I am presenting two sessions at the Seattle Code Camp, Saturday Jan 26 - Sunday Jan 27, Both of my talks are on Sunday. An ASP.NET Ajax talk at 9:15 AM and a Programming Reporting Services talk at 3 PM. Everything can be found on the Code Camp site, including the schedule and a description of the sessions. The conference is at DigiPen in ...

Visual Studio 2008 is a done deal. It's just a matter of releasing the various versions to the people. Right now, you can download a copy of any of the express versions (VIsual Web Developer Express, Visual C# Express, Visual Basic Express, or Visual C++ Express) from the Express Downloads page. These are the real deal, not some late beta ...

Guy pointed out a great resource for learning the newly released Visual Studio 2008 for free: the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit, from Microsoft.  To quote the site: The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn ...

In my attempt to add to the monotony, I'll say that not long ago Visual Studio 2008 was released to all of the MSDN subscribes. With the news spreading so quickly the downloads are all taking forever. Good luck! Scott Guthrie, as usual, posted some good content about this Visual Studio 2008 release. There will be some trial versions of the ...

It's official now - Microsoft has announced that it will ship Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 later his month, November 2007.  The announcement came earlier today at TechEd Developers in Barcelona, Spain.  I expect a similar announcement will be made this week during the keynotes for DevConnections.  You can read the ...

I'm in Vegas a few days early (before DevConnections) to attend DevExpress's TechSummit2007, where they've invited a bunch of MVPs, authors, speakers, etc. to come and learn more about their controls and tools.  Yesterday we saw some of what they're working toward in the WPF space, with some charts and grids that are not quite ...

In case you haven't seen this news from last Friday, the TFS Beta 2 Virtual PC images have an operating system timebomb in them that is set to expire on 1 November 2007.  This is not, however, the end of the world if you have been using these builds for demo or test purposes, though if you've got them in anything close to a production mode ...

This from Steve Dybing at Microsoft: We know many of you have been testing the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx.  It has been brought to our attention that the current Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will expire on November 1, 2007, rather than March 15, 2008 as originally ...

ASP.NET has some great support for Resources (for localization and internationalization, mainly), but unfortunately by default they're limited to the same project because they're generated with the internal keyword.  I wanted to be able to share common strings for things like Exception messages, format strings, and default messages between ...

ScottGu just made a very exciting announcement - as of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, the base class libraries will ship with source and debug symbols!  What this means to developers is we'll no longer need to resort to tools like Reflector to see what is going on under the covers when we use framework libraries.  These libraries are ...