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Friday, December 28, 2007 7:26 PM

Free Download: Power Tools for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Team has released a set of "Power Tools" for you downloading-pleasure and the best part, is they are free!  Here's what's in the Power Tool Set: Command line tool (TFPT.EXE) Team Explorer IDE menu
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:27 PM

FREE E-LEARNING: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

While catching up on 2 months worth of email & blogs I came across this free e-learning. If you go to the SQL Server 2008 - Learning Portal you will find a link to Collection 6187: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 which is a collection of the
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:52 PM

Virtual Earth Map Control now supports KML!!!

Databinding to KML has to be one of the top requested features I hear when I speak to people about VE. The good news is that I can now tell people YES when they ask about it!!! The VE team released a Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) update to Virtual Earth
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 8:04 AM

How to Videos: Robotics and .NET Fundamentals

Dan Waters released via his blog ( click here to see his blog and original link) a series of introductory How to Videos for students and enthusiast who want to learn how to program with Robotics Studio. Here's the index and descriptions of the videos:
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:38 PM

Get a Free Copy of Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System by Sam Guckenheimer

Offer good while supplies last, so don't dawdle. This is a great resource that explains the design philosophy behind VSTS. http://www.microsoft.com/click/usapo/usdev/meet-milestones/default.mspx The link to the book offer is at the end of the second paragraph.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:00 PM

Free Download: Microsoft Guide to Team Development with Team Foundation Server

Get it while it's hot and FREE!  The Microsoft Patterns and Practices Team has released a downloadable (PDF) book on how Microsoft recommends (suggest might be a better word) that organizations incrementally adopt Team Foundation Server.   
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:54 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - San Diego, CA - February 7, 2008

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in San Diego, CA on February 6, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference Title
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:18 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Los Angeles, CA - February 6, 2008

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Los Angeles, CA on February 6, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference Title
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:12 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Olympia, WA - January 17, 2008

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Olympia, WA on January 17, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference Title Microsoft
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:49 AM

How to: Creating Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2005/2008

Code Snippets was one of my favorite "new features" in Visual Studio 2005 and has continued to be in Visual Studio 2008.  If you've never used them, what they are (simple explanation) is a macro-capability built into the Visual Studio IDE. 
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Monday, December 17, 2007 11:51 PM

Microsoft Public Sector Developer Conference - Seattle, WA - January 16, 2008

On behalf of Microsoft, I invite you to the Public Sector Developer conference in Seattle, WA on January 16, 2008. Please read on for agenda and registration information ACTION REQUESTED: Please register today as space is limited!! Conference Title Microsoft
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Monday, December 17, 2007 7:02 PM

How to Videos: .NET Security Topics

The MSDN folks have been releasing short "How to" videos over the past few months.  Recently they've released a series of "How Do I" Security videos for Developers of .NET Solutions.  They are nice and short and you can learn
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Monday, December 17, 2007 12:35 PM

Webcast Schedule for January 2008

Register today for our upcoming webcasts! DATE TIME LOCATION TITLE AND REGISTRATION LINK PRESENTER S TARGET AUDIENCE January 4 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast What’s Up With CardSpace? Joel Reyes Developers January 11 , 2008 14:00 -15:30 EST Webcast Building
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Monday, December 17, 2007 12:51 AM

SLEEPLESS ROADSHOW – The Ultimate Office Dev Weekend

Beginning January 19 th , 2008 Deadline to Apply (Sleepless in DC, Atlanta): Friday December 28th th @ 11:59 PM Deadline to Apply (Sleepless in Dallas, LA, Silicon Valley, Chicago): Sunday Jan 6 th @11:59 PM Apply at www.infusion.com/sleepless ULTIMATE
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Sunday, December 16, 2007 8:03 PM

Free Download: Visual Source Safe 2005 Update for Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft has released an "update" to fix several issues ( see list here ), but more importantly it addresses some compatibility issues with Visual Studio 2008.  I found out this release on Richard Berg's blog ( Click here to see his blog).
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Friday, December 14, 2007 8:51 AM

Free utility: Building Mashups made easier with Popfly Explorer (Beta)

If you are into building Mashups with Microsoft Popfly, then you'll want to download this free utility.  It allows you to blend Popfly and Visual Studio together in some interesting ways. Here's the download link: Click here to download From the
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:48 AM

