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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:16 AM

Security Seminars in April: State College, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, Richmond

We've been getting a really interesting response to our security seminars . Sometimes, it's really tough to get programmers to pay attention to security. On the other hand, the attendees walking out have been praising them. In security, what you don't
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:05 AM

Wintellect Devscovery: Arlington, VA, April 27th - 29th

“If you are on a quest for in-depth .NET knowledge and want to expand the boundaries of software development, this conference is for you.” - Jeffrey Richter One of the companies in this industry I most admire is Wintellect. They have managed
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:45 AM

User Interface Process Application Block: Columbia, MD, Tuesday, April 6th

Update: The speaker for this meeting has changed. It's now an ASP.NET 2.0 Walk Through! The User Interface Process Application Block provides a simple yet extensible framework for developing user interface processes. It is designed to abstract the control
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:36 AM

John Robbins: Vienna, VA, Wednesday, April 7th / Newport News, VA, Thursday, April 8th

John Robbins , who writes the Bug Slayer column in MSDN Magazine, will be at ASP Vienna next Wednesday, April 7th and at WeProgram.NET in Newport News next Thursday, April 8th. John's a great .NET speaker so it should be a good show. ASP Vienna meets
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:51 PM

Volunteers Sought for Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group Committee

Would you like to meet some new friends in the geek community, have some fun, and have a cool title to use on your resume? I knew you did. The Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group , is looking for committee volunteers, including: Marketing and Promotion,
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:27 PM

Free Admission at FOSE

Next week we have FOSE in Washington, DC. This is an annual extravaganza of all things IT at the Washington Convention Center. If you want to see the latest products in routers, servers, laptops, firewalls, desktops, hubs, etc., etc., spend a day or two
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:05 PM

Patterns and Practices Summit: Reston, VA, October 7th-9th

The Patterns & Practices Summit showcases the official Microsoft "patterns and practices" for developers, designers, and solutions architects who need to learn how to integrate architectural design patterns and procedures with the technology provided
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Monday, March 15, 2004 4:26 PM

Rob Howard is confirmed as speaker at ASP.NET Exposed in Washington and Philly.

See this entry .
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:55 PM

Extending ASP.NET: Roanoke, VA, Thursday, April 1st (Yeah, right!)

The inimitable Brian Noyes will be in South-West Virginia at the Roanoke Valley .NET User Group on April 1st. He'll do a presentation about extending ASP.NET using modules, handlers, and custom applications. I've seen this presentation before. Although
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:35 PM

SQL Server Reporting Services: Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 17th / Tyson's Corner, VA, Monday, March 22nd

These have been mentioned before, but there are two upcoming meetings on SQL Server Reporting Services. Bill Wolff and Stan Spotts will present in Philadelphia: SQL Server Reporting Services and Yukon, Philly .NET, Wednesday, March 17th I will present
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:26 PM

.NET 2.0: Tyson's Corner, VA, Tuesday, March 23rd

I've blogged before about some of the awesome new tools in .NET 2.0, codenamed Whidbey. Next Tuesday I'll be at the Capital Area .NET Users' Group doing an overview of .NET . We're going to cover three main areas: Language innovations, such as generics
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 3:14 PM

ColdFusion and .NET Integration: King of Prussia, PA, Thursday, March 25th

I'm presenting at the next meeting of the Philadelphia ColdFusion User Group . Chris Maher of Modotech will cover “Using SQL Server Stored Procedures in ColdFusion,” and then I will cover “ColdFusion and .NET Integration.” I'm
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:47 PM

ASP.NET Exposed: Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 18th, and Philadelphia, Wednesday, May 19th

The ASP.NET Exposed tour is coming to town, and we finally have confirmed dates. The DC show will be on Tuesday, May 18th, and the Philly show will be Wednesday, May 19th. This show will be presented either by Rob Howard or Scott Guthrie , so it's guaranteed
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:50 AM

What should I blog?

Most blogs are an excuse for the blogger to write deep thoughts about whatever is on their mind. I don't do that very often; my main goal in blogging is to provide info on events happening in my local area. I’ve been writing a couple of different
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:58 PM

Looking for National Conferences?

There's a pretty good list of the national conferences about .NET here .
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 9:49 PM

Migrating to Delphi 8: Pittsburgh, April 29th-30th

Borland , Informant , and Microsoft are sponsoring a tour by infocan management featuring a two day course on “Delphi 8 and Migration Strategies to Microsoft .Net Framework”. Delphi 8 runs on top of the .NET framework , providing an alternative
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:36 PM

Securing Your Computer: Philadelphia, Saturday, March 27th

What do you need to do if your home computer is attached to a cable modem, and you want to avoid being attacked? We've tried to reduce the steps to a fairly simple three step program : Use an Internet firewall. Keep your computer up to date. Use Up-to-Date
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:14 PM

