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Improv at the Greenville, SC User Group
My month of travel in May continues. This week I'm down in Charlotte, NC attending an advanced .NET...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/16/2007
Rocket Dock and Switcher: Two Cool Add-Ons for Windows
Okay okay... so for all those Windows users with Mac jealousy, now you can have the fancy icon bar...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/16/2007
VS Express Beginner Developer Content
There's a new site for newbies to go to: https://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/beginner/ If...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/16/2007
Philadelphia Code Camp This Weekend
Also this weekend in Pennsylvania is Philly Code Camp 2007.1. If you registered already, don't...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/15/2007
TechBash 2007 This Weekend in Nanticoke, Pa
Just a reminder, TechBash 2007 is set for this Saturday up in Nanticoke, Pa. Nanticoke is at the...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/15/2007
arcDevBrainPick Tomorrow Morning May 11th
Tomorrow morning, I'll be back in Jersey, when it's time for another arcDevBrainPick. That's your...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/10/2007
Exclusive Photo of the new Microsoft oPhone!
Oh my! While walking the expo floor at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, I actually spotted a...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/10/2007
Microsoft Announces the OPhone
Forget the Zune phone. Check out the OPhone that Microsoft announced at Mix 07 last week. I missed...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/09/2007
.NET 1.1 or 2.0 to .NET 3.0 Migration
A while back, I wrote about migrating from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0. I wrote that post almost a year...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/02/2007
Microsoft Shares Lessons Learned from the Animated Cursor Security Bug
Last month, a critical security bug was found in most versions of Windows. This bug generated a lot...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/02/2007
John Lam Talks About the Dynamic Language Runtime with John Udell
Last week Mary Jo Foley hinted at it. (She must have good sources!) Now the news is out about the...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/01/2007
Mix 07 Keynote Demos
Three great demos yesterday at the Mix 07 keynote that show off what folks are doing with...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/01/2007
ADO.NET Team Announces Project "Astoria" at Mix 07
Well, this one snuck up on me. I hadn't heard about this project before Mix, unlike the Silverlight...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 05/01/2007
Live @Mix 07 Update 2
Scott Guthrie is up on stage giving the details of Silverlight. I'm not going to type this stuff up...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/30/2007
Live @Mix 07 Keynote
9:25am Pacific - I'm sitting in the keynote room at Mix this morning. This is definitely a different...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/30/2007
Mix 07 Next Week
Mix '07 starts next week on Monday out in Las Vegas, NV. Last week we learned that Silverlight is...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/27/2007
Paste Code into your Blog
Via Andy... If you thought it was hard to get nicely formatted code from your favorite IDE into your...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/27/2007
New Delaware .NET User Group Forming
That's right, if you live on the Delmarva peninsula, there's a new .NET user group forming where you...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/27/2007
Swagman Schwam Says Philly Code Camp Sold Out!
How can something sell out if it's free?! According to Andy Schwam, registration for the upcoming...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/26/2007
Visual Studio Team System Guidance
Via Dave Bost, via J.D. Meier... It's been about a year and a half now since Microsoft released...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/24/2007
Visual Studio Extensibility and Plug-ins Webcasts
As a developer, you likely spend a lot of time in the IDE of your choice. For Microsoft developers,...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/23/2007
Philly Code Camp 2007.1 Registration is Now Open
Saturday, May 19th is the first of three code camps planned for the Philadelphia area. Since there...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/23/2007
.NET? What is that?
This is not a question I hear often from folks who develop on the Microsoft platform. (.NET is often...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/19/2007
Tragedy at Virginia Tech
I received the dreadful news coming out of my alma mater via text messages at a conference in Tampa...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/17/2007
WPF/E is now Microsoft Silverlight
Well, the cat is out of the bag! "WPF/E" now has a real name: Microsoft Silverlight. There's a lot...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/16/2007
Live Maps Collections Feature Screencast
Last week, I lamented the fact that Virtual Earth has been virtually ignored and provided some...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/16/2007
arcDevBrainPick Tomorrow Morning at 10am Eastern
Well, we took the month of March off, but tomorrow morning is the April arcDevBrainPick....
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/12/2007
Philly.NET Code Camp Call For Speakers Now Open
The next Philly.NET Code Camp is soon approaching. Code Camp will be on Saturday, May 19th at the...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/11/2007
How to Write a Good .NET Article
After the NYC Code Camp last month, a bunch of the speakers went out for a couple of drinks and...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/10/2007
TechBash 2007 Coming to Northeast Pennsylvania May 19th
The .NET Valley user group is hosting TechBash 2007 in Nanticoke, Pa on May 19th. TechBash promises...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/10/2007
Enterprise Library 3.0 is Here!
EntLib 3.0 just dropped. Go get the bits here. For more details, see Tom Hollander's most excellent...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/09/2007
Maryland, Northern Virginia, Central Virginia, and Pittsburgh Code Camps
April must be code camp month in the Mid-Atlantic states! If anyone from the NY/NJ/Eastern PA areas...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/05/2007
Vista Update for Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Available
I must have missed the final announcement on this one last month? If you're running Visual Studio...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/04/2007
Expression Web + Expression Blend + MSDN Premium = So Happy Together!
Last year, Microsoft announced their new Expression suite of designer tools. Included in the suite...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/03/2007
Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference - April 25-26 in NYC
The 5th annual FinServ Dev Con is coming up in NYC later this month. It will be at the Grand Hyatt...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/03/2007
Cool Vista Mashup Applications
Via Scoble... Check out these cool mashup applications from Thirteen23 that take advantage of the...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/03/2007
Steve Jobs is the MAN!
Now I can finally stop buying CDs! Enough said. [Update 04-03-2007:] Okay... the Steve Jobs reality...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/02/2007
Unwrapped for Financial Services Webcast Series IV - This Week
Now in its fourth year, the Unwrapped for Financial Services Webcast Series is back for a week...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 04/02/2007
New Philly.NET Bloggers
I wanted to extend a warm welcome to a couple of folks from the Philadelphia area .NET community...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 03/30/2007
Philly.NET 'South Jersey Edition' Kick off a success!
By the time I made it down to Cherry Hill after getting a flat tire repaired on my car, it was 6:30...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 03/30/2007
Microsoft Technology Summit 2007 Re-cap
This week in Redmond, my team hosted a summit of approximately 50 tech buffs who don't normally use...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 03/29/2007
Microsoft at AJAX World East in NYC
Last week, I attended the AJAX World East conference in NYC. The show was hosted by Sys-Con...
Author: Peter Laudati Date: 03/26/2007