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Got Visual Web Gui?
Have you seen this? Its not just another AJAX Framework, it is the end all and be all of AJAX Frameworks including full design time support. This stuff is just amazing. Browse … more
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The First Annual Vancouver Technology Festival
Vancouver is to play host for the first ever Vancouver Technology Festival on February 24, 2007. This free, one day conference is open to all members of the technology community and aims to … more
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Target="_tab"
It appears that CSS3 has recognized that you might want to target a new tab instead of a completely new window, where is IE and Firefox's support for this? more
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IIS gaining in market share...
Have you seen this? more
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ASPInsiders this week...
This week a bunch of us ASPInsiders are all gathered at Microsoft getting our heads around the next bunch of features, tools and all around new technology releases which are coming down the pipeline.& … more
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PortableApps Suite v1.0 Released
John Haller and the gang has recently release the PortableApps Suite v1.0. If you haven't moved to a portable environment yet, now is a great time to start!There are three packages available: … more
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Microsoft needs to give developers a break...
As some of you might know I'm one of those hardcore guys that live on the bleeding edge. I don't like sitting back idle and watch the world go by. Almost everything I own which is … more
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Flickr Supports GeoTagging your Photos...
If you have you ever take a long trip to some obscure place in the world and come back with 4gig+ of photos and then tried to organize them after the fact? You will soon realize just how hard it is … more
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Greece...
What a great country. We spent the entire time on the far west coast of the Peloponnese (directly west of Athens) (map). I finally got to meet the rest of Katerina's … more
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IT staff levels at their lowest in 35 years
"With skilled IT staff levels at their lowest in 35 years, employers are driving to come up with more flexible employment packages to attract employees..."Read more at Computerworld... more
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Vacation : Greece
Katerina and I are leaving for the aiport in 1/2 hour to board the plan at 4pm today. We will be landing in Athens around 12pm their time, then its to the car rental and drive another 5 hours … more
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Installing Beta 1 of Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2005
First off, save time and the headache, do it in a virtual machine its a Beta! Heck do all your dev (if you can) in a Virtual Machine.Be warned that it took me about 40 minutes from start to … more
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VS 2005 SP1 VSTS x86 ENU (Beta 1)
Its up on Connect! English and Japanese version for all SKU's by the looks of it, even for all/most of the Express SKU's and TFS. more
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta
I dont see it listed on MSDN Subscriber downloads, but it appears you can try to get it via Connect.https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudioIt appears that it went up onto Connect just today but I … more
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ATP ToughDrive Part II
So after a long winded and very impatient plead for help on ATP's feedback form on their web site I actually got a response. Looks like they had a bad batch that went out and they are allowing me … more
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The ATP ToughDrive – Not so tough
I made a decision a while ago to move my entire working environment onto a portable USB Drive. In order to do I figured I would need the strongest and most durable pen drive on the market. I shopped … more
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Ignore the Developer, slow your product adoption
First off I want to state that whenever I find a great piece of software I do buy it. I'm not one of those leech's that suck the life out of a software company by stealing their products.With … more
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Portable Apps...
I finally installed Vista Build 5472, an upgrade from Beta 2 which I had been running ever since it was released. During the time previous to this most recent upgrade I obviously installed all … more
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[UG] - Reminder: PASS Meeting this evening!
I will not be making it to this event because I have a class at BCIT tonight, but here is the info either way… Shamelessly stolen from Scotts Email… Once Again, a last … more
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Restart nag goes away in Vista...
In Windows XP once you install a patch/update via the typical Windows Update application it always nags you to reboot about once every 5 to 10 minutes. It gets annoying when your right … more
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Visual Basic 6 Pro & Vista Beta 2
I recently gave a real quick presentation to an advanced ASP.NET course at BCIT regarding COM Interop and needed to throw together a quick COM object in VB6. After the installation was fully … more
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Atlas Update Panel, not updating!?
I've recently been digging pretty deep into the most recent Atlas bits from Microsoft and so far so good. Today we ran into a farily big snag with the Update Panel. We managed to get it fixed … more
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InfoCard == Passport Version 2? == Doomed
I recently attended the RealDevelopment 06 tour here in Vancouver and had the change to listen John Bristowe give us an overview of Microsoft’s big plans for the next client security model. It’ … more
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[UG] June 2006 Meetings for Vancouver
.NET BC: Next meeting: "SQL Querying Tips & Techniques" by Richard Campbell Date and Time: Wednesday, June 21 2006, 7:00 PM [Welcome Time: 6:30 PM] Location: Building … more
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Canada : Salary Survey
ComputerWorld Canada just did a recent Salary Survey, check it out here... Salary Calculator more
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Wilco & IronRuby
Wilco Bauwer has announced a preview version of his slant on Ruby and the .NET Framework. He focused on CLR integration and not porting the Ruby base class library over. A great start! more
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Got CodePlex?
