Office automation/customization tools. To help you out, I did a little...

Wednesday, April 5, 2005, 11 AM Central Register here: New Language Features in Visual Basic 2005 Resources for after today's webcast Bookmark the Visual Basic Developer Center Visit the Visual Basic Team Blog Download the Microsoft...

Announcing Visual Basic 2005 Today ! This new webcast series will kick off with 4 webcasts in April on Visual Basic 2005 features and functionality to help all you VB developers learn something new and increase your productivity. See below for the details...

I was on the road this week and was super-pumped when I received notice from Amazon.com that they had shipped my latest order: the entire first season* of Batman Beyond , the neo-futuristic rebirth of the Batman: The Animated Series (BtAS) television...

This is a quick update - In Evansville, I was asked if SQL Mobile merge replication worked with SQL 2000 as well as SQL 2005 and, yes, it does. See the following article for more details. Happy weekend, Jacob

Is your web server secure? Do your applications have the smallest possible attack surface area? Can you sleep at night knowing there are hackers trying to break into your enterprise? Ok, enough with the FUD. Seriously though, security needs to be a...

MSDN® EVENTS Boost Your Productivity with Visual Studio® 2005 & the .NET Framework 2.0 New productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 mean you can spend less time coding and more time focusing on getting...

A: A job well done that nets you $10,000 in hard currency. Do you like to use technology to build cool and useful stuff? think you could develop something neat with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express? like having so much cash...

In an effort to surpass Deep in .NET (2004) and Deeper in .NET (2005), WI .NET Users Group is hosting Deeper in .NET 2006 . Not to be confused with Sandra Bullock, who was deep in The Net , Deeper in .NET 2006 will be home to some .NET celebrities, including...

Ann Arbor, MI Qs Q) Is it possible to integrate the mobile device emulator with actual hardware (e.g. camera, GPS)? A) I always seem to be one step behind with the mobile device emulator questions. As we go to print, I haven't found anything specifically...

Welcome (back) to my blog. I received one particularly intriguing question this week that I would like to explore in this post. Q. Is it possible to customize user data in Outlook without requiring the user's permission? A. First, let's explain...

Over the next several weeks, tune in to the ASP.NET Developer Webcast series . I’m speaking at the ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series, and I want to have more attendees than anyone else. That’s where you come in. Besides, it’s also a chance for you to build on...

I was actually able to answer most of the questions at my events this week, so the Q&A this week will be a bit light, but never dry :-) Kenosha Q. Is it possible to transfer the ROM of a mobile device into an emulator? A. Before I address this...

Some of you may recall an article that came out a few years back entitled IT Doesn't Matter , written by a well-educated author from Beantown by the name of Nicholas Carr . It caused quite a fervor - Steve Ballmer is quoted on the back of Carr's book...

Before I get to the Q&A, I wanted to take a moment to thank the audiences of both Omaha and Saint Louis. You were outgoing, eager, and enthusiastic about the content, the event, and developing in general and that fuels my passion when I visit communities...

Those of you who know just about anything about me are likely to know that I am a huge cartoon fan. I own all 4 volumes of Batman: The Animated Series, 2 volumes of Samurai Jack, 2 Miyazaki films, 2 volumes of Sealab 2021, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm...

And I remember when ASCII Pr0n was the big thing for an adolescent male to enjoy on his terminal - Naughty fun with LEDs Update: For the less astute in my audience, it seems that the censor engine in this blogging tool does not like the word 'P'-'r...

Mark Twain once said, "Golf is a good walk spoiled." For anyone who is not a die-hard enthusiast, it's easy to understand why. If you're playing with a good-sized party, there's lots of standing around and waiting. If it's a hot day, it can quickly get...

I can't imagine that there is any better way to vent your frustration than by squeezing a hand-sized, person-shaped stress toy - except perhaps the age-old calling someone up and hanging up right after they pick up, although these days you have to remember...

To everyone who asked "unanswerable" questions at my MSDN Events on the week of 12/12, I have all of your questions answered below. I was in the process of researching answers to the questions when I realized that I had inadvertantly fallen into my vacation...

A few months back, I spoke about the new features in ASP.NET 2.0, including the SiteMap feature to simplify implementing navigation capabilities. One of my event regulars asked about how these SiteMaps compared to the Google SiteMaps for search navigation...

SmartClients combine the best elements of both Windows and web applications. But SmartClient means so much more than just a Windows Forms application. In this free half-day event, see three different SmartClient approaches in action, while leveraging...

Ever since Microsoft first announced that we were adding .NET support to SQL Server via SQLCLR in Microsoft SQL Server 2005, developers and DBAs were thrown into a state of panic. I saw it at events and heard it on webcasts: When are we supposed...