My friend, Wallace McClure's book will be out soon (end of November). If you will be doing any ADO.NET 2.0 development, against SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL, then I recommend you check out his book. Here's the page on Amazon.
I you have a DNN site, and are wanting to run a knowledge base for you company or product, then look no further. The KBDnn module was built by the best guys in the business, and for the cheap price, you can't go wrong.
Now that VS/SQL/VSTS are available for download, I've been getting a lot of licensing questions, especially about MSDN/U subscriptions and the elusive Team Suite. Ajay Sudan put together a nice, consise FAQ at the VSTS forum.
Today is the day. Visual Studio 2005 (including all VSTS editions) and SQL Server 2005 are available to the public for download from MSDN.
Thank you for attending my talk this morning. Here is a text file with my sample code. Enjoy!
The Team Foundation Server setup experience has been evolving for over a year now in response to feedback Microsoft has received. While they’ve made significant progress since the first release last year as Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, there’s still more that can be done. Microsoft has created a survey to ask some specific questions based on your experience with Team Foundation Server Beta 3. If you have attempted (successfully or otherwise) to install Team Foundation Server Beta 3, Microsoft invites you to participate in this brief online survey.
The survey can be taken anonymously, or you have the option of providing contact information should wish to be contacted about your setup experience. Partial surveys are not preserved, so please complete the survey before navigating away from the page.
Microsoft has listed the VSTS MVPs on their site. You can view their profiles here.
What is an MVP?
The MVP award is a one-year renewable reward given to just under 3,000 customers worldwide who are community leaders for their past year's accomplishments in a specific competency (ex: ASP.NET, C#, VSTS). A non-Microsoft employee is nominated by an employee or other MVP, their contributions to the community are evaluated, and they are voted on by an MVP Lead and PG Lead. Contributions can include answering MSDN Forum questions, writing articles & books, having an active & popular blog, working with the product teams, running a local user group, giving presentations, etc. A quick intro to what an MVP is can be found on the MVP Website.
Team System MSDN Public ChatVisual Studio Team System for Software Developer & Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers
When: Wednesday 10/19/05 @ 10am PST
What: The Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web & Load Testing, and Code Analysis (FxCop & PREFast). We have questions for you, will answer questions from you, and will chat about the exciting new technology.
A bit belated in this posting, but Steven Borg and I are both Microsoft MVPs now! I attended the MVP summit a few weeks ago as an RD, and I've got to say that I am in some good company, and am really impressed at the level of support Microsoft gives to this program.
Seattle Code Camp is just around the corner - about 10 days away. Steven Borg and I are going to be presenting a couple of Team System and SQL Server 2005 topics at camp and we hope to see you there!
A friend of mine sent me this link. It's a pretty good refrence page on the core keyboard shortcuts.
Microsoft’s senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, discusses support for the PDF Format in Office 12. It appears it will be as simple as "Save-as".
Read the Q&A here.
I had a student just show me the Wayback Machine, which is a Web site that caches other sites all the way back to 1998. So, if you want to see how the old Microsoft or Google site looked a few years ago, you can! And, yes Google's site did look different in 1999.
You heard how much fun we had at the Portland Code Camp in July. Plan now to join us at the Seattle Code Camp October 22 and 23. That's only a few weeks away. Oh, and the best thing about Code Camp is that anyone can present a topic, so propose something!
Channel 9 has picked up the Scott Cate's AJAX video. Yes, that's me chillin in the background!
Microsoft and Plam announced today that an upcoming model of the Treo (early 2006) will run Windows Mobile 5.0. Verizon will provide the high-speed network.
I've been heads-down all week building content for the big launch on November 7, but I wanted to blog about Dave Bost being hired on by Microsoft. He'll be assuming the role of Developer Evangelist for the midwest district, and he's joining at a great time, what with Team System, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and BizTalk Server all launching soon!
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