ASP.NET Tips and Tricks: Millersville, MD, Tuesday, March 16th

I'll be at MAVBUG next Tuesday doing my ASP.NET Tips and Tricks session. I've already done this session as an MSDN seminar, but it will be the first time I do it for a user group. This is the session where I take apart the Time Tracker sample application
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:51 PM

XML Schema, Justice Community XML Standards: Washington, DC, Wednesday, March 17th

The Washington Area SGML/XML Users' Group will meet at the American Geophysical Union (2000 Florida Ave, NW) at 7:00 PM. There are two topics: XML W3C Schema Basics (Karanjit Siyan, National Library of Medicine) and Justice Community XML Standards (Diane
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:35 PM

FOSE: Washington, DC, March 23rd-25th

The annual extravanganza FOSE is back in town March 23rd - 25th. Try checking the Washington Post, which in past years has contained a coupon for free or reduced price entry into the exhibits.
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:19 PM

Applying for Federal Jobs: Washington, DC, Thursday, March 25th

Black Data Processing Associates DC Chapter has a meeting on Thursday, March 25th at 6:30 PM at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments at 777 North Capitol Street. The speaker is Robert Whiting, Vice President, Strategic Engagements with Avue
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:02 PM

New MCSD Electives

We're about to launch two new electives for the MCSD certification. 70-330, Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and 70-340, Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual C# .NET . (These exams should
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 1:40 PM

Querying XML with .NET: Harrisburg, PA, Tuesday, March 16th

.NET was designed from the beginning to use and consume XML in all its forms. Next Tuesday, Brian Noyes is speaking to the Central Pennsylvania .NET Users Group about Querying XML with .NET. He'll cover how to load XML data into XmlDocuments, XmlDataDocuments,
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:29 PM

Enterprise Templates: Columbia, MD, Tuesday, March 16th and Shopping Cart Project: Columbia, MD, Thursday, March 18th

CMAP is one of my favorite organizations, and their Projects SIG is a great idea. They get together to create projects as a way for both beginners and more experienced developers to get experience with things that they haven't done before. Next Thursday,
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:09 PM

DTS in Yukon: Baltimore, MD, Thursday, April 1st (No fooling!)

Last month I had a chance to visit the Baltimore SQL Server Users Group and talk to them about Yukon for Developers. In April, Jeremy Kadlec of Edgewood Solutions will be talking to them about DTS in Yukon. This is the third in their series of Yukon presentations.
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Friday, March 12, 2004 11:08 PM

Making Sense of our Security Content

As many of you know, the number one priority at Microsoft these days is security. One of the ways we are implementing this priority is by focusing all the developer training sessions we do in the next couple of months on security. At Dev Days last week,
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:14 AM

SQL Server Reporting Services and Yukon: Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 17th

The next generation of SQL Server, codenamed “Yukon”, has a ton of cool features for developers . Philly .NET has a meeting on SQL Server Yukon and SQL Server Reporting Services coming up on March 17th . Bill Wolff of Agility Systems will
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004 8:03 AM

Creating Custom Enterprise Templates in Visual Studio .NET: Columbia, MD, Tuesday, March 16th

If you have used Visual Studio .NET, you've seen a glimpse of the enterpise template feature. When you go to the New Project dialog box, you create a new project that uses one of the pre-canned templates we provide with Visual Studio. Wouldn't it be cool
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Monday, March 01, 2004 1:47 PM

SQL Server Reporting Services: Tyson's Corner, VA, Monday, March 22nd

SQL Server Reporting Services is an enterprise-ready solution for creating canned reports, either printed or online. I'll be doing my SQL Server Reporting Services presentation at Northern Virginia SQL Server User Group on Monday, March 22nd . The meet
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Monday, March 01, 2004 12:58 PM

Test Driven Development, Building .NET Muscle: Hampton Roads, VA, Tuesday, March 9th

One of the most interesting trends in software development lately has been the move to extreme programming (XP). XP advocates recommend using a test-driven approach to development. On .NET, test-driven development (TDD) is often associated with use of
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Monday, March 01, 2004 9:45 AM

Swinging the Pendulum

The previous post ( Infragistics @ CMAP ) got me thinking. It's interesting that this presentation is about fixing the problems with HTML-based applications. When I think about the history of application development, I've seen the pendulum swing from
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Monday, March 01, 2004 8:40 AM

Delivering Rich-Client Features with Thin-Client Delivery: Columbia, MD, Tuesday, March 2nd

CMAP has an interesting meeting tomorrow at 6:30 PM. Jason Beres will talk about “Delivering Rich-Client Applications with Thin-Client Delivery.” Infragistics provides components that assist .NET and Java developers to create the presentation
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Monday, March 01, 2004 8:17 AM

Variable Management, Web Service-based Validation: Tyson's Corner, VA, Wednesday, March 3rd / Rockville, MD, Thursday, March 4th

Frank Grimberg of Prosoft-International will be at ASP Vienna and ASP Rockville this week doing two presentations. (Don't believe what it says on the group web sites, Steve Walther was last month.) Franks's first presentation will be one that I saw a
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