March 2006 - Posts

• 'Volkswebcasts': Experimenting with webcast concept through blog

  Announcing Visual Basic 2005 Today ! This new webcast series will kick off with 4 webcasts in April on Visual Basic 2005 features and functionality to help all you VB developers learn something new and increase your productivity. See below for the details Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:00 AM by jacobcy | 8 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge, Visual Basic 2005 Today

• Batman Beyond DVD set doesn't really go "beyond" the original Batman: The Animated Series DVD sets

  I was on the road this week and was super-pumped when I received notice from Amazon.com that they had shipped my latest order: the entire first season* of Batman Beyond , the neo-futuristic rebirth of the Batman: The Animated Series (BtAS) television Read More... Posted Sunday, March 26, 2006 8:35 AM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal Life

• Let's get together (Merge Replication)

  This is a quick update - In Evansville, I was asked if SQL Mobile merge replication worked with SQL 2000 as well as SQL 2005 and, yes, it does. See the following article for more details. Happy weekend, Jacob Read More... Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 8:51 AM by jacobcy | 0 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• FREE Web Application Hacking Workshop coming up in April

  Is your web server secure? Do your applications have the smallest possible attack surface area? Can you sleep at night knowing there are hackers trying to break into your enterprise? Ok, enough with the FUD. Seriously though, security needs to be a key Read More... Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 10:22 AM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Looking to get more out of .NET? Check out our upcoming MSDN Events to get the productivity you seek!

  MSDN® EVENTS Boost Your Productivity with Visual Studio® 2005 & the .NET Framework 2.0 New productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 mean you can spend less time coding and more time focusing on getting the job done. Read More... Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 11:06 AM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Upcoming MSDN Events, Developer Knowledge

• Q: What's better than the satisfaction you get from a job well done?

  A: A job well done that nets you $10,000 in hard currency. Do you like to use technology to build cool and useful stuff? think you could develop something neat with Visual Studio Express and/or SQL Server Express? like having so much cash that you need Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:46 AM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Deeper in .NET 2006 coming to Milwaukee in April

  In an effort to surpass Deep in .NET (2004) and Deeper in .NET (2005), WI .NET Users Group is hosting Deeper in .NET 2006 . Not to be confused with Sandra Bullock, who was deep in The Net , Deeper in .NET 2006 will be home to some .NET celebrities, including Read More... Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 6:25 PM by jacobcy | 1 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge

• Answers to this week's MSDN Events "unanswerables" in Michigan

  Ann Arbor, MI Qs Q) Is it possible to integrate the mobile device emulator with actual hardware (e.g. camera, GPS)? A) I always seem to be one step behind with the mobile device emulator questions. As we go to print, I haven't found anything specifically Read More... Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 4:24 PM by jacobcy | 5 Comments Filed under: Developer Knowledge