Thanks to the awesome folks at Microsoft Japan.... My blog will now be available in Japanese. http://blogs.msdn.com/JoeInJapanese/ Thanks to Seiichi Sato for taking the lead !!

Some time ago, my buddy Jesse posted about his new favorite utility . As a matter of policy, we record How-Do-I videos while doing the programming in VB and than I have to re-write the sample code in C#. So, automatic code conversion was really interesting...

WUX315 - PHP on Windows: Not an Oxymoron! Session Day/Time: 6/6/2008 10:15AM-11:30AM Room: S230 A Is it a well kept secret? From Microsoft Internet Information Services, to AJAX, to Microsoft .NET, Windows is a viable platform for your existing PHP based...

ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide by Matthew Ellis Read more about this book... Ok readers. Check out this little nugget. Matthew Ellis and Magma Interactive just released the ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide. It contains concise chapters packed with useful...

Daniel Crenna shared my frustration that Visual Studio drag-n-drop doesn't always leave our markup nicely formatted. So, he wrote a plug-in to do it for us. Click [ HERE ] to get it for Visual Studio 2008 or 2005 He also offers up the source code so if...

I'm a jQuery Fan ! Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 [ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates . ]

The slackers are at it again ! Check out their growing collection of swipe-able code ! http://www.DotNetSlackers.com/CodeSnippets/

:) If this looks familiar, it's because a prematurely posted about this last week. (And I wasn't supposed to.) Well, NOW I can tell you WHERE to get it ! Here is the announcement .......... The Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team released...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008...

Cool Name Huh ? Mustafa Basgun has created a pretty cool info site for ASP.NET Developers Click [ HERE ] to pay him a visit!

This looked interesting so I thought I would share it. Please let me know what you think..... From the CodePlex Description. The Ajax Data Controls is a DotNetSlackers project. Developed on top of Asp.net Ajax Extension , the main goal of this project...

If you reference an ASP.NET page that contains a scriptmanager in your js file like below you get intellisense for the entire Microsoft AJAX Library plus any additional scripts ref’d by the scriptmanager.  The easiest way to get the /// <reference...

The folks at Internet.com are running this cool content. ENTER BY THE 15th !! Description: The RIA Run challenge is designed for you to showcase your knowledge of Silverlight 2 to the world— and potentially win prizes for it. By taking advantage...

Mindmapping tools can be great for flushing out design ideas. Here is a cool FREE Mind Mapping tool built with .NET 3.0 http://cayra.net/

Add this awesome FAQ by Dave Wanta to your bookmarks. All about Sending email in .NET 2.0 If you're still a .NET 1.x user, see here http://www.systemwebmail.com/

May 5, 2008 (Computerworld) Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft 's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google , Yahoo , Amazon, eBay , Facebook and PayPal, according to results of an Evans...

The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the training kit contains six...

Here is a GREAT quick read on ASP.NET Data Controls for you. ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials: Joydip Kanjilal: Books ISBN : 1847193951 ISBN-13 : 9781847193957 PACKT is not one of the "big" publishing companies, which can...

I've has some good manager and I've had some really, um, bad managers. In my seven years at Microsoft I've had 5 managers and would works for four of them again (meaning they were great !) I can't say that about other work experiences in my career. My...