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Today we covered a lot of ground where the rubber hits the street in application failure & recovery. Kevin Hill joined me to talk about what happens to that data after it leaves your machine and showed us how to use it to help solve the issues that
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Editorial News and Notes from Mike Benkovich There's a lot to talk about that's new in the technology world these days. From the recent launch of Windows 7 and the Windows Server products to trying out the new betas of Visual Studio and Office, to the
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Some exciting news was announced this morning at the Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles: You can get started exploring SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 by downloading the beta trials from www.microsoft.com/2010 . SharePoint 2010—together
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Rob Bagby has started a new series (blog posts and screencasts) on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight . The series illustrates various design patterns while building a sample application (see screenshot below). The patterns covered
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I’ve posted the code from today’s launch onto http://www.benkotips.com/code – Includes the demo application we built from scratch showing how to work with jumplists, ribbon, Sensors and Multi-touch.
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Thought I’d let you know that I’ve posted code from the MVC webcast with Jessy Houle as well as code from the Heartland Developer Conference in October. More code postings to come…
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I just added the sample we wrote at the event coded in VB to the download on http://www.benkotips.com/code , click on the “Windows 7 For Developers Launch” link and you’ll find the solution has a VB version of the project added to it. I’ve also got a
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As I promised in the session in Minneapolis, all the links from the slide decks are available here. These include: http://www.benkotips.com/ http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/xp2win7 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/aa904987.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/aa905066.aspx
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Ok…if you’ve been following my blog over the years you may have some idea of who I am and my current role/job at Microsoft. This post is to help shed some light on the topic and also is cross posted to another blog I’m just starting up that is focused
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Announcing Community Jam ! Are you passionate about community? Always wanted to start a User Group, schedule a developer event or just curious about what is a TechMasters chapter? You're invited to the first annual Community Jam being held at the Upstream
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In today’s webcast we looked at how to customize Visual Studio to meet your working style. To make it easier to find things I compiled a list of links and locations we talked about. Install Locations: Install dir = C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
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Over the years that I’ve been delivering MSDN Events there are little things you discover that make it easier to write code and demonstrate features with Visual Studio. In the webcast for this week’s BenkoTIPS Live & On Demand series we’ll be taking
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I’ve been playing around with the new SQL Data Services this week and came across a common issue with how do you work with the databases you’ve created. For those of you who, like me, are not fond of SQLCMD (a command line query tool) you can use SQL
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I worked thru college doing some light construction at an outdoor sporting goods store called Midwest Mountaineering (and Thrifty Outfitters – used but great stuff). One of the things I learned while working there was how to leverage what’s possible with
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