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So, I was just talking to one of my coworkers over IM and we were discussing WCF. During the conversation I said: Josh Heyse: programming WCF for 90% of developers is just interfaces and classes marked with ServiceContract and DataContract Josh
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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
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I'm pretty happy with the number of people who have been downloading and trying out Dynamic Data Filtering. On average there are about 20 downloads a day with around 50 page views. There has been a lot of good feedback on both the ASP.NET
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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
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Source control, or revision control, is part of almost every developers daily activities. Some days, it is their only activity. Especially those still using Visual Source Safe. :) Yet it seems that many of us have an extremely hard time with
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Last month Catalyst Software Solutions , my employer, official became a member of the Visual Studio Team System Inner Circle. We have been working with Angela Binkowski over the last couple of months to complete our enrollment within the Inner Circle.
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One of the new features I released with Dynamic Data Filtering 1.10 is the DynamicFilterRepeater control. This control was added based on requests from several people who have implemented Dynamic Data Filtering in their applications. The idea
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After almost a month of sporadic work on Dynamic Data Filtering I am happy to announce that I am releasing the next version. This version includes several new features and a bug fix. It is downloadable from CodePlex . New Features Dynamic
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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
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For the last several weeks I have been engaged at a client on a project originally written by another consulting firm. The project is an ASP.NET 2.0 application and the design isn't the best. My role is to help get them through this last round
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I'm giving my first presentation at the Lake County .NET Users Group (LCNUG) on Thursday, September 25th. The topic is on ASP.NET Dynamic Data, a new feature released with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP 1. I plan to make this presentation extremely
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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
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Last month while I was up in Redmond I meet with the members of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data team and we talked about how to resolve several issues. The main focus was to remove the need for Reflection to access non-public framework members. Based
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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
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I'm not really sure what to call this post, so it's just the name of the control I wrote. A reader left me the following message on a previous post during this series on the extended DynamicDataFilter: Hi I was wondering if you could guide me on
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