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Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:59 PM

Atlanta Silverlight Training

Shawn Wildermuth is teaching a class on Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 in Atlanta through Dunn Training. The three day Silverlight Workshop is being offered July 16-18, August 13-15, and September 17-19. It looks like it will be a good class, based on the outline
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:53 PM

Slashdot Acknowledges Vista More Secure Than Linux

Wow, even Slashdot, anti-Microsoft capital of the Web, acknowledges that six months after its release, Vista Security is still besting Linux . From the site: "Great report on security vulnerabilities for MS/Linux/OS X . This is a revised version of the
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:02 AM

ASP.NET Scalability Panel Recording Available

I was honored to be asked to participate in a panel discussing ASP.NET Scalability at TechEd 2007 a couple of weeks ago. The panel was moderated by Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks , and included Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad, Rob Howard,
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:56 AM

Update Cache in Background Thread

Peter Bromberg recently wrote an article on refreshing the ASP.NET cache , which referenced my ASP.NET Caching Best Practices article on MSDN . In my original article, I lamented the general uselessness of the CacheItemRemovedCallback feature, and wished
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:45 PM

Vista Network Connection Issue Solved

I've had Vista running since it came out last November. I've had a couple of Maxtor OneTouch II drives (network type) for the last couple of years, and I noticed immediately after installing Vista that I could no longer connect to them. I would be prompted
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:51 AM

Beyond Good Enough Is Waste

I just finished reading Jon Galloway's post, The value of "good enough" technology , and it reminded me of something I repeat very often in my talks on improving performance and/or caching (which share some content as you may imagine). I wanted to emphasize
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Monday, June 25, 2007 12:11 PM

June 2007 Silverlight Resources

There's a nice little series of tutorials at NibblesTutorials that goes through some Silverlight basics (using Silverlight). I haven't had a chance to go through them all yet (naturally) but it definitely looks like good stuff. Also NetikaTech has announced
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:12 AM

Sort Generic List of T

Plenty of others have written about this so I'll keep it brief. I needed to sort some objects based on a string property. Some quick searching led me to this post which got me close to what I wanted. My final code was this: myThings.Sort( delegate
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:08 PM

Acropolis CTP Available

Acropolis CTP 1 is now available. From the source: The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview 1 is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:23 AM

Silverlight 1.1 Setup

I’m working on getting Silverlight 1.1 working in a VPC. A good guide for this stuff is available on the Silverlight.Net site . First, I installed the Orcas Beta 1 VPC which I got from MSDN. Then I went and found the base image I needed after encountering
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:00 AM

WPF for ASP.NET Developers

Brian Noyes gave a presentation to the Cleveland .NET SIG last night on WPF for ASP.NET Developers. I took some notes, which I’ll present a few of here in case they’re helpful to anyone else. WPF Logical Pixels, not physical pixels, each 1/96
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:34 AM

Orcas VPC TimeBombedBase Missing

I downloaded the Orcas Visual Studio Beta 1 VPC from MSDN yesterday and stitched all of the zip files together, and launched it. Ran into the dreaded: “E:\VPC\TimeBombedBase\Base01.vhd” could not be found message. If you run into the same
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:46 PM

ASP.NET Workflow

Matt Winkler posted some very cool stuff regarding using Windows Workflow and ASP.NET on his blog a few days ago. I’m just getting around to commenting on it myself. Incidentally, there are live bits to install this time. Naturally I haven’t
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Monday, June 11, 2007 4:26 PM

TechEd Speaker Idol

TechEd 2007 included a Speaker Idol event hosted by DotNetRocks . The competition was modeled after American Idol, the American phenom show that basically is a rehash of that oh-so-great show, Star Search . The prize for the event was a guaranteed speaker
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Monday, June 11, 2007 3:58 PM

Tech Ed Skydiving

Last Tuesday evening I attended a party at Skyventure , put on my Microsoft. As I understand it, the party was Josh Holmes’ idea, and he and my DE, Drew Robbins, were key to organizing it. I have to say it was a great idea and a lot of fun. The
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:23 PM

Silverlight Video and Camtasia

Some (OK, nearly ALL) of the Silverlight demos shown lately at TechEd and MIX involve hosting videos. The flexibility and customization options that are available to construct branded and unique video player controls with these tools is really quite amazing,
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Sunday, June 03, 2007 9:04 AM

Tech Ed

I arrived in Orlando last night. I’m staying at the Disney Swan (and Dolphin) . I’m planning on making it to Palermo’s Party this evening, though I may be late as I have other engagements. I’m looking forward to meeting up with
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