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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:33 AM

TECHbash is Coming to PA

In just 10 days (May 10th, 2008), TECHbash 2008 will kick off in northeastern Pennsylvania. The show has been around since 2005 and will include several hundred developers, IT professionals, and industry experts from PA and surrounding states. Joe Stagner
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Friday, April 04, 2008 12:37 PM

OpenXML Standardized and Sour Grapes

Earlier this week, the OpenXML document format was standardized by the ISO/IEC, with a huge 86% of voting countries favoring the format ( news here , among other places). While this is interesting and a win for anyone using Microsoft Office document formats
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Friday, March 21, 2008 11:49 AM

MVC Source Code Available

The ASP.NET MVC library's source code has been made available on CodePlex , ScottGu announced today . The project itself is still very much a work in progress, but with this you should be able to get a much better idea of how everything is laid out and
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:07 PM

AJAX Control Toolkit Update Released

Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit . This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:22 PM

Scott Guthrie Promoted to Corporate Vice President

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a number of promotions, among them Scott Guthrie , who is now Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division ( executive profile - promotion press release ). Many of you know Scott from his extremely popular blog
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Monday, February 04, 2008 5:02 PM

Windows Release Schedule 2008

For those of you eagerly awaiting Window Server 2008 (formerly Longhorn), especially you ASP.NET types salivating over IIS7 , the wait is nearly over. Today Microsoft has announced that it as released Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 to manufacturing.
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:05 AM

Microsoft Proposes Yahoo Acquisition

This just in - Microsoft has proposed to acquire Yahoo for $31 per share in a $44B deal. The full details, including the letter sent from Steve Ballmer to the Yahoo board can be found here . If this deal goes through, it should help Microsoft to compete
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:02 PM

Microsoft Auto and Ford SYNC

One of the themes of last night's college championship football game (which, sadly, OSU lost, though not quite as badly as a year ago) during the commercials was the new SYNC technology available from Ford and Lincoln Mercury. I've been peripherally aware
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Friday, December 14, 2007 11:03 AM

Holiday Skins for .NET Controls

As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal. Google has long been known for their creative variations of their
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:28 PM

RegExLib Redesign Complete

We've done some design work on the Regular Expression Library , and cleaned up the code base significantly to get rid of some cruft and fix a few bugs. The site gets a surprisingly large amount of traffic, considering how esoteric a topic regular expressions
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:57 AM

Cool Apps from Microsoft

I attended the Cleveland .NET SIG last night, where Jeff Blankenburg (my new Developer Evangelist ) gave a demo-rich presentation on some cool new(ish) applications Microsoft has been working on this year. Most of them I'd already seen, but it was a good
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Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:10 PM

MVC and ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview Available Now

A couple of days later than expected, but the bits are available now as Brad Abrams announced a little while ago. Read his post for all the goodies, or just Download , Get Started , and Discuss Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:44 PM

PDC 2008 Announced

Microsoft PDC 2008 will be held October 27-30 in Los Angeles. Mark your calendar and check out the site . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 7:09 PM

Web Deployment Projects for VS2008

Yesterday, Microsoft released a CTP for Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2008 . I don't use these in my own projects, having built a robust system that revolves around CruiseControl.NET and PyroBatchFTP, but it sounds like they have fixed some
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Monday, November 19, 2007 10:18 AM

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 Available

Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 is now available to MSDN Subscribers (a fact which is apparently well known, since the server seems to be suffering from the load). Anyway, when the load on the servers reaches an equilibrium, you should be able to pick up
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