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In this episode, guest Jon Skeet joins Peter to discuss C# 4 in Depth. Jon takes us deep into the guts of C# 4, including how the new dynamic features work. Guest host Glen Gordon joins Peter to discuss the Windows 7 API Code Pack, LINQ to Bing!, Unit Testing, and .NET Denial of Sleep attacks! Has .NET...

Many of the live events that go on in the Microsoft community happen frequently in New York City or down in Philly.  But if you live or work out in the ‘burbs, it’s not always easy to make it into the city. The traffic, the trains, or the buses.  One extra hassle can keep you from improving...

If you missed the MVC Fire Starters in New York and Philadelphia over the past few months, I’m happy to announce that the ASP.NET MVC Fire Starter is coming to central Jersey next Saturday, December 13th.  This is your opportunity to come out and learn about the new ‘old’ way of building web applications...

Tomorrow is the kick-off of the MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow in Parsippany, NJ! Bill Zack and I are excited to spend the afternoon talking with folks about Windows Azure, Microsoft’s new cloud computing platform, and Silverlight 2 application development. You can read more about the “Suburban” Roadshow in...

Back in June, we hosted the first ASP.NET MVC Fire Starter event in New York City . I’m happy to announce that the MVC Fire Starter is coming very soon to the Philadelphia area. If you weren’t able to make it out to NYC, October 18th is your opportunity for a quick drive down the turnpike to catch it...

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on the ASP.NET MVC framework at the NYC .NET Developers group last week.  Your questions were great and it was a joy to have such an interactive audience.  I apologize that I had to rush the ending, but we had to keep the meeting on schedule so...

For those of you who attended the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter we hosted in NY last month, you know that the product team is moving quickly on this technology to get frequent releases out for feedback.  On Monday, Scott Guthrie announced that Preview 4 of the ASP.NET MVC Framework had been released on...

Thanks to everyone who attended the ASP.NET MVC Fire Starter event in New York City on June 7th .  That was the first time we’ve hosted an event on the new MVC framework anywhere on the east coast.  Special thanks goes out to Jess Chadwick , Todd Snyder , and Brian Donahue for helping assemble...

Ever since the new ASP.NET MVC framework was announced in October, posts about it have spread about it like wildfire through the .NET blogosphere. There's usually at least 2-3 MVC stories a day that show up on DotNetKicks . At the last Philly.NET code camp in January, there was standing room only...

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk about the new ASP.NET MVC framework at the Health & Life Sciences Developer Conference in Atlantic City last week!  I've posted my slides for viewing up on SkyDrive: Credit goes to Scott Hanselman as I borrowed heavily from his MVC presentation at Mix...

Vegas had Mix.  Now the Microsoft Health & Life Services Developer Conference 2008 is coming to Atlantic City, NJ!  On April 22 - 24, take a trip down the shore to AC where Microsoft will be hosting its second annual H&LS event. The three day conference will feature sessions on the...

I was down in Austin, Texas this weekend attending the Alt.NET conference . Great event and meeting of the minds in the heart of Texas. (Wow, I can't believe how much Austin has grown since the last time I was there in 2000!) Anyway, more thoughts about the conference later. First off, I wanted to let...