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TechEd Thursday
One of the best sessions I attended this week was this morning... VS.NET 2005 IDE Enhancements. Features that I loved...
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TechEd Wednesday
Today I spent most of the day at the Regional Director booth. Scott Cate and I handed out almost a thousand kbAlertz shirts. After the convention, I attended a party at a place called Dick's Last Resort. It was a blast! I spent most of my evening with Ben Miller, Microsoft MVP Lead. Here is a photo of him while we were playing pool...
I also found out that Scott Cate is quite the player himself...
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LearnKey: C# with ASP.NET
I stumbled across the LearnKey booth at TechEd today.
My multimedia training session had its official debut!!! The title of my series is C# with ASP.NET. Here is a picture of me seeing the product for the first time...
The guy in the poster is none other than Mike Storm of Interface Technical Training! -
TinyURL.com
I don't know how long this site has been around, but I stumbled upon it while reading some user group emails.
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Virtual TechEd 2004
Keep in mind, I am at TechEd this week. However, I just spent the last hour or so reading the amazing amount of blogs written so far. I feel like I have learned more from the blogs than attending the sessions! So for those of you who were unable to attend, you can show up at Virtual TechEd by going to any of the following links...
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TechEd Tuesday
The one theme that is ringing true at this event is how important it is to meet your peers. I am continually impressed with not only the talent, but how friendly everyone is. It shouldn't shock me that developers who are brilliant can also be kind and fun to hang around with... but it does.
After the sessions were over, MSDN threw a party. In the very crowded room, I happened upon the famous Hamid of Axosoft based in Phoenix (like me!). Here is a glimpse of that party with Scott Cate, Scott Water, and the folks with Axosoft... -
TechEd Monday
Today I served my duty at cabanas 5 & 6. My official duty was to answer questions regarding C#. As I am hanging out, I noticed a particular individual I was able to ask some C# questions myself...
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TechEd Sunday
This was a great day. After the Regional Director's summit, I attended a training on what to expect as a staff member here at TechEd. Here is a look at the typical profile one may expect at these events:
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Microsoft Regional Director Summit
I am sitting down with fellow Microsoft Regional Directors from around the world. In preparation for my staffing responsibilities for TechEd 2004, I will be meeting with Microsoft product teams. I am currently listening to a session on evangilism... I just saw a new video explaining the RD program. I will post the 'commercial' once I get my hands on it. As I find out cool things this week, I will keep the blogs flowing...
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Hanging out with Scott(s)
I am hanging out with Scott Cate and Scott Watermasysk at the W in San Diego. After talking with Scott Watermasysk, I have added categories to my blogs. Here he is hard at work at the hotel:
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Resolving entities when loading XmlDocument
Recently I needed to place special characters in an xml document. I had to put the &trade and ® into the text of an attribute. When I loaded the xml into XmlDocument, I received an exception:
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Getting the absolute path in ASP.NET
Typically when we create ASP.NET applications, we are developing against a virtual directory. However, when we deploy our app to a production web server, it is likely set up as a web site. This can have an impact on href assignments when using absolute paths. In order for paths to be consistant between virtual directories and web sites, I created a helper method that will work in either environment. Here is the code:
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A night with Scott Guthrie
Last night was our super user group meeting - guest speaker Scott Guthrie. He did the ASP.NET Roadshow for us here in Phoenix. We had more people show for his presentation than DevDays!!! All went well thanks to our community super-star, Scott Cate. Also cool to hang out with Dan Wahlin, who admitted to actually reading my blogs. I urged him to start blogging as well. Anyway, the samples from the presentation are available at Scotts web site, http://www.scottgu.com.
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Authentication issue with session state
Today I am teaching the ASP.NET (2310B) course from Microsoft. In the module on state management, one of my students stumbled across a peculiar behavior. Here is the setting…
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Google this!
I have just realized the power of Google with weblogs! The other day I was talking with Robert McLaws about blogging in general, and he told me that he blogs everything so that it can be searchable by Google. Just provide the weblog name as a search context, followed by any keywords.