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Evangelism - Developer and Platform Evangelism
Academic .NET Radio Podcast Up
Matt Cassell from Academic .net Radio interviewed me on Visual Studio Express for your auditory...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 04/04/2006
How to silently install or network install Visual Studio Express
From Aaron Stebner, setup guru. How to silently install Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions How to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/31/2006
Asli Bilgin on ZDNet for Visual Studio 2005 overviews
Asli Bilgin, Microsoft developer evangelist and arguably one of the nicest people at Microsoft, did...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/22/2006
XNA Framework Official Announcement (via BrianKel)
As I previously blogged, it's now officially announced: The XNA Framework is a custom version of the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/20/2006
Mech Commander 2 Source Code Available for Download
Former Coding4Fun guru and now XNA wonk Brian Keller announced on his blog that Microsoft Game...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/20/2006
Job Opening: Managing Editor for MSDN
If you know someone who has editing experience and is passionate about developers, I can't think of...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/17/2006
Skype trick to never pay for long distance
Juval Lowy sent me this gem of a tip for how to use Skype on a PocketPC leveraging Verizon's...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/17/2006
Managed code on Xbox 360 Developer Kits
Mike Zintel, Compact Framework guru blogs about getting ready for the Game Developer Conference next...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/15/2006
Willkommen German Coding4Fun!
Uwe Baumann and team from Microsoft Germany launched the German Coding4Fun at CeBit. The site...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/15/2006
The Award for Best Creative in a Tech News Story
[from Luca] The award for best creative in a story goes to the SD Times team and Larry O'Brien for...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/15/2006
Join the Visual Studio Engineer-to-Engineer Program
Karl Melder and team have created another mechanism for you to give feedback on Visual Studio with...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/15/2006
Coding4Fun sponsoring O'Reilly's Make Magazine Maker Faire
Mark you calendars for April 22-23 as Make Magazine is holding one of the coolest conferences you...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/15/2006
Music To Code By Vol 5 - "Hunt the Wumpus"
DJ Bolivia's officially released Music to Code By Vol 5 "Hunt the Wumpus" and it's another winner!...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/14/2006
on10.net is out
Channel9++; Big congratulations to Jeff Sandquist, Duncan Mackenzie and the On10 team for making...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/14/2006
Made In Express Contest - $10K is just an idea away
Woohooo, the Made In Express contest officially launched today! First some background, one of the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/14/2006
Brad's Right - Sanity Does Prevail
Brad Abrams recently penned a blog: PM Tip #21: Sanity Will Prevail. Wow, if there is one lesson to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/08/2006
Music To Code By Vol 4 - Blogging's influence on Music
I was trading emails with DJ Bolivia today and little did I notice that he released another great...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/07/2006
AOL IM SDK for all developers
America Online today announced the availability of the Open AIM Instant Messenger SDK on their...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 03/06/2006
Two Visual Studio Product Manager Positions
It's a great time to join Microsoft as Jay Roxe points out two jobs he wants to hire for including...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/17/2006
Mary Jo Foley on the "Live" brand being the new ".NET"
Why is it so obvious to anyone outside of Microsoft that our branding strategy needs help?
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/17/2006
Half Life 2 Rube Goldberg Device Contest
There's a Half Life 2 contest using Garry's Mod to create Rube Goldberg devices (an incredibly...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/11/2006
Rusty wants you to join the C# Test Team
The C# team currently has four software development positions in Test and Rusty blogs about the cool...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/09/2006
The Accordian Guy's Take on the Express Web Site
Scott Currie sent me this a while back and I'm only getting around to posting about it now, but this...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
Formatting bound ASP.NET types requires explicitly changing the HtmlEncode property
I ran into this one while migrating our Beta 2 code to VS RTM for an internal reporting site, but...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
C9'er Designed Express Wallpaper
Thanks to Charles for sending me this link, but Sushovan De posted on Channel9 some cool Visual...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
Official Visual Studio Servicing Site
I'm actually surprised that this didn't make more noise, but we officially launched a Visual Studio...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
How To Manually Create Outlook Calendar Appointments
Here's a gem from David Goodhand, a Microsoft vet that arguably taught me everything I needed to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
Google Images Slideshow
Sam Weera wrote a VB mod using some of my old Google Images screenscraping demo code and created a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
Object Test Bench Doesn't Work For Web Projects
A customer recently emailed me asking why Object Test Bench doesn't work for Web projects and it...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 02/08/2006
Visual Studio Service Pack Roadmap
Scott Wiltamuth blogs about the Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 service packs in...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
I am proud to announce that today, November 7th 2005, we officially released the downloadable...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 11/07/2005
Pre-RTM Visual Studio 2005 Automatic Uninstall Tool
It's highly recommended that you install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine....
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/27/2005
Getting Visual Studio 2005
Soma just broke the news so we can now all talk about it, Visual Studio 2005 has officially RTM'd!...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/27/2005
All PDC Sessions available for free for Six Months
Very cool stuff via Mike Swanson's blog post - 250 hours of content from 200 sessions online...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/06/2005
MS Federal Developer Blog
If you're a developer/architect that works for the federal government, our fed govt. evangelism team...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/06/2005
Sun and Google announce Web Office Or not
The cat is finally out of the proverbial bag. Details here "soon". Edit: Man, was I (and a lot of...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 10/04/2005
LINQ: Creating your first Extension Method
I thought I would take a second and post how you can create your own Extension Method. An extension...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/22/2005
LINQ: What is the purpose of var?
Larsenal, a C9’er posted a comment on the C9 forums about the Introducing LINQ video and asked a...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/22/2005
We want your LINQ Feedback!
Do you have questions, comments or thoughts on how we could improve the LINQ Project? Please let us...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
The One LINQ Document You Need to Read
...is now available on MSDN as an HTML page, the LINQ Project Overview. Huge thanks to Don and...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
LINQ as the Nuevo Rorschach Test
It’s been great seeing the (very positive) reactions to LINQ in the blogosphere. What’s amusing to...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/15/2005
Announced at PDC: The LINQ Project
The LINQ Project On Tuesday September 13, 2005, Anders Hejlsberg did the first public demo of the...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/13/2005
Meet the C# and Coding4Fun Team's at PDC
Woohoo, PDC starts tomorrow! Check out the C# Developer Center for the full list of C# sessions and...
Author: Dan Fernandez - MSFT Date: 09/13/2005