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Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:57 AM

Code Camp New Zealand

Awesome – just announced – Code Camp New Zealand ! Book your calendars for April 22/23!
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Monday, January 30, 2006 10:14 PM

What is XAML?

One of my fellow DE’s the XAML Chick has started blogging. XAML is one of the most important technologies coming down and I would recommend keeping an eye on Ani’s blog for more information. In this initial post located here she starts looking at some
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Monday, January 30, 2006 8:11 PM

Applications for Windows SharePoint Services.

Just noticed these new WSS applications Discussion Database This application for Windows SharePoint Services allows team members to create, review and reply to discussion topics. Team members can send discussion items to other team members for review,
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:20 PM

Club Pocket PC - Boston

The next Club Pocket PC - Boston meeting will be held Wednesday, February 15th starting at 6:30 PM at the Microsoft offices in Waltham , MA ( 201 Jones Road , 6th Floor). The theme for this next meeting is Multimedia Madness! If you've wondered about
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:18 PM

Couple of days left

In case you haven’t heard we are launching another version of the Visual Studio 2005 Fast Tips targeted for the Office Developer and Visual Studio Tools for Office. One of the strongest pieces of feedback that we have heard is that people were interested
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Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:20 PM

CNY .NET User Group Meeting

The next CNY .NET Developer Group meeting is Wednesday, February 1st at 6:00pm at New Horizons in East Syracuse ( 6711 Towpath Road ). So we can get an estimate of how many attendees we will have, please RSVP by logging into www.cnydevelopers.net and
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:46 PM

dnrTV is worth checking out

Had a chance to check out Carl’s latest venture called dnrTV. Well worth the time and it is available here here . In this episode he talks to Venkat Subramaniam, author of .NET Gotchas, shows 5 different issues with .NET, and how to work around them.
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Monday, January 23, 2006 4:04 PM

How to: Creating an Appointment with the Pocket Outlook Object Model

Question: Using Window Mobile 5 I understand that I can access the Outlook Object model using managed code. One of the requirements for the application that we are writing is that we need to create appointments as part of the application. Do you have
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Monday, January 23, 2006 10:21 AM

Mini Code Camp - Security Edition

Saturday March 25, 2006 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Microsoft Waltham Office 201 Jones Road , 6th Floor Waltham , Massachusetts 02451 United States Register Now You know the drill- don't code buffer overflows, watch the SQL Injection, use a firewall, do the threat
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Monday, January 23, 2006 10:20 AM

Enterprise Mobility Mini Code Camp

Saturday February 25, 2006 8:30 AM 5:00 PM Microsoft Waltham Office 201 Jones Road , 6th Floor Waltham , Massachusetts 02451 United States Register Now With the release of the Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, the .NET Compact Framework 2.0, SQL Mobile
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Monday, January 23, 2006 8:11 AM

MCT User Group

Date: February 23 at 6:00PM What: This is a user group meeting for MCTs and Speakers. Who: Open to all current or former MCTs and Speakers. Where: Microsoft New England District: Waltham, MA http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/info/usaoffices/newengland/waltham.mspx
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Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:08 PM

How to: Dialing the Phone with Windows Mobile 5

Question: We are building an application that is targeting Windows Mobile 5. Part of the application requires that we dial the phone. I have heard it can be done but can’t seem to getting it working in my application. Any ideas? Answer: Sure, Windows
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Friday, January 20, 2006 10:38 PM

Additional Office Snippets

Just ran across some Office Snippets that have been posted. The sample IntelliSense code snippets for Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System contained in this download provide a jump start for implementation of common Microsoft Office
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:56 PM

Group shot

Via Steve In case you haven’t seen this. I had a chance to play with it some and it looks really interesting. http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/ Overview We are happy to introduce Microsoft Research Group Shot. MSR Group Shot helps you
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:42 PM

Code Camp Oz

The folks in Australia are running their second Code Camp. In case you don’t know. Code Camp Oz was the first official non US Code Camp. Those guys know how to throw a Code Camp! <<Check out the site>> It's time to get the speakers and presentations
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:22 PM

Want to win a Pocket PC?

