Thom Robbins .NET Weblog
A blog of the technical and only sometimes uneventful side of programming in .NET and life within Microsoft
WNY DNUG Meeting Announcement
We had a great turn out for our first meeting of 2006 and I'm hopeful the trend will continue. There...
Author: trobbins Date: 02/02/2006
Code Camp New Zealand
Awesome – just announced – Code Camp New Zealand! Book your calendars for April 22/23!
Author: trobbins Date: 01/31/2006
What is XAML?
One of my fellow DE’s the XAML Chick has started blogging. XAML is one of the most important...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/30/2006
Applications for Windows SharePoint Services.
Just noticed these new WSS applications Discussion Database This application for Windows SharePoint...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/30/2006
Club Pocket PC - Boston
The next Club Pocket PC - Boston meeting will be held Wednesday, February 15th starting at 6:30 PM...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/29/2006
Couple of days left
In case you haven’t heard we are launching another version of the Visual Studio 2005 Fast Tips...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/29/2006
dnrTV is worth checking out
Had a chance to check out Carl’s latest venture called dnrTV. Well worth the time and it is...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/26/2006
How to: Creating an Appointment with the Pocket Outlook Object Model
Question: Using Window Mobile 5 I understand that I can access the Outlook Object model using...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/23/2006
Creating an Appointment with the Pocket Outlook Object Model
Question: Using Window Mobile 5 I understand that I can access the Outlook Object model using...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/23/2006
Mini Code Camp - Security Edition
Saturday March 25, 2006 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Microsoft Waltham Office 201 Jones Road, 6th FloorWaltham,...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/23/2006
Enterprise Mobility Mini Code Camp
Saturday February 25, 2006 8:30 AM 5:00 PMMicrosoft Waltham Office 201 Jones Road, 6th FloorWaltham,...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/23/2006
MCT User Group
Date: February 23 at 6:00PM What: This is a user group meeting for MCTs and Speakers. Who: Open to...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/23/2006
How to: Dialing the Phone with Windows Mobile 5
Question: We are building an application that is targeting Windows Mobile 5. Part of the application...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/21/2006
Dialing the Phone with Windows Mobile 5
Question: We are building an application that is targeting Windows Mobile 5. Part of the application...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/21/2006
Additional Office Snippets
Just ran across some Office Snippets that have been posted. The sample IntelliSense code snippets...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/20/2006
Group shot
Via Steve In case you haven’t seen this. I had a chance to play with it some and it looks really...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/19/2006
Code Camp Oz
The folks in Australia are running their second Code Camp. In case you don’t know. Code Camp Oz was...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/19/2006
Want to win a Pocket PC?
Attend the Visual Studio 2005 Virtual Lab and submit an evaluation between now and June 30, 2006 and...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/18/2006
February Beantown .Net
Jason is doing his disassembly talk this month. Was a really cool talk when I saw it at the Code...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/18/2006
Announcing the Second Edition
I am happy to say that it is done and back from the printers. I received my copy of the Programming...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/16/2006
Looking at Web Services with Visual Studio 2005
The Web Services platforms represents the evolution of past distributed component technologies. They...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/15/2006
Office Tips and Tricks
Here is a new free event that is being sponsored by Boston University Corporate Education Center....
Author: trobbins Date: 01/14/2006
Code Camp Madrid
Code Camp Madrid How cool is this – Code Camp Madrid has some great video. Looks like they had a...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/14/2006
SharePoint User Group: Next Meeting - January 24, 2006
SharePoint User Group: Next Meeting - January 24, 2006 Managing SharePoint Deployments 5:45 - 6:00...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/14/2006
New Podcast
Carl has done it again by teaming up with Scott Hanselman to bring us the new HanselMinutes. I had...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/14/2006
CNY .NET Developer Group
Just a reminder that the next CNY .NET Developer Group meeting is Wednesday, January 11th at 6:00pm...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/07/2006
Are you an Office Developer?
We are pleased to announce a new Weekly Fast Tip subscription service to help you use Visual Studio...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/07/2006
SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (December 2005)
Nice set of samples for SQL Server 2005 here The samples download provides over 100 samples for SQL...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/06/2006
BizTalk User Group Meeting
Please join us for the next meeting of the New England Chapter of the BizTalk User Group: Meeting...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/05/2006
NH User Group
Meeting Announcement New Hampshire Dot Net User Group www.NHDN.COM January 5, 2006 The BU Corporate...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/05/2006
Getting the goods
Thanks to all that attended yesterday’s presentation on Assorted Goodies in the .NET Framework 2.0....
Author: trobbins Date: 01/05/2006
Retrieving the Domain Name and Host Name with VB.NET
Question: My Company is in the process of building an application that needs to retrieve the...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/04/2006
Announcing a New Blogger
My good friend and super SQL expert Raheel has started a blog about Business Intelligence for an end...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/03/2006
Playing with System.NET
The System.NET namespace provides a simple programming interface for many of the common networking...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/03/2006
Very Nice - Thanks!
I wanted to thank the folks at TechSmith for the great honor of being their ScreenCast of the Week!...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/03/2006
Free VB 2005 and ASP.NET Training
Time is starting to run out so make sure you get in on this! Via Brad McCabe Free VB 2005 and...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/02/2006
Looking at the Report Viewer Control
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 includes a report designer functionality and a new set of ReportViewer...
Author: trobbins Date: 01/02/2006
Overloaded WebMethods
Question: We are in the process of developing an application that will be used internally. We have...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/28/2005
Overloaded WebMethods
Question: We are in the process of developing an application that will be used internally. We have...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/28/2005
In the category of cool
This is just a really cool idea that has a lot of possibilities. Via Raj Use MSN Encarta as your...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/28/2005
Beantown .NET User Group Meeting
January Meeting Reminder Ben Day: Implement "Rights-Based", not "Role-Based" Security in .NetWhen:...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/27/2005
Building Speech-Enabled Applications with ASP.NET
My recent article from Code Magazine is up on Devx for building speech enabled applications....
Author: trobbins Date: 12/20/2005
Email Security
A great security web cast by Mike Nash Time: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/19/2005
Examining Master Pages
Over the years Web developers have struggled with a variety of techniques to try and create template...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/18/2005
Family pets
A couple of years ago my parents bought a boat for their weekend fun. My father just sent me a...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/16/2005
Web Service Security
Had an opportunity to read this today. It has some fantastic information around patterns to use for...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/14/2005
In the category of cool
I really like these guys! Orange County Choppers Now Ride on Microsoft Watch the video where OCC...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/14/2005
It’s almost here
Well it’s almost time for the Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 Launch in...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/13/2005
TFS Scalability
Brian announced some great new scalability number for Team Foundation Server. If you are looking at...
Author: trobbins Date: 12/11/2005