May 2008 - Posts

27 May 2008
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Released
Great news from the team that's working on bringing Model View Controller to ASP.NET - the Preview 3 release is now available, along with the source code on CodePlex . Scott Guthrie has the details on his blog . Some interesting new features and refinements Read More...
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27 May 2008
Tips from My Technical Presentations
My role involves spending a good deal of time with technical audiences. Recently, I've been getting reactions like this - "I enjoyed your presentation! I have an odd question - how did you zoom in like that?" or "How did you set those colors in Visual Read More...
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27 May 2008
Boston XNA Developer Group Wednesday
Just a reminder that the Boston XNA Developer Group will be having a meeting at its usual day/time (fourth Wednesday of the month), tomorrow, May 28th at 6:00 at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA. Michael Cummings will be presenting. The content level Read More...
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27 May 2008
Jim O'Neil Blogs!
If you’ve been to our Roadshow or some of the Heroes Happen Here events, you’ve had a chance to meet my new Northeast colleague, Jim O’Neil. Well, Jim has just entered the ranks of Microsoft bloggers and now you can find an additional Read More...
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20 May 2008
Northeast Roadshow Starts on Thursday
Bob, Jim, and I will be packing into the car tomorrow as we travel to our first stop of the May/June Northeast Roadshow ! Our destination is Burlington, VT where we'll enjoy the day speaking about: LINQ to SQL & LINQ to Entities Silverlight 2 Visual Read More...
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20 May 2008
VB Day on May 27th (Waltham, MA)
There are still a few more seats available for the VB.NET Day event coming up on May 27th in Waltham, MA, from 9:00 to 3:30. Following on the success of his C# Day series (both in person and in Second Life ), Michael de la Maza is offering a VB-focused Read More...
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12 May 2008
Three Events in Upstate New York This Week (5/13 - 5/15)
I'm getting ready to head out for a multi-event tour of upstate New York this week: Tuesday, May 13th - 6:30 - 9:00 Tech Valley .NET User Group - Albany, NY I'll be presenting on "Next-Generation UX Development with Silverlight and WPF" Wednesday, May Read More...
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09 May 2008
New Hampshire .NET UG Returns on May 15th!
As I mentioned in an earlier post , Pat Tormey has been hard at work revitalizing the New Hampshire .NET User Group. I'm happy to pass along word that the group has great new meeting location at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH and will be having Read More...
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08 May 2008
XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP Released
Been waiting to try your hand at creating XNA games for the Zune? Want to use Visual Studio 2008 (express, standard, or higher) as well? Check out the XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) ! The XNA Team Blog has the details: http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2008/05/07/announcing-xna-game-studio-3-0-community-technical-preview-ctp.aspx Read More...
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05 May 2008
Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator
Many people have been using Silverlight to create games for the web, but until now, you've had to be a programmer to do it. Just released on the Popfly site is alpha of the new Popfly Game Creator feature, which provides a great way to create and share Read More...
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02 May 2008
The Roadshow Rides Again! - May/June Edition
The Northeast Roadshow We're at it again! It's time to pack our laptops and gear to head out across the northeast for our fifth Roadshow! Only this time, you're getting three of us for the price of, well, zero - the events are free after all... Jim O'Neil, Read More...
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