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January 2009 - Posts

MIX It Up In Vegas – March 18th - 20th

“Content is King at MIX09” at The Venetian in Las Vegas from March 18-20th.  MIX09 is the conference for innovative Web developers and designers to network and learn about the future of Silverlight, ASP.NET, Expression, Internet Explorer, and other Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:37 PM by joneil | 1 Comments
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Silverlight Control Mega-List

If you’re working on or considering Silverlight for application development, then the sine quibus non of your daily blog reading should include both Tim Heuer and Jesse Liberty . Tim just posted A Comprehensive List of Silverlight Controls for Developers Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:01 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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I’ll have an RC

When I was growing up in the South, “RC” meant one thing – Royal Crown Cola .  It’s still around, but certainly RC has a much different connotation in the  technology circles that I’m now part of. It’s that latter interpretation -- “Release Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:13 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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D is for... Dependency Property

Dependency properties came on the scene with .NET 3.0 to support a variety of functionality in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), but the construct makes an appearance in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as well. At first blush, it may seem to complicate Read More...
Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 12:59 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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XamlFest - Back by Popular Demand x 3

My colleagues on the ISV Developer Community team are replaying their popular two-day XAML workshop not once, not twice, but three times in February within the Northeast. Registration is easy, but attendance is limited - just click the link below and Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 9:07 PM by joneil | 2 Comments

Wasn't That a Party!

Could'a been the Azure. Might'a been the F#, Could'a been the three or four partners, I don't know, but look at the time we spent, My head is full of .NET, I think I'm gonna code, oh me, oh me, oh my, wasn't that an MDC! I know, I know... don't quit my Read More...
Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 5:06 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Western New York Users Group: Jan 22nd

If you're on the western fringes of our Northeast District, here's a chance to kick of a new year of User Group meetings. David Stevenson is speaking on Linq To SQL at the Western New York .NET Users Group this Thursday, January 22nd, from 6 to 8:30. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:37 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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MSDN Attendees: Installed Vista yet?

Those of you that attended the MSDN live events last quarter, namely those in Nashua, Boston, Waterbury, and Stamford (for the Northeast District) received copies of Vista Ultimate when you attended (or perhaps after the fact). If you haven't yet claimed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:09 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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C is for... Color

Dealing with color in .NET isn't always black-and-white, given the existence of distinct Color structures present in two different .NET namespaces. Windows Forms applications make use of the Color structure in the System.Drawing namespace, while Windows Read More...
Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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MDC Boston - Whaddaya Waitin' For?

The MSDN Developer Conference in Boston is literally right around the corner - Thursday, January 22nd at the Sheraton Boston ! Have you registered yet? If not, time's running out - you can sign up right here . In addition to three tracks of four technical Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:30 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Who's On First - Microsoft Style

I suspect this is one of those things a lot of you may already have seen, leading you to wonder if I've been under a rock, but I just got wind of it today and, as an avid watcher of old Abbott and Costello movies as a kid, just had to pass it on. I'm Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:32 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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B is for... BAML

BAML is.... Bamm-Bamm Rubble's rapper persona Binary Application Markup Language Superman's long lost uncle A mixed-up ovine Well, in keeping with the letter of the week, the answer is, of course, b , Binary Application Markup Language. BAML is the compiled Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 12:21 AM by joneil | 2 Comments
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Windows 7 Beta for Everyone!

Just got word that the 2.5 million download limitation on the Window 7 beta distribution has been lifted, and access to the beta is wide open for the next two weeks - through January 24th. Many of you that were chomping at the bit on Thursday may have Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:24 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

Presenting Workflow Services in Albany - January 13th

I'll be in Albany, New York - well, Latham, really - this coming Tuesday (January 13th) to present to the Tech Valley .NET Users Group on "Interacting with Services in Windows Workflow Foundation." Here's the outline of the talk, straight from their site Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:18 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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SE7EN

The Windows 7 beta is now publicly available (to the first 2.5 million of you that get to the download link ). Here's some good reading to prep yourself for the install, while you're waiting for the bits to stream down. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 3:01 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

(Microsoft) Research In Motion

While the Windows 7 beta announcement is one of the bigger stories coming out this week, there's a number of other cool developments that nicely complement the Microsoft Research (MSR) presentation that Chris and I paired up on during the Northeast Roadshow Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 12:44 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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'tis the Season...

... for Code Camps and other events that is. Over the next three months there are several community-run events in Massachusetts and New Hampshire spanning developers and IT professionals. Registration is open for all of these now; check out the specifics Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:57 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

1 in 2.5 Million...

That could describe you as a Windows 7 beta tester. The official launch was announced just hours ago. If you're a TechNet subscriber you can get the goods now , yes today, right this minute! And if you're an MSDN subscriber you can have at it too - you'll Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:55 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

I Suru, Do You?

photoSuru that is... photoSuru is a WPF photo viewer application that was featured as part of Scott Guthrie's keynote at the Microsoft PDC this past October. While it's a wicked pissah app just to play with, the real value in my mind is that the source Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:38 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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A is for... Azure

Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing operating system announced at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008. Windows Azure supports hosting applications and/or data at Microsoft data centers accessible via the Internet through Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 12:00 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Update Released

This is sort of 'last year's news' since the KB article for the update has a date of December 31st, but I suspect many of you weren't all that tuned in to patch releases over the holidays! The update resolves a number of issues , including some related Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 04, 2009 12:09 AM by joneil | 3 Comments

.NET from A to Z

Welcome to 2009! I hope you managed to have some time to unplug and recharge over the recent holiday break. During my traditional end-of-year reflection process, I was considering ways to beef up my blog to make it a little more topical, interesting, Read More...
Posted Friday, January 02, 2009 5:30 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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