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Getting started videos for Silverlight and Expression
Just ran across these getting started training videos. They’re all between 10 and 20 minutes long....
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 03/29/2010
VHDTool – special sauce for VHD disks
Dear Reader, have you ever wished you could resize – grow – a fixed-sized VHD disk? Earlier today I...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/28/2009
Question of the day…
When you tell Hyper-V Manager to “Delete Snapshot Subtree…” how do you know if it’s started doing...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/25/2009
See you at the Boise NETDUG meeting Thursday evening...
During the general meeting, Cory Isakson and I will be talking about state management for web sites....
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/17/2003
Cool shirt....
Last month I though I saw a cool geek shirt with the slogan “got msil”. Turns out that...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/17/2003
Finding things...
Heh. Someone out there needs to know what to do in a snowstorm. How do I know? Well, weblogs.asp.net...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/12/2003
Agility...
Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software gave a talk last night at the Portland Area Dot Net User Group...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/12/2003
Now that's the way a Pocket PC Phone should work!
I upgraded my sorry Pocket PC phone's operating system to Pocket PC 2003 and a new radio stack....
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/11/2003
What's in a name...?
Quite a bit. Otherwise, why would a grown man, driving to work in his car, have tears coming down...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/11/2003
Portland .NET User Group meeting tonight...
See you there!
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/11/2003
Top 10 reasons...
For using the .NET Framework.... for System Administrators for Developers
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/11/2003
Getting certified...
So how did you prepare to take a certification test? Did you use the MS Press study guides? Exam...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/10/2003
Chicago, hear me roar...
I’m sitting through day 1 of a 2-day planning session, with about 100 people in attendance. If I...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/08/2003
E-mail and Pocket PC phone. OK for reading, poor for replying...
After using the PPC phone for a while, I've decided not to use it to reply to e-mail. Connectivity...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/05/2003
Up and running on Windows Server 2003...
I just finished rebuilding my laptop hard drive with Windows Server 2003. It's going to be fun to...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/05/2003
What the heck? More places parens aren't required...
I work with the Boise .NET Developers User Group (NETDUG -- gotta luv that name). They’ve started...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/02/2003
A comparison of the MS programming languages...
Not trying to start any language religious debates. Just trying to inform. ;) This...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/02/2003
PDC Bloggers...
Cool. There's a site for people who will be blogging at the PDC.
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/01/2003
If you've ever wondered how the runtime locates assemblies...
Here's the place to...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/29/2003
Maybe I'll get my chance sooner than I thought!
I need to drive to Seattle today, tweezers in hand. Looks like they're going to arrest one of the...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/29/2003
What happened to my () at the end of my initialization?
In VB.NET 2003, when you create an instance of a class and there are no parameters to pass to the...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/28/2003
Keeping web projects organized...
I'm working with the Boise .NET Developer User Group. We're doing an MCAD certification study...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/27/2003
Earth and Mars say 'hello'...
Tonight's the night!
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/27/2003
Who wrote that?
Last night I was writing some demos that do distributed transactions across databases. It started...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/26/2003
The true cost of software...
From Scoble's blog, a reference to a ComputerWorld article.
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/23/2003
Peer pressure...
OK. OK. OK. I'll be at the PDC too.
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/22/2003
Career Calculus...
Saw a reference on Chris Sells' blog, about this posting by Eric Sink. Chris' words: “There's just...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/20/2003
If you're into mobility and embedded stuff...
MSDN just posted a new Developer Center. “Visit the new one-stop shop for all mobile and embedded...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/20/2003
Do that newsgroup thing...
Newsgroups are such a wonderful resource. People can post questions and get quality answers. I use...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/19/2003
That felt good...
Wow, that rant felt good. Turns out, all I needed to do was UNPLUG the cable modem from the wall (I...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/18/2003
Held hostage and it's not fun!
Well, my VPN capability is being held hostage. Comcast is my cabel modem ISP. (Right now, if I...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/18/2003
See you tomorrow (Tuesday 8/19) at the Portland MSDN event...
Here's the registration link. Smart Client Deployment with Windows FormsThis session focuses on how...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/18/2003
Documentation Map by Technology
I was looking through the MSDN Library for something & took a different tack. This time I went...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/18/2003
Scott is doing more with downtime than playing XBOX....
Just read Scott Hanselmann's post about the computer upgrade he gave himself as a reward for...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/18/2003
Down time...
Last week was pretty hectic. Two of the accounts I work with were on campus last week so I traveled...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/18/2003
Applied XML Programming
My copy of “Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET” by Dino Esposito arrived today! It's going...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/15/2003
Errors at userland?
“Everyone's” blog is spitting out: A runtime error has occurred. Do you wish to debug?
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/14/2003
Got MSIL?
I went to an informal gathering of bloggers last night at the Crossroads. Met a number of cool...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/14/2003
New MSDN Mag article on WSE 2.0 Messaging API
Written by Aaron Skonnard. It's well written with a number of good demos that show off the TCP...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/14/2003
WS-I Basic Profile in the news...
CNET, ADTmag.com, eWeek, InformationWeek, and InfoWorld, to mention a few.
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/13/2003
Cross platform interop: WS-I Basic Profile....
Building Interoperable Web Services: WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 is intended to help software architects...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/13/2003
Application updater component - "one touch deployment" of desktop apps...
You do have to do an initial installation of the app on the desktop, but from then on, it will...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/12/2003
Seattle .NET User Group: .NET build applications team tonight in Bellevue
Tuesday, August 12, 2003 6:30 - 8:30 pm NETBAT - .NET Build Applications Team Work on an E-Bay...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/12/2003
When to use .NET Remoting vs. Web Services...
Here’s some good info… “.NET Remoting Architectural Assessment” on MSDN.
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/11/2003
Moving from eMbedded Visual Basic to Visual Basic .NET...
Hot off the presses at MSDN: Learn how to move Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2002 software development...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/11/2003
VB6 migration...
I'm attending a VB6 migration lab with a client this week in Redmond. There's a VB6 add-in (“Code...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/11/2003
See you at the Seattle NETDA meeting tonight!
Deborah Kurata is presenting on “Best Kept Secrets in .NET”. See you there!
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 08/11/2003