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Bing: The Big Broadcast

If the only things Bing connotes to you are White Christmas , Friends , or cherries , that will be changing soon.  Last Thursday at the D Conference , Steve Ballmer announced Bing , Microsoft’s new search engine. Bing will be live worldwide on June Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 9:20 AM by joneil | 0 Comments

Atta Boy, Andy

Congrats to the Northeast’s own Andy Beaulieu (MVP and leader of the Central New York .NET Developer Group ) for winning the ServerQuest II Silverlight game competition, with his entry Boss Launch   And from the “great timing department”, my colleague, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 29, 2009 12:31 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Architect, Your Career?

The Microsoft New England Research and Development Center (NERD) will play host to a unique event, The Architect Factory, on June 2nd.  Co-sponsored by IASA New England , {Code Right} , O’Reilly , and Microsoft , this 1/2 day event will provide insight Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:02 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

U is for… unchecked

Welcome to the Memorial Day edition of the A-Z series!  As I flipped through the index of Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform , I happened upon the unchecked keyword - one of those things I remember seeing once or twice, but couldn’t really recall Read More...
Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 8

Well, it’s week 8 and we’re talking about IE 8, so it seems fitting to wrap up this series here.  The one major feature we haven’t covered in all that much detail is the IE8 Developer Tools, which are included with IE8 on every client installation.  Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 8:31 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

    While you’re downloading , check out the following: 10-4 series on Channel 9 , What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 , What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.0 , and VS 2010 Beta 1 Documentation on MSDN Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:01 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

T is for… Tracepoint

I’ve presented various sessions on Debugging Tips and Tricks as part of the Northeast Roadshow and MSDN Events series, and one of the undiscovered gems in that presentation is that of tracepoints.  Tracepoints have actually been around since Visual Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 6 Comments
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It’s For-IE-day: Week 7

This week let’s take a look at some of the document model (DOM) extensions added into IE8, like DOM storage, an AJAX navigation enhancement, safer JSON and HTML handling, improvements to XMLHttpRequest, and cross-domain request support.   DOM Storage Read More...
Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 1:57 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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NERD to Host XAML Fest - May 27th - 28th

My colleague, John Pelak, is bringing another edition of the XAML Fest series to the Boston area, this time to Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (aka NERD) in Cambridge.  The past several sessions in this area filled to capacity Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 6:04 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

S is for… sqlmetal

sqlmetal is one of the rare cases where a Microsoft utility or application ends up seeing the light of day with a cool name!  If you’re working with LINQ to SQL you may know what sqlmetal is, but since much of what it does is part of the Visual Studio Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 12:00 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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It's For-IE-day: Week 6

Complementing accelerators, which I talked about last week , Web slices are the other significant end-user feature that you can leverage in your own sites to provide an enhanced experience to IE8 users. You create a Web slice by demarcating some of the Read More...
Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 9:21 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview 4 Available

The latest preview release of ASP.NET Dynamic Data is now available from CodePlex.   These previews give you insight into the feature set that will be available when .NET 4 is released; however, you can start using them right now with .NET 3.5 SP1! Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:37 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Enterprise Developer Conference at a Stream Near You

The Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference being held in New York City tomorrow and Wednesday is sold out, but that doesn’t mean you’re left out.  The session will be streamed live and also available afterward.  The conference features Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 11:06 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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R is for... REST

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, an acronym coined by Dr. Roy Fielding in 2000 as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Irvine .  As Dr. Fielding states in Chapter 6, Since 1994, the REST architectural Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 12:08 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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2009 Summer Northeast Roadshow

Chris, Bob, and I are hitting the road again in June to bring the developer and architect community another all-day, free event – this time covering topics including Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Silverlight, and more. We’ll be visiting five locations Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 02, 2009 11:04 PM by joneil | 1 Comments

It’s For-IE-day: Week 5

Last week when I wrote about some of the new search capabilities in IE8, I touched on the accelerator feature in IE8, since each search provider is by default installed as an accelerator.  Today, we’ll talk about how to build custom accelerators Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 02, 2009 2:17 AM by joneil | 1 Comments
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Windows 7 @ Boston Area Windows Server User group

So in case you hadn’t heard, the Window 7 RC (Release Candidate) is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers , and will be generally available on May 5th.  Check blogs.technet.com/springboard/ for details. Taking a page from the ‘perfect timing’ Read More...
Posted Friday, May 01, 2009 12:15 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
 
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