I haven't posted for a while, having been out on infant care leave with my wife and new twin boys, and I've taken a new job outside of Microsoft at Computer Aid, Inc. . My new blogsite is: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/sspotts/ . Microsoft was a great...

Tamar Granor, a FoxPro MVP who is starting this group, will be presenting at the Microsoft offices in Malvern, PA. The meeting starts at 7pm, so please try to arrive 15-30 minutes sooner. This presentation wil be Using the VFP Debugger Effectively...

The Charlotte portals Code Camp just got even more horsepower! Doug Turnure , my fellow DE down there, has enlisted Ted Pattison and David Leininger as speakers. Ted Pattison is a published author and an industry-leading trainer and consultant who...

We had our third meeting tonight, and had about 9 attendees. Unfortunately for the late cancellations, we had a great session by Michael Webber and Darrin Weber from Air Products who presented their document tracking solution and deployment strategy....

We had about 50 people attending the DotNetNuke SIG meeting tonight at the Microsoft office in Malvern, PA. There were three talks tonight - one by Bill Wolff, the PhillyDotNet User Group leader, one by Hal Dell, the DotNetNuke SIG leader, and the final...

The New York-based company, which has a stable of about 280 prebuilt adapters to back-end systems, announced Tuesday it's selling the source code and intellectual property from eight of its adapters to Microsoft. See the article ...

Thanks to all who attended today’s Power Session on Exploring the Integrated Environment that I presented this morning. Please find the session video here and the slides here .

"Acrylic" is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting creative capabilities for designers working in print, web, video, and interactive media. Check out this site to download the beta or get more info...

Windows Vista Beta 1 is now available on the MSDN subscriber downloads site. Yet another example of why MSDN subscriptions rock! And if you're a developer, check out the Windows Vista Developer Center .

Wow, someone had a lot of time on their hands! http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/ One of the more humorous ways I've yet seen to promote the benefits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.

Become part of the BizTalk Server 2006 Beta Team and get BizTalk Server 2006 Beta 1. BizTalk Server 2006 builds on the core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004 and makes strides in all dimensions of business process automation including application-to...

You’ve heard the buzz about Indigo , Microsoft’s unified programming model for building distributed applications. Attend this FREE event and learn how Indigo technology will simplify your life. With Indigo, you use the tools and language you’re familiar...

The Philadelphia SQL Server User Group, Philly.NET User Group, and Microsoft are delighted to together host a special Philadelphia Development Community event with world renowned SQL Server expert Itzik Ben Gan. This event is free but requires advanced...

This is great! Now you don't have to install the tools to do a test drive. Maybe the developer community could develop custom scripts for hands-on labs that can be shared with others since a standard base VPC image is now available. That would be a great...

Join the Philadelphia SQL Server User Group August meeting on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 from 5:00 to 8:30 at the Unisys office at 2476 Swedesford Road, Malvern PA 19355 Do your ETL processes require complex workflow management ? Have you encountered...

We had a great turnout for the PhillyDotnet User Group tonight, with over 100 members watching some cool ASP.NET presentations. We started off with a topical presentation on Ajax ( Asyncronous Java and XML ), also referencing upcoming technology in...

Thanks to all that attended the mini-session webcast that I presented today on Language Enhancements . As promised here is a link to the recording and the slides/demos .

The Philadelphia Area BizTalk User’s Group will have its July regular meeting at the offices of Microsoft Corporation in Malvern on July 6, 2005 from 7 – 9:00 PM. The featured speaker is Jason Ellsworth-Aults of IntelliMark. Jason will be discussing...

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:30 PM - Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Microsoft Malvern Office MPR I 45 Liberty Boulevard, Suite 210 Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355 United States General Event Information Products...

Whether you are a devout Java programmer, a developer committed to Microsoft's .NET framework or an XMLer caught in the middle -- or a DBA working in Oracle or an IT professional dedicated to SQL Server -- set aside your differences for a day as Pittsburgh...

We had a kickoff meeting for the new DotNetNuke SIG at of the PhillyDotNet User Group on Tuesday (6/14) night. Hal Dell presented about the history of DotNetNuke and gave an overview of the software, and Todd Davis showed some real timesavers using CodeSmith...

We had 15 people, plus myself and Steve Mohr (the user group leader) attend our first Philadelphia Area BizTalk User Group meeting tonight. We discussed what the format of the group should be, what kind of information everyone is interested in, and how...

Looks like a cool meeting. Starting off with Bill Wolff, the PhillyDotNet UG leader (and VB.NET MVP) demonstrating Xamlon, a XAML editor for Windows Forms, and finishing with an ADO.NET 2.0 presentation by Andrew Brust. This is an INETA sponsored meeting...

I'll be presenting a demonstration of Visual Studio Team System on May 17 at the Central PA .NET User Group meeting in Harrisburg. I'll also be bringing along copies of Visual Studio 2005 Team System beta 2 for all attendees, which includes VS 2005 Team...

This is definitely a great thing for VB.NET developers, and highlights how our strong developer partner community helps to improve the developer experience. Per the download page: Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2 is a free plug-in from Developer...