So it actually happened! On August 31st, 2006 I blogged about Team Foundation Server needing a web interface, much like Exchange has OWA. Microsoft has purchased TeamPlain, you can read about on Brian Harry’s blog here. Effective today TeamPlain is available here to all users who own a Team Foundation Server. This is huge, I […]
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Our .NET User Group had another successful luncheon presentation, Will Au from Cre8Object was asked if he would do a presentation on MOSS 2007 and he accepted. Will brought one of his developers Dominic Plouffe to do the presentation with him and they did a fantastic job. Dominic will be posting the presentation and code samples to his blog […]
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So I moved into RTM territory on the week-end. I upgraded my installation of Vista RC1 x64 to Vista Ultimate x64 which although took quite a while, worked flawlessly — I only received one (1) warning related to SQL Server 2005 (probably since some of those issues will be addressed in SP2 for SQL2K5). The […]
Continue readingWindows Vista x64 pulled from the MSDN site
I have been trying to download the x64 edition of Vista since yesterday and this evening it appears they have pulled it from the site. Very strange! My download terminated around 3 PM EST today and I haven’t been able to get it started again since, after I logged back into MSDN it has vanished. […]
Continue readingAjax ASP.NET Intellisense Issue
If you create an .aspx page based on a master and the master page is not currently opened for edit inside Visual Studio you will find that your asp tags on your .aspx page have the dreaded red squiggly underneath them. It will be fixed in SP1. Go check out Scott Gu’s article on this gotchya.
Continue readingWindows Vista Available on MSDN
Last night I logged on to MSDN and was greeted with new x32 and x64 downloads for Windows Vista, I requested my product key and started my download of the x64 edition (only 10 hours to go!) I wonder what Microsoft’s bandwidth charges are going to be this month…. Don’t foget to download Office 2007 also. […]
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Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 This collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics teaches about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. These clinics are for experienced Developers and Software Architects who are looking to adopt Microsoft’s next generation technology within their solutions. Topics covered within the […]
Continue readingASP.NET 2.0 Cache Issue
We have been using a DynamicImage control to display images stored in the database, it makes use of the Cache feature to store the byte stream of the image. Recently we noticed that we were getting "red X’s" displayed on our site for no specific reason, after a bit of research (I contacted MS) and searching the web it […]
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Today I got an opportunity to try out the Nullable Types in the .NET Framework 2.0 We had a class inside an application I was working on which basically wrapped a DateTime value called SimpleDate and allowed the developer to treat it like an object. public class SimpleDate{private DateTime simpleDateValue;public SimpleDate(){}public SimpleDate(DateTime newDate){this.simpleDateValue = […]
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March 26, 2007 