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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:41 PM

Adding items to the task list

Many times I like to make a note of things that I need to do later or things I haven’t completed yet inline with my code. Using Visual Studio 2005 you have the ability to change or add items that show up in the comments section of the task list. This
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:02 PM

Seattle and Snow

Cold and snow in Seattle? What is up with that? The view of my dashboard with the current time and temperature The view from car window of the white stuff on the side of the road Well it was only 29 degrees and at most only an inch of snow. Definitely
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Monday, November 27, 2006 9:41 PM

How To: Hosting a WCF Service in IIS

How To: Hosting a WCF Service in IIS In this article we looked at the basics of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and how it can be used to host a service within a Windows Form. In reality, many applications today already take advantage of IIS to
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Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:35 PM

How To: Building a WCF Service and consumer

How To: Building a WCF Service and consumer Do you see service everywhere? Alright I admit that may not be an original. However, with Windows Communication Foundation and the .NET Framework 3.0 you can.WCF is the unified programming model for building
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Sunday, November 26, 2006 2:55 PM

Auto Preview with Word 2007

A very cool feature that I ran across was the ability to auto preview with Word. Many times while I am working on a document I find that I want to change things like the font. The problem is that I don’t know what the output will look like in my document
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Saturday, November 25, 2006 2:19 PM

Beantown .NET User Group

The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting again on Thursday, 12/7/2006. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month Eric Tobia is presenting "Using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions". As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.
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Friday, November 24, 2006 1:27 PM

Zooming with Word 2007

Ever read a Word document and want to either zoom in or out on a particular area or see the whole document at once? Another cool Word feature I ran across was the zoom. There are two ways to get to the zoom feature In the bottom right hand corner of the
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Thursday, November 23, 2006 11:54 AM

Combined Out of Office

With Outlook 2003 I always had to remember to turn on two out of office indicators. One was the internal and the other was the external out of office tools. With Outlook 2007 these have finally been combined very nicely into a single interface found in
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:30 PM

Just Released: Web Service Software Factory

The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere to well
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006 3:56 PM

Split Screen Email

Every write a large email or edit a document that would be nice to see both the top and bottom at the same time. I ran across the capability to do split screen within Outlook 2007. Start with a basic email and split the screen by selecting the upper right
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:37 PM

Microsoft Skills Assessments for Individuals

Get a free 30-question skills assessment and learning plan to help identify and improve your areas of weakness. Whether your goal is to learn about new Microsoft products or to enhance your Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, IT or developer skills,
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 3:43 PM

Inerop Vendor Alliance

Via Jorgen Microsoft has announced the formation of the Interop Vendor Alliance - a global, cross-industry group of software and hardware vendors that will work together to identify opportunities for enhancing interoperability with Microsoft systems on
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:33 PM

The Panning Hand

A very cool feature that I just ran across within Outlook and Word is called the panning hand. Let’s say you are reading an email or a news feed in your inbox. If you want to scroll down you can use the scroll bars or turn on the panning hand. Once turned
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:42 AM

Built in Reports with SQL Server 2005

Question: I was talking with someone today and they were telling me about some of the new features of SQL Server 2005. They had mentioned that there was some built in reports that showed my server status. I just finished installing SQL Server 2005 and
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Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:34 AM

Ireland and Back

I had a great opportunity to travel to Ireland to attend some meetings. The hotel was a very nice older building setting in the Irish countryside. One thing that I discovered after my long flight, drive to the hotel, checking in was that the room seemed
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Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:47 AM

Clinic 5046: Inside Look at Building and Developing Solutions with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

Free for a limited time! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/5046.asp Description: In this 2-hour clinic you will learn about the rich capabilities that Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers to developers. The clinic will focus on Fundamentals
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Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:47 AM

Clinic 3370: Getting Started with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (Beta)

Free for a limited time! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/3370.asp Description: This online clinic provides a rich multimedia learning experience. In this clinic, you explore the design goals and features of Office SharePoint Server
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Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:46 AM

Clinic 3369: Getting Started with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 (Beta)

Free for a limited time! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/3369.asp This online clinic provides a rich multimedia learning experience. In this clinic, you explore the features and technologies new to Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services
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Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:45 AM

Clinic 5045: Inside Look at Developing with Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

Free for a limited time! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/elearning/course/5045.asp Description: In this 2-hour clinic you will learn about the rich capabilities that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 offers to developers. The clinic will focus on Architecture
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Friday, November 17, 2006 12:48 AM

