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Last night I attended the monthly RVNUG (Roanoke Valley .NET User’s Group) meeting. Kevin Hazzard gave a good presentation on Silverlight 2.0, which I have been eager to try. After what I saw last night, and now that I have a little experience with WPF, I am even more eager to give it a shot. 
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I recently wrote about the idea of using Generic Delegates to create Local Methods (methods wholly defined within the scope of another method). Today, I had a practical application for this technique so I wanted to share it. In this example, our task is to build a portion of an SQL update string tha
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Last week, I finally got the ball rolling on our IIS server. With a little help from a friend, I managed to get the SSL Certificate installed. A quick tutorial, and the site was moved to the server but it would not respond. Monday, I managed to get the site to respond by installing the [...]
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In a recent post entitled I am a Professional Geek, I mentioned that I only geek at work. Well, Saturday I had the opportunity to prove just how deep that particular Rabbit hole goes… I gave a presentation on .NET 3.5 Language Enhancements at the Richmond Code Camp Saturday morning, and boy di
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Just a weekly update… When I bought this machine, I picked up a new wireless mouse and keyboard. About a week ago, I noticed that my mouse had a flashing red light on it. I had never seen it before, and I quickly realized that this is a battery low indicator light. I [...]
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I wrote briefly about the new Func generic delegate in Part 3 of the Upgrade your C# Skills series. Today, I wanted to explore this in a little more detail. I’m sure that most of us have created many private methods to outsource code from one method to another. There are times we do [...]
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Yesterday I attended the ReMIX08 mini-conference at Microsoft’s Mountain View campus, which is organized every year by Dan’l Lewin’s Emerging Business Team. Due to travel plans, I missed the increasingly popular MIX08 event in Vegas this year, so I was looking forward to a condense
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You may have experienced an odd occurrence on the site today, and if so I apologize. For some inexplicable reason, the site encountered the dreaded Wordpress Blank Page issue. Last I checked, which I think was yesterday afternoon, the site loaded just fine. Today, however, I noticed that the front p
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Scott Guthrie announced the availability of a new preview of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data functionality. The idea behind this functionality is that you can generate a fully functional application based upon a LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities model. This reminds me a lot of the Naked Objects Framework fro
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Since Jon Skeet recently announced he is joining Google, I thought it was worth mentioning that the GMail Team is hiring. I’ve wondered several times in the past what it would be like to work at Google. I think the truth is that I’m not geeky enough, but I would probably enjoy it [...]
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I was just reading Payton Byrd’s recent post about the two types of programmers, which references another post about the same topic by Jeff Atwood, and I felt encouraged to respond. Growing Up ABM I honestly couldn’t care less about the open-source vs. Microsoft wars. My background is pr
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The Unity Application Block version 1.0 has been released and is available on CodePlex here. A good overview of the configuration of Unity was written by Matthew Podwysocki. The xml configuration is a little unique compared to other DI containers. I plan on adding support for the xml configuration t
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At InnerWorkings, we see daily evidence of a thriving .NET community in the United Kingdom. Many of our web customers are British developers and .NET teams who wisely take full advantage of Sterling’s commanding position relative to the weakening U.S. dollar. But that’s another post and
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The last thing I did yesterday before I went home was write the code for (and post) a simple class for reading HTTP Request Server Variables. I like the idea, because it allows the consumer to use Intellisense and variable names instead of doing a value lookup using a string. Nick at Coder Journal l
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I have admitted in the past that I am not an experienced ASP.NET developer, so this may be a “DUH” post, but I thought it was a good idea and wanted to share. For the ASP.NET MVC application I’ve been working on, I needed to send the user to another domain (on the same server) for
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This morning I the site upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, and I am very impressed! I know it is not .Net, but I think there are plenty of you who might be interested. So here is my list of top 7 cool new WP features: Permalink editing: you can now preview and edit the Permalink of [...]
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I’m going to start off by saying that this is a totally lame post, but I resolved to post at least once a week, so here it is. Site Change Scott Hanselman had an interesting post this week that got me thinking about how I judge the success of this blog. Like he mentions, I check in [...]
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ScottGu has just announced the release of the ASP.NET MVC Source Code. You can download the code from CodePlex. It is important to note that this does not mean MVC will be open source (or that it won’t be), just that they are sharing the code during development so that we do not [...]
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According to Timm over at DevTopics, this year is the 40th anniversary of the much maligned cubicle. Since that time, cubicles have been reviled, scorned, berated, ridiculed, and generally hated. According to the article though, 70% of American office workers spend their work time in a cubicle. Othe
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Next week, I’ll be heading to VSLive. The pre-conference workshops actually begin Sunday, March 30, but I will be arriving a few days early for a short vacation with the family for Spring Break. If you are going to be there and want to meet up, reply to this post or send me an email. Also, if