October 2007 - Posts

31 October 2007
C# Day Event in Waltham on November 13th

Michael de la Maza has run three very successful (and free!) C# Day events in Waltham since the summer. I'm glad to say he's ready to run another one on November 13th from 8:30 - 4:00 at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. C# Day is a great way to take Read More...

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Filed under: Events, Development, C#, Education

 

30 October 2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPCs Reissued

If you previously downloaded the Beta 2 VPC for Visual Studio 2008, the OS used for that instance has an expiration of November 1, 2007. (Note that this only affects the VPCs, not the setup packages, so if you installed VS2008 on your own OS partition, Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio

 

30 October 2007
Big Changes for the Acropolis Project

If you're been looking into the Acropolis project for building composite applications, take a look at this post by the Acropolis team. The short of it is that the project in its current form (as CTP's) will no longer be versioned (but will remain available.) Read More...

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Filed under: Patterns and Practices, WPF

 

21 October 2007
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events (October/November Edition)

Plenty of events and meetings for .NET developers are coming up soon in the northeast. User groups are back in full swing, southern Connecticut will have its first Code Camp, Russ Fustino 's Toolshed is sweeping across the area, and much more. Know of Read More...

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Filed under: New England, User Groups, Events, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island

 

18 October 2007
Code Camp 8 - Summary and Thank You

[From the "Better Late than Never Department"] It's been a very busy couple of weeks after Code Camp, with ReMIX and working on the home stretch of "Essential WCF" , but I didn't want to forget to post a summary for our fantastic New England Code Camp Read More...

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Filed under: New England, Events, Code Camp, Massachusetts

 

12 October 2007
Want Multiple Monitor Support in Visual Studio 10? Speak Up!

My friend and Team System coauthor Noah Coad has just posted a great article about the issues and opportunities around supporting multiple monitors with the version of Visual Studio after 2008. Noah's on the VS team and is asking for your feedback, so Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Studio

 

12 October 2007
SkyDrive Doubles to 1GB Free Space

If you read my blog, you've seen that I've recently been trying the beta of Windows Live SkyDrive internet-based storage service for hosting my session materials. Cool news - the 500MB free space has now doubled to 1GB. They've also added some other nice Read More...

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Filed under: Miscellany, Live

 

10 October 2007
Double Feature at Boston .NET User Group Tonight

I wanted to pass along late word that tonight's (10/10) Boston .NET User Group meeting will be packed with speakers. First they have the group's own Tony Pino (currently attending Harvard) to speak on interesting research he's doing on "The Social Web Read More...

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Filed under: User Groups, Events, CLR, Massachusetts

 

03 October 2007
Speaking on Enterprise Library at Beantown .NET UG on 10/4

I'll be in Boston tomorrow night (10/4), giving a talk about the Patterns & Practices group and Enterprise Library for the Beantown .NET User Group. If you're in the Boston area and are interested in learning about how Enterprise Library can help Read More...

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Filed under: User Groups, Events, .NET, Patterns and Practices, Boston

 

03 October 2007
.NET Framework Libraries - Source Code Coming!

Big news again from Scott Guthrie. We're announcing coming availability of the source code for the .NET Base Class Libraries! From Scott's post : "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download Read More...

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Filed under: Development, .NET