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While in Paris for speaking at the Université du SI conference, Mario Cardinal and I went podcast crazy. During the week, we recorded 8 podcasts with French MVPs and even a bonus one with a French software engineer working for Microsoft Ireland. GUILLAUME BELMAS, MVP Team System, Exakis CLERET ARNAUD, MVP BizTalk, Exakis GREGORY RENARD Regional Director & MVP ASP.NET, Wygwam ERIC GROISE, Octo MATTHIEU MEZIL, MVP C#, Winwise FLORENT SANTIN, MVP Team System, Winwise MICHEL PERFETTI, MVP C#, Winwise FABRICE MARGUERIE, MVP C#, Metasapiens, author of Linq in Action VINCENT VERGONJEANNE, Microsoft Ireland The first one is already online. Check for the others throughout the fall. http://www.visualstudiotalkshow.com BTW, a big Merci Beaucoup to...

I was planning to get a Zune 80GB when I saw that Microsoft is offering free engraving (+ shipping) thru September 15th. Being a Kraftwerk fan, I couldn't resist ordering this design: http://zuneoriginals.net Read More...

I actually meant to say in my last post that I had investigated the API options for FriendFeed and they have a C# wrapper already available here . It's packaged up in a single download with its Python and PHP counterparts. Unfortunately, it has compilation errors. I fixed the errors and then I let ReSharper (R#) have its way with it [ R#: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F]. Yes, I do understand that the Code Cleanup feature of R# can be a nuclear bomb of churn for diffing your source, but egads I do love it so. I also broke out the FriendFeed classes into separate files [ R#: F6] . Hmm, I just decided that I'll notate R# and VisualStudio keyboard shortcuts like this [app:shortcut]. Is there already a convention for that out there? I also decided to keep...

I just came across a nice feature in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (currently in Beta ) that I didn’t realize was included.  It’s always nice to discover hidden gems from time to time.  With ASP.NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5 applications if a user or JavaScript function tried to do a postback before all of the ViewState and EventValidation data was loaded in the browser, a ViewState MAC validation error could be raised by the server. In ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Microsoft provides a new attribute on the <pages> element in web.config that now allows all hidden fields to be rendered at the top of a form rather than at the bottom which can help to avoid the ViewState MAC validation error when people perform a postback operation before the page has finished...

The quickest way for me to learn something is by watching an expert demonstrating it. If you're ready to do Silverlight or WPF development or just want to be ready for when you need these technologies, I'd recommend checking out these resources. Dino Esposito, MSDN magazine contributor and author, has a new training course on Silverlight 2 from AppDev training company. There are 10 hours of video training on CDs or one DVD where he demos all the features of Silverlight 2 and supporting technologies such as WPF, LINQ and WCF. He's a solid technical expert, and delivers the info with obvious enthusiasm for the technology. For .NET developers, a plus is he uses Visual Studio (instead of Blend) to do all his Silverlight examples. It's...

Eric Groise: L’avenir est aux technologies vectorielles Nous discutons avec Eric Groise qu'il est temps de quitter le Win32, le monde des boutons et fenêtres carrés ou il y a trop de texte et pas assez de visuel. Mort au « bitmap » et vive le vectoriel. Eric Groise est spécialisé sur les problématiques liées à l’utilisabilité des interfaces homme machine . Depuis plus de 10 ans, Eric aide les équipes de développement à améliorer les applications qu’ils produisent : architecture, technologies et interface homme machine. Convaincu qu’il reste un grand chemin à parcourir avant que les applications en entreprises atteignent l’ergonomie des applications Apple, il s’occupe du centre de compétence GUI d’ OCTO Technology . Eric fut également Microsoft...

Anyone interested in the business of social networking Websites should take a look at T echnology Review Magazine's August issue . It's a special issue about social networking and the future of the Web. Being published by the MIT, you would expect more then just a list of cool social network sites à la PC World . Well, the magazine deliver the goods. Not only you get a good assessment of the current situation, you get to understand the business of it (or lack of). They also explain what Facebook runs on. BTW, you don't have to rush to your newsstand to get a copy because you can read it online for free. So, will it burst? Read More...

Time for yet another pattern, the Template Method Pattern . Have a look at all the other patterns in the series as well. The definition: " Define the skeleton of an algorithm in an operation, deferring some steps to subclasses. Template Method lets subclasses redefine certain steps of an algorithm without changing the algorithm's structure. " Read more at http://blog.cumps.be/design-patterns-template-method-pattern/ Read More...

Dynamically create ASP.NET user control using MS Ajax and Web Service BODY { PADDING-LEFT: 20px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; WIDTH: 95%; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } .code { FONT-FAMILY: Consolas;FONT-SIZE: 10pt; background: white; BORDER-RIGHT: thin dotted; BORDER-TOP: thin dotted; OVERFLOW: auto; BORDER-LEFT: thin dotted; BORDER-BOTTOM: thin dotted; HEIGHT: 150px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff } .image { BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: thin; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: thin; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: thin; OVERFLOW: scroll; WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT...( read more ) Read More...

We had a good chat on Friday and I think we got most, if not all, of the questions answered in regards to SQL Injection. For those of you that missed the chat, check out the transcript here . If there is anything that we missed, please feel free to let Read More......( read more ) Read More...