Maybe its just the bad taste I have in my mouth with GotDotNet that is slanting my view.... Call me a cynic but I just dont get the idea of CodePlex.com. Microsoft has never played nice with … more
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Vancouver : Riding the Rails Workshop on May 27th and 28th
This is a two day intensive workshop for those eager to get into Ruby on Rails. Alex will drive you through the principles behind Ruby on Rails, such as MVC, convention over configuration, Code … more
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[UG] : netbc.ca : "Visual Studio .NET 2005 Team System" by John Bristowe
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Location: Holiday Inn, 1110 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z1R2, Canada Sponsors: This event is sponsored by Microsoft Canada, and is joint … more
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Rigoletto on Saturday
Kat and I went over to Victoria on last Saturday to watch a friend Lambroula Pappas perform as Gilda in Rigoletto (Verdi) at the Pacific Opera Victoria. We have seen Lambroula perform in a variety … more
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Virtual Server : Attach an ISO as a DVD Drive (Scripting)
Here is a quick function I put together: 'Name is the name of the virtual machine itself'ISOPath is the full file path to the ISOfunction AttachISOAsDVD(Name, ISOPath) on error resume next& … more
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[BCIT] COMP 3870 : Deployment & ClickOnce
So this evening I'm scheduled for my first talk of many for this semester for the COMP 3870 (Advanced ASP.NET with C#) course. Tonight’s topic is Deployment of Web Applications and ClickOnce … more
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[MSFT] - SMB Nation Workshops (Small Business Server)
Sign Up! SMB Nation Workshops May 10, 2006 9:00 AM - May 10, 2006 2:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 8:30 AM Language: English Microsoft Canada Suite 1100 - 1 … more
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[UG] - April's Vancouver PASS Chapter Meeting - The SQL Server Lock Manager
Its 8 days until the next Vancouver PASS Chapter Meeting. Last month’s Demo & PowerPoint files on Service Broker are now available on the Chapter website. Even if you missed Roger … more
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[UG] : VanX - Reminder: Dave Howard from Circle Learning TOMORROW
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow - Wednesday, April 19th - Dave Howard and his team from Vancouver based "Circle Learning" will give a talk about Visually Rich e-Learning with Flash, MySQL and XML. … more
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C# vs Java - A developers perspective
A Comparison of Microsoft's C# Programming Language to Sun Microsystems' Java Programming Language By Dare Obasanjo more
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Developer Night in Canada (DNIC) -No, not Hockey...
I love this stuff. A bit of history why... During the last MVP/AspInsiders summit I had a chance to talk to a few of my peers (Wally, Ambrose, Jason, Plip, to name a few) about their … more
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Google takes one more step towards being just another Yahoo!
Yes, I still believe that Google is just another Yahoo and today they take just another step towards this with the release of their new free Calendar service. I have actually used my Yahoo … more
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Atlas Control Toolkit is Live
This just in from the Atlas Team at Microsoft... The "Atlas" Control Toolkit is collection of samples and components that makes it easier then ever to build and consume rich client-side “Atlas” … more
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[UG] : Vancouver C++ User Group meeting: April 20, 2006
Home: http://www.vancpp.org/ Location: Sophos 580 Granville Street Vancouver, BC Topic: The Safe Bool Idiom by Michael Borghardt Abstract:Learn how to validate objects in a boolean … more
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Atlas : Blog Starter Kit & April CTP
The April CTP of Atlas has been released and Shanku let us know about a Blog Starter Kit which will be Atlas enabled. more
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[UG] Jensen Harris : Speaking This Thursday in Vancouver
Topic: Beyond Menus and Toolbars in Microsoft Office Date: Thursday, April 13th, 2006 — 5:30 to 7:00pm User Group: The Vancouver User Experience Group (VanUE) (http://www.vanue.com/) Location: VFS … more
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The DIY Digital Photo Frame
The DIY Digital Photo Frame Turn an old laptop into a digital frame that automatically displays new shots from your Flickr account—then give it to your mother more
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The XMLHttpRequest Object W3C Working Draft 05 April 2006
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/ I find it interesting to see that the very foundation of what we annoying call “Ajax” (XMLHttpRequest) is now a W3C working draft and not … more
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C# Example of Property Dialog
Just added to http://pinvoke.net http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/shell32/ShellExecuteEx.html Using ShellExecuteEx to show the properties dialog box of a file. public static void … more
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Microsoft Unveils Road Map for Speech Server 2007
The Press release is here. Microsoft Speech Home Join the Beta Invitation ID: MSS-7G3T-8P7V (Full Instructions) VoIP, SALT, VoiceXML all supported. It looks hopeful that we will see a new … more
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[VicDotNet] Code Camp this weekend...
