January 2008 - Posts
I tried to log in to my MSDN website, but I was welcomed by a completely different web site. Initially I thought it was just a paid ad on the main web page and it would change back after a few seconds. But it didn't. After a while, I discovered that I
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I have to admit that I am relatively new to facebook. Among many wonderful things I have really enjoyed using the social site, I encountered some challenges while working with the Groups application. First, I realized that it didn't let me change the
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We officially kicked off the Mid-Atlantic Influential Architects program yesterday at Microsoft Reston MTC. A total of 11 architects representing Microsoft partners and customers in the region attended the gathering. We were very fortunate that David
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Many thanks to those of you who attended my ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight session at the Visual Studio 2008 pre-launch event at Reston VA. If you are interested to get a copy of my presentation, you can download it from my skydrive site at live.com.
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You can find event launch and updated registration information at www.heroeshappenhere.com For information on products and technologies, visit links below. Windows Server 2008 : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx SQL Server 2008 :
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I thought I'd share what I just found with you, particularly if you are not very familiar with some Vista system functions. If you know how System Restore and Shadow Copies works behind the scenes, you can skip this blog. I noticed that my hard drive's
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Some of my colleagues have started what's called "Architect Point of View" blogging. Within each POV blog architectural views and thoughts on a selected subject are discussed and shared in a 10-15 minute screencast or video presentation. Check out some
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Monitoring and managing the health of .NET applications during their lifecycle is not a small task. Fortunately, AVIcode, a Microsoft partner based in Baltimore Maryland, provides a .NET Management Pack that extends the application monitoring capabilities
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While Silverlight and SharePoint integration is not an OOB experience for developers today, there is a tremendous interest from business to add the rich interactive application experience to users. To use Silverlight in a SharePoint environment, developers
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Want to get a tour of Visual Studio 2008 benefits before the Launch? Join us at a city near you! Agenda: z Welcome & Registration z Strategic Overview of Microsoft Application Platform – David Chappell An application platform includes technologies
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Conference highlights: Special keynote address by Bill Gates , Microsoft Chairman Kurt DelBene , CVP, Office Business Platform Group Rajesh Jha , CVP, Office Live Richard McAniff , CVP for Microsoft Office Gurdeep Singh Pall , CVP, Unified Communications
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Detail at http://visitmix.com/2008/default.aspx MIX is an intimate conversation between developers, designers and business professionals to explore: High-fidelity commerce, content, media, services and security How new technologies can help find, retain
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Read Brian Keller 's blog about how you can use Free Download Manager to download the VPCs. There are 2 versions of the VPC available: · The first VPC is what we call the “all-up” image: Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Explorer 2008, Team Suite 2008,
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Many of us, including myself, have learned a lesson of how costly it can be to have a broken computer hard drive without an updated backup, not to mention the hassle we have to go through during the process of recovering lost files and rebuilding a new
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Happy New Year! It's good to be back to the office from a holiday vacation. I have received questions regarding the .NET framework 3.5, how it is different from previous versions, can applications based on .NET 3.5 co-exist with applications based on
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