Attend the Visual Studio 2005 Virtual Lab and submit an evaluation between now and June 30, 2006 and you could win a Pocket PC! Check it out here .
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:49 PM

February Beantown .Net

Jason is doing his disassembly talk this month. Was a really cool talk when I saw it at the Code Camp and it sounds like he has updated it some. Jason Haley: Practical Disassembling When: Thursday February 2, 2005, 5:30 – 7:30pm Where: Addesso Systems,
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Monday, January 16, 2006 5:31 PM

Announcing the Second Edition

I am happy to say that it is done and back from the printers. I received my copy of the Programming Microsoft InfoPath: a Developers Guide (Second Edition) . In the second edition I have updated to include the new features of found in SP 1.
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Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:03 PM

Looking at Web Services with Visual Studio 2005

The Web Services platforms represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies. They really were the result of developments and companies struggling with the various interoperability issues that were common with other technologies. Web
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:51 PM

Office Tips and Tricks

Here is a new free event that is being sponsored by Boston University Corporate Education Center . Please pass it on - Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks Wed., February 22, 2006 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. 1050 Winter Street, Suite
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:25 PM

Code Camp Madrid

Code Camp Madrid How cool is this – Code Camp Madrid has some great video. Looks like they had a great time! Check it out here . <<Code Camp Video>>
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:04 PM

SharePoint User Group: Next Meeting - January 24, 2006

SharePoint User Group: Next Meeting - January 24, 2006 Managing SharePoint Deployments 5:45 - 6:00 Registration 6:00 - 7:15 Topic: Managing SharePoint Deployments to Maximize Content Consistency and Findability Breanna Anderson, Founder and CTO — SchemaLogic
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Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:49 PM

New Podcast

Carl has done it again by teaming up with Scott Hanselman to bring us the new HanselMinutes . I had the opportunity to listen to it on my flight back last night. Definitely worth taking a listen!
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:49 PM

CNY .NET Developer Group

Just a reminder that the next CNY .NET Developer Group meeting is Wednesday, January 11th at 6:00pm at New Horizons in East Syracuse ( 6711 Towpath Road ). You don't want to miss Kate Gregory , a world-renowned .NET speaker! So we can get an estimate
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Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:35 PM

Are you an Office Developer?

We are pleased to announce a new Weekly Fast Tip subscription service to help you use Visual Studio 2005 for Office . When you subscribe (Starting February 1) you will receive a bi-weekly email that contains a short (5 - 8 minute) video link which will
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Friday, January 06, 2006 4:32 PM

SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (December 2005)

Nice set of samples for SQL Server 2005 here The samples download provides over 100 samples for SQL Server 2005, demonstrating the following components: Database Engine, including administration, data access, Full-Text Search, Common Language Runtime
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:21 PM

BizTalk User Group Meeting

Please join us for the next meeting of the New England Chapter of the BizTalk User Group: Meeting Agenda: Proven strategies for integrating unstructured data (such as Excel and pdf files) into BizTalk, presented by Itemfield. Tactics for using the Business
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:09 AM

NH User Group

Meeting Announcement New Hampshire Dot Net User Group www.NHDN.COM January 5, 2006 The BU Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro on the Third Thursday each month from 6 to 8:30 in the Auditorium Jan 19 - Declarative data sources: the real story (Presented
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:04 AM

Getting the goods

Thanks to all that attended yesterday’s presentation on Assorted Goodies in the .NET Framework 2.0. Lots of good stuff can be found in the System.NET, System.Data, and the System.IO namespaces. As promised the deck and slides can be downloaded from here
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:36 PM

Retrieving the Domain Name and Host Name with VB.NET

Question: My Company is in the process of building an application that needs to retrieve the machine’s domain name and host name for use within the application. I have been looking around and this seems to be a bit more complex than I had thought. Any
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:38 PM

Announcing a New Blogger

My good friend and super SQL expert Raheel has started a blog about Business Intelligence for an end to end solution. If you are looking for some great information about BI, then check it out here .
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:14 PM

Playing with System.NET

The System.NET namespace provides a simple programming interface for many of the common networking protocols. The WebRequest and WebResponse classes form the basis of what has become known as “pluggable protocols” This is .NET Framework 2.0 concept that
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:35 AM

Very Nice - Thanks!

I wanted to thank the folks at TechSmith for the great honor of being their ScreenCast of the Week ! They have a great product that we have been using for the Fast Tips program!
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Monday, January 02, 2006 3:45 PM

Free VB 2005 and ASP.NET Training

Time is starting to run out so make sure you get in on this! Via Brad McCabe Free VB 2005 and ASP.NET Training With the holiday’s coming lots of people have some extra time on their hands, with this in mind MSDN and Microsoft Learning got to together
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Monday, January 02, 2006 3:38 PM

Looking at the Report Viewer Control

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 includes a report designer functionality and a new set of ReportViewer controls that can be used to build and display reports within custom applications. Reports may contain tabular, aggregated, and even multidimensional data.
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