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Unit Testing for Mobile Devices

paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:54:00 GMT

MSDN Webcast: Unit Testing for Mobile Devices

Unit testing is now available for mobile device developers using Visual Studio 2008. In this sample-filled webcast, Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys explore unit testing for devices. Not only will you learn how to create unit tests for smart device applications, you'll learn how to debug unit tests and how to run unit tests inside a command prompt. Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:00 AM PST. Register here

Games for Windows on Live

paul — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:41:00 GMT

LIVE now free for Games for Windows

Introducing Games for Windows – LIVE, the free gaming service built for Windows that makes great Windows games even better. With Games for Windows – LIVE, you get an online identity – called a gamertag – and a friends list that works across multiple games, the XBOX 360, and even the Zune music service. You can easily find and communicate with your friends online with text and voice chat. Earn achievements and Gamerscore that lets you track and compare your accomplishments.
Get Started

Windows Vista Story

paul — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:00 GMT

First hints of Microsoft’s “fight back” ads appear

Windows Vista wasn't defined by Apple's TV commercials, it was misunderstood by the so called Marketing Teams at Microsoft.

Windows Vista was created for the next generation of PC's and not to make your old PC better. I'm writing this blog post on a quad-core Phenom system with two ATI Radeon HD GPU's, so I love Windows Vista.

MAC's only have 8.5% market share, so now Microsoft is going to spend 300 million dollars to counter the perception that MAC's have attained a 60% share of the market rather then promote the next generation of PC's with better graphics then have ever been seen on any Apple machine.

Evolution of Networking

paul — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Brocade Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Foundry Networks

I just got an email from Michael Klayko the CEO Brocade

It is my pleasure to share the exciting news that today Brocade entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Foundry Networks, a performance and total solutions leader for enterprise and service provider networking. This combination uniquely positions Brocade to further accelerate the innovation and delivery of high-performance, ultra-reliable networks.

It is evident that the networks of today – from the Internet to corporate LANs, to mission-critical data center networks – are undergoing dynamic change and architectural reconsideration. Network traffic and data growth continue to expand at unprecedented levels. You have increased expectations for performance and reliability. And you are asking for more choices and for more integrated solutions.

Link Listing - July 20, 2008

csteen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:41:53 GMT

Today

Monday
Jul 21 2008

HUNTUG Meeting - Virtualization by Blain Barton, Microsoft
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758

Tomorrow

Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Dallas ASP.Net User Group
7000 State Highway 161 , Irving, TX, 75039
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Dallas .NET New Technology Study Group
15950 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500, Dallas, TX, 75248
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group
6055 Rockside Woods Blvd, Lower Level, Cleveland, OH, 44131
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110

Next Two Weeks

Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182
Tuesday
Jul 29 2008

Philly.NET Hands-On Lab: alt.net MVP (Model View Presenter)
1140 Virginia Dr., Ft. Washington, PA, 19034
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Delaware DotNet Grok Talk
Robinson Hall, Rm 206, Newark, DE, 19716
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Dynamic Data With Rachel Appell
Delaware Technology Park, 1 Innovation Way, Newark , DE, 19711
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Richmond Meet and Code Dinner
4880 Cox Rd., Glen Allen, VA, 23238
Monday
Aug 04 2008

Fort Smith .NET User Group August Meeting
4001 Planters Rd., Fort Smith, AR, 72908
Tuesday
Aug 05 2008

Sharpoint Development: It's all about the features
922 East Emma Avenue, Springdale, AR, 72764
Tuesday
Aug 05 2008

CMAP August Meeting - Introduction to Workflow Services
6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046

Icahn Get's a Seat

paul — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn owns 68,786,320 sharies, 4.98% of Yahoo and now he will be appointed to the Board and then two of eleven seats will be filled by the Board.

This agreement will not only allow Yahoo! to put the distraction of the proxy contest behind us, it will allow the Company to continue pursuing its strategy of being the starting point for Internet users and a must buy for advertisers. No other company in the Internet space has our unique combination of global brand, talented employees, innovative technologies and exceptional assets, attributes that will help us take advantage of the large and growing opportunity ahead of us. I look forward to working together with our new colleagues on the Board to make that happen. - Jerry Yang

At the opening bell sharies of MSFT rise in the hope that this insanity is over.

