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Friday, July 30, 2004 1:47 PM

"We don't want to be a megaphone"

Words of wisdom from the guy sitting next to me (not nekkid this time) at an offsite. I want/need feedback on the ASP.NET Developer Center . I've asked in the past, and have gotten great feedback. Please do continue to comment here, or e-mail me. In addition,
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Friday, July 30, 2004 11:21 AM

.NET Book Reviews

New on the .NET Book Club (no Oprah involved) is a book review system . A little light right now, but it only launched today. Contribute... TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:42 PM

ASP.NET Webcast week

We'll be having another ASP.NET Webcast week coming Oct 18-29 (OK, that's two weeks, but ASP.NET Webcast Fortnight just doesn't work in some countries -- like the US). What topics would you like to hear about? How much ASP.NET 2.0 content versus 1.1 content
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Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:25 PM

The End is nigh!!!

Dogs are dancing with cats! Boiling frogs are falling from the sky! English is being spelled phonetically! Duncan wrote a web article! Make your peace now, it's only a matter of time... TTFN - Kent PS: I'm sorry if this posting has offended anyone, it
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:39 AM

How can we be more?

Christine and I have been trying to brainstorm new features for the ASP.NET Developer Center . So, I've decided to do two things: Ask all of you for new 'things' you'd like to see on the ASP.NET Developer Center (besides articles, that's assumed -- but
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:12 AM

Round, round, get a round (box)

Scott continues to add to his list o' useful doodads . He's now written a 'rounded corners' control. As you all know, rounded corners are the 'new black' for websites . TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:11 AM

Office 2003 Service Pack available

As reported elsewhere, Office 2003 Service Pack 1 is now available . Don't wait, download, reboot, enjoy. TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:13 AM

Attack of the mini-meme

meme : /meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. More colloquilally: a way to store/share a moment
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Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:47 PM

Getting started, again

Just uploaded the updated version of the Getting Started section of the ASP.NET Developer Center . This is the result of *a lot* of feedback, mostly internal, about the 'old' Getting Started page (I'll leave that one up for a while, as I hate breaking
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Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:19 PM

Holy Covenant, Master Chief indeed!

For those of us who don't feel up to writing something with the Express editions to win an XBox and Halo 2, Mike Schinkel has informed me that Xtras.net and ComponentOne have an even sweeter deal. Download any ComponentOne program from Xtras.net, and
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Thursday, July 22, 2004 4:30 PM

What's the difference between an Express, Professional and Team?

While it certainly hasn't been finalized, you can see a good overview of what features should be in each of the various editions of Visual Studio 2005 here . TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:32 AM

Creating ASP.NET 2.0 custom controls

The latest from Infusion Development now live (too early for clever -- or cleaver -- banter): Creating Custom Web Controls with ASP.NET 2.0 Summary: The new adaptive rendering model in ASP.NET 2.0 provides a number of new options for control writers.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 2:44 PM

Migration: it's not just for geese

Two more articles from Infusion Development have just gone live. Get them while they're fresh. Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET 2.0 Migrating from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0 TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:34 AM

How I spent my summer vacation

No one asked, but I decided to share a few photos with you about my summer vacation. Many of these are courtesy (and artfully Photoshopped) by my bestest and host, Graeme Spafford. The “penis“ bridge - aka Esplanade Riel. New footbridge across
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:14 AM

ASP.NET articles from Aug 2004 MSDN mag

Stephen “Peacock” Toub lets us all know that the articles from the August 2004 issue of MSDN magazine are now live: Dino Esposito on the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control Jason Masterman and Ted Pattison on using SharePoint and ASP.NET together
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Monday, July 19, 2004 11:31 AM

Hunting grounds

In my ongoing attempt to fix my “work/life” balance [1], I decided to start playing City of Heroes [2]. Like many MMORPGs (non-RPG geeks: stay tuned, there will be a code reference later) there are 'hunting grounds' in CoH. Hunting grounds
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 5:22 PM

best wishes

Good luck, and have fun Scott, in your new job . The skill set (and resume) at Telligent Systems continues to grow and amaze. TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:33 PM

Extending Visual Studio with the VSIP SDK

A new MSDN TV is live: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20040715VSTUDIOKH/manifest.xml Examples of Visual Studio Extensibility Ken Hardy demonstrates the extensibility of Visual Studio ranging from the quick and easy ability
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:24 PM

All security, all the time

The latest ASP.NET Support Voice column is now online . In it, Jeremy lists all of the common ASP.NET security related knowledge base articles. Definitely worth keeping handy. TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:55 AM

Articles published while I was out

Just cleaning my Inbox, and I see that a few articles were published on the ASP.NET Developer Center while I was out: Derek Hatchard sends us his thoughts on More and Less: How ASP.NET 2.0 Features Compare Against the Starter Kit Reference Applications
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:33 AM

Vacation tax

One thing I dreaded while I was on vacation (and "being good" — not reading my office e-mail. Much.) was the size of my mailbox upon returning to the office. So, how big did it get? Folder Messages Comments Inbox 547 Only items specifically to,
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 5:38 PM

Highways and MSDN

After spending six of the last 13 days as a passenger in a hot car traversing the country (and the neighbouring country to the North), I'm home. I spent a lot of those 2400 km thinking about highways, strangely enough. Do the people that build and maintain
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