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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:06 PM

What’s outside your Conference Room?

Attending a meeting today in Waltham and had a chance to look out the conference room window. To my surprise what do I see hanging out? What’s outside you conference room?
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Monday, February 27, 2006 11:14 PM

Enterprise Mobility Code Camp Roundup

Thanks to all that attended the recent Enterprise Mobile Code Camp! It really turned into a great day besides the couple of inches of snow that we had. Thanks to Don for a fantastic set of sessions As promised here are the Decks from the day – Introduction
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Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:40 PM

Get a FREE Second Chance to Pass Your Microsoft Certification Exam

For a limited time, you can get a free second shot at any Microsoft IT Professional, Developer, or Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions) Certification exam. Just register for this offer before your first exam, and you'll get two chances
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Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:01 PM

Microsoft Skills Assessment Home

Ran across this and thought it looked pretty interesting. Seems like they have most of the products covered. By completing a Microsoft Skills Assessment, you will receive a Personalized Learning Plan to help you understand if you are ready to implement
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Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:45 PM

What’s new with Smart Clients

Thanks to all that attended last week’s session on Smart Clients. As promised I have posted the deck and sample. <<Download What’s New with Smart Client PowerPoint>> <<Download Code Samples Discussed>>
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Saturday, February 25, 2006 4:08 PM

Virtual Earth Madness

It’s almost here! Make sure you register! Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:30 AM -12:00 PM (EST) Register Now for in person event Microsoft Waltham Office 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 Can’t attend in person – Do the virtual session
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Friday, February 24, 2006 10:33 PM

Mobile Ink To-Do Starter Kit

This Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET Starter Kit is a complete Mobile PC and Tablet PC application. The starter kit contains a semi-transparent form for taking notes and keeps them synchronized through a Web Service. It also supports battery awareness
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Friday, February 24, 2006 4:42 PM

OWASP User Group

Wednesday March 1 – 6:30 Microsoft Waltham Office ( Waltham Weston Corporate Center, 201 Jones Rd. , Sixth Floor Waltham , MA ) More information at http://www.owasp.org/local/boston.html Two presentations this week Topic - A case-study of a Web Application
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:03 PM

Do you beta?

Looking to become part of the Vista beta and work with what is definitely going to be an awesome operating system. Check out Steve’s blog as he is interested in nominating you. <<Get nominated for the Vista Beta>>
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:20 PM

Windows Mobile Hands-On Labs

If you learn by doing, these step-by-step hands-on labs are great ways to learn about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Mobile. Each lab includes sample code and a step-by-step instruction manual that will guide you through
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:30 PM

Beantown.Net User Group Meeting

Phil Denoncourt: XML Serialization When: Thursday March 2, 2006, 5:30 – 7:30pm Where: Adesso Systems, One Liberty Square , 7th Floor, Boston , MA ( directions ) All are welcome, but please ( RSVP ) if you want free pizza! Talk Summary XML Serialization
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:01 PM

Looking at Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System brings significant enhancements to the development of business solutions that rely on solutions based on Office, Excel, InfoPath and Outlook 2003. Extending the previous versions,
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:56 PM

Beginning ASP.NET Development videos

If you are completely new to ASP.NET development, this page provides the learning materials necessary for you to begin Web development with ASP.NET. You’ll find the resources that will help you get your first Web application built quickly, and more. Well
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006 12:09 PM

Very cool Web Casts

Welcome to the Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series, sponsored by Microsoft, Dr. Dobb’s, and O’Reilly. Choose from 45 webcasts organized by track—JSP, PHP, and ColdFusion. Each track has been designed to take advantage of your existing Web development
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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:47 PM

Internet Explorer Browser Module Framework

Via Rich he has just posted the code to a managed framework for developing Internet Explorer Browser Modules on GotDotNet. It allows one to write Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) using C#. There have been several example on how to do this including on support.microsoft.com,
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Monday, February 20, 2006 11:03 AM

Reminder – MCT User Group

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 When 6:00 PM Price:
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Sunday, February 19, 2006 11:25 PM

Power Toys for Visual Studio

Via Sara Pretty cool tools – well worth checking out MSBee As mentioned in my previous post, MSBee is an addition to MSBuild that allows you to build managed apps in VS 2005 that target .NET 1.1. Download MSBuild Extras – Toolkit for .NET 1.1 “MSBee”
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Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:45 AM

Front Range Code Camp

Congratulations to the Denver community on the announcement of their first Code Camp. Front Range Code Camp Saturday May 20, 2006 More information available here
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Friday, February 17, 2006 11:03 PM

