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Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:35 PM

Practice Your Japanese on my Blog

Thanks to the awesome folks at Microsoft Japan.... My blog will now be available in Japanese. http://blogs.msdn.com/JoeInJapanese/ Thanks to Seiichi Sato for taking the lead !!
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:02 AM

Tool to convert your C# to VB and your VB to C#

Some time ago, my buddy Jesse posted about his new favorite utility . As a matter of policy, we record How-Do-I videos while doing the programming in VB and than I have to re-write the sample code in C#. So, automatic code conversion was really interesting
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:34 AM

TechEd 2008 - My presentations, come say hello !

WUX315 - PHP on Windows: Not an Oxymoron! Session Day/Time: 6/6/2008 10:15AM-11:30AM Room: S230 A Is it a well kept secret? From Microsoft Internet Information Services, to AJAX, to Microsoft .NET, Windows is a viable platform for your existing PHP based
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:31 AM

Book: ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide

ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide by Matthew Ellis Read more about this book... Ok readers. Check out this little nugget. Matthew Ellis and Magma Interactive just released the ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide. It contains concise chapters packed with useful
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Saturday, May 24, 2008 11:51 AM

Free Visual Studio Plug-in to Format your Mark-Up !!

Daniel Crenna shared my frustration that Visual Studio drag-n-drop doesn't always leave our markup nicely formatted. So, he wrote a plug-in to do it for us. Click [ HERE ] to get it for Visual Studio 2008 or 2005 He also offers up the source code so if
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Friday, May 16, 2008 8:17 AM

Intellisense for jQuery

I'm a jQuery Fan ! Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 [ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates . ]
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:44 AM

Code Snippets from DotNetSackers

The slackers are at it again ! Check out their growing collection of swipe-able code ! http://www.DotNetSlackers.com/CodeSnippets/
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:11 AM

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

:) If this looks familiar, it's because a prematurely posted about this last week. (And I wasn't supposed to.) Well, NOW I can tell you WHERE to get it ! Here is the announcement .......... The Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team released
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:33 AM

Announcing: Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint – Developer User Guide

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:51 AM

Tutorials at - Defaultdotaspx.com

Cool Name Huh ? Mustafa Basgun has created a pretty cool info site for ASP.NET Developers Click [ HERE ] to pay him a visit!
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Monday, May 12, 2008 10:55 AM

Ajax Data Controls from DotNetSlackers

This looked interesting so I thought I would share it. Please let me know what you think..... From the CodePlex Description. The Ajax Data Controls is a DotNetSlackers project. Developed on top of Asp.net Ajax Extension , the main goal of this project
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Monday, May 12, 2008 10:44 AM

Add Custom JavaScript Intellisense

If you reference an ASP.NET page that contains a scriptmanager in your js file like below you get intellisense for the entire Microsoft AJAX Library plus any additional scripts ref’d by the scriptmanager.  The easiest way to get the /// <reference/>
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Friday, May 09, 2008 9:10 PM

Build a Game in Silverlight and Win an XBOX 360 !

The folks at Internet.com are running this cool content. ENTER BY THE 15th !! Description: The RIA Run challenge is designed for you to showcase your knowledge of Silverlight 2 to the world— and potentially win prizes for it. By taking advantage
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:56 PM

Free Mind Mapping Application

Mindmapping tools can be great for flushing out design ideas. Here is a cool FREE Mind Mapping tool built with .NET 3.0 http://cayra.net/
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:54 AM

System.Net.Mail - Sending Email with .NET

Add this awesome FAQ by Dave Wanta to your bookmarks. All about Sending email in .NET 2.0 If you're still a .NET 1.x user, see here http://www.systemwebmail.com/
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:31 PM

ComputerWorld: Web 2.0 developers rank MSN/Live higher than Google, Yahoo and Facebook

May 5, 2008 (Computerworld) Web 2.0 software developers ranked Microsoft 's MSN/Live Windows developer program higher than competing programs offered by Internet leaders Google , Yahoo , Amazon, eBay , Facebook and PayPal, according to results of an Evans
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:42 AM

Get the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers the technologies in the .NET 3.5 SP1 release and the out of band releases that are a part of the same wave, namely ASP.NET MVC and the ASP.NET Silverlight controls. Currently, the training kit contains six
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Monday, May 05, 2008 8:39 AM

BOOK: ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls

Here is a GREAT quick read on ASP.NET Data Controls for you. ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials: Joydip Kanjilal: Books ISBN : 1847193951 ISBN-13 : 9781847193957 PACKT is not one of the "big" publishing companies, which can be a good
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:23 AM

Replace your crummy boss.

I've has some good manager and I've had some really, um, bad managers. In my seven years at Microsoft I've had 5 managers and would works for four of them again (meaning they were great !) I can't say that about other work experiences in my career. My
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