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Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:15 PM

Vista on MSDN

Windows Vista Ultimate is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Nuff said. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 9:01 PM

Vista, DotNet3 Available

Just announced: Today Microsoft achieved another significant Vista milestone: the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista Business and Enterprise Editions are now available to business and enterprise customers in English. This is exactly one week
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:19 PM

AssemblyBinding in Web Config and XMLNS

Ran into this (again, I think) today while setting up some assembly binding between Telerik and PeterBlum controls in my LakeQuincy web site. The short version is that the presence of an xmlns= in your <configuration> node of web.config will prevent
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:53 PM

WebDevHelper Now Has Atlas Support

Nikhil has updated his WebDevHelper utility to include direct support for Atlas. His original WebDevHelper is a nice plug-in for the browser that provides a lot of similar functionality to the FireFox development toolbar combined with the Fiddler utility.
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Monday, November 13, 2006 11:13 AM

Speaking in Arizona in March 2007

I’ll be speaking at the Arizona .NET user group on 7 March 2007 about Caching and Performance. More information here . The session’s description is: This session focuses on fundamentals of performance and scalability design, testing, and optimization,
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Friday, November 10, 2006 11:52 AM

DevConnections Fall 2006 Summary

Got back home last night from DevConnections in Las Vegas. It was a very good show this year in terms of content, products being launched, and numbers of attendees and exhibitors. I think I had more people in my sessions than usual, too, and they all
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:16 PM

DevConnections Keynotes

Scott Guthrie's keynote this morning covered a few ASP.NET AJAX features. It was impressive to see how quickly he was able to move around during his demo and literally create the sample applications from scratch. He also showed some screenshots of the
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Monday, November 06, 2006 2:56 AM

SqlDependency Issue Resolved

I’m doublechecking my demos for my sessions at DevConnections this week and I think I finally fixed an issue that has plagued me off and on for the last year or more when I’ve been demonstrating the new SQL 2005 SqlDependency features. It
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Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:19 PM

Excel Pivot Chart from Reporting Services Video

Last week I wrote about some fun I was having with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in Excel . Well, yesterday I got around to recording a screencast video of how to create Pivot Chart reports using Reporting Services, Excel, and SoftArtisans Officewriter.
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Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:15 PM

CSModules Added

I’ve added the MetaBlogExtender and ShareIt modules from ScottW’s CSModules pack . Let me know if you have any other requests for modules or add-ons and if you have any problems with this one. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg
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