Contents tagged with .NET
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Happy to NOT Be an MVP!!!
Wait, it's not what you think. This isn't some "sour grapes" post where I bitch and complain about not getting awarded the MVP this year. I'm not tossing Vista out the window for penguin software nor am I going to start abbreviating Microsoft with M$. It was actually my choice.
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Great quote from Steve Ballmer on Apple’s “Cult Following”
I attended a TechNet event today called “Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow’s Strategies Today”. It was primarily geared around Microsoft’s virtualization stories and SQL Server 2008, but I attended to see if Steve Ballmer was going to drop any news about Microsoft’s Cloud Services. After his keynote, there was a question and answer session where a question was asked that led to the presenter talking about Apple’s “cult like following” for its products such as iPhone. This was Steve Ballmer’s reply:
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Updated WCF RSS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
Now that I'm happily living in the exciting, fast paced world of Greater London you'd think my weekends would be spent enjoying the active nightlife or soaking in the culture and history all around me. But you'd be wrong. I'm a nerd and so I spent my weekend in nerd bliss, a.k.a. getting reacquainted with my old friend WCF. Sorry ladies, I'm taken.
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Visual Studio 2008 is Out and Startup Is FAST
Okay, so I have to admit that in the two days I've had Visual Studio 2008 installed on my desktop system I haven't had a chance to look at everything. However, when I was at Tech-Ed Barcelona I saw several demos where the speaker started Visual Studio 2008 and it seemed to just spring to life. My experiences with Visual Studio 2005 was far from "springy" including seeing the "Preparing Visual Studio for first use" diaog about every 5th time I started the application. In every demo, I had to make sure VS2005 was already running to avoid long delays and audience boredom.
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Tech-Ed (Developer) Barcelona Bound
An observant reader looking at my blog directly and not in their favorite feed reader may have noticed that several months ago the image at the top changed from the skyline of Chicago to that of London. That's because in July my wife and I threw all expectations of decent customer service to the wind and relocated to scenic London England.
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CKS:Internet/Extranet Edition - SharePoint 2007 Forms Based Authentication Solution Released
I'm very happy to announce that our first pre-Beta release of the SharePoint Forms Based Authentication features that the Community Kit for SharePoint Internet/Extranet edition has been working on is available for download on CodePlex. This solution builds on many of the things I created for the version on my website but adds significant improvents in management of users and roles. This solution also gives administrators the ability to approve/deny membership before the user is added to the MembershipProvider database. We still have more to do but we wanted to get this work out into the hands of the public so we can get any feedback you might have as early as possible.
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SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Forms Based Authentication Login/Registration Web Parts Update
I've been very pleasantly surprised with the number of people downloading the forms based authentication web parts I created. I hope you find the code valuable. I've also received via the comments section several questions about implementing one or more aspects of the solution. I haven't had time to answer many of these lately and so I thought my loyal readership (up to 3 now!) deserved to know why.
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Off to Tech-Ed '07
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VSTO: My Favorite Feature - Custom Task Panes
My avid readers (both of you) know that I've done quite a bit of work around Outlook 2007 Form Regions in Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office. If you missed those posts, you can read more about them here and here. Form Regions are a great way to add custom functionality to Outlook forms but there's another way you can add features and Windows forms to all of the Office applications and unlike Form Regions (pre-Orcas) it's really easy. Therefore one of my favorite features is Custom Task Panes.
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MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office from the Experts Series
Yesterday I had the honor of joining such names as Ken Getz, Tim Huckaby, and Robert Green by recording a webcast for MSDN in the VSTO Straight from the Experts Series. In this webcast I demoed the FormRegionAddin templates I created for Visual Studio 2005 and showed how they worked under the covers to help make building Outlook 2007 Form Regions easier. I also showed how the new Table object in the Outlook object model can greatly improve performance when working with itmes in folders.