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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:12 PM

Highlights & Events: PDC 2009 – November 17 - 19

I will be attending this year’s annual Professional Developer’s Conference November 17 – 19 down in Los Angeles, CA. Each year, attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft developer technology directly from the people who
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:30 PM

Highlights & Events: Silverlight Solves a Lot of Problems

My Take On "Silverlight For the Enterprise" I recently had a meeting with the enterprise architects of a large hospital. The main purpose of the meeting was to explore the potential of Silverlight in their environment, which is complex, diverse, and large-scale
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:20 PM

Highlights & Events: Create Interfaces that Customers Care About

In July, I was able to witness the launch of Silverlight 3. Developers want one thing - to create interfaces that customers care about. Interactive technologies are evolving quickly. Development and design are converging, collaborative workflow is a necessity,
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:29 PM

Highlights & Events: Silicon Valley Code Camp This Weekend!

Come join me this weekend at the 4th Annual Silicon Valley Code Camp . It will be held Saturday and Sunday at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. There are 147 sessions scheduled, with over 1,500 registered so far. Register here . The Code Camp consists
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:03 PM

Highlights & Events: Looking for Work? Here’s What to Learn.

What would I be learning if I were a developer today looking for work? Not to pat myself on the back, but that is a great question. For starters, let's talk about the client side of the equation. To me, the most obvious skill to get is Silverlight. Given
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:42 AM

Highlights & Events: Visual Studio 2010 – More than Skin Deep

I have just spent the last few days playing with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. If you haven't done so, download and install it now . It's a pretty good deal being that it's free and that it lets you play with most, if not all, of the .NET Framework 4.0.
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Monday, September 28, 2009 4:14 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 14 – Using the Symbol Server - Repost

Why do you need a Symbol Server? Microsoft Symbol Server is a Windows technology used to obtain symbol debugging information. It is built by using the SymSrv technology that is bundled with the Debugging Tools for Windows package. You can use a symbol
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:51 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 13 – Debugging VBScript – Repost

Code used in demo: 1: dim filesys 2: dim step_number 3: dim trg, src 4: 5: step_number = "04" 6: 7: set filesys=CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" ) 8: 9: 10: 11: src = "c:\devprojects\azure\labs\BuildingWindowsAzureServices" 12: trg = "C:\livedemos\Azure\HelloWorld\step"
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:49 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 12 – Debugging Javascript In Web Pages - Repost

The first step is to enable debugging within the browser. Be sure to allow for script debugging. To do this, start Internet explorer and select from the tools menu. Click on options. Navigate to the advanced tab and make sure the checkboxes in the red
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:47 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 11 – SQL Server Stored Procedures – Repost

Download the sample project – debugging.zip This section of my blog is to illustrate how visual studio can be used to debug stored procedures in SQL Server. Luckily, most of the commands are identical and the learning curve is trivial. Let’s get started.
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:42 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 10 – Debugging Threads – Repost

Download the sample project – debugging.zip This next section is fairly brief and will help you work with the debugging of threads more effectively. The the feature all I am about to show you is off by default. It is available from the toolbar so as a
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:41 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 9 – The Set Next Statement – Repost

Download the sample project – debugging.zip If you are not familiar with the Set Next Statement feature, it allows you to specify from which line of your application's code you wish to resume running. Please be aware that setting the next statement can
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:40 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector – GC – Repost

Download the sample project – debugging.zip Garbage collection in the Microsoft .NET common language runtime environment completely absolves the developer from tracking memory usage and knowing when to free memory. However, you'll want to understand how
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:39 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID - Repost

Make object ID – allows you to track an object within the visual studio debugging system When debugging native code, it's easy to keep track of objects by their addresses. But, with managed code, you don't really have this option. Everything is a reference
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:37 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 6 – Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques - Repost

Calling Methods in the Watch Window The watch window is incredibly powerful. You can actually call methods directly from this window. But note that that method call must execute within 20 seconds, or visual studio will assume that the method is hung and
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:33 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 5 – Using TracePoints - Repost

TracePoints Tracepoints are a new debugger feature in Visual Studio. A tracepoint is a breakpoint with a custom action associated with it. When a tracepoint is hit, the debugger performs the specified tracepoint action instead of, or in addition to, breaking
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:29 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 4 – Debugging Threads - Repost

Threading Primer Threading is a complex topic. Parallelism is another word used to describe the concept of running code in parallel. Understanding threading is an important first step to following this tutorial. Unless very carefully designed, multithreaded
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:24 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 3 – BreakPoint HitCount - Repost

Lession 3 – Breakpoint Hit Count Download the sample project – debugging.zip This setting determines how the breakpoint should behave when it is hit. You can choose to: Break always, regardless of hit count. This is the default option. This option has
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Monday, September 28, 2009 2:17 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 2 – Breakpoints in SubExpressions – Repost

Lession 2 – SubExpression Breakpoints Download the sample project – debugging.zip It is possible to set breakpoionts in any of the 3 sections of the for loop below. As you know section “1” executes once at the beginning of the loop. Section “2” (the condition)
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Monday, September 28, 2009 1:29 PM

The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1- Repost

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the sense or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities and I think debugging is an art form. There’s nothing more beautiful (almost nothing) than
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:07 PM

Channel 9 Video – Juval Lowy & Bruno Terkaly

Here is the link: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+Knowledge+Chamber/Juval-Lowy--The-EnergyNet-and-the-next-Killer-App/ Learn about the Service Bus and the Energy NET. Come on, you can spare 9 minutes :-)
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 7:01 AM

Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program

Scott Guthrie’s blog discusses it: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/09/24/announcing-the-websitespark-program.aspx Sounds like a great deal to me. What does the program provide? WebSiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for three
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:12 PM

Developing For Office – Options and Trade-Offs

Some of you have been asked to develop applications to develop on and extend Excel, Word, etc. What is the best approach given the tools Microsoft has to offer? Read this blog entry and find out. Notice that you have three main choices. Each of these
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