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I have the pleasure of speaking at the first Calgary SharePoint User Group meeting next Monday, November 23rd. The planning for a Calgary based SharePoint group has been a long time coming (I’ve been engaged in talks about one at least 4 times over the last few years). Finally it’s a reality. Purpose: The Calgary SharePoint User Group will provide an opportunity to discuss and grow new ideas and innovations by allowing consultants and IT knowledge workers to share their common experiences, issues, and solutions. It will create a forum for individuals to discuss SharePoint and related technologies, such as .NET/development, customization/branding, Business Intelligence (BI), content/document & records management, etc, with other experienced...
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Silverlight 4 beta was announced by Scott Guthrie a few minutes ago during his keynote at PDC 2009 . So only 4 months after Silverlight 3 released, we have a new version to play with!! Silverlight 4 brings several interesting features: Webcam/mic support Printing API MouseWheel on common controls Implicit Styles Controls: RichTextBox, ViewBox and WebBrowser DataBinding improved CLR 4.0 (compatibility with dll from the Full .NET 4.0) and much much more!!!… see full list below Notice that from the top 10 features request list , 8 out of 10 were addressed, that’s awesome!!! Silverlight gain maturity for business applications with additions like Printing, MouseWheel, Right click and File Drop. Several tools have been updated to support Silverlight...
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I had my first "real" day at Microsoft today (the first day is mostly an HR thing). There's still a great deal of stuff to do to really get settled, as anyone who has ever started a developer job knows, but it felt like I actually worked there today. I'll be working on the forums team in Server & Tools Online, which owns the forums on the MSDN site, among others. Since I'm only at a point where I'm trying to find the restrooms, I'm not sure yet what kinds of things I'll be able to blog about, but given the fairly non-proprietary nature of what we do in that group, I hope to be able to blog more. Over the last few years I've not posted a lot here outside of stuff relevant to CoasterBuzz , one of my own...
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Awesome service but it is coming to an end apparently. Microsoft Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live Beta is being discontinued and will eventually be taken down I’ve been using that service since it started and really enjoyed it. Was easy to create WMV webcasts, upload them, then create Silverlight wrappers for ASP.NET sites. What to do now? Well some Developers have mentioned using Channel 9 . Great idea. When I mentioned this to DiscountASP.NET concerning our free technical webcasts they were...( read more ) Read More...
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Microsoft släppte ikväll ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta. Det går inte att använda det tillsammans med Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, utan det måste användas med Visual Studio 2008. Ladda ned det här: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4817cdb2-88ea-4af4-a455-f06b4c90fd2c&displaylang=en Read More...
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Even if you can't make it to PDC for the convention you deserve a a chance to win some cool prizes! Learn how you could win an Asus netbook or a license to NetAdvantage for .NET by following @infragistics and tweeting about a #NotAtPDC session! Read More...
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I run Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on my quad core development workstation to take advantage of the OS’ Hyper-V support. (More info on setting this up at http://www.win2008workstation.com/ ) Anyway, Derek at Diskeeper corporation sent along an MVP freebie preview of Diskeeper 2010 so I thought I’d run a defrag overnight. This morning, it feels like I have a new machine! I know this sounds like a commercial, but I hadn’t realized how badly my system’s performance had been deteriorating over the...( read more ) Read More...
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The Silverlight Tour is visiting Halifax (NS) , so get ready to enlighten your RIA app with this top Silverlight 3 training!! When: November 23-25 Where: Halifax, NS, Canada Registration: http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts! For other cities and dates please visit: http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx Technorati Tags: Silverlight Read More...
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With advances in virtualization technology, it seems like the old quip, “It works on my machine - so let’s ship my machine!” is becoming reality. In the old days, people would configure a physical box in their shop and send it out to the client or host to plug and play. With virtualization, you could configure a virtual machine – even a development machine – and upload the virtual hard drive to a data center. Taking it further, the folks running Azure could run multiple copies of the identical VHD...( read more ) Read More...
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The Sydney Architecture User Group is having its second meeting this month on Thursday, 26th November. Full details can be found on our new (but very simple) website located here ( http://thesaug.org ). You can subscribe to the monthly email and also indicate your intention to come by selecting the RSVP option (which would be really nice if you did :-) ) Here is what the next Sydney Architecture meeting has in store. Hope to see you there. Why Windows Azure is not just Generic Brand Web Hosting Presenter Nick Randolph Date/Time: Thursday 26/11/2009 06:00 PM Where: Grace Hotel , Function Room 77 York st Sydney,NSW. 2000 Abstract If you take only a glimpse at the offerings on the Windows Azure platform it may just appear to be a form of generic...
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