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April 2009 - Posts

Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:23 PM

Should Evangelists Be Forced to Unit Test During Their Demos?

Last year, my friend DonXML issued a challenge to me: No more Console.WriteLine demos , from now on replace those demos with unit tests. Jim Holmes posted about his desire to see more focus on unit testing from the evangelists as well. Don and Jim: I’ve
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:01 AM

SharePoint for Developers Part 6 – Custom web services

Part 6 of the SharePoint for Developers series is posted to Channel9, this one focusing on creating custom web services in SharePoint .  For reference, here are the links to the previous 5 screencasts in this series so far. Introducing Visual Studio
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:00 PM

SharePoint for Developers Part 5 – Columns, Content Types, and Lists

Part 5 of the SharePoint for Developers screencast series is posted to Channel9, this session focuses on creating custom field controls, content types, and lists . Previous screencasts can be accessed at http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/kirke .  Honestly,
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:08 PM

SharePoint for Developers Part 4 – Consuming SharePoint Web Services from Silverlight

Part 4 of the SharePoint for Developers screencast series has been posted to Channel9… this one focusing on calling SharePoint Web Services from a Silverlight client application . Show Me the Code! I started by creating a list in SharePoint based off
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:05 AM

SharePoint for Developers Part 3 – Expression Blend and Silverlight

Part 3 of the SharePoint for Developers screencast series is posted to Channel9, “ Expression Blend and Silverlight ”. In part 1 of this series, I introduced Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 (VSeWSS).  In part 2 , we used
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Friday, April 10, 2009 10:12 AM

AT&T Using Silverlight for Live Streaming of PGA Masters

Watch the Masters on AT&T Fan Zone . The 73rd Masters Tournament will be available live on the AT&T Fan Zone from some of Augusta National's most famous vantage points. Masters fans will be able to simultaneously watch live video streams of Amen
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:06 PM

LINQ to SQL and Connection Pooling

I’ve been working with Microsoft’s database connection technologies (ADO.NET, ADO, and ODBC) for many years now.  A customer pinged me with an interesting question about LINQ and database connection pooling in an ASP.NET application.  I thought
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:47 PM

Disable WCF Service Host

While debugging a WCF project tonight, I was getting frustrated by a 5 second pause every time I started the app and a warning that my service contains no endpoints. A couple quick searches kept mentioning a WCF Options tab in the project properties,
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Saturday, April 04, 2009 8:31 PM

SharePoint Designer for Free – Interview with Tom Rizzo

Since we announced SharePoint Designer is now free, customers have had various questions or theories about the change.  You can read more on Office Online about why SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free . Tom Rizzo , Senior Director of Product Management
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Friday, April 03, 2009 7:41 AM

Patterns and Practices Releases Hands on Labs for EntLib and Unity

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Hands-on Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 Hands-on Labs for Unity 1.2 In this e-mail:   Please feel free to forward this announcement to your customers. | What’s
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:01 AM

SharePoint Designer – Now Free!

Yep… it’s no longer April 1st, this is no April Fool’s joke.  SharePoint Designer 2007 is now a free download.  See details: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx
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