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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:17 AM

Caching Birds of a Feather at TechEd -- VOTE FOR ME PLEASE

I'm trying to organize a Birds of a Feather session on one of my favorite topics, Caching, at Tech Ed 2006 in Boston. Whether you're going to TechEd or not you can vote for BOF sessions here: https://www.msteched.com/cfp/bofvoting.aspx If you're so inclined,
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Friday, March 24, 2006 6:01 PM

Get Date From DateTime In SQL

Something I need to do from time to time is get just the date part of a datetime value in SQL. I found a cool way to do it on SQLJunkies today. select convert(varchar,DateColumn,101) The 101 means “mm/dd/yyyy” format, but there are a bunch of other codes
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Friday, March 24, 2006 5:46 PM

Mini Microsoft Blog

Just found the Mini-Microsoft blog – definitely a good read. I’ll be back. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, March 20, 2006 1:24 PM

Speaking in Greenville Spartanburg on Caching Best Practices

Tomorrow I'm going to give a presentation on Caching Best Practices in ASP.NET 2.0 at the Greenville Spartanburg Enterprise Developer Guild . If you're in the area, please come by. I'll put the slides and samples up on the ASPAlliance Resource Directory
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:59 AM

Microsoft Atlas Update Released

This week Microsoft has updated the latest version of Microsoft Atlas. You can download the March CTP from http://atlas.asp.net/ . You'll find step-by-step installation instructions, documentation, and sample applications here . And of course if you do
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:48 AM

Microsoft Atlas Contest

I only mentioned the Made In Express Contest a few minutes ago and now I see there is a contest for Microsoft Atlas , their new AJAX / Web 2.0 framework. You have a chance to win an XBOX 360 premium and Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones! What is it? This
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:42 AM

Team Hanselman Diabetes Walk

Scott Hanselman is one of my heroes. His .NET knowledge is tremendous and he's just a really good guy. He has diabetes, on May 6th he's going to be walking to fight diabetes with Team Hanselman . The goal is to raise $10,000 for the cause. If you want
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:40 AM

Made In Express Contest

Want $10,000? Microsoft is hosting a contest to promote its Express product set. Sign up at http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/ You can also download flair to put on your blog if you're interested: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it!
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:50 PM

Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET Web Deployment Projects

ASP.NET now supports something called Web Deployment Projects , which are an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 that is currently still in beta. You can download the installer from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/ I recently
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:12 AM

Does Microsoft Buy In To .NET?

Every now and then some high profile personality, perhaps one who once had close ties to Microsoft, about how .NET is really a total failure. How it's clear that it isn't going anywhere. That, as proof of these assertions, Microsoft cannot even manage
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:46 PM

Annoying Visual Studio Add Existing Project Behavior Solved

Using Visual Studio 2005, I set up a new solution the other day with a bunch of projects. The folder structure looks something like this: /Solution /Solution/Project1 /Solution/Project2 /Solution/Project3 However, one of the projects was originally in
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:40 PM

Continuous Integration Using Team System

I'd like to get continuous integration (CI) working for my TFS server here at the office as my next step. A little googling led to Khushboo's post on doing just this with the RC bits that I'm using at the moment. The instructions were pretty simple to
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Monday, March 13, 2006 1:17 PM

KBAlertz TextPayMe Promotion for Charity

KBAlertz is giving away XBox 360s to two Arizona Children's centers and could use your help. Basically if you sign up for a TextPayMe account through their promotion page, you'll get $5 and they'll get 1/36 of an XBox 360. The promotion ends March 18th.
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Friday, March 10, 2006 12:53 PM

Team System Delete Project

If you need to delete a Team System Project you need to do it through a command line utility that is installed with Team Explorer. In my case, I created a test project but wanted to also test project deletion. There is no way to delete a project from
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Friday, March 10, 2006 10:28 AM

VSTS TFS Install Notes

As I wrote yesterday, I've just gone through my first real install of VSTS Team Foundation Server . For the most part it went without a hitch. A big part of that was due to the excellent documentation, which really must be followed step by step. Even
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:19 PM

VSTS Team Suite Product Key From MSDN

I noticed that my Visual Studio Team Suite install on my dev machine was down to less than 60 days for its trial. I'd completely forgotten that I'd installed it as a trial back in October or whatever when it was not quite RTM'd, so I threw in my MSDN
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Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:37 PM

Installing TFS RC

I had to buy a new box to install Team Foundation Server -- apparently it just won't work on my old Dell Inspiron laptop from around 2001 (P3, 866Mhz). Seems it requires at least a P4 2.2GHz. The complete system requirements can be found in the latest
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 2:50 PM

IE6 Flash Eolas Patch Workaround

I’ve been dealing with the IE6 Eolas Patch that was released last week (February 28) via Windows Update as an optional download. This patch affects IE by forcing the user to click on any active content (Flash being the one I’m concerned with here) to
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Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:26 PM

Another Viral Marketing Buzz Campaign Almost Over

Ron McDaniel who is into Buzz Marketing posted about the TextPayMe marketing effort that I’m participating in. When I last checked, they’d given away 11 $300 XBox 360 systems (5 of which appear to be to the same CP from Washington). That works out to
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