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For those of you who missed the last Visual Studio 2008 install-fest in our area last month, you missed a good time! Right before the holidays, on December 20th, the NYC .NET Developers group hosted a Visual Studio 2008 installfest. This was the biggest
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With all the hype going on around the recent release of Visual Studio 2008 & the area install-fests taking place, you might be wondering, "Just what exactly is new in there?" After getting home from the Central Jersey .NET user group last night where
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This month has been a blast so far as I've been on a whirlwind tour of area user groups supporting the VS 2008 Professional installfests . To thank loyal user group attendees, Microsoft has been giving them free licenses for Visual Studio 2008 Professional.
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The International Association of Software Architects New York Chapter Chapter Meetings Next Meeting: December 18, 2007, 6 PM. (We meet every 3 rd Tuesday of the month.) Location: The meeting will be held at Microsoft, 1290 Avenue of the Americas on the
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So you may have seen the news already elsewhere as I've been on a bit of a blogging break the past month, but it is true. My team here at Microsoft is hosting a series of Visual Studio 2008 "install-fests" at area user group meetings this month! Unless
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Just a reminder, if folks weren't aware already, there is an MSDN Event coming to the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ tomorrow afternoon. This is part of the series of developer events going on across the country hosted by Microsoft Across America. Here
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If you do any Silverlight development, you'll likely end up spending a good deal of time switching between Expression Blend and Visual Studio. Blend is the designer tool that lets you build the pretty XAML interfaces in a WYSIWYG mode. The UI in Blend
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I'm at ReMIX '07 Boston today. ReMIX is all about connecting web designers, developers, and business decision makers and showcasing topics and solutions that bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft perspectives, and emphasize the inclusive and participatory
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Via Glen ... In October we launch yet another series of fun and informative, and (hopefully) useful MSDN Events. We've recently had a change of topics, so when you go to register, ignore what you read there. :) These are our actual topics: What’s New
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First, the IronRuby bits hit on Monday. Now, the beta 2 bits are out for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 too. Coming next week, the release candidate of Silverlight 1.0. Get the rest of the story from Somasegar's blog . Get the juicy details
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Via The Server Side.NET ... The Hotmail team used Visual Studio Team System and it's testing capabilities during the recent rollout of the new version of Hotmail. The team just released a case study documenting how they used VSTS to ensure that the new
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Nick had another follow up this morning on the agile thread: Tools for Mort Nick has a more positive description of "Mort" then how I commonly hear him referred to as, but probably more accurate. Well worth the read.
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The discussion over whether Microsoft "gets" agile development in the Microsoft community has carried on the past couple of days, with some comments flowing over to Nick Malik's blog . Nick wrote a follow-up to both my post and Martin Fowler's post. Nick
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There's been a lot of talk going on in the Microsoft community ( here , here , here , and here ) lately about agile development and whether or not Microsoft "gets it". Some of this was triggered by a recent post from Martin Fowler on Ruby and Microsoft.
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There's a new site for newbies to go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ If you're new to programming and looking to learn how to build Web or Windows applications, check it out! And the best part I can tell about it so far is that
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