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Monday, August 28, 2006 3:49 PM

Danger - UXB! TFS Release Candidate cannot be de-fused!

Who says you can't go back and do it over just right? My wife and I had a life many reincarnations ago BC (before cids) that included watching Perry Mason re-runs and, our favorite, Danger UXB! Danger UXB is pure BBC brilliance set in WWII London during
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Friday, August 25, 2006 9:53 AM

Windows Workflow as Business Logic (Workshop)- Part 2: Custom Activities (Objects)

(To save you some reading, here's the link to the file: www.federaldeveloper.com/workshops ), but please read on... Imagine, if you will, an application development environment where you can build an application without writing code; Assembling an application
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:22 PM

Microsoft Security Summit East 2006

Policy, Process, and Technology September 27-28, 2006 Washington DC On behalf of Microsoft Public Sector, we are pleased to invite you to the 11 th Microsoft Security Summit, “Policy, Process, and Technology ” on September 27 th and 28 th at the Washington
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:52 PM

Slide and code from today's webcast

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can download the zip file here . If you didn't attend today's webcast, there's nothing new in this download that I haven't posted before other than a reorganized slide deck. The demo code is no different than code
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:51 AM

New Font for Visual Studio 2005 (IDE) Developers

Ok, so it's not NEW per se, since it came out in May. I'm a little bit late on this bandwagon myself, so I wanted to mention it to those of you who have not downloaded this new font pack for the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. I've just started using it and I
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Monday, August 21, 2006 2:26 PM

.NET Naming Guidelines for Developers

A friend of mine, who I sent some sample code to, noticed that I wasn't following Microsoft Guidelines for variable/class/etc. naming. After spending sometime trying in vain to convince him that I was following a "new top secret" .NET 3.0 BETA naming
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Friday, August 18, 2006 6:31 PM

Intro to using Workflow as Business Logic (Workshop)

I've started a new set of workshop documents. This series is on one of the other great new .NET 3.0 Framework technologies: Windows Workflow Foundation. In Part 1 you will learn the basics of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and using Workflow to design
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Friday, August 18, 2006 1:33 PM

Free online .NET Training, get them while they're hot!

The Microsoft E-Learning web site is offering 4 free .NET courses. Course 2913: Creating Your First Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application Summary: This three-hour online course covers the entities that form the foundation of Web applications written
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:08 PM

Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1 - Available for Download Today!

Download Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1 and all of your troubles will be behind you. Well maybe that's too much to hope for in a Service Pack, but this one has fixes for "Stability Issues" and "Security Enhancements" as well as other goodies. Here's some
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:56 PM

Create MSDN style Documentation from your code with SandCastle (Free Download)

SandCastle produces MSDN style documentation of your code by reading your XML Comment Tags and other information (an upgrade to the features the old tool provided). Here's the overview from the download site and a link to download it. From Microsoft Downloads:
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:38 AM

24 Windows Workflow Screencasts

Mike Taulty, a .NET Developer Engineer based in the UK has released 24 mini-screencasts which you can find on the link below. They range from the basics (Hello World) to more advanced topics like working with Transactions. They are pretty small downloads
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Monday, August 14, 2006 11:56 AM

A Cool Way to Improve Your C# Skills

Yesterday we announced XNA Game Studio Express. While this may not have direct relevance to federal developers at work, it does provide a cool way to practice your C# skills at home. In a nutshell, XNA Game Studio Express is a tool based on Visual C#
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:06 PM

WCF Workshop Part 6 (Securing your Service Part 2 – Message Encryption)

In Part 6 of the series, I’ve added to the security choices by showing how to do Message-Level (aka., Encryption) between the Service and Client. Unlike Transport-Level Security (or SSL over HTTP) which is point-to-point, Message-Level Security provides
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