Link Listing - July 17, 2008

csteen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:14:58 GMT

AJAX

ASP .net AJAX Event handlers - the very very basics [Via: xxxd ]
AJAX: Working with Events [Via: bmains ]

Sharepoint

WCF SharePoint integration MSDN WebCast [Via: gsusx ]

WPF

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Customer Feedback and a WPF Font ComboBox [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Miscellaneous

Windows Impersonator Class [Via: kevin ]
Learning Erlang - Erlang Gaining Momentum [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]
Reintroducing Terrarium, now with 2.0 goodness! [Via: Bil Simser ]
Don't Mix Lambda Expressions and Using Statements [Via: Jesse Ezell ]
Make a positive number a negative number in 1 line of C# code - A code quiz! [Via: admin ]
Some extension methods for DateTime [Via: DigiMortal ]
CodeStore - Part 1 of n (TreeSurgeon, Castle Windsor, Log4net) [Via: laghari78 ]
Recursing into List Processing [Via: Matthew Podwysocki ]
Public Terrarium Server Available [Via: Bil Simser ]
CodeStore - Part 2 of n (SQLite, NHibernate) [Via: laghari78 ]

ASP.NET MVC

Notes on ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 [Via: Haacked ]
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4: ComponentController Is Now RenderAction [Via: Rob Conery ]
Testing TempData in ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 [Via: Matt ]
Upgrading Code Camp Server to Preview 4 [Via: Ben Scheirman ]
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Finds [Via: mhawley ]
MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout With Jeff Atwood [Via: Rob Conery ]

Community

Richmond Meet and Code Dinner - July 2008 [Via: Justin Etheredge ]
RV.NUG Annual -thon event [Via: Robin Edwards ]
User Groups and Blogs [Via: Robin Edwards ]
RV.NUG Presentation - Unit Testing a Buggy Starter Kit [Via: Robin Edwards ]
Announcing the new Philly.Net Group on LinkedIn [Via: Andrew Schwam ]
in.telligent 2008 [Via: Scott Watermasysk ]

Jobs

Mid to Senior Level Developer Needed: Bartlesville, OK [Via: okcodemonkey ]
SolArc Applications Developer/Analyst: Tulsa, OK [Via: okcodemonkey ]

Silverlight

Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2008 -- #325 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Silverlight Cream for July 16, 2008 -- #326 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Update - kb955011 [Via: Michael Schwarz ]
Silverlight Cream for July 17, 2008 -- #327 [Via: Dave Campbell ]
Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control ( Part 1 ) [Via: mtaulty ]
Silverlight 3D Engine : Balder supports Silverlight 2 Beta 2 now! [Via: Michael Sync ]
Silverlight Cream for July 17 - 2 -- #328 [Via: Dave Campbell ]

Virtual Earth

WEBCAST RECORDING: Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth and ASP.NET AJAX [Via: Public Sector DPE Team ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

No Events

Tomorrow

Saturday
Jul 19 2008

Microsoft Access SIG, North Texas PC User Group
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75240

Next Two Weeks

Monday
Jul 21 2008

HUNTUG Meeting - Virtualization by Blain Barton, Microsoft
Intergraph Corporation, Building 15B, 170 Graphics Drive, Madison, AL, 35758
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Dallas ASP.Net User Group
7000 State Highway 161 , Irving, TX, 75039
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Dallas .NET New Technology Study Group
15950 Dallas Parkway, Suite 500, Dallas, TX, 75248
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group
6055 Rockside Woods Blvd, Lower Level, Cleveland, OH, 44131
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110
Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Delaware DotNet Grok Talk
Robinson Hall, Rm 206, Newark, DE, 19716
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Dynamic Data With Rachel Appell
Delaware Technology Park, 1 Innovation Way, Newark , DE, 19711
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Richmond Meet and Code Dinner
4880 Cox Rd., Glen Allen, VA, 23238

Y Exclamation

paul — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:36:00 GMT

There are too many Biz Blogs circulating in the Tech sphere and to them Carl Icahn is a real life Gordon Gekko riding in to save the day. The truth is that the Carl Icahn's of the world profit without ever creating value. Jerry and David created the number one web destination from one server and a little attitude, it takes a community to keep it growing.

MVC Framework - A Needle In a Haystack

timbarcz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:54:00 GMT

This is the third in an ongoing series of articles about my team's transition to the Asp.NET MVC Framework. In my last post I blogged a bit about how I haven't quite got comfortable enough with the new MVC framework to feel über productive. What augments the feeling is the difficulty of finding quality information. The data is few and far between and only sometimes relevant.

I was struggling yesterday to find information on the ComponentController class. Things I was finding were from the Preview 2 release but finding something on the Preview 3 release was a bit more challenging. Things are rapidly changing...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/MVCFrameworkANeedleInAHaystack.aspx

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Formatting Output with String.Format() Part 2 - Left and Right Alignment

timbarcz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:47:00 GMT

I recently posted some code that could have taken advantage of format strings available when using the ToString() for integer output. The other day I was building a report for a moonlighting gig where some of the text had to be right aligned and left aligned. String.Format() does that as well. I've seen some goofy attempts at formatting text, presumably not realizing...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/FormattingOutputWithStringFormatPart2LeftAndRightAlignment.aspx

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NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting

paul — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:25:00 GMT

Speaker Idol Competition

Tonights NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting - Five technical presentations, with a panel of judges including Mary Jo Foley
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Register here

MVC Framework - Learning to Walk

timbarcz — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:35:00 GMT

A few days ago I posted that our team was making the transition from webforms to MVC. Since then a few days have gone by and I wanted to post my some struggles and successes (however few) in recent days. First, it's been tough wrapping my head around the shift from web forms to MVC. I would caution anyone making a similar shift or considering it, that...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/MVCFrameworkLearningToWalk.aspx

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DNS Bug

paul — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:04:00 GMT

Dan Kaminsky: Upgrade Your DNS Now!

