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Registration is up, and I have my fingers crossed that my company will be able to send me this year. Here’s the sessions that look interesting to me: Silverlight 4 Bootcamp (John Papa) – This might not be the best use of my time as I feel like I’ve already learned the basics of SL development, but I would like to be able to see John go soup-to-nuts with the full SL stack. Prototyping rich silverlight 4 applications with sketchflow Using Microsoft Silverlight 4 to Create Dynamic SharePoint 2010 User...
It’s here… good bye Vista – won’t be missing you. Hello beauty
I just paved my machine with the new RTM of Windows 7 Ultimate. Below is my base image – now it’s time to back everything up to my home server.
Windows Live Mesh
I had to cut Mesh out of my life.... it was hogging too many system resources - especially disk reads. I...
I’ve been playing with Windows 7 Beta on a VM for quite some time and I really like it. I’ve been yearning for something new for a while now, and on a whim… I did it. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate Beta on my main machine. I think this is the first time I’ve committed to a beta OS. We’ll see how this guys, but I have a feeling it’s going to be just fine.
Here’s the software I’m running so far and it’s Win7 compatibility
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I decided to download and install Windows 7 Beta to start having a look at it. I’m hearing and reading very positive things. This post especially makes Windows 7 sound like it’s going to be something I’ll love. I’ve been longing for a power-user-friendly version of Windows for many years. I’m very much looking forward to it, but I’m certainly not ready to run it on any of my machines as a main OS. I created a new VPC image for it, and immediately ran into problems. This post describes exactly what the problem is There appears to...
Two product efforts at Microsoft have spun up this year and both are new implementations of very old ideas:
ASP.NET MVC Framework - Microsoft's upcoming implementation of a Model View Controller architecture for their web application platform. MVC has been around for a long time on other development platforms, but only recently has there been a push in the .NET community demanding for this.
ADO.NET Entity Framework - Microsoft's next rev of data access technology (ADO.NET) contains a lot of new ways to...
With the exception of the developer platform and tooling products, I've been thoroughly confused with Microsoft's product strategy for a couple of years now. They've been acquiring companies at a fair steady rate, but the acquisitions have seemed fairly random.
In March of 2005 Microsoft acquired Groove Networks. This is where Microsoft picked up Ray Ozzie - the braintrust of Groove. Ray is now Microsoft's CTO
Microsoft launched its Windows Live in November of 2005. It was prettier than MSN and very startup-y in it's branding, but I believe it quickly just got thought of as a re-skinning of MSN.
At roughly the...
Microsoft's developer division has been making a lot interesting moves lately. They're starting to finally listen to the strong thoughts and opinions coming out of the Java converts in the .NET community and realizing they know what they're talking about. As usual, they're not really innovating, but they're taking existing ideas and building some great tooling around those ideas and delivering them to the masses.
In the March release of MSDN Magazine they published Loosen Up which is a general overview of the benefits of IoC and DI. Just last week Microsoft Pattern's and Practices group released Unity...
At my day job, we're in the process of moving a sizable list of ASMX+WSE services to Fx3 and WCF (this is the first time I'm looking at WCF beyond playing with the sample). We're applying several lessons learned in the past and taking time to think through how we're implementing our service contracts. One of the great-great things about WCF is developers now define their contracts in code, and use tools to export the XSD Schema. namespace Brownsberger{ [ServiceContract()] public interface IProductService { [OperationContract] CreateProductResponse CreateProduct(CreateProductRequest request); } [MessageContract] public class CreateProductRequest { }; [MessageContract] public...
There are a lot of people out there having issues with this:
I did a number of things to get this working... some specific to Vista, and others not. I read several forum posts about tweaking WINS and NetBios settings on your NIC. I didn't have to do any of that. I'm not sure if all of these are required, here are my settings:
Turn off TCP/IPv6
Unblock Network Discovery in Windows Firewall
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Custom web controls (both server controls and user controls) in ASP.NET are powerful building blocks. The idea is obvious - reusable chunks of presentation-oriented software that can be used to assemble a user interface for a web app. I've seen fair amount of web application architectures and a variety of approaches to custom web controls. This might be a yawner for some, but I've seen this done poorly so many times... I'm working with an application right now that's jacked in this area. This is a subtle, yet very significant aspect of a web application's architecture. There are several ways to do this,...
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