SMS SP 2 Is out

Via Steve – Finally FQDNs and multithreaded inventory processing... http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/2003/sp2.mspx What’s New • SMS Administrator Console Changes • Locate management points and distribution points by Fully Qualified Domain
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Friday, February 17, 2006 10:20 PM

Announcing the CTDOTNET Study Group:

Those guys in Connecticut have come on a great idea! I am pleased to announce the beginnings of something new and great for developers in CT, the CTDOTNET Study Group. CTDOTNET will be offering another great service to its members starting in Spring of
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Friday, February 17, 2006 9:00 PM

Mobile How To Hands On

If you learn by doing, these step-by-step hands-on labs are great ways to learn about Windows Mobile, Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, and SQL Mobile. Each lab includes sample code and a step-by-step instruction manual that will guide you through
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:19 AM

Defender Beta 2

Via Steve Grab Defender Beta 2 - highlights - x64 support, device driver installation protection, more below... Good stuff... http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
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Monday, February 13, 2006 2:38 PM

How To: Showing Notifications with Mobile 5

Question: My company is in the process of developing an Windows Mobile 5 mobile application. One of the things that we need to do for the application design is show notification. I have read that this can be done. However, I can’t seem to figure out how
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Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:20 PM

New Hampshire Dot Net User Group

This month – Introducing Windows Mobile 5.0 Joe Stagner Start getting ready for the next generation of Windows Mobile-based devices, Windows Mobile version 5.0's new tools, APIs, and technologies for both native and managed application developers. February
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Friday, February 10, 2006 7:06 PM

Code Camp 5: Code Frenzy!

Hold the date for Code Camp 5: Code Frenzy! On May 6/7 in the Microsoft Waltham office. More details including the call for speakers and registration coming soon.
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Friday, February 10, 2006 10:16 AM

Slide Decks

Thanks to all that attended the training yesterday! As promised here are the two PowerPoint decks that I used. Visual Studio Team System Overview What’s new with ASP 2.0
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Friday, February 10, 2006 10:00 AM

Virtual Earth Madness – Virtual Edition

Interested in attending Virtual Earth Madness in Boston but not in the area? Based on the feedback from many different areas we are looking to take this event virtual using Live Meeting and VOIP technology. If you would like to attend the virtual event
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:11 PM

DevConnections is coming!

Have you checked out this years DevConnections? April 2 – 5 Orlando , FL Register and more information here Looks like an awesome conference!
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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 6:30 PM

Pittsburgh Code Camp is coming

Will you be there! Register Now Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:00 4:00 PM University of Pittsburgh Department of Computer Science Sennott Square Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15260 This one day camp is to be hosted at the University of Pittsburgh , Computer Science
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Monday, February 06, 2006 3:09 PM

SPS User Group: Presence Enabling SharePoint with Microsoft Live Communication Server

This is one of the most asked questions that I receive around SPS: Topic: Presence Enabling SharePoint with Microsoft Live Communication Server Please join us at the New England SharePoint User Group meeting on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 . 5:45 - 6:00
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Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:36 PM

Looking at Themes and Skins

In this screencast available here we take a look at one of the new features of ASP 2.0 called Themes and Skins. A theme is a collection of property settings that allow a Web page to define a common look and for pages and controls. Themes are made up of
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Sunday, February 05, 2006 5:29 PM

App Verifier for WM 5

Just ran across the App Verifier that now supports Windows Mobile 5 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d275348a-d937-4d88-ae25-28702c78748d&displaylang=en If you aren’t familiar the Application Verifier tool assesses the stability
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Saturday, February 04, 2006 9:41 PM

Virtual Earth Madness

Virtual Earth Madness Register Now Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:30 AM -12:00 PM Microsoft Waltham Office 201 Jones Road , 6th Floor Waltham , Massachusetts 02451 Let’s have some fun! Virtual Earth is a new map and search system. It brings together a number
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Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:46 AM

Congratulations to the VSTA team

Congratulations to the VSTA team , the first public release of VSTA is now live and available to the world! KD’s Blog link http://blogs.msdn.com/vsta/archive/2006/02/03/524676.aspx Today we launched the first public release of Visual Studio 2005 Tools
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Friday, February 03, 2006 10:24 PM

Enterprise Resource Kit

Ran across this and its well worth the download for some great mobile resource links Download the Enterprise Resource Kit today! Do you need to find out how your business will benefit from a mobile solution? Download our Enterprise Resource Kit for all
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Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:57 PM

WNY DNUG Meeting Announcement

We had a great turn out for our first meeting of 2006 and I'm hopeful the trend will continue. There are some action items that I'll address in a future e-mail. Until then, I wanted to get the meeting announcement out to the group. Meeting Details Date:
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