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Sunday, April 30, 2006 2:11 PM

Beantown.NET Meeting

When: Thursday May 4, 2006, 5:30 - 7:30pm Where: Adesso Systems, One Liberty Square , 7th Floor, Boston , MA http://www.adessosystems.com/ Talk Summary: "A Peek at C# 3.0: Lamba Expressions, Extension Methods, Query Expressions and Expression Trees" --
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Friday, April 28, 2006 8:42 AM

CNY .NET Developers Group

Just a reminder that the next CNY .NET Developer Group meeting is Wednesday, May 3rd at 6:00pm at New Horizons in East Syracuse ( 6711 Towpath Road ). Tom Kopcik of PTSI will present "Developing Mobile Applications with the .NET Compact Framework – A
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:32 PM

Announcing the WinfX Code Jam

Friday, May 26, 2006 8:30 AM - 12:15 PM Microsoft New England District Office: Waltham , MA 201 Jones Rd. , Sixth Floor Waltham Massachusetts 02451 United States WinFX is a brand name for a set of modern technologies, designed to be the next-generation
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:23 PM

Makes you think

So Duane is a security guy by trade. He spends his days working with Patrick . I never really noticed the similarity until Phil pointed it out to me.
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:20 AM

Screencasting with the Stars!

Recently Betsy asked me for some tips on screencasting for an article she was doing. The article just went live and includes a pretty impressive set of tips. A really great read if you are considering doing screencasts. The article is available here
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:26 PM

Learn the ABCs of Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Thanks to all that attended the session today at the Financial Developers Conference . Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly code-named "Indigo," is about to radically change the face of distributed programming for developers using the Microsoft®
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:26 PM

Development Scenarios in Enterprise Mobility

Thanks to all that attended the session today at the Financial Developers Conference . Session Description: Being productive in today’s business world certainly doesn’t mean being tied to an office or even a laptop. Many organizations that already have
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 9:27 AM

Code Camp 5 – PPT Template

Thanks to Mark for letting me know that I forgot to post a link to the speaker PPT template. You can find the template posted to here .
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Monday, April 24, 2006 11:29 PM

Building Smart Client Solutions with Visual Studio 2005

Thanks to all that attended the session today at the Financial Developers Conference . Session Description: This presentation starts by defining what a smart client is and delves into the implications and opportunities for Smart Clients application development.
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Monday, April 24, 2006 8:19 AM

Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile for Download

Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile is a unified communications client for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005. Communicator Mobile runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile software based devices. Check out the download here
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Monday, April 24, 2006 6:52 AM

Code Camp 5 Sessions Update

The sessions for Code Camp keep coming in. You can check them out here . Also there are still a few seats left for registration here . If you are interested in speaking please make sure that you submit you abstract using the form available here . We have
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Friday, April 21, 2006 10:01 PM

Code Camp 5 is coming

Don’t forget that Code Camp 5 is almost here! Check out the updated session list here . Once again it’s becoming a fantastic line up. The Call for Speakers is still open for those thinking of submitting but the clock is ticking!
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Friday, April 21, 2006 7:43 AM

SQL Server 2005 SP1 delivers database mirroring..

Via Steve http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp1.mspx Microsoft announces the availability of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Database Mirroring, SQL Server Management Studio Express, additional options for ISVs and normal feature fixes.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:05 PM

Own a Treo 700w?

If you haven’t seen this already, the Messaging and Security Feature pack for the Verizon Treo 700w is available. The install I just completed was pretty painless and well worth it! http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo700wupdater/verizon.html?creativeID=RFB|700w_update_msfp
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:35 PM

Source Code for the Built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Providers Now Available for Download

Via Scott In the category of cool! In case you haven’t seen it. Today MS released the source code the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers (basically
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Monday, April 17, 2006 10:05 AM

Mobiledevcaster Episode 5

After a far-too-long hiatus, we have finally gotten back o­n track with the Mobile Devcasters Show . Episode 5 is now available for download at the Mobile Devcasters web site – "In this episode, Thom and Don play a little "catch-up", discussing upcoming
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Monday, April 17, 2006 7:30 AM

Congratulations to the Dotnetslackers

Congratulations to the folks at Dotnetslackers for their recent site updates. They are doing some really cool stuff including integration with Community Credit !
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Sunday, April 16, 2006 9:08 PM

Introducing Microsoft Speech Server 2007 Beta

The next version of Speech Server will provide call centers and other enterprise organizations an innovative, integrated, and flexible platform on which to develop and deploy telephone-based automated self-service solutions built on open and industry
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Friday, April 14, 2006 8:06 AM

Windows Defender Beta 2

In case you haven’t seen it. Windows Defender Beta 2 has been posted here
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:15 PM

Server Management Report Samples

During the recent SQL Server Boot Camp several people had asked about creating management reports using SQL Server Reporting. Paul was nice enough to email me the link to the article. Server Management Report Samples The Server Management sample reports
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:42 AM

Augusta .NET Review

Thanks to all that attended the recent training that we did in Augusta Maine. As promised here are the decks that I used for download. Introduction to .NET What’s New with ASP 2.0
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:31 AM

So you want to hold a Code Camp?