For you that will be on the Island this weekend, dont forget to stop by at the Victoria Code Camp. more
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DIY : Portable USB Charger
I love do it yourself projects like this one. I just need to find the time and a parts store around town to give it a try. more
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[AgileVancouver] April 24: David Anderson on FDD, Lean, and other agile project management
Monday April 24th, 5:30 - Agile Vancouver presentation 1177 West Hastings Street (map), Suite 2500 Space is limited, so RSVP's are required (agilevancouver@spc.ca) 1st Hour - Who is … more
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UG : VANTUG presents .NET Enterprise Library
Date: Apr 12, 2006 - 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Location: SFU Downtown Campus, 515 West Hastings, Rooms 1400-1410 Main Floor, Vancouver Registration: http://www.mollyguard.com/event/26617614 Keith Pleas ( … more
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Wake up and smell the subversion...
Chad Ernst gives you the 13 steps needed to convert your Visual Source Safe (VSS) repository over to Subversion (svn). Now do it! more
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Community Credit...
David Silverlight and Alex Januschewsky, two Microsoft MVP's, have teamed up and created a site dedicated to recognizing and awarding those active members in the community by their actual … more
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UG : NetBC : What is new in ADO.NET 2.0? - Carl Prothman
Title: What is new in ADO.NET 2.0? Date and Time: Wednesday, April 5 2006, 7:00 PM [Welcome Time: 6:30 PM] Location: Building SW5 room 1840, BCIT Burnaby Campus, 3700 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby, BC, V5 … more
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DIY : CCNET Automation Kit.
So you want to have some sort of funky lights display the status of your builds via CruiseControl.NET. Here is a quick shopping list of the things you will need to pick up. The first thing that … more
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Canadian MVP's on Frappr.com
If your a Canadian MVP, be sure to add yourself. http://www.frappr.com/canadianmvps more
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Vancouver Code Camp : Photos now online
Last night I finally got around to it and posted up the photos on the site via a niftly flash gadget from flickr.com. Here is the direct flickr set. If you have more to add feel free and let me know.& … more
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IT Pro Breakfast – Expand your knowledge 2006
Date: May 05, 2006 9:00AM - May 05, 2006 11:00AM Location: The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Hear Barnaby Jeans speak on the evolution of operating platforms. Gain insights into how Linux and … more
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Atlas Doc's : Browser Support & Compatibility
So lately I bitched about the documentation for Atlas lacking a simple browser compatibility matrix (example here). List the browser, version, os (and version) which Atlas is currently … more
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Rotor supports Generics now!?!?
From Jason Zanders blog via Wilco.. Generics implementation Lightweight Code Generation (LCG) Stub-based dispatch support New reflection and reflection emit New C# features like Anonymous Methods, … more
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Canadian IT Manager & Vancouver Code Camp...
Graham from Vantug has some real nice words about the Vancouver Code Camp. "This last Saturday we had our first Code Camp in Vancouver [snip], which, for a first time event, was a great success. We … more
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XSD vs DTD - So what's the difference?
Here are a number of differences. Some are not important, some are real important and easy to understand, some are real important and hard to understand. This list is not exhaustive.DTD's … more
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Vancouver : In-Depth Training in a Small Class Setting
TDWI Seminars offer a broad range of courses focused on the skills and techniques at the heart of successful business intelligence and data warehousing implementations. The small class-size and … more
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"Atlas" Client Library Browser
Using Atlas to show Atlas is such a great idea. Check it out in their documentation here. Although, it seems a big buggy only working some of the time in IE and not at all in FireFox but this … more
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Atlas documentation falls short...
