November 2007 - Posts
For the longest time I was bummed that when I'd get an attachment in email that was a DOCX, XLSX or PPTX file, I couldn't read it on my Windows Mobile 5.0 Qtek 9100. Well now I'm happy because there's an upgrade that lets you do just that. Download it
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This morning Scott Guthrie , a big name to those in the the ASP.NET community, published a great comprehensive blog post about the roadmap for many of our key technologies and tools, including ASP.NET, Silverlight and IIS7. Among the big announcements:
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Sorry for the short notice but I just realized I hadn't blogged yet about the Atlanta geek dinner tonight - Thursday, November 29th. I won't be able to make it but here are the details on the gathering: Reminder- Atlanta Geek Dinner, Thursday November
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This Tuesday night (November 27) I'll be speaking at the meeting of the Charlotte Enterprise Developers Guild, about ASP.NET futures. Come see the cool things the ASP.NET team is working on to make it easier to manage browser history, use dynamic data
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Now that you've stuffed yourself with turkey for a few days, stuff your brain with some great information from the geekSpeak series. On Wednesday, November 28th, we'll have Chris Love as our guest. He'll be walking us through writing httpHandlers and
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This weekend, you might want a treat after you've had your fill of Meleagris gallopavo and farce . So queue up your download of the just-released Visual Studio 2008 and you'll have something to install and try out while the rest of the world is out shopping
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We all take it for granted that, more or less, there's a separation between hardware and software . I mean, we can take any computer and "repave" it with a fresh install of Windows, and frequently even a newer version. Servers, desktops, laptops, even
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Bring your WPF questions for our guest Bil Simser on our next geekSpeak - Wednesday, November 14th at 3 PM EST. Bil is a Microsoft MVP from Canada and he'll be giving us the ins and outs of this exciting UI technology. Bil Simser lives and works in Alberta,
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If you want to see the inane details, fleeting thoughts and singleton events of a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, you can now do so by following my twitter feed . Don't say I didn't warn you... :)
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Which of these are you? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=262 I've been 5, 6 and 8 at different stages of my career.
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If you live in the Greensboro area, check out the Brian and Chad roadshow coming on November 13th. It's a great opportunity to pick their brains about some of the latest Microsoft developer technology, including Silverlight and the Expression suite of
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A while ago I posted on upcoming MSDN Events on the east coast . But, a few areas were not getting MSDN events this quarter, because of the way the overall events engine that MSDN is a part of selects locations. Fortunately I was able to set up some "MSDN
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Tech-Ed U.S. has grown so much in the last few years that it's been hard to navigate and keep up with all the interesting stuff it has to offer. So following the model of several other Tech-Eds around the globe, we've just announced that there will be
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