I recently did a Webcast with Chris Pels on this very topic sponsored by Ineta . As requested we recorded and made the Live Meeting available here So you want to hold a Code Camp? Code Camps have enjoyed unprecedented success over the past two years as
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:23 PM

Great Free E-Learning

Ran across this today while looking for some SQL Server information. Looks like there is some free e-learning classes for SQL Server 2005 being offered. Free* Microsoft E-Learning The following e-learning courses are available for SQL Server 2005 : •
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Monday, April 10, 2006 10:48 PM

Boston University Boot camp

If you have been thinking about getting your certification for either Microsoft or Cisco take a look at some great discounts being offered by Boston University . Save on Boston University 's popular and effective CCNA, CCNP, MCSE, MCSA boot camps. For
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Monday, April 10, 2006 8:16 AM

Got Speech? Developing Applications using Microsoft Speech Server and .NET

Thanks to everyone that attended last week’s sessions on developing applications with Speech Server. As promised here are the session’s materials and samples for download. Other important URL’s from the day Speech Server Home Speech Server SDK Speech
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Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:53 PM

Microsoft Security Summits 2006

In case you haven’t seen the upcoming Security Summits they are a great forum. Security is a top priority for you and a top priority for Microsoft. Join us at the 2006 Security Summits to learn about key trends in the Security Industry, how to best prepare
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Sunday, April 09, 2006 1:44 PM

New England SharePoint User Group

Next Meeting - April 25, 2006: Building Business Applications on SharePoint Microsoft Waltham 201 Jones Road Waltham , Ma. 5:45 - 6:00 Registration 6:00 - 7:15 Topic: Building Business Applications on SharePoint Eric Baughman, Director of Training and
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Saturday, April 08, 2006 9:39 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider

Just published v1.0 of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider to Microsoft Downloads. This release was tested with the following products: Visual Studio .NET 2003 Visual C++ 6 SP6 Visual Visual Basic 6 SP6 Visual FoxPro 9 SP1 Microsoft
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Friday, April 07, 2006 9:58 PM

Creating a Windows Mobile 5.0 Line of Business Application Sample Code

Check out the code from the recent series of Creating a Windows Mobile 5.0 Line of Business Application Sample Code Web casts. Download the code
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Friday, April 07, 2006 9:56 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Hands-on Labs for Excel 2003

A very nice series of Excel hands on labs available for download from here . The labs included in this download provide hands-on practice with developing Microsoft Excel solutions using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. In these labs you will learn
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Friday, April 07, 2006 6:12 PM

InfoPath 2007 Webcast

Definitely worth attending! New Features in Office InfoPath 2007 Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (PST) Presenter: Gray Knowlton, SR. Product Manager - Office Description : This webcast presents an overview of the new features in Microsoft
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Friday, April 07, 2006 10:00 AM

Updated VB Book Available

Via Brad McCabe Early in the BETA period for Visual Studio 2005 we released a free online version of the MS Press book Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers . This book received great comments, but was written against BETA 1. We have
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Friday, April 07, 2006 9:18 AM

Richard Hale Shaw at Northeastern University

April 12, 2006, 6p.m. Northeastern University 110 WVH 440 Huntington Ave • Boston , MA 02115 http://acm.ccs.neu.edu/speakers2/richard-hale-shaw-the-evolution-of-the-.net-framework The Evolution of the .NET Framework What Microsoft learned from Errors
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Friday, April 07, 2006 9:11 AM

Setting up a Custom Membership Provider

After a review of the three general situations that would cause you to create you own custom membership provider Patrick walks you through the creation of a very primitive membership provider and see it in action. Also featured in this screencast available
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Friday, April 07, 2006 8:38 AM

Looking at the Permissions Calculator

Visual Studio 2005 has many new added security features to help you the developer create a secure applications with little effort. The permissions calculator coupled with the ability to emulate security zones found in code access security allow you to
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Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:50 PM

Vermont .NET User Group Meeting

Date Monday April 10th Time 6 - 8:30 pm Location Vermont Technical College , Williston Campus PLEASE RSVP@VTDOTNET.ORG - so we can order enough pizza and soda. more info at www.vtdotnet.org Meeting Topic Five Supposedly Scary things about .NET (for VB
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Monday, April 03, 2006 10:51 PM

Looking at the System.Security.AccessControl Namespace

System.Security.AccessControl is new to .Net 2.0. This wonderful namespace is the holy grail of namespaces when it comes to modifying Access Control Lists on objects. Are you tired of using that old p/invoke calls, tired of creating huge security holes
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Monday, April 03, 2006 5:58 PM

Got your Groove on?

New England Groove Usability Research Work with us to shape the future of Groove and Office. The Groove usability group is conducting product research in the New England region. The team is recruiting a mix of IT Administrators with experience deploying
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Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:00 AM

Atlanta – Security Matters

Looks like a great summit for those in the Atlanta area. Register Now At Security Matters: Microsoft Security Summits 2006 you'll learn about key trends for IT security. Attendance for these one-day conferences is FREE . At The Security Summits you'll...
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Saturday, April 01, 2006 8:49 AM

CNY .NET Developer Group

Just a reminder that the next CNY .NET Developer Group meeting is next Wednesday, April 5th 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
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