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bye MSDN BLOG, Hello davidaiken.com

Only the blog has moved. I still work for Microsoft. See www.davidaiken.com for more. Read More...
Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 1:47 AM by daiken | 0 Comments

Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) Ships

Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) v2.0 CTP is now live at http://www.codeplex.com/dfo . This project has two deliverables. First is the Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD). TSMMD Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:22 PM by daiken | 3 Comments

64bit DinnerNow, testing, Virtual Server and Hyper-V

A few people have asked questions about, or have had trouble installing the latest version of DinnerNow on 64bit Vista machines. I thought I'd take some time out to explain the 64bit story and how you can get things going. First, we don't support 64bit Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:02 PM by daiken | 0 Comments
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Happy Birthday DinnerNow

It's just over 1 year since we released the first version of DinnerNow to the Web, and I'm proud to announce today we have released DinnerNow version 2.5 - which targets the .net framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. If you are not familiar with DinnerNow, Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 3:37 PM by daiken | 4 Comments
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Keith Pleas shows Design for Operations

Not long after my appearance on .NET Rocks - my good friend Keith appears on show 100 of .Net Rocks TV - http://www.dnrtv.com/ - talking about and demonstrating the TSMMD. Check out the show and, yes go and watch the other 99 episodes too. THIS POSTING Read More...
Posted Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:43 PM by daiken | 1 Comments
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VSTSMMD requirements

Not long ago, I posted about the new version of the Management Model Designer . One thing I did not post was the requirements, and since I've been asked a few times now, I thought I best blog it. The designer will require VSTS2008 (yes that is Team System Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:57 PM by daiken | 1 Comments
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LINQ and WCF Syndication

I must admit, having survived the last 22 data access technologies, I'm really liking LINQ. The fact that I can use LINQ to query just about anything, against just about any data source is pretty cool. Lists and Arrays beware. Nested Correlated sub-queries Read More...
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 11:44 PM by daiken | 1 Comments
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How much do you love PowerShell?

Here is someone who possibly loves Windows PowerShell more than I do. Check out http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MWWzrp3xkYY . THIS POSTING IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES, AND CONFERS NO RIGHTS SO THERE Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:55 PM by daiken | 1 Comments
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Dinnernow at the LEAP Conference

Yesterday I presented twice a 3 hour session on DinnerNow.NET to Lead Enterprise Architects at the LEAP Conference . The session walked through our DinnerNow.Net demo (see www.dinnernow.net ) and talked some about the architecture, history and a whopping Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 10:49 AM by daiken | 1 Comments
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.NET ROCKS

It was my great pleasure to chat with Carl and Richard earlier this week on www.dotnetrocks.com . The show is entitled " David Aiken on Bridging the Gap between Dev and IT " and talks about working with IT Pros to build better managed applications, Read More...
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 8:35 AM by daiken | 2 Comments
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New Year = Models, Code Discovery and Management Pack Generation

Some of you may have already seen the existing Management Model Designer from http://www.codeplex.com/dfo or seen the channel 9 screen casts The DFO Show - Designing a Health Model with the Visual Studio Management Model Designer or The DFO Show - Implementing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:17 PM by daiken | 3 Comments

New Channel 9 Tag: VS2008+Training+KIT

Now we are pushing out the videos from the Visual Studio training kit, we have created (thanks to Charles) a new tag, VS2008+Training+Kit. What it means is i can now just view everything on that tag at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showforum.aspx?forumid=38&tagid=267 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:48 AM by daiken | 1 Comments

Cooking with powerShell

Oh My! I just received a copy of Lee Holmes Windows PowerShell Cookbook. The book is 429 pages of juicy mouth-watering recipes for anything from how to write loops, to accessing remote registry access. There are then 90 pages of reference including Regular Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:42 AM by daiken | 1 Comments
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VS2008 Virtual Lab available on MSDN

You can now take one of the Hands on Labs from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit on MSDN Virtual Labs. The lab is Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and you can access it via this link http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032360368&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 1:27 PM by daiken | 1 Comments

Visual Studio 2008 training Kit now Available

Today we released the Visual Studio 2008 Training kit. You can download it right now from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397 The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 6:26 AM by daiken | 9 Comments
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