Try out a Microsoft Virtual Lab Express

Virtual Lab Express is the fastest and easiest way to test drive Microsoft products and the Virtual Lab environment. These are 20-minute hands-on overviews of some of your favorite Microsoft products and developer tools. Try them out online now - no need
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Friday, November 17, 2006 12:45 AM

Showing Line Numbers with Visual Studio 2005

While presenting recently I was asked how I was able to line numbers in my code. I often find it a nice feature while doing demos to have line numbers turned on. I think it makes it easier to view the code. With Visual Studio 2005 this is actually very
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:04 PM

BizTalk User Group

This month’s BizTalk User Group will take place on Wednesday, November 29 from 5-7:30 PM: Meeting Agenda: We are excited to announce that the evening will begin with a presentation by Jerry Anderson called "Five Keys to Better BizTalk Development." Jerry
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:47 AM

Sysinternals Tools

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information and Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find
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Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:43 PM

New Jersey Code Camp

Via Peter Registration for the upcoming NJ Code Camp III is now open! NJ Code Camp III is just about a week away on Saturday November 18, 2006. Scott Watermasyk has been compiling a great list of speakers and sessions via his blog. Scott should be posting
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:26 PM

Tablet PC Wine List

Last week while attending the Connections conference in Las Vegas several of us decided to investigate the dinner night life. Because we were staying at Mandalay Bay we decided to try Aureole . A nice restaurant located right in the hotel. While ordering
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:32 AM

Virtual Earth Map Control SDK

This software development kit provides programming references and how-to topics for getting started with the map control for Virtual Earth™. You can use this control to build your own Web sites that use Virtual Earth maps. Download from here
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:31 AM

Windows SDK .NET Framework 3.0 Samples

The Windows SDK samples for .NET Framework 3.0 include samples for .NET Framework 2.0, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Cross Technology samples. These samples can be downloaded from her
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Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:30 AM

Windows Vista Readiness Hands on Lab

Check out this set of Hands on Lab designed to educate developers on known Microsoft Windows Vista application compatibility issues. This process will walk the developer through specifics, focusing on solutions that will enable customers running your
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:59 PM

The Microsoft Internet Explorer AddOn Contest Official Rules

Write an IE 7 addon and win a cool prize! The " Internet Explorer AddOn " Contest (the "Contest") is a skill contest in which participants are asked to create an extension program (AddOn) for the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Entries will
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:20 PM

Windows Mobile Webcasts

Windows Mobility Webcasts offers you a full range of pre-recorded instructor-led webcasts covering Window Mobile development topics and technologies like Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC/smartphone , Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the .NET Compact Framework
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:41 PM

Windows Mobile Virtual Labs

Windows Mobile is more than email. Windows Mobile lets you re-use your existing infrastructure, business logic and desktop code on a mobile device, to innovate and solve new business problems. By leveraging the familiar.NET programming language and Visual
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:37 PM

Connections Session

Thanks to everyone that attended the Connections session that we did hear yesterday in Las Vegas. In case you couldn’t attend the session materials for: Introduction to .NET 3.0 Welcome to the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, the new managed code programming
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:16 PM

The Floating Toolbar

In the category of nice feature… Within Office 2007 the floating toolbar so far is one of my favorite timesavers. How many times have you been typing and need to change the format of some text? Select your text and it appears.
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:58 AM

.NET Framework 3.0 Released

It’s finally released and available! Check out the installation instructions here . Congratulations to the entire team!
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Monday, November 06, 2006 3:44 PM

Check out the pilot program for downloadable hotfixes!

The goal of this pilot is to provide you with direct access to the most requested hotfixes that are produced for our developer tools. A hotfix is a single package that includes one or more files that is used to address a very specific customer problem
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Monday, November 06, 2006 9:59 AM

Code Camp Croatia

Congratulations to Croatia for organizing their first Code Camp! For those in the area plan on attending October 16, 2006. For more information check out here .
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Friday, November 03, 2006 1:37 AM

World’s Easiest Windows Communication Foundation Service

A great simple screencast by Charles that shows how to build a WCF service. Not sure about everyone but I really like the simple short examples to learn from. Check it out here .
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:48 AM

Starting a command line browser

Question: I have what may sound like a bit odd of a question that I am hoping you may be able to help with or point me in the right direction. There is a console application that is used in part of our application. It has been a fairly long time since
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