September 2004 - Posts

• Little lock icons in InfoPath 2003 with SP1

  Howdy, After a brief round of non-code related posts, I am back with one for the developers in the audience... literally. At my event in Bloomington, IN today, one of my MSDN Events attendees ("Visualize the 20" - a brief inside joke specifically for Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:37 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

  Do you own a webcam? Do you send email? Why not download the Outlook 2003 Add-In for Video Email ? I came back from dinner tonight to a video email from a colleague, which pretty much blew my mind, especially since the file ran about 123 kilobytes for Read More... Posted Monday, September 20, 2004 8:48 PM by jacobcy | 5 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Avis "Drive three, drive free" promotion is back!

  Here's the quick link to the offer . Continue reading for the editorial edition . As several of you may know, I drive to the majority of my MSDN Events . Living in Chicago, I'm just about smack dab in the middle of my event territory of Illinois, Indiana Read More... Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 11:12 AM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Biggest mistake of my professional career

  So, I may have made the biggest mistake of my professional career yesterday afternoon. I saw a post on Craig's List for a GameCube, with 4 controllers, 7 games, and 2 memory cards. The deal was so good I couldn't pass it up. Your initial reaction may Read More... Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 12:19 PM by jacobcy | 9 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Upcoming MSDN Events in IL, IN, and WI (October, November, December)

  This demo-packed event will offer valuable insight into object-oriented programming fundamentals in Visual Basic® .NET, programming with MapPoint® Web Services, ASP.NET 1.1 Web applications, plus ASP.NET 2.0’s new Membership and Personalization features. Read More... Posted Friday, September 10, 2004 9:32 AM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events

• MSDN Events Online in September (my webcasts)

  I wanted to let you all know that I will be presenting 2 webcasts in September (and 1 at the very beginning of October). If you can't attend my live events, check out my “mirrors”. I am sneak-previewing some of the October-December MSDN Events content Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:12 PM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events

• Beware of strangers with eye drops

  Today was an interesting day. I had an eye appointment to get my annual prescription and maybe a new pair of glasses. They asked me whether I wanted a full checkup, so I enthusiastically said "Sure!". I discovered that "full checkup" apparently includes Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:32 PM by jacobcy | 4 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• ASP.NET 2.0 Internals

  During my MSDN Event yesterday in Milwaukee, I received a couple of questions related to details behind-the-scenes in ASP.NET 2.0. I had been meaning to read this article earlier this week, which explores everything we don't see but need to know, from Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 8:49 AM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Links from today's UG presentation

  I had a really fun time in Milwaukee this evening, presenting 'Programming with WSE 2.0' for the Wisconsin .NET Users Group . Chris Mayo, my DE counterpart, had the idea of leveraging LiveMeeting to simulcast the live event as a webcast for the group Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:15 PM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Playing with ObjectDataSource

  After my Green Bay MSDN Event today, some audience members stuck around and we explored some additional features of ASP.NET 2.0. One control of particular interest was the ObjectDataSource . In today's session, I had demonstrated tying the ObjectDataSource Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:15 AM by jacobcy | 2 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge