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VSTS User Group Presentation - VSTS for Database Developers
I'll be presenting at the Visual Studio Team System User Group next month on the features Visual Studio Database Edition provides and how it makes developers more productive.  Recently Microsoft announced it would combine VSTS Database and VSTS Developer Read More...
Silverlight 2 At Last
After what seems like forever, Microsoft has released the final bits for Silverlight 2 .  The product has come an extremely long way since it's code name of WPF/E and its formal introduction as Silverlight 1.1 during Mix 07.  I am ecstatic about Read More...
Microsoft ASP.NET and jQuery
The recent buzz on my blog roll has been that Microsoft has announced that jQuery will be being distributed with the next version of ASP.NET.  I think that this is a HUGE move for Microsoft's relationship with the open source community.  Not Read More...
My Biggest Complaint about Visual Studio
Overall, I love Visual Studio. Every version gets better than the last.  I believe that is the single most productive tool a developer can use.  Eclipse comes in a close second, but this may only be because I live in Visual Studio a lot more Read More...
Dictionary & Collection Initializers
I've been working with the 3.5 Framework pretty much exclusively for last 3 months and I just recently ran across one of the new features that I some how missed, Dictionary & Collection Initializers. Before the C# 3.0 the only collections you could Read More...
Encapsulation Generation Tool
Last week I was helping out on a project and there was a need to encapsulate or wrap an existing type to extend some functionality.  The reason was that functionality in the soon to be encapsulated type could not be extended due to a majority of Read More...
Safe Binding using Lambdas
Friday I was discussing some of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with some co-workers and one of them mentioned a new feature where VS 2008 will do symbolic renaming on all WCF Service Artifacts.  This lead to a conversation on how the Read More...
Yet Another Windows Live Writer Code Plug-in
I took some time this weekend to get our company blog site in order. I have neglected my blog long enough and I am going to start posting more. One of my biggest issues with blogging was the poor web user interface we had be using. So I started digging Read More...