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July CTP is live!

Check it out, the July CTP is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ You'll need to be a valid MSDN subscriber to have access to these bits. Remember to check off samples when you install VS (this is unchecked by default) if you want to install the
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Onwards to PDC 2005!

With Tech Ed Orlando now done, it's time to start focussing on the PDC. PDC is where my team really comes alive, developers are the heart and soul of the SDK customer and the biggest developer conference of them all is a big event for everyone I work
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PDC 2005 site live!

The PDC (Professional Developers Conference for those of you that are TLA challenged :) ) has been updated and the push is on towards PDC 2005. Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/ I'm an advisor on the Fundamentals track, and it's been
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SDK Samples now available for download

As I promised in my last post, we've made the samples from the .NET Framework SDK 2.0 Beta 2 available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0F58989B-C02D-43D1-AB89-1C0B0B68741A&displaylang=en This includes all the
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.NET Framework 2.0 SDK Beta 2 Released!

Wow that's a mouthful! But yes, we've released the .NET Framework SDK Beta 2, you can get all versions (32/64bit) from http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/netframework/default.aspx Check it out, we have a ton of new samples, revamped Quickstarts
Posted by harisekhar | 6 Comments

Conference SWAG - Whats you're fav?

So our group is getting down to deciding what representation we will have at Tech Ed '05 in Orlando. I'm looking forward to meeting with you folks, I'll probably be hanging around the Cabana, will know for sure in the next couple of days. I'm also the
Posted by harisekhar | 7 Comments

Halo 2 Updates coming!!

After spending around 20 hours a week playing Halo 2 on XBox Live, I'm ready to start taking out contracts on cheaters. Seriously, how much fun is it to be a stats wanker when all you did was hit "pause" on your modem. Happily, it looks like Bungie is
Posted by harisekhar | 15 Comments

Updated connection string for OLEDB provider for SQL Server 2005

So I was playing around with an ASP.NET page connecting to SQL Server 2005 using the OleDB managed provider (not recommended BTW - if you're writing managed code against SQL Server 2005 you should be using the SqlClient), and my code, which used to go
Posted by harisekhar | 2 Comments

ASP.NET Cookie Issues...

I finally got the solution to a cookie issue I've been messing with for the last 2 months. My ISP recently upgraded to Win2K3 server. Everything on my site worked great, except that my cookies expired after 30 minutes. I tried everything, searched high
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Quickstarts anyone?

Got some good feedback from my last post, Mitch said he'd be interested in creating the DirectX managed screensaver, so look for it in the upcoming Whidbey SDK release. Keep those suggestions coming, I promise to follow up on them. I'll be pinging the
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.NET Framework SDK rocks.. or does it? :)

<stretch....> after several months hibernation, I've dusted off my blog. The new MSDN viewer is now being developed by another team, and I've moved away from doing design on that full time, and am now a consultant on that project. <another way
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Tech-Ed plans

Looks like I'll be at Tech-Ed in San Diego with Mitch Walker, working at the Terrarium labs. I'll bring along some screen shots and if I have early bits by then, I'll have my laptop with me, so if you do attend, please do drop by the Terrarium lab and
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SDK Home Page

I've been working on the SDK “home page” for the last couple of days and trying to figure out what should be on the default page that loads up when the user starts the SDK. I've come up with a couple of things that I think would be useful
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installing locally and refreshing content...

Couple of thoughts on how a user would install content locally and how they could refresh content... For offline use, (or if your internet connection isn't as fast as you'd like), a user could choose to install an “SDK”... For example, the
Posted by harisekhar | 7 Comments

Does size matter...

So we've been having some interesting hallway conversations ( someone should do a study on how hallway meetings are such a great alternative to doing real work ), and one of the things that came up was would it be OK if the Longhorn SDK came as one blob
Posted by harisekhar | 12 Comments
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