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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:34 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio Tips Book Helps Hurricane Katrina Survivors Rebuild Lives

The incomparable Sara Ford is coming out with a book collecting the best 251 tips of the day for Visual Studio. Sara’s tips of the day blog posts have taught me quite a bit. So I’m pleased to see that they are coming together in a book form – yes I’m
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Friday, July 25, 2008 5:43 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0

The Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 was originally created by Microsoft China to help meet the curriculum needs for teaching programming in that country. According to regulations/policies of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) almost
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:32 PM

Terrarium Is Back!

If you were around in the early days of the .NET Framework you may remember a game called Terrarium. I believe that Microsoft may even have had a version running at SIGCSE one year. Bil Simser who is bringing it back fresh and updated via a CodePlex shared
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Monday, June 23, 2008 6:38 AM

RampUp – Learn Microsoft Technology Online

I just found out about the RampUp program. Briefly this is a program that lets people sign up for and take online training on various Microsoft developer technology such as web development and Visual Studio. There are special tracks for Java developers
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:53 PM

Tips for Tech Talks and Demos

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/05/29/tips-for-tech-talks-and-demos.aspx'; One of the things I have been doing for years in the classroom and the lecture hall and conference rooms is giving technical talks and demos of creating
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:27 AM

Best Practices: Designing Mobile Applications

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/30/best-practices-designing-mobile-applications.aspx'; These days mobile devices are everywhere. One of the cool things about Windows Mobile devices (Smartphones and Pocket PCs among others) is
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:50 AM

DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use

OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The official press release is here BTW) So I'm kind of late to the party already. Channel 8 is going to be a key source
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Friday, February 01, 2008 4:29 AM

Visual Studio Learning Opportunities

I received some information about some new offerings from Microsoft learning last week and thought they would be worth sharing with others. If you are looking to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 now or in the near future these resources may help you jump
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:30 AM

A Stopwatch Object in .NET

Did you know that there was a Stopwatch object in .NET? Me either. Apparently it was added in the .NET Framework in version 2.0 and no one told me. Imagine that. Seriously though I have often had to add some code in various projects to understand how
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Friday, January 04, 2008 11:09 AM

Friday Interesting Links

I found a couple of short things I felt I should link to today. Martin Schray pointed me at an interesting post at the Visual Basic blog that I really should have linked to earlier. Amanda Silver wrote up about some "hidden gems" in Visual Basic 2008
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Friday, December 07, 2007 3:25 AM

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture

There is a problem, a technical problem, that I hear about from teachers from time to time. I've passed along a couple of solutions to it by email but it occurred to me that posting the issue and the possible solutions here might make it easier for people
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:29 AM

How Do I - Videos

I found out about a bunch of new videos that show how to do different things with different Microsoft development products. They all run between 10 and 15 minutes and focus on specific tasks. They are adding new videos every week so you may even want
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:39 PM

MSDN Flash - Newsletter for Students and Professionals

Hilary Pike (a friend and co-worker) edits a section of the MSDN flash newsletter designed for students interested in technology. The MSDN Student Flash covers various new technologies and resources for technologies that may be interesting to students.
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Friday, November 23, 2007 3:16 AM

Visual Studio Express 2008 is out

Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing this week and there is a lot of news about it around the Internet. Almost lost in the excitement (well geek excitement anyway) is that the newest versions of Visual Studio Express have also been released.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:51 AM

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A long long time ago in a place far far away I was an operating system developer. OK it wasn't a place far far away in that it was here in New Hampshire where I still live but for many of you that is a far far away place in some ways. This was almost
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