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Windows Workflow Foundation
Workflow is one of the new core capabilities (along with WPF aka Avalon and WCF aka Indigo) being added in the .NET Framework 3.0 release later this year. It provides an in-process workflow engine to process rules, a designer for VS 2005 to enable both developers and non-developers to define custom workflow processes graphically, and a new Workflow namespace to integrate these within code. The official site to learn more about Windows Workflow Foundation can be found here.
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XNA Express Beta Available for Free Download (build XBOX games in C#)
September 3rd Update: I just stumbled upon an awesome XNA tutorial site that includes a lot of great tutorials on how to get started with the XNA game framework. This tutorial, for example, walksthrough all of the code needed to build the classic Pong game with it. And this tutorial talks about how to customize the "Spacewar" starter kit.
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Slides + Samples Posted from my TechEd LINQ Talk
One of the highlights for me of my recent trip to TechEd NZ and Australia was the opportunity I had to create and present a new "Building Data Driven ASP.NET Web Applications using LINQ" talk. LINQ is a super cool new technology, and is going to have an absolutely enormous impact on .NET developers and how they use data. I had a lot of fun doing the talk, and people seemed to really like it (someone told me just before I flew back that it was the most highly rated talk at TechEd this year).
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Building and using a LINQ for SQL Class Library with ASP.NET 2.0
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Great New Atlas Videos Published (All Free)
Joe Stagner has been busy at work publishing more Atlas videos on the www.asp.net website (click here for the full video listing).
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ASP.NET 2.0 Tips/Tricks TechEd Talk Posted
Many thanks to everyone in New Zealand who attended my "ASP.NET 2.0: Tips and Tricks" talk this morning.
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Details on CSS Changes for IE7
The Internet Explorer team maintains a really good blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie that I recommend subscribing to for useful information.
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IIS7, ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas and VS 2005 End to End Talk
Many thanks to everyone in New Zealand who attended my "ASP.NET: End-to-End - Building a Complete Web Application Using ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and IIS7 (Parts 1 and 2)" talk this afternoon.
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10 Worst Presentation Moments
While procrastinating from finishing up my TechEd talks in my hotel room here in NZ, I came across this really funny link of a Microsoft UK employee's "Ten Worst Presentation Moments" that had me laughing out loud.
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Tip/Trick: Creating Sub-Web Projects using the VS 2005 Web Application Project Option
One scenario that many large development teams often ask me about is whether it is possible to split up/partition an ASP.NET web application into multiple projects within Visual Studio. The goal with doing this is typically to improve the modularity of large sites and/or to improve the IDE compile-time performance for large projects.
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Free Windows Live Writer Application
Earlier this week the Windows Live team released the new Windows Live Writer blog posting and management tool that you can download and use for free. It is a desktop application that provides a really nice editing environment for writing blog posts (spell checker, layout manager, offline editing support, etc).
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Heading Off to TechEd New Zealand and Australia Tomorrow...
I’m about to take off for a whirlwind business trip the next 10 days – and email and blog comment responses will unfortunately be very slow while I'm away.
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Tip/Trick: Show Detailed ASP.NET Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers)
Problem: You are developing/maintaining an ASP.NET web-site, and would like the ability to conditionally show/hide runtime error messages depending on who the user visiting the site is.
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August 9th ASP.NET Link-Listing
Below are some nice articles and links I’ve found on the web over the last week that I enjoyed, and recommend setting aside some time to consider reading:
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I'm presenting September 6th in Phoenix Arizona
The Arizona .NET User's Group has one really big meeting every year, and I've been fortunate to have been invited to come out and speak again for this year's event. It will be held all day Wednesday September 6th at the Orpheum theater in Phoenix, Arizona. I’ll be on stage for a little over 3 hours total, and topics I'll be covering include ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks, IIS 7.0, Atlas, LINQ/LINQ for SQL and more.
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Atlas July CTP and the Latest Atlas Control Toolkit
The Atlas team recently shipped a new Atlas July CTP that contains a number of bug-fixes. You can download it off of the http://atlas.asp.net/ web-site (like all Atlas CTPs it supports a go-live license).
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My ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas "Highlights Page"
Several people have sent me email lately asking for a suggested short-list of my best/favorite past blog posts to read (I’ve done 200 posts over the last 12 months and apparently it takes too long to read them all <g>).
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ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas
This page lists some of the more popular “ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas” posts I’ve done. My goal is to add new posts to the series regularly going forward – so bookmark this page for updates, or subscribe to my blog via this RSS feed.