Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

  As Soma announced on his blog this morning, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 have been released. MSDN Subscribers can download Visual Studio 2010 from MSDN, and non-MSDN subscribers can go here to get a copy of Visual Studio 2010.  The 90-day trial version of all Visual Studio 2010 products can be downloaded […]

The “ignite your coding” webcast series is designed to help developers manage change by giving your team what they need to be their best.  Starting in March, every Thursday at 2pm EST, this one-hour talk show format will be focused on asking key industry experts all sorts of questions. Don’t forget to follow your hosts […]

Sorry for the delay but here are the slide decks for the presentations I did recently: Ottawa Windows Server User Group — November 19th, 2009 SharePoint 2010 for the IT CommunitySlide Deck Microsoft Federal SharePoint Users Group (Ottawa) — Tuesday Nov 24th, 2009 SharePoint 2010Slide Deck Ottawa .NET Community — Tuesday Dec 8th, 2009 What’s […]

DevTeach :: Training you can’t get any other way.    I am in Montreal this week attending DevTeach, there are so many interesting topics here it was hard to decide which ones to go and see.  The following tracks are being offered:   Web Development .NET Track Agile Track Software Architecture Life Cycle Silverlight 2.0 SQL […]

Here is the rationale for the updated logo from Microsoft: We needed a logo that was in sync with the key values that we want .NET to stand for: consistency, robustness and great user experiences. We also wanted a logo that conformed to the design principles that are driving Microsoft’s brand identity evolution and is […]

The TechDays Canada 2008 tour has great sessions on Web and Windows development to help you stay current. Microsoft has extended the Early Bird Registration for TechDays to October 29th. Hurry and sign up now! Technorati Tags: techdays_ca

  Download the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) Download the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 provides cumulative roll-up updates for customer reported issues found after the release of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. In addition, this release provides security improvements, and prerequisite feature […]

  Microsoft has released the updated poster, now if only I knew someone with a really big printer 😉

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 = […]