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Office Live Workspaces helped students continue their schoolwork while they stayed home during an outbreak of the swine flu. Address the classroom challenge of H1N1 If the H1N1 flu virus keeps your students away from the classroom, continue the learning online by using Office Live Workspace to: share assignments distribute handouts post presentations enable group collaboration Use this free online service to publish and share Microsoft Office Word documents, Office Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint...( read more ) Read More...

Bing fan boy here ;-) Check out this post by Ian: Pictures of Bing Stickers in Use I’ve started to receive some photos of how people are using the Bing stickers I sent out. I sent out about 30 to various people around the world and I still have some more pending requests – I’m running very low now despite getting a few more in. And of course I must actually get on and do some work sometime… :-) Here are the first two, starting with Ian Blackburn’s car: And Mark Wisecarver has kitted out his custom...( read more ) Read More...

Some good stuff: (Thanks Scott) May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. You can also now follow me on twitter ( @realscottgu ) where I also post links and small posts. ASP.NET Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls to Delete Data : Scott Mitchell continues his excellent tutorial...( read more ) Read More...

Learn how this Delphi based desktop logistics system was taken and ported into a new solution that is Web based and can integrate with Mobile Devices. The article specifies the requirements for that project and the development process of the UI part which was carried out by a single programmer over a period of 3 months using the Visual WebGui RIA Platform . This is believed to be about half of the time it would have taken using other web technology. "Giving us visual WinForms programming experience...( read more ) Read More...

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #7 Daily Quote - Great quote:  "The mind can only absorb what the seat can endure" ~ @ mrrodd (Posted by Dan Wahlin ) .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic CLR Inside Out - Understanding the CLR Binder (Suggested by Kevin Tunis ) Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community – Mary Jo Foley Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing Top 5 Programmer Mistakes – Bill Tudor (Suggested by Elijah Manor ) ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW – Scott Hanselman...

If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord . This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #5 Quote of the day - "Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're frozen." (Posted by Elijah Manor ) .NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic Getting a Recursive FTP File List in .Net - Michael C. Neel Multithreading: creating threads - Luis Abreu What Should Microsoft do for .NET Open Source? – Rob Conery Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing Are Helper Classes Evil? - Nick Malik (Suggested by Brad Wilson ) Choosing the Right Scrum Management Tool - Tommy...

In the late 90s when I worked on the classic Active Server Pages dev team, I tried to convince one of the Program Managers that we should make regular updates to browscap.ini , the file that described browser capabilities. He wanted no part of it. I was pleasantly surprised to learn via Hanselminutes that Microsoft has stepped up to its responsibilities and is now shipping the Mobile Device Browser File on CodePlex. Over 400 mobile devices are defined, with 67 distinct capabilities . The Hanselminutes podcast is an interesting discussion of the Mobile Web and designing a different experience for mobile browsers. There's more to it than the small screen. You want to think about the scenarios in which the site is likely to be used. The user...

Some use full links for Sync Framework for Windows Mobile (Devices) Sync Framework Overview http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb902814.aspx Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0 CTP1 - Devices http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A7C01A89-9AF8-4EEE-AB04-6A3AD098A03F&displaylang=en Sync Framework for Windows Mobile (Devices) http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2008/08/12/sync-framework-for-windows-mobile-devices-ctp1.aspx Sync101 - (Windows Mobile) Device Synchronization http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=sync&ReleaseId=2214 Windows Mobile/CE Developer Glossary http://community.intermec.com/intr/board/message?board.id=IDL-DRKs&thread.id=46 Useful developer and user tools http:...

My one-hundred-and-fifty-fourth podcast is up . Scott's at Mix09 in Las Vegas this week and he sits down with Chris Woods , a Program Manager on the Mobile Browse Platform Team. They've just open sourced a MASSIVE database of mobile device capabilities Read More......( read more ) Read More...

I have been using Live Mesh ever since it’s initial release, even on my WiMo device.  Today I opened up a Word Document – that I update daily – and just noticed that it has been reverted to a copy that is about 1 week old.  This is not the first time that this has happened.  And of course I was using Mesh as my only backup. It seems that Mesh cant handle a simple thing like versioning of documents correctly.  Unacceptable. Its time to revert back to using my USB Pen drive for shared documents, and GoodSync to back it up. As you can suspect this is very disappointing for me.  I think for my Music I will leave them in Mesh since that really wont matter. Either way, it would seem that Microsoft has a bit of work to do in...