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Friday, April 30, 2004 8:41 PM

Webcast on Monday: Best Practices for Building High-Performance ASP.NET Applications

MSDN Webcast: Best Practices for Building High-Performance ASP.NET Applications - Level 200 May 03, 2004 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Farhan Muhammad, Chief Technical Architect, ILM Professional Services Building a high performce web application is
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:50 PM

Return of the King, Part 2

For those that can think back a month or so, you may have recalled that I used the title, “ The Return of the King, baby! ” to describe Rob Howard returning to writing his column on MSDN. Well, that tumultuous event has a echo. Part 2 of Rob's
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:14 AM

Performing scales with performance and scalability

I know most people here don't care about the performance of their .NET apps, ( OK, that's a lame joke! Really -- *everyone* should care about the perf of their app ) but *if* you did, you'll want to take a look at the latest information from the PAG (Prescriptive
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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:08 PM

Matt is soooo close on a couple of these...

Too bad he hasn't noticed anything yet, but all I'll say is, “ none of those are completely correct -- although all would be good resolutions for me”. Oh, and based on another guess, it's not me giving up espresso beverages. I'd sooner invest
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Sunday, April 25, 2004 3:00 PM

The Web Platform and Tools team serves up more than just ASP.NET…

They also serve up hot steamy breakfast. Here we see Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, Shanku Niyogi, Group Program Manager, B. Ashok, Development Manager, and Dmitry Robsman, Development Manager at a recent event where they served breakfast to the
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Saturday, April 24, 2004 8:42 PM

VS Powertoys expands

The VS Powertoys site now includes the information from their blog , so expect links to loads of great toys (like Fiddler and SlickRun ) TTFN - Kent
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Friday, April 23, 2004 4:43 PM

Interesting music search site

Cool search tool that lets you find musical groups similar to ones you search for - even creates a cute Flash view of the results. TTFN - Kent
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Friday, April 23, 2004 4:26 PM

Not an error 1096! Oh, no...

Someone pointed out the Events and Errors Message Center on TechNet. You can type in the value of the error message (either Source or ID#) and get a page describing it in more detail (for example, my error 1096 , no doubt caused by my latest experiment
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:47 PM

Time and Money: Save Both by Creating Powerful Custom Server Controls in ASP.NET

ASP.NET Webcast tomorrow (the 23rd) from 1:00PM to 2:30PM (Pacific time -8:00GMT). Join Russ Nemhauser on a discussion of building ASP.NET server controls: Creating truly reusable Server Controls can be a daunting task. Attend this webcast and learn when,
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:52 AM

I didn't know ADO.NET was so rude...

Is it just me, or does it look like this book is giving me the finger? TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:30 AM

Rating content

Obviously, we're not keeping Scott busy enough writing for MSDN (or I'm not processing his articles fast enough). Or perhaps he just wanted to post something on his own site . Either way, Scott has a great article on creating a Content Rating system similar
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 4:48 AM

A couple of pleasant VS tips

JimGries delights with “ Idiot's Guide to Creating and Using VS Macros ” and “ Breakpoint Groups “, two great articles on working with VS (including a little summtin' summtin' for us CLI folk) TTFN - Kent
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Monday, April 19, 2004 11:56 AM

Meet new friends! Get connected!

The new “ Visual Studio Team Biographies ” have gone live on the Visual Studio Developer Center . Meet the kind people who bring you Visual Studio .NET. TTFN - Kent
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Monday, April 19, 2004 8:37 AM

Be it resolved...

As I walked in today, bemoaning the fact that there is no convenient place to get a triple grande latte between my house and Building 16, it hit me (I think it was during “Eat Your Patatoes (Quiet Mix)” off of the Age of Mythology soundtrack
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Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:02 PM

When I see the future, I close my eyes

Well, in light of Laura's accomplishment , I decided to give it a bit of effort. 1009 to 729. Guess it needs more effort. :-( TTFN - Kent
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Sunday, April 18, 2004 3:56 PM

Your mileage will vary...

Chris mentions looking at SellsBrothers.com on Alexa . So, I had to look at a few sites... weblogs.asp.net (great site -- you should... oh, you've heard of it) Traffic Rank for asp.net: 2 , 8 1 5 ( 114) Speed: Fast (73% of sites are slower), Avg Load
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Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:48 PM

That's cool -- we need that

It's Saturday night -- what do losers like Kent do? Poke around, trying to learn PHP. I just came across something that is probably old news -- PEAR (the PHP Extension and Application Repository). It's an application, a database, and more. 5 minutes after
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Friday, April 16, 2004 3:20 PM

Stick this on your USB drive...