Dan Kaminsky is a well-known and respected security researcher, particularly famous for his work with DNS -- the fundamental naming technology which powers the Internet. When he announced a protocol-level flaw in DNS affecting almost every available implementation, vendors and other security researchers paid attention.

Now it's time for administrators and users to pay attention. On August 7, the Internet might get much more dangerous. Patches are available to ameliorate the problem. In this video, recorded at Foo Camp 2008, Dan explains how he discovered the flaw and what you need to do to keep your users and their data safe.

Link Listing - July 15, 2008

csteen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:58:20 GMT

ASP.NET

West Wind Ajax Toolkit updated [Via: Rick Strahl ]

WPF

Clicking or DoubleClicking on an Item in a ListView [Via: Matthias Shapiro ]

Code Camps

Silicon Valley Code Camp Registration Open [Via: Beth Massi ]

Link Collections

The Morning Brew #136 [Via: Chris Alcock ]
Daily Find #90 [Via: Tim ]
Links (7/15/2008) [Via: Arjan Zuidhof ]

Miscellaneous

How to: Use the Jet Engine to import comma or tab delimited files. [Via: Jan Schreuder ]

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access [Via: swalther ]

Community

Pittsburgh .NET User Group (Pgh.NET) Summer Slam VII [Via: zxue ]
July 22nd - Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Nerd Dinner [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Jobs

Dew Drop - July 15, 2008 [Via: Alvin Ashcraft ]

Upcoming Events

(via Community Megaphone)

Today

Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Philly.NET - An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight
45 Liberty Blvd., Suite 210, Malvern, PA, 19355
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Colorado Springs SQL Server Users Group Meeting
7450 Campus Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80920, Colorado Springs, CO, 80920
Wednesday
Jul 16 2008

Capital DotNetNuke User Group
1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA, 22182

Tomorrow

Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Pittsburgh Technology Council Summer Slam VII
253 N Shore Dr., Pittsburgh, PA, 15212
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

North Houston DNUG July Meeting
3200 College Park Drive , The Woodlands, TX, 77384
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Midlands PASS Monthly Meeting
250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC 29210, Columbia, SC, 29210
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

NetDug User Grou Meeting
500 S 10th St, Boise, ID, 83709
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Philly ALT.NET Meeting - Building Maintainable Applications with WPF
30 N 33rd St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Charlottesville .NET User Group
One SNL Plaza (SNL HQ), Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

Richmond SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
4600 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA, 23060
Thursday
Jul 17 2008

HRSSUG July Meeting
5501 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA, 23462

Next Two Weeks

Saturday
Jul 19 2008

Microsoft Access SIG, North Texas PC User Group
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75240
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting
1525 Greenspring Valley Rd, Stevenson, MD, 21153
Tuesday
Jul 22 2008

Data Services with Silverlight 2
4 British American Blvd, Latham, NY, 12110
Thursday
Jul 24 2008

DC ALT.NET Meeting
1600 K St NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006
Monday
Jul 28 2008

Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting
1900 Gallows Rd , Vienna, VA, 22182
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Delaware DotNet Grok Talk
Robinson Hall, Rm 206, Newark, DE, 19716
Thursday
Jul 31 2008

Dynamic Data With Rachel Appell
Delaware Technology Park, 1 Innovation Way, Newark , DE, 19711

Making Good On a Promise

timbarcz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:06:00 GMT

Last week I blogged a about Unappreciated Open Source projects. In the post I made a commitment:

From here on I've resolved to donate a dollar any time I download a free library or webcast where a donate link is presented. Why $1? In all honesty it is something I can commit to.

I'm thoroughly looking forward to watching the...

Read the rest at: http://www.timbarcz.com/blog/MakingGoodOnAPromise.aspx

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DotNetJunkies Server

Unit Testing for Mobile Devices

Games for Windows on Live

Windows Vista Story

Evolution of Networking

Link Listing - July 20, 2008

WPF

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

ASP.NET MVC

Community

Silverlight

Web

Virtual Earth

Tools

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Icahn Get's a Seat

Link Listing - July 17, 2008

AJAX

Sharepoint

WPF

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

ASP.NET MVC

Community

Jobs

Silverlight

Virtual Earth

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Y Exclamation

MVC Framework - A Needle In a Haystack

Formatting Output with String.Format() Part 2 - Left and Right Alignment

NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting

MVC Framework - Learning to Walk

DNS Bug

Link Listing - July 15, 2008

ASP.NET

WPF

Code Camps

Link Collections

Miscellaneous

ASP.NET MVC

Community

Jobs

Upcoming Events

Today

Tomorrow

Next Two Weeks

Making Good On a Promise