Way back when Atlas was first annouced and Microsoft was just starting to get into the game I posted a HUGE request to the forums (which has been since deleted) that the single, most important piece … more
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The March CTP of Atlas is now online
Stolen from Nikhil's Blog, more on the http://atlas.asp.net website. "The latest bits of Atlas, the March CTP, are now online...." Atlas can now be used in deployed sites…" more
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Baseline Magazine is annoying me
Anyone else having any issues with Baseline magazine’s call center contacting you like 3 times in a row to do their survey over and over again? The second time I had at least some patience and got a … more
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Vancouver Code Camp : Survey Results
Getting sick of hearing about the Vancouver Code Camp? Too bad! Dont worry, this should be one of the last I do for a while. The top referrer to the event goes to .NET BC and in … more
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Vancouver Code Camp : Wrap up and downloads...
So the first annual Vancouver Code Camp is finally over. I personally had a great time at the event meeting and greeting all the speakers and guests that were able to make it. & … more
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Vancouver Code Camp : Morning Sessions
The big morning registration is done! Medhat and I kicked off the day with a quick keynote and housekeeping issues. The first session is coming to a close in about 5 minutes, everything … more
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Vancouver Code Camp : One more sleep
So tomorrow is the big day. We are putting the finishing touches on the sponsor display signs, printing out “Registration” signs and I’m finishing off the code for my presentation. … more
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VanSBS - Thu April 6th - Windows Server 2003 Release 2
Registration Required. (If you don't register and show up at the event the security at BC LDB will not let you in so please register first). Register Now! Date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006 Time: 6:00pm … more
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Vancouver PASS Chapter Meeting: Roger Wolter, Program Manager of SQL Server Service Broker
The next Vancouver PASS Chapter Meeting is Thursday, March 23rd. Roger Wolter, Program Manager of SQL Server Service Broker will be covering such topics as Service Broker, SOA, SQLXML, the SOAP … more
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Microsoft presents "Web Development Security"
Date & Time: Thursday, 2006/06/08, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, 999 Canada Place - Exhibit Hall A, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6C 3C1 … more
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Vancouver MVP’s
Here is my list of known Microsoft MVP’s in the Vancouver area. Rob Chartier in ASP/ASP.NET Michael Li in C# Stephen Ibaraki in Windows Server Customer Experience Canadian MVP's on Frapper Did I … more
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The Vancouver development community...
I decided to gather a list of links with as many community user groups and events that I could find for Vancouver. If your group doesnt appear on the list just let me know and I will add it. … more
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Vancouver C++ Users Group Meet
The Vancouver C++ Users Group (VanCPP) is a group of professional developers and hobbyists living and working in and around Vancouver, BC, who meet monthly to discuss techniques, technology and … more
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Vancouver Code Camp Countdown
So we are under one week left until the first ever Vancouver Code Camp. To tell you the truth, one year ago I would have never imagined that I would be putting on a conference, let alone … more
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Agile/XP Book List...
Owen sent me a list of recommended reading I wanted to share... Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister Rapid Development by Steve McConnell Lean Software … more
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TeamPlain Web Access for Team System
This was posted to my comments on my blog and I felt it was pretty cool to share out to the community. I'm currently not using Team System so I cant give it a try. I love the idea of … more
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ASP.NET V2 Installed, still get a 404?
So you got a fresh new box and just installed ASP.NET V2 on it but you are seeing a 404 error in your V2 application. The default installation of ASP.NET V2 does overwrite existing … more
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CI : del.icio.us for CCNET
Owen posted this to the ccnet-user list yesterday... http://del.icio.us/tag/ccnet RSS: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/ccnet Subscribed! more
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Visual Studio 2005 : Code Snippets...
Wanted to bookmark these links for later."IntelliSense Code Snippets are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code. Visual Studio 2005 includes code snippets covering tasks ranging from creating a … more
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CI: TFS & Windows Task Scheduler
Charles Young discusses Team Foundation Server & CI : http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/71713.aspx Also noted: Solutions Build Framework (SBF)Overview:Sdc.Tasks is an MSBUILD tasks … more
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Scott Hanselman is in town...
Are you going to the netbc.ca meeting tonight? Scott is going to be talking about DasBlog. I will be there! more
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AVG Antivirus on Vista 5308
Just tried to install AVG (Free) on the Feb CTP of Vista and it died on me. AVG itself complained that the HDD was locked or something and couldnt access it, and then it BSOD'd. Yes the bright blue, … more
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Breaking Vista
So I decided to simply break Vista and see how its recover options handled things. I figured that setting the owner and ACL’s for the root and recursive files to my disk might just do the trick. Once … more
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Vista 5308 Screenshots and thoughts...
