Thom Robbins .NET Weblog

7/28, Waltham , MA Three convenient sessions available. To RSVP for 9:00 AM click here . To RSVP for 1:00 PM click here . To RSVP for 3:30 PM click here . Join us in Waltham , MA for a Microsoft Office 2003 Tips and Tricks Presentation and...

CoDe (Component Developer) Magazine , The leading independent publication for .NET Developers announced that they will feature a page in each issue dedicated to .NET related events where CoDe Magazine is present. Whether it is INETA events, Code Camps...

Question: I am trying to send an email with Visual Studio 2005 using System.Web.Mail and it keeps telling me that it is obsolete? What should I use? Also if you have an example of how to send an HTML email that would also help. Answer: Within Visual...

WMDVUG July 19th Meeting - Registration Open The event registration URL for the July 19th meeting of the Windows Mobile Developer Virtual User Group is now open! You can register via this link at the Microsoft Events site . Please be sure to register...

Next Meeting - June 27, 2006: Introducing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Where Microsoft Corporation - 201 Jones Road (6 th floor), Waltham , MA 02451 The meeting is free, but space is limited. To register or sign-up for our email distribution...

The first meeting is approaching for this new VUG. Keep an eye on this site for more official information! http://www.wmdvug.org/ The first meeting of the Windows Mobile Developer Virtual User Group (”WMDVUG”) will be held on Wednesday, July...

In talking to people I am often asked about FrontPage and its future. Thanks to Frank for pointing this page out Via Frank Well, I've found a page appropriately called " The Future of FrontPage ", which answers the following questions: ...

Via Rob For a look at what Team Edition for Database Professionals has to offer, watch these high-quality videos to see demonstrations of: Importing a Database Schema and Adding it to Team Foundation Server Source Code Control Creating a Test...

Building Real World Apps with Atlas By Wally McClure Check out the video Summary: "Atlas" is Microsoft's codename for their new Ajax-enabling developer tool. Wrox author Wally McClure was a featured speaker at Atlanta Code Camp on May 13...

Looking for information about Expressions? Check out this set of great videos and online tutorials. http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/web_designer/demos.mspx?v=wd_layout

.NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 available for download Microsoft .NET Compact Framework version 2.0 Service Pack 1 has been released as a download . The service pack was driven by customer feedback and includes stability improvements, new debugging...

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition offers essential relational database functionality in a compact footprint ideal for embedding in mobile and desktop applications including a new generation of occasionally connected dynamic applications. ...

I wanted to thank the folks from Fiserv for having me at their recent user conference to talk about the future of Microsoft technologies. As promised you can download the slide deck from here . Ps – thanks to Mohegan Sun for being nice enough to...

Just ran across these! The Visual Studio 2005 Pro and Team System trials are now available for direct download, not just existing MSDN subscribers. The trials are available at the following locations: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition...

Tech·Ed 2006 may be over in the United States , but that does not mean the experience has to stop. Explore our library of more than 130 other live and on-demand pre-Tech·Ed webcasts and 40 breakout sessions simulcast from Boston . These webcasts are free...

Can’t make a user group in person? Not even in the New England area? Join the Virtual User Group. Don has a great idea here! I’ll be there will you? Via Don and Boston Pocket PC The Windows Mobile Developer Virtual User Group ("WMDVUG...

NECN features our own Ted MacLean the other day! Here is the link to the interview (you may need to disable pop up blockers to view it) Ted MacLean, New England General Manager, Microsoft (6/17/06 7:55 p.m.) We talk about the succession plans...

The folks from Wrox have posted a second video from the Atlanta Code Camp! VB 9.0 / C# 3 and the Search for the Missing LINQ By Jim Wooley LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is Micrsoft's codename for a set of language extensions for C# and...

In case you haven’t heard! BOSTON --Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would donate a computer software package that includes advanced software-writing and Web-building technology to every public high school and college in the state. The donation...

Ran across a great site at http://www.WinFXGuide.com According to the site they provide a one stop resource for developers searching for .Net Framework 3.0 (WinFX) training, including: videos, tutorials, articles, source code and other community...

Thanks to all that attended this session User Experience Evolution in Software where we looked at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and some of the technologies that relate to it. As promised the deck can be found here .

This is very cool – The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds. Using this toolkit, developers can easily expose a service as an RSS or Atom feed. The toolkit supports...

Via Rob An early prerelease version of Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available for download as a disc image ( VSDATAD1.img ). For more information about this release, see Thomas Murphy’s blog ( Get the CTP - Download Available -- TechEd...

Congratulations to the Atlanta Code Camp for a really cool Code Camp idea! Via Jim I hinted a while back at some exciting things Wrox is trying to do in the .NET community with CodeCamp . We know not everyone has a codecamp near by. When know...

WindowsForDevices.com and Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices (MED) Group are teaming up to invite developers worldwide to compete, using Microsoft's Windows CE Shared Source, in an exciting real-world project. The contest's theme is "Show-It-Off...