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Download full DVD set from PDC 2005
Of course you already knew that the PDC 2005 sessions are available online, right? (although not for much longer, I heard). But you just don't have the time to browse the list to find the interesting ones and download them one by one... Well, now you can point your favorite site copier software to the starting point Full PDC05 Sessions (grouped by DVD ;)), and download the full set. Note that the links point to the zipped presentations only.
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Upgrading from GAT May CTP and December CTP
These are roughly the things that you need to change in your current package:
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patterns & practices Guidance Automation released for Whidbey RTM!
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Being 15th worth blog in weblogs.asp.net
It turns out that according to some algorithm that someone posted, I'm number 15 in weblogs.asp.net according to my blog's worth :o). Very cool. I will try to keep posting useful information here...
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GAT podcast from TechEd 2005 with Ron Jacobs
Somehow I missed the link before. Go listen Ron and myself chatting about the Guidance Automation Toolkit and what you can do.
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MS doing the wrong thing because of the wrong backwards compatibility reasons (TypeConverter.IsValid story)
About a year ago (feb-22-2005) I reported a bug in the implementation of most built-in TypeConverters, which is that even if the value you pass to
IsValidis invalid for the target type, it will return true. To better understand the issue (which is fairly trivial anyway), say you have code like the following that performs validation on a property value before setting it: -
IE is a FireFox plugin :)
Now I don't have to leave FireFox anymore, *ever*, not even for WindowUpdate, MSDN Library, etc.: http://ietab.mozdev.org/
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Create secure string easily in tests (i.e. for a password for Process.Start)
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Virtual PC and the lack of Maximize button
Nowadays, it's unbelievable that an application has the Maximize button disabled. Even more if it's an application I use everyday and which most of the time NEEDS to be maximized.
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NUnit 2.2 for .NET v2.0 RTM
I've modified the public MSI with the Orca tool so that it installs in any version of .NET (which runs fine and is supported anyways...). So go download it and enjoy doing TDD ;).
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TabControl.Visible / Hide() not working, and won't be fixed **ever**?!?
Read this bug report please. Sometimes I'm amazed at the things they do in the name of "backwards compatibility"...
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The pleasure of travelling 16 hours to Redmond with a 2 years old daughter
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GAT slides from Seattle CodeCamp
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MVP Summit: the most worthwhile conference ever
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Reflection severely broken for properties
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Google + eBay: that would be killer
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New C# conditional assignment operator ?? for null cases!! (no more ? .. : in C# 2.0)
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How to get the type of a generic type
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Google to kill Exchange Server?
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Search with Google Desktop from within Outlook!!!
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I hate sealed classes!!!
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The Whidbey provider pattern was the tip of iceberg
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What it takes to be a Dev Lead at patterns & practices
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Presenting GAT @ MS Argentina
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WCF, WPF, WTF?
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String concatenation considered harmfull (or how is HTML different than XML with regards to creating it)
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Nightly build is NOT continuous integration
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I WANT THAT KEYBOARD!
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Known issues with GAT
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Open source projects and irresponsible use of incompatible licenses
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Enter Guidance Automation Toolkit (and who you should blame ;))
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Longhorn and Consolas font: sex and the city...
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XQuery AND XSLT 2.0 WILL be available for .NET v2.0!!!
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CAB (Composite UI Application Block) hands on labs @ Redmond: fully packed and fun!
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Generate classes from XSD, now integrated with a guidance package!
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Teamwork and introspective analysis to make things better: a must in every project
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Working for patterns & practices rocks
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How to show commands in a web project command bar
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Composite UI Application Block is out!
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ClariuS Rocks!
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Get the Guidance Automation Toolkit TechEd 2005 Hands on Lab!
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How to convert NUnit tests to Team System tests
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What's going on in PAG about smart clients? Composite UI Application Block (CAB) is coming!
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What is a wiki, in the end???
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Inferring in parameter types in SqlCommand: does not work with Nullable<T> values
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Search engines don't do magic with crappy websites
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How to get binary XML out of SQL Server 2005 XML field
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Being in Somasegar's top 3 customer issues list
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Microsoft is listening, but you need to talk
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High-performance XML (V): Increase performance on message-based web services by avoiding XmlDocument creation when using XmlSerializer
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ASP.NET v2.0: is the non-visual components support finally back?
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Leveraging .NET Components and IDE Integration: UI AOP in an MVC use case
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Pair-programming with Virtual Server and two mouse pointers!!!
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Guidance Automation finally out, to revolutionize the way you integrate with VS ;)
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Religious, unproductive and useless contract-first vs code-first discussions again
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Microsoft licenses open source project from MVPs
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Guidance Automation: a little history from another key player
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TechEd 2005: aggregated blogs :)
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Presenting at TechEd 2005: ARC412 Packaging Design and Architecture Guidance for Visual Studio
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Is IDisposable missing something???
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CAB (Composite UI Application Block) is coming from PAG
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Don't miss the new cool addition from MS patterns & practices: integration with VS was never so easy....
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Versioning messages in WebServices using XmlSerializer (was One parameter to rule them all)
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Wrong execution path picked by C# compiler when mixing generic and non-generic method signatures.
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A dark day for MS .NET Passport service
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W3C XML Schema and XInclude: impossible to use together???
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The lost art of using regular expressions for parsing?
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