A bunch of screenshots can be found here. My comments… So I decided to install the latest Vista CTP (5308) on my laptop. It’s going quite well so far, in fact I’m writing to you from it right now. … more
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MSDN Documentation sucks
Wilco just posted a new Tool he is working on. Take a look at the screen shot. Wicked cool. Reminds me of the php docs. (for example http://php.net/fopen) My biggest gripe about MSFT’s … more
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Build status notification with CCNET via MSN
So I decided to combine my two recent pet projects that I have been working on, CruiseControl.NET (Continuous Integration) with MSN (an AI Bot). I have given the Bot the ability to track … more
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Control Execution Lifecycle
So many people ask about this, decided to bookmark the URL http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcontrolexecutionlifecycle.asp InitializeLoad view stateProcess postback … more
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Serializing Generics
We had a quick discussion at work here about using the XmlSerializer on a Generic collection, so I threw together a quickie example. Our "Business Entity": [System.Serializable()]public class Entity { … more
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CCNET on Mono...
posted on: gmane.comp.windows.dotnet.ccnet.devel by: Mike Roberts --------------------------------------------------- Hi ccnet-devel, Just thought some of you might be interested in knowing … more
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CNN Survey: .NET in high demand...
Snippet from their article: Technology Two tech jobs in high demand these days are .NET (dot net) developers and quality assurance analysts. Developers who are expert users of Microsoft's software … more
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NCover: Profiled process terminated. Profiler connection not established
If you are encountering this issue with your CI process and using NCover here is a fix: http://ncover.org/SITE/forums/thread/43.aspx Details: After playing around with NCover 1.5.1 beta 2 I was … more
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Owen Rogers is speaking on Agile Estimation
Got my RSVP for the event: http://www.agilevancouver.ca/ The location kind of sucks since I work downtown and life on 1st avenue but I will have to manage with the bus. more
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AIMLBot : ALICE & C#
".NET implementation of the ALICE chatterbot using the AIML specification ...snip.... Put simply, this software will allow you to chat with your computer using natural language." http://www.ntoll.org/ … more
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Subversion and C# : SubversionSharp
SubversionSharp is a C# wrapper that fully covers the client API of Subversion SCM. Easy access to the Subversion API is provided without any compromise on fonctionality. This library is the starting … more
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NUnit and NCover in one (CCNET)...
Here is a block in my tasks section of my ccnet.config file. When searching around I couldnt find out the exact markup anywhere so I thought I would share it. <exec> <executable& … more
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Integrate Analyze Report ~ Vancouver SQL Pass User Group
Scott Stauffer with the local SQL Pass group managed to get Donald Farmer up to Vancouver for the meeting last night. If you don’t know Donald, he is the PGM at Microsoft for the Sql … more
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System.IO.Path. Its there, so use it!
It seems to me that one of the most underused, but very useful classes is the System.IO.Path class. It has a bunch of static methods which are extremely valueable when dealing with file system paths. … more
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Lightbox JS...
I'm posting this mostly to bookmark it for myself, but to also share with everyone. Pretty cool way to display images. http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/ I will be using this in … more
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BCIT : COMP 2870 Day 2
The instructor covered more of bare bones C# stuff. To tell you the truth, this is how I taught myself C# as well. I opened up notepad and started typing. Copied examples … more
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Vancouver Code Camp Geek Dinner
Peter is organizing a Vancouver Code Camp Geek Dinner for those that are interested. I'm going, are you? more
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I’m a TA at BCIT
Yesterday was my first day as a Teachers Assistant at BCIT. This semester I’m helping out with the COMP 2870 - Basic ASP.NET course. I really paid attention during my first session, last … more
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Omea Reader...
I can easily say it has improved my life. The only thing I must resist is subscribing to even more feeds. more
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Your favourite C# articles from December...
The Code Project is having its monthly favorite article survey. My favorite is: The Grouper - Custom Groupbox Control - VectorX Voted! more
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Vancouver Code Camp - 1/2 Full
We have reached 100 registrations this morning for the Vancouver Code Camp. Registrations is starting to pick up. Used to get one or two a week, now its about 5 to 10 a day. Hurry and … more
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Photos from .NET BC Event last night
Here is a few photos from the .NET BC Event last night Medhat actually took these shots with my crappy camera. Next time I promise there will be more! more
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.NET BC Event Tonight: Community Launch...
I'm going. Anyone else? more
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When will the Google bubble pop!?
Come on, seriously now. How long can a company which only has a revenue stream from online advertising actually last at that stock price? I predict it will pop sometime this year. No, I'm … more
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CS0016 & Temporary ASP.NET Files Errors...
I have been seeing many people with issues related to the “Temporary ASP.NET Files”” CS0016: Could not write to output file 'c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\Temporary ASP.NET … more