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Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:43 AM

Composite UI Block Hands On Labs Available

The Microsoft patterns & practices Smart Client Team has released the December 2005 release of the Composite UI Application Block (CAB) Hands on Labs (HOL). You can get the labs here . If you aren not familiar with the CAB, here is a description from
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:26 PM

Visual Studio 2005 - Update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard

An update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard found in the final release of Visual Studio 2005 (all versions) and Visual Web Developer 2005 is now available.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:53 PM

SQL Server 2005 System Views Poster

Looking for this poster? Download the new SQL Server 2005 System Views Poster in PDF format from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/d/f/0dfe488e-a335-4480-8a8a-b405e32f4368/SQL2005_Sys_Views.pdf --Darryl
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:05 AM

ASP.NET "Atlas" December CTP is out

I was doing my periodic "blog catch up" this morning and came across a few announcements about the latest drop of ASP.NET "Atlas." There's been quite a bit of rework, but I'll let you go to the source ( Brian , Nikhil , and Scott ) for all the details.
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:28 PM

WinFX December CTP

The latest WinFX CTP is available for download. What's the coolest part of this CTP? Well, have you been using the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and saying to yourself "This XAML stuff is pretty neat, but do I really have to build my UI by writing
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:08 AM

ASP.NET for designers

Are you a web designer or a developer interested in design? Well there's an ASP.NET section on MSDN just for you. The ASP.NET for Designers section is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/design/default.aspx . There's a nice set of design templates
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:38 AM

Haven't heard of MIX 06 yet?

A few folks have already blogged about it, but in case you haven't heard... MIX '06 is a conference focused on web developers and designers. The conference will be in Vegas from March 20-22. You can find out more about MIX 06 at http://www.mix06.com/
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:47 AM

Mission critical apps -- a new meaning care of Don and Chris

In the latest edition of MSDN TV, Don Box and Chris Anderson give new meaning to building mission critical apps :-). In this episode, "Special Holiday Episode III: Connecting People, Programs and Devices Using WinFX" they have fun geeking out with WinFX
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:36 PM

Free Visual Studio e-learning

We've launched some free e-learning that focuses on 'Upgrading from VB6' and 'ASP.NET 2.0'. There's a short window on this...the code will in fact expire on Jan 5th, 2006. You can find more details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/learning/elearning_promo/
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Monday, December 19, 2005 2:31 PM

It claims to be fully automatic, but actually, you have to push this little button here. Gentleman Jim Killian (with apologies to David Pallman and the Indigo team)

I’ve always claimed, in my patented homespun kind of way, that most computer users adhere to the “all I want to do is push a button” model of complexity management for software application development - which is to say that complexity is dismissed as
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Friday, December 16, 2005 4:38 PM

Security Summit East 2005 slides posted

Thank you to everyone who attended Security Summit East 2005. We hope you found it valuable. The slides are available over on www.federaldeveloper.com in the "Presentation Downloads" document library. Here's a direct link . -Marc
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:50 PM

Visual Studio Team System - try it via online labs

Visual Studio Team System Visual Studio Team System integrates process guidance, prescriptive architectures, and life-cycle tools for successfully deploying solutions on the Windows platform. Team System includes proven process guidance, prescriptive
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:12 PM

Windows awarded Common Criteria EAL 4 certification

We're excited to announce that a wide range of Microsoft Windows Platform Products have been awarded Common Criteria EAL 4 certification. See the article with full details here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/dec05/12-14CommonCriteriaPR.mspx
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:36 PM

Migrate those VB6 applications!

Here 's the guide. Overview This guide is intended for software technical decision makers, solution architects, and software developers who are involved in Visual Basic 6.0 application or component development. It helps you understand the issues and risks
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:50 PM

Atlas & Accessibility

Vishwas Lele presented an "Overview of AJAX programming methods with ASP.NET 2.0" at our last Developer Dinner. During the presentation, Vishwas talked about our upcoming Atlas technology. During the Q&A session, someone asked what the Atlas team
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:40 PM

64-bit programming

We've been seeing an increased demand for info on 64-bit programming. This site has a bunch of links to related 64-bit content (articles, SDK, multimedia) Intro to Developing Apps for the 64-bit Itanium based version of Windows Windows Data Alignment
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:34 PM

Converting Web Projects from VS02/03 to Visual Studio 2005

This is definitely a FAQ that the team fields questions on all the time -- take a look at this step-by-step article on converting Web Projects from Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 to Visual Studio 2005 --Darryl
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:28 PM

CSS Properties Windows Add-in for Visual Studio 2005

This nifty new tool will give you the ability with Visual Studio 2005 to edit the styles that are inherited from a linked style sheet. Sandbox here: http://www.asp.net/sandbox/app_sandman.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1 Download here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/B/68B66E20-FAAF-4F5A-AFF4-542FBBCD1530/CSSProperties.msi
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:13 AM

SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack

The feature pack for SQL Server 2005 is available for download here . The feature pack is a collection of useful SQL Server 2005 components. Some of them are the redistributable portions of SQL Server 2005 (for example, you can download SQLCMD so that
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:16 AM

Web Services Security

Folks, a very detailed guide to Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0. Pick it up here : - Keith
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Monday, December 12, 2005 1:47 PM

Have a question? Get an answer at MSDN Forums!

If you need answers to technical questions and can't find what your looking for in the help system of VS, then http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ is for you. Use the forums to search for answers to your questions. If you can't find an answer, then just
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Friday, December 09, 2005 3:16 PM

Create an RSS Add-in for Outlook using VSTO

Looking for a free add-in for outlook that allows you to read all your favorite feeds using Outlook? Check David Hill's article on Creating an Outlook My.Blogs Managed Code Add-in . You'll get more than just an add-in. You'll learn how to: Build an add-in
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:02 PM

SQL 2005 Samples & Books On Line Updates

Euan Garden just announced the release of updates to BOL and samples for SQL Server 2005. Get all the details here . -Marc
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:39 PM

Composite UI Block has Released

Edward Jezierski just announced on his blog that the Composite UI Application Block has released. I've blogged about the CAB before so I won't go into detail about what it is, but if you're building Smart Client applications, you definitely want to check
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:21 PM

Visual Studio 6.0 removed from MSDN download on 12/16/2005

Please note that Visual Studio 6.0, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and all other products containing MSJVM will be withdrawn from availability on MSDN Subscriber Downloads beginning December 16, 2005. MSDN subscribers interested in this content and eligible
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 8:41 PM

Incorrect expiration of MSDN Subscriptions

Over the past few weeks a number of Federal District MSDN subscribers have received an incorrect expiration of enrollment message when attempting to log into the MSDN Subscriber area. This problem has been repaired. If you have recently experienced this
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:47 PM

Accessibility, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET 2.0

Good article and acknowledgement of the great progress the Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 teams have made -- article by Bloor Research at http://www.it-analysis.com/content.php?articleid=13021&SESSID=5a4a9db278283d56041e6e482fef70f7 --Darryl
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Monday, December 05, 2005 11:34 AM

Visual Studio Team System TechNotes - new on MSDN

Visual Studio 2005 Team System TechNotes ( link ) We are happy to announce a new area on our MSDN site devoted to technical notes on Visual Studio Team System. TechNotes are a new and exciting channel for publishing technical information to our customers
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Friday, December 02, 2005 4:34 PM

Newport News WeProgram.NET User Group

Since I know there are a good few of our readers in the Tidewater area: Via Andrew -- The next WeProgram.NET User Group meeting in Newport News, VA is next Tuesday and will be on ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Integration --Darryl
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