.net and other interesting dev stuff in PA

Do you dare? Show us what a great developer you are! Show us how innovative you can be! Win $50,000 USD. Demonstrate your skills with SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk by entering the Connected Systems Developer Competition...

I was so busy with local events that I didn't have time to thank the members of Lehigh Valley .NET User Group for attending my talk at their user group meeting last week, on Monday, April 18th at the Northampton County Community College. There was a lot...

This was a great event, and everyone involved made it a huge success. There were a few minor glitches with setup and logistics on the first morning, and no one remembered to check to see if the A/C stayed on after 6pm (it didn't, and it got hot!), but...

Two weeks ago, I received some marketing stuff from Verizon about their new FIOS offering. Three choices - 5Mb, 15Mb, and 30Mb. There was only a few dollar difference between 5 and 15Mb, so I opted for more speed. Go figure. I've been waiting for this...

7:00 PM June 1, 2005 at Microsoft Corporation, Malvern, PA You installed the software. You bought the book. You started your first project. Things happened. Microsoft BizTalk Server is breaking out in our area. What did you learn? What did you...

Okay, had you asked me a few weeks ago, I was a little nervous. I mean, here we were, several user group leaders, RD's, MVP's, and I, along with (necessary) help from my regional marketing rep, putting together an event that was targeted to bring in 500...

There are now fewer than two dozen slots available for this event before people are waitlisted, so if you're planning to attend please make sure you register! Go to http://www.phillydotnet.org/codecamp for the agenda, speaker info, logistics, and link...

Things are coming together for our Philadelphia Code Camp event, to be held on April 23rd and 24th at the Community College of Philadelphia! We have around 60 sessions and 40 speakers in our six tracks, as well as 50 machines in our proctored Hands-on...

Are you ready to experience SQL Server 2005? Announcing the launch of the SQL Server 2005 Virtual Hands on labs. In these labs, you will get to experience many of the new features in SQL Server 2005 including CLR integration, XML support and deep business...

I've downloaded this, installed it, and started playing around with it. If I can put together a demo, I may add it to my EntLib talk at VS Connections on Monday, but since I'm traveling over the weekend, it's up in the air. You need to have the latest...

I've been in Redmond since Monday this week at an event focused around "competitive influentials." This event is the creative brainchild of one of my Developer Evangelist (DE) peers in the Central Region, Steve Loethen, and Heidi Dill, our developer marketing...

We've got about 32 speakers and 63 sessions lined up so far amongst our 6 tracks, and more speakers keep coming forward. We should start to do the final session selections over the next week or so. As of Monday we had over 100 attendees registered , but...

Do you have a need to integrate with an application built with Java? Presenter Mitch Ruebush will look at the various techniques for interoperability between .NET and Java that are available. Discover the benefits and drawbacks of each approach as we...

Your chances to pass any Microsoft certification exam have just doubled. Simply register for this offer by May 31, 2005, before taking your exam, and we'll give you a free second shot at success. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/2ndshot

There are 10 new webcasts coming in March around Enterprise Library. Visit the patterns & practices events web site to get more info. 3/3/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Overview 3/4/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise...

I was just asked to speak at DevConnections - the Visual Studio Connections part, at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Hotel, Orlando, Florida on March 21, topic is Enterprise Libarary : VFI253 – Introduction to the patterns & practices Enterprise Library...

I was up in Boston for the Web Services Edge East conference today to give a tutorial presentation about Enterprise Libarary . I took out the slides that showed pasted code and ran demos on the fly to show how to work with the configuration editor, the...

I met Jay Zimmerman at the Philadelphia Java user group meeting last night (hey, I go where any developers go!) and he told me about this conference coming to Philadelphia from March 11th through 13th. The Atlantic Northeast Software Symposium used to...

You can go to the registration site and sign up for it now! Also, our Code Camp information site will have the latest news, agenda, and other information on it, so be sure to check it out regularly. We're running at ludicrous speed now, and are looking...

Just released on MSDN! http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of Application Blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application...

Thanks to some great footwork by our PhillyDotNet User Group leader Bill Wolff and member/volunteer Mike Cullina, we've selected our site to be the Community College of Philadelphia at their Center for Business and Industry, at 1751 Callowhill Street...

Just got this info from Scott Woodgate ... Get it here . I strongly recommend that everybody trys this in your test environments and then puts it into production. Along with the usual bug fixes provided in service packs you can expect up to a 10% performance...

Check out the patterns on gotdotnet that Scott Woodgate outlined on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2005/01/10/350346.aspx

14 BizTalk Hands-on Labs are now publicly available in the full-featured MSDN Virtual Lab at: http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=biztalk It's simple to access, and there is no complex setup or installation required to try out Biztalk Server...

This is going to be a kickin' meeting. The first session will be about code generation tools, presented by Mitch Ruebush, .NET Architect at ING Direct and a Microsoft RD. The second session is about distributed object-oriented applicatons, presented by...