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January 2006 - Posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:56 PM

And You Thought Waterfall Software Development Process Was Dead

Help bring back the Waterfall Software Development Process! Attend Waterfall 2006 this year, being held April 1st in Niagara Falls, NY. Check out the conference website for a detailed listing of sessions, including these: Pair Managing: Two Managers per
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:44 PM

Microsoft Mix 2006 Conference in Las Vegas

If you've been suffering withdrawal from Microsoft conferences since you left PDC 05 last September after going to TechEd 05 last summer, you can kick off the 2006 Microsoft conference season with a new one: MIX.06 . Microsoft's other two big conferences
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:32 PM

C# Code Snippets

David Yack just pointed me to the C# Code Snippets that should have been in VS 2005 but weren't. Download them now from MSDN. C# Code Snippets David's also got them broken down by categories if you prefer. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:20 PM

Cache Manager Released

Those of you who subscribe to the ASPAlliance Times weekly newsletter already know that Cache Manager 1.0 was released earlier this week. You can download it from ASPAlliance.com here: ASP.NET Cache Manager This plug-in allows for the viewing and removal
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 6:19 PM

Outlook Calendar Default Month View

Can somebody tell me how to alter Outlook so that the default calendar month view shows me a useful time period (e.g. the future, not the past)? For instance, today is the 29th of January, 2006. When I open up my calendar, I'm going to expect to see things
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Friday, January 27, 2006 3:16 AM

Google Duplicate Content Filter Loses To MSN Search

SEOChat recently ran an article pitting Google , Yahoo , and MSN Search up against one another in the are of handling dupliate content. Google has serious issues in this area, as many have discussed, blogged, and ranted about recently. In this article,
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:32 AM

Spring DevConnections Sessions

The next DevConnections conference will be held April 2-5, 2006 in Orlando, Florida at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort (where it has been a couple of times in recent years -- very nice hotel). I will be hosting three sessions, and for the first
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:33 PM

MS TechEd Europe 2006 in Amsterdam Cancelled

According to Bink.nu (and confirmed by my secret sources), Microsoft TechEd Europe 2006 has been rescheduled into two separate events. From Bink's post: "To better serve the developer and IT professional communities in the Europe, Middle East and Africa
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Friday, January 20, 2006 4:31 PM

Enterprise Library 2 Available For Download

Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available. It includes the Caching Application Block, Cryptography Application Block, Data Access Appliation Block, Exception Handling Application Block, Logging Application Block and Security Application
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:33 AM

Go Live Licenses for Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation

Yesterday Microsoft announced the availability of Go Live licenses for Beta 2 of Windows Communication Foundation (formerly Indigo) and Windows Workflow Foundation . There are also two Microsoft community sites at http://windowscommunication.net http://windowsworkflow.net
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:55 PM

Google Optimization Tools and Permanent Redirects

A recent forum thread on AspAdvice.com dealt with this issue. It's far better to use 301 redirects than 302 redirects within your applications if the page in question is permanently at the new location. One example of this would be when handling site
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:56 AM

Determine if ASP.NET Page is running in Cassini or IIS

Sometimes you'd really like to know whether your web application is running in IIS or Cassini (ASP.NET Developer Server or whatever it's called now). For example, I've heard there are certain scenarios that do not work under the latter and therefore must
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:58 AM

Cool Tool - Free Code Highlighter

http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter/Examples.aspx Check out this syntax highlighter. I haven't had a chance to play with it myself yet but it claims it will work with .Text and other blog engines, so I'm assuming there's a way to easily
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