Kirk Evans Blog
.NET From a Markup Perspective
It starts today...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/03/2005
Web Services Contract First: Drop Schema in app_code with a Custom Build Provider
I now have complete respect for Fritz' reaction to custom build providers. Web applications in...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/02/2005
Love poem for .net
hysterical. https://geekswithblogs.net/scottkuhl/archive/2005/08/31/NetALoveStory.aspx
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 09/01/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 Active Directory Membership Provider
G. Andrew Duthie shows how to use the ASP.NET 2.0 Active Directory Membership Provider . Sweet!There...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/19/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance
Check out a great resource for ASP.NET 2.0 applications and security. Tons of great information. The...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/17/2005
8/25/2005 MSDN Event: Rule the Web with ASP.NET 2.0
Register now for what looks to be a great MSDN event in Atlanta on August 25th! Thursday, August 25,...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/15/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 Sample Themes
Here is a pretty good example of using ASP.NET 2.0 Themes. You can download the themes from here.
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 08/14/2005
Developing Distributed Services Today
Richard Turner has published a white paper on Developing Distributed Services Today. It hit home. I...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/29/2005
The sound Wally hates to hear once a year
Wally is at it again, and starting up our old rivalry a bit early this year. This song goes out to...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/26/2005
Welcome Pack for Architects
I am dying to send a box of these to a guy who recently joined Microsoft as an Architect...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/26/2005
Playing with Longhorn... err, Vista
I am at MGB 2005 today, and playing with Windows Vista! It is running on an HP Pavillion zd8000....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/23/2005
MGB - Day 1 Wrap Up
My phone ran out of juice yesterday, so I didn't get a chance to post this. Man... the general...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/22/2005
MGB 2005 - Opening Day
sitting in MGB in the Georgia Dome, I got to hear Bill Gates and see a demo of the future of...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/21/2005
Comparing URIs in .NET 2.0
An internal email I read discussed the proper means to compare a System.Uri in .NET 2.0. When...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/20/2005
Randy Miller from Microsoft to talk in Atlanta on MSF Agile
Randy Miller is a program manager in the Visual Studio 2005 Team System group. He has been at the...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/18/2005
Aug 20th 2005: Free Portal Development mini-Code Camp in Charlotte, NC
Maxim Karpov is putting together a free code camp targeted at portal development. Visit his blog for...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/18/2005
Interesting Find - LibCheck
LibCheck allows you to compare two versions of an assembly, and determine the differences. The tool...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 07/15/2005
C# 2.0 from a grizzled C++ developer's view
This might have been titled "12 things I don't miss about C++ now that I have C# and .NET 2.0".
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/24/2005
Jon flanders on Indigo
Jon Flanders quote of the night... "Indigo is just another [BizTalk] adapter." Kent Tegels followed...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/10/2005
A picture tells a thousand words, so 3 pictures tell the whole story
There was this guy walking around on stilts tonight at the Universal Party at TechEd 005 that was...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/10/2005
TechEd 2005 Pictures
I threw together a quick HTML page to show some of the pics that I am taking here at TechEd 2005 in...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/09/2005
TechEd 2005 Experience
Holy Smokes.That has to be the best way to describe TechEd 2005. The people I have talked to already...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/06/2005
WSE 2.0 and Via for Physical and Logical Endpoints
I am ashamed. I admit that there is a function of WSE that I didn't fully comprehend. OK, I openly...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 06/06/2005
.NET Experience Expo at the Alpharetta Office - Friday, May 20th
This Friday (May 20th) come to the Microsoft Alpharetta office for the .NET Experience Expo! This is...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/19/2005
Managed Space Invaders and Add/RemovePressure demos
Several people have asked me about the managed Space Invaders demo, as well as where they can get...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/09/2005
Got the betas but no drive space? VirtualPC and USB 2.0 is your friend
I give a lot of demos using a lot of our technologies, and I don't want to try to configure my...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/04/2005
CLR Team at the Atlanta C# User Group
The CLR team is speaking at the Atlanta C# User Group. Tonight just simply rocked. Kit George opened...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 05/02/2005
CLR support announced for multiple platforms!
I get this question almost daily, "when will the CLR be support on multiple platforms?" Take a...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/28/2005
DirecTV - Pushy Bastages
Watching a movie tonight (First Daughter, a benign movie that allows you to "watch" a move of your...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/23/2005
WSE 2.0 and the Other People store in Windows Server 2003
When you start to work with WSE, you will often see directions to import the public key portion of...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/22/2005
Maxtor OneTouch External Drive and Huge Files
I bought the Maxtor OneTouch external HDD, a 200 GB beauty, to try to manage my increasibly...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/21/2005
The CLR team is coming to Atlanta!
Doug Turnure and I worked hard to convince the CLR team to come to Atlanta to visit our customers....
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/19/2005
XmlViewControl - View XML in an ASP.NET Page
I have been meaning to put this up for awhile... I see a lot of requests asking how to display XML...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/16/2005
Time Warner, Comcast Snare Adelphia
After a year of wrangling and a couple surprises (including a last-minute toss into the ring), Time...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/11/2005
XML Serialization and Collections
While there is a good discussion of XML serialization and collections at...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/09/2005
Free Java to .NET Migration Workshop Online
Microsoft is offering a free, online, self-paced training course designed to help Java developers...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/08/2005
Avoid Using PSVI in Web Service Contracts
When you create web services, you should use contract-first design. However, this comes with a...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/02/2005
base64 Encode XML Data
In a comment on my post on base64 decoding a picture in XML, someone asked (before the comment was...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/02/2005
Update: WSE 2.0 Item Templates for Visual Studio .NET 2003
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 04/01/2005
WSE 2.0 Item Templates for Visual Studio .NET 2003
UPDATE: I have updated the msi in the workspace to provide both VB.NET and C# templates. Ever wanted...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/31/2005
base64 Decode a Picture in XML
I taught a class on ASMX and WSE 2.0 the other day, and someone asked about a project they are...
Author: Kirk Evans[MSFT] Date: 03/25/2005