How To Videos: VB, C#, and C++ Visual Studio 2008 Videos for Beginners

If you are new to Visual Studio Development or want to switch from one language to another (i.e., VB.NET to C#, or C# to VB.NET), then I have some videos for you.   Visual C# Videos: Video How to: Create a C# Console Application Video How to: Create
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:34 AM

Live "How-to" Web Cast: Building Document Workflow in SharePoint with Visual Studio 2008 (Robert Shelton will be the presenter)

Presenter:   Robert Shelton, Microsoft Evangelist When: December 14th from 2:00-3:30 PM EST Registration Link: Click here to register Abstract: Join me for a 90 minutes demonstrated (i.e., Very few if any PowerPoint slides) on building Document Workflow's
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:56 PM

SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 SP1 Downloads

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for MOSS/SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0, as well as the Office Client (which I posted earlier today).  Here's an Overview of the Service Pack as well as a link to find out the issues that have been addressed in
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:55 PM

Office 2007 Client Service Pack 1 has released (download link enclosed)

I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has released the Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 for (free) download.  It will inevitably be downloaded to your machine automatically, if you have the automatic downloads options turned on, but if you
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Monday, December 10, 2007 8:45 AM

How to: SharePoint and Microsoft Popfly working together to bring the best of Web 2.0

OK, so I am not a big fan of the "Web 2.0" moniker myself, but in this case I feel comfortable using it, since in this post I am talking about something that that I think is truly innovative.  Microsoft Popfly is a web "mash-up"
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 7:57 AM

Free Training: Learn how to program Robots (Virtually) with Microsoft Robotics Studio & Visual Studio .NET

Robotics has always been an interest of mine, but I wasn't quite sure how to "get started."  Well, the Microsoft Robotics team has made available (for FREE ) a Training Course for Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio version 1.5. 
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Friday, December 07, 2007 8:31 AM

Free Utility: Web.Config Editor with a great UI

If you are like me, you hate hand editing HTML and XML!  But unfortunately, as a .NET Developer you often find yourself doing it, and if for no other reason, you have to do it for parts of the Web.Config and Application.Config files.   
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:55 PM

Presentation and Demonstration from the - Microsoft Robotics - Developer Dinner

For those of you who attended the Developer Dinners in Reston, VA, and Washington, DC, or if you just want to download the presentation and demonstration applications from this event, I have posted the content on my site (link below). You can download
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:09 AM

Free Download: Framework for building Parallel Processing .NET Applications for multi-core processors (CTP)

In today's world where the average machine has at least 2 Processor cores (Dual-Core) and the higher-end workstations are now releasing with 4 Processor cores (Quad-Core), we as .NET Developers have an opportunity to have our applications take advantage
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:02 AM

Introducing Microsoft "Volta": A new way to build Multi-tier Web Applications

Microsoft Live Labs has recently released the Volta Technology Preview.  Volta is a new toolset for declaratively (think XAML, WCF, Workflow) building Multi-tier Web Applications. Explanation from the Volta site: Today, we are announcing the Volta
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:36 PM

Webcast: What is New for Data Access in Visual Basic 9

Please join us this coming Friday when Mike Benkovich from MSDN will explore the exciting new Data Access features added to Visual Basic 9. When: Friday, December 7 th 2:00pm – 3:30pm EST Target: Public Sector Developers/Architects Event Description:
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:22 AM

How to: Visual Basic .NET LINQ Hands on lab for Visual Studio 2008 (FREE)

LINQ is one of the newest, and most exciting (IMHO), features in the .NET Framework 3.5 (Visual Studio 2008).  In short, it's a feature that allows you to treat Objects, SQL Data Sources, XML, etc. with the same Query Language (SQL-Like).  For
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:17 AM

Free Training: Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit

Microsoft recently released a freely downloadable training kit, with presentations, hands-on labs, and demonstrations, of pretty much every feature in Visual Studio 2008!  These are the types of resources that I use myself to get up to speed on some
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Monday, December 03, 2007 8:11 AM

How to: Build a Join (linked list) between two SharePoint Lists

I just found this really interesting about how to do something with SharePoint Lists that I didn't think that you could do, without writing some code, and that's to build a "linked list" with two SharePoint List.  Sometimes you get a requirement
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