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Thanks to the awesome folks at Microsoft Japan.... My blog will now be available in Japanese. http://blogs.msdn.com/JoeInJapanese/ Thanks to Seiichi Sato for taking the lead !! Read More...

Some time ago, my buddy Jesse posted about his new favorite utility . As a matter of policy, we record How-Do-I videos while doing the programming in VB and than I have to re-write the sample code in C#. So, automatic code conversion was really interesting to me. So - I got the VB to C# and the C# to VB Converters from Tangible Software Solutions. $179 for one language or $299 for both. My thoughts..... WOW ! They work great and will save me TONS of time! Thanks Tangible ! [ Click HERE to visit Tangible Software Solutions ] Read More...

WUX315 - PHP on Windows: Not an Oxymoron! Session Day/Time: 6/6/2008 10:15AM-11:30AM Room: S230 A Is it a well kept secret? From Microsoft Internet Information Services, to AJAX, to Microsoft .NET, Windows is a viable platform for your existing PHP based applications. In this session, see how to configure PHP on Windows for performance and reliability and how you can take PHP applications to the next level by leveraging .NET and Windows. WUX314 - AJAX Programming with the Microsoft AJAX Technologies Session Day/Time: 6/5/2008 4:30PM-5:45PM Room: S320 C Microsoft AJAX Developer technologies are a collection of offerings that make AJAX programming slick and productive, but have you wrapped your head around all the pieces? This session provides...

ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide by Matthew Ellis Read more about this book... Ok readers. Check out this little nugget. Matthew Ellis and Magma Interactive just released the ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Pocket Guide. It contains concise chapters packed with useful info for the ASP.NET AJAX Developer including a Client Side Reference, a Server Side Reference, Web Services, Extender Controls, The Control Toolkit and more. At $1.26 per chapter - It's almost FREE ! Just click on the book image above to get the details over at Amazon.com Read More...

Daniel Crenna shared my frustration that Visual Studio drag-n-drop doesn't always leave our markup nicely formatted. So, he wrote a plug-in to do it for us. Click [ HERE ] to get it for Visual Studio 2008 or 2005 He also offers up the source code so if you want to add some custom formatting rules, you can ! THANKS DANIEL ! Read More...

I'm a jQuery Fan ! Lance Fisher has made an update to jQuery for Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 [ Click here to read about it and download jQuery with the Intellisense updates . ] Read More...

The slackers are at it again ! Check out their growing collection of swipe-able code ! http://www.DotNetSlackers.com/CodeSnippets/ Read More...

:) If this looks familiar, it's because a prematurely posted about this last week. (And I wasn't supposed to.) Well, NOW I can tell you WHERE to get it ! Here is the announcement .......... The Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team released a revision of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit , updated to work with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 ! The April Preview of the training kit has been downloaded over 13,000 times. The May Preview release includes updated hands-on-labs as well as new presentations. The following features had their labs updated in this iteration: · ASP.NET AJAX History · ASP.NET MVC · ASP.NET Dynamic Data · ADO.NET Data Services · ADO.NET Entity Framework...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of the User Guide, Samples and Walkthroughs for the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 . The Visual Studio 2005 extensions for SharePoint were released back in Feb 2008 and an update for Visual Studio 2008 is planned for release in June 2008. The user guide is downloadable here and represents approx 200 pages of documentation applicable to both the 2005 and the 2008 release of the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint. The user guide contains an introduction to using the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint, and it contains walkthrough samples for each of the project templates that are supplied with the Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint. These are the...

Cool Name Huh ? Mustafa Basgun has created a pretty cool info site for ASP.NET Developers Click [ HERE ] to pay him a visit! Read More...