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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...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 10/12/2007
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...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 10/12/2007
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...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 10/10/2007
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...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 10/03/2007
.NET Framework Libraries - Source Code Coming!
Big news again from Scott Guthrie. We're announcing coming availability of the source code for the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 10/03/2007
Southern Connecticut Code Camp - Call for Speakers Open
Great news for the northeast .NET community - We will soon have a new Code Camp option in southern...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/30/2007
Code Camp 8 - My Session Materials
Thanks to everyone who attended Code Camp 8 this weekend! I received feedback from many people that...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/30/2007
September Roadshow - Summary and Content
Thanks to everyone who came out for the various stops on our September Roadshow! We had a blast as...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/28/2007
Code Camp 8: The Schedule!
We're closing in on another great New England Code Camp this very weekend! We have 27 presenters...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/25/2007
Code Camp 8 Update
We're one week from Code Camp 8 and things are looking great! We've had a wonderful response from...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/23/2007
Code Camp 8 - Saturday Evening Geek Event
We are ON for the long-standing tradition of meeting over at the lobby bar at the Waltham Westin...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/23/2007
The September Roadshow is Underway
On the Road Again The first Roadshow stop is tomorrow, so Bob and I are revving up the engine,...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/09/2007
Silverlight Announcements - 1.0 Live, Linux support
Some fantastic news out this week. Silverlight 1.0 is now live! If that weren't enough, we've...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/06/2007
ReMix '07 Conference in Boston, October 8-9
Here's one more reason it's good to be in New England. Based on the concept of Mix '07 in Las Vegas,...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/05/2007
Webcast Series for Becoming a Better Developer
Here's a chance to take a step back from the technology treadmill and consider your career. John...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 09/02/2007
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events (September Edition)
Summer is at its end, so I'm resuming my periodic roundup of upcoming user group meetings and other...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/31/2007
IronPython and Silverlight Resources
This is a long-overdue follow-up to my visit with the Cambridge Python Meetup Group. I had a great...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/28/2007
C# Day Returns on September 13th
Michael de la Maza is returning to Waltham, MA to run a 3rd "C# Day" event. Previous C# Days have...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/23/2007
Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow - September Edition!
We're at it again! My colleague Bob and I are heading out for round three of our Roadshow. It (and...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/22/2007
Job Openings with Microsoft SoftGrid in Cambridge
As I've mentioned before, Microsoft is in the process of moving/growing groups to a great new...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/19/2007
Upcoming Professional Developer Training Courses
As Summer draws to an end, developer training courses are gearing back up. Here are some third-party...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/19/2007
Code Camp 8 Registration and Call for Speakers Open!
We're live and ready (thanks, Chris Pels!) Attendee registration and the Call for Speakers are both...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/16/2007
Office 2007 Document Inspector
I have a new favorite feature in Office 2007. I often need to send documents to contacts, but I want...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/16/2007
Code Camp 8: The Rise of the Silverlight Surfer
The fall is rapidly approaching, and with that comes another fantastic weekend of code, technology,...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/02/2007
Speaking on WF at NE VB Professionals User Group Tonight (8/2)
Just a reminder that I'll be speaking with the New England Visual Basic Professionals User Group in...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/02/2007
Controls and Control Libraries for Silverlight
Though the jury is still out on what controls we'll see in or alongside Silverlight 1.1 when it's...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/30/2007
A Guide to the Newly-Released Developer Updates
Though I managed to sneak away for some vacation time this week, it's clearly been a busy time for...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/29/2007
Congratulations to Jesse Liberty
Not sure how I missed this news until now, but Joe Stagner mentions that Jesse Liberty, noted...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/19/2007
BarCamp Manchester - July 28th
The next BarCamp Manchester will be next Saturday, July 28th at ABI (33 S. Commercial St.,...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/18/2007
Cambridge Python Meetup - Silverlight, Python, and the DLR
I'll be speaking with the Cambridge Python Meetup Group this Wednesday (July 18th) evening. Join us...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/17/2007
VS2008, SQL 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Launch Date Announced
Today (July 10th) at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Kevin Turner announced that Visual Studio...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/10/2007
Boston .NET User Group Meeting and Speaking Opportunities
Next Meeting Wednesday July 11, 2007 - 6:00-8:00 P.M.Microsoft Office, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor,...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/10/2007
New CTPs of .NET Framework 3.5, Acropolis, and ADO.NET Entity Framework
This week brought a host of new CTPs (Community Technology Previews) to the MSDN Download Center:...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/05/2007
C# Day - August 3rd in Waltham
After the successful first run in C# Day community learning event in June, Michael de la Maza is...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/05/2007
Online Introductory C# Workshop
Jeromy Walsh at GameDev.net is hosting a free 9+ week online C# Language Workshop: This workshop is...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/05/2007
Index of Silverlight Games (Most with Source)
In my experience, many corporate developers by day are actually gamers by night (after putting the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/28/2007
C# Day Report
This Saturday (6/23), we gathered at the Microsoft offices in Waltham for the first "C# Day" event....
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/26/2007
Announcing: Essential Windows Communication Foundation
Word's getting out, so it's time to acknowledge it on this blog. If you were at TechEd, you may have...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/22/2007
Microsoft Growing in Cambridge, MA
We'll be expanding our available space in the Boston area by way of One Memorial Drive, Cambridge:...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/21/2007
Easy to Digest Tutorials for Blend and Silverlight
[Via Dave Campbell - a blog you should read if you're into Silverlight.] Just launched is the beta...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/21/2007
Free Microsoft Online Developer Courses
The Microsoft Learning site has a number of self-paced eLearning courses on current technologies...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/19/2007
Silverlight Browser Add-In for Reflector
Lutz Roeder's Reflector keeps getting more useful. There's now a Silverlight-related add-in for...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/18/2007
Embedding Active XAML in PowerPoint
[File under "Cool Presenter Tricks"] Simon Guest posted about a nice little trick for embedding XAML...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/18/2007
Whitepaper on Website A/B Testing
Dare blogged about an interesting whitepaper from the Microsoft Experimentation Team about the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/13/2007
TechEd News Roundup
The good thing about having too much work to do when I got back from TechEd is that by now other...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/13/2007
C# Day in Waltham on June 23rd
Interested in learning C# (for free)? Michael de la Maza is coordinating a community hands-on C#...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/11/2007
Controlling Page Flow with Workflow Foundation - Sample Available
Matt Winkler gave a session this week at TechEd where he described how to use Windows Workflow...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/09/2007
New Team Foundation Server Guide and Project Server Connector
Team Development TFS Guide The Patterns & Practices team's J.D. Meier posted that Beta 1 of the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/24/2007
Another New Connecticut .NET User Group!
Hot on the heels of the announcement of the Southern CT .NET User Group (in Shelton, CT) comes more...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/22/2007