While it's not UT2004 , this game does have one advantage -- it's 96KB. When was the last time you could say that? They even had to lower the resolution of the screenshots of it on the home page, as they were actually larger than the game. Now you can
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 7:22 PM

MSDN seeking dev manager, apply within...

According to my great grandmanager, Sara : Incidently, MSDN is looking for a dev manager. We haven't posted a job description yet, but if you are interested and qualified , send me email (NOT a comment), and perhaps you'll be able to drop in yourself!
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Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:36 AM

Five ASP.NET controls I've been craving

Dino continues to amaze me with his knowledge, clarity, and writing. There's an excellent article by him over at CoDe magazine called Five ASP.NET Controls You Might Be Craving . TTFN - Kent
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Monday, April 12, 2004 8:44 PM

Got MSF?

Lorenzo sure does -- great list of resources: http://weblogs.asp.net/lbarbieri/articles/MSF_Resources.aspx TTFN - Kent
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Monday, April 12, 2004 8:41 PM

VB world tour

Those who know me know that my brain is written in QuickBasic (possibly QBasic), so I definitely have some affinity for Visual Basic (despite what some people have felt lately). So, I'd definitely be interested in the Visual Basic World Tour -- especially
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 5:58 PM

Duncan's doing my job again

Yes, I should have pointed this out a while back -- my excuse was I was on vacation when it actually launched. I suppose I should have pointed this out as well, but I was waiting until it ended up on the front page of the new VS2005 Dev Center. Fooey
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:17 PM

Interesting ASP.NET error handler

Plip writes about an interesting looking ErrorHandling class worthy of a test-drive. Looks like it could be a nice complement to Eli 's article on Rich Custom Error handling with ASP.NET . TTFN - Kent
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 9:13 PM

E GAD -- I've been shamed...

OK, Andrew has shamed me . I am one of the many that run as Admin. I will try, but I suspect it may be a short trial. If only Windows did installs etc. the way it's done on the Mac. There, you are presented with a 'Manager override' dialog, letting you
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Saturday, April 10, 2004 8:20 PM

ASP.NET Exposed (even more)

They've added a number of additional cities to the ASP.NET Roadshow , so you have yet another chance to see Scott or Rob in action. Upcoming cities include: D.C. 05/18/2004 Philadelphia 05/19/2004 Atlanta 04/26/2004 Cincinatti 05/12/2004 Phoenix 05/18/2004
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Friday, April 09, 2004 6:05 PM

Weapons o' the future now

In case you feel like reading about the weapons you'll likely be using in some new (soon) video game, here 's an interesting, and often frightening set of descriptions, videos and more about some nasty stuff. Special guest appearance by a now retro Pocket
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Friday, April 09, 2004 3:42 PM

Men of MSDN

This one is making the rounds internally today -- it's from the internal newsletter this week. Of course, there could only be one person in it. TTFN - Kent
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Monday, April 05, 2004 4:44 PM

Cthulhu slippers!

Oh, my GAAWD!!!!! For someone who read everything he could find written by H.P. Lovecraft, these are must haves! Check out the rest of the stuff as well. Now I have to figure out how to pay for these. Thank you Christa ! TTFN - Kent [Listening to: Beata
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Monday, April 05, 2004 2:28 PM

We all live in a (yellow) big tent

Brian will probably skewer me for this, but if you're developing in Delphi, here is a nice series of guides to developing ASP.NET apps with Delphi. TTFN - Kent [Listening to: I've been tired (The Pixies)] [ Working on #7 ]
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Friday, April 02, 2004 9:37 PM

PC Ez-Bake Oven

OK, I know it was an April Fool's joke, but I think I could really use one of these. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/2004.shtml And with a newer Pentium 4, or AMD Althlon, you probably wouldn't even need any additional power -- just cook it over
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Friday, April 02, 2004 9:33 PM

Fiddler, et al

Scott Watermasysk (and Dave Wanta ) point out a tool that should be in everyone's party chest -- Fiddler . While at first glance it looks similar to Simon Fell 's most excellent TCPTrace utility, it seems to add even more every time I click on something.
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