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Monday, April 30, 2007 2:39 AM

Mr. Smith Goes to Moscow

I’ll be in Moscow next Monday, presenting to a .NET user group there. The topic will be .NET Caching Best Practices. The meeting place and time are as follows: Moscow dot NET Alliance (MDNA) Group Microsoft Russia, Building 1, 17 Krylatskaya Str.,
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:50 PM

Silverlight Resources

Here are some useful links related to Microsoft Silverlight: Microsoft Silverlight Home Silverlight Forums Official Community MSDN for Developers Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:49 PM

Old Team System News

This is all from last month, but I’ve been busy so it’s been in my queue. Sorry for the late “news”: Microsoft acquired TeamPlain, makers of TeamPlain Web Access for connecting to TFS via a browser. TeamPlain will be free to anybody
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:25 PM

The Region for Microsoft Regional Directors

There is a new web site which aggregates content from Microsoft Regional Directors call The Region , which went live last week. Keep an eye on it to keep tabs on Regional Directors as a whole, and to see what they’re collectively doing and talking
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:21 PM

Speaking at Connection in Vegas in November

I found out that I should be speaking at the DevConnections show this fall. The show is being held in Las Vegas again, November 5–8th. I apologize to anybody that had hoped to see me present last month in Orlando at the spring show – I was
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Friday, April 13, 2007 11:32 AM

Outlook 2007 POP3 Slowness

Outlook 2007 has a number of issues with performance, one of which relates to downloads taking a very long time with POP3 email accounts. Microsoft has recently published a KB article that should fix some scenarios where this occurs, specifically on Windows
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:42 PM

Display Current Bin Folder Content Information

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed. For some components, I can create a new instance of the control
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:24 PM

Free Remote Desktop Manager Tool

If you remote into many machines, this should appeal to you. Terminals is a free, open source project on CodePlex that allows much better management of remote desktop connections than the default XP/Vista experience. Check it out today, it’s a quick
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:14 PM

Expression Added To MSDN

Initially it seemed that the Expression suite of products would not be included in the MSDN subscription, which caused a fair bit of uproar among developers who will be charged with working with designers and, often times, mocking up their own designs
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