Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis )

The other day I made mention of something new coming to Flickr , well it's been announced ! Sweet, now I can use flickr for a complete image backup solution, before I was worried about reaching my upload limit each month!

I wanted to give a shout out of thanks to Dave Wanta and Advanced Intellect . Dave has written a component called AspNetEmail. You may be asking yourself, "Email is built into .NET, so what?" Well, getting calendaring done is kindof a pain. I plugged in Dave's component and it just worked. I had a few questions and Dave knew the ...

As I'm putting together the final touches on tommorow's SharePoint security webcast (you should still be able to register, after all I'm not having everyone over to my house... well, not quite), I noticed my SharePoint VHD file (the virtual hard disk format used by Virtual PC) has got quite large. This is due to the fact that I uninstalled Beta ...

Posted at Ardent Dev by Derek Hatchard ( Go directly to post ): You heard it here first: the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference will be October 2 - 5, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the future of the Microsoft platform. Registration ...

Wow, I did not even know that this existed. Microsoft has released a 1.0 of the Microsoft Robotics Studio. It looks like they can connect up and program against a variety of these small robotic toys. Hmm, wonder what I will be getting my kids for Christmas(or is that me).................. Robotics Studio Download: ...

It's been silent for a while again, mostly due to a lot of time going to my new job. One of the things I've come up with lately is a new personal blog to share some of my consultant experiences. It's written in Dutch however, since it's less technical and more personal :) Technical posts will still come up here, and here is a small ...

Quite some time ago I found out MSDN was moving towards a community content driven approach. A wiki style approach to the vast tome of knowledge known to us as the MSDN Library. This was a good move and I wanted to see it blast off as soon as possible. However the implementation has been somewhat lackluster. When I found out about MSDNWiki I was ...

I've written a small and rather simple powershell cmdlet which allows you to list the core and application properties of office documents, so that you can do something like this: Samples: Get-DocProps –path "*.docx" | where { $_.Creator –eq "John Doe" } Get-ChildItem "*.docx" | get-docprops | where { ...

This last Wednesday, myself and two other members of the Thycotic team presented at the WinProTeam Rockville meeting. Topic : Data Access Strategies for your .NET Development Three sessions presented by members of our Thycotic team – John Morales , Ryan Olshan and me. 1. ADO.NET Interfaces and how to be database agnostic Ever wanted to ...

Posted at Ardent Dev by Derek Hatchard ( Go directly to post ): Finally got podcast episode #3 and show notes posted at http://devcasting.com/index.php/2006/12/06/devcasting-3-give-me-20-cents/ . The show has a name now: Devcasting . And we're in iTunes. Just search the iTunes store for devcasting or browse through the Technology category of the ...

Oh bother. Visual Studio 2003 and Cruise Control.NET. Simple and elegant. A basic NAnt script to build the solution and you're good to go. Run NUnit, output goes to a format CC can understand and Bob's yer uncle. Let me quantify this. Our cruise server has a subversion client (command line) and the .NET 1.1 SDK. Visual Studio isn't ...

Just saw that the Visual Studio for Database Professionals is on MSDN now. It RTMed earlier this week but you can download the DVD image now. Also there is the MSDN Library to accompany it and for those without a Team Suite license, a trial version is available. I'll be doing some more posts on this later as I'm doing a demo next week of ...

[Abstract: From looking at current issues of .NET developer magazines in Germany I get the impression, their current format is outdated. Publishing software development content primarily on paper does not really cater to the needs of developers anymore. That way not enough relevant topics can be covered in each issue to make most of the readers ...

The Proforma site, currently has the Forrester Wave and Gartner Magic Quadrant documents for BPM tools available online. IDS Scheer via ARIS maintains its lead, but is being challenged by Proforma and MEGA.

In the movie “ The Devil wears Prada ” the opening title shows our main character as she is happily getting ready for her first day at a new job – assistant at a big fashion magazine. As she gets ready for her day, the movie contrasts her preparations with those of other busy bees -- ones that are closely tied to the fashion industry – models, ...

I have noticed that IE 6/7 throws an "Unspecified Error" exception when it attempts to get the offsetParent property of a DOM object after the DOM tree has been modified. Here is a repro. Rremove the space in java script before running (in bold below): < html > < head > < script type ="text/javascript"> var ...

I saw this via Frans , but it's worth linking to... http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html As ridiculous as it all seems, isn't it strange how you can't really generalize that this is the way things go all over the company. The Xbox team doesn't appear to roll this way, and in all of the talking ...

A little bird tells me that in a few hours you'll be able to get Automise (that's the system admin's version of FinalBuilder - my favorite build automation tool) over here for a 90% discount - less than $20 instead of $195 for a 24 hour window. That's a good way to draw attention to yourself :) As a happy FinalBuilder user I can tell you that ...

Is there a way to count SQL transactions in an ASP.NET Request/Response cycle? In other words, is there some simple bit of code you can wire into an HttpModule at starts and ends counting in the events of my choice? The background here is that I was chatting with some people about performance testing in a fairly complex app. We've got a fair ...