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Great news folks, it looks like the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally released, although IMHO it's more of a Feature Pack (since new features have been added as well). You'll see some greate new features like The ADO.NET Entity Framework and some new ASP.NET Extensions. Here's the descri 
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The Visual Studio team has released an update (July update) of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. They add a few new features to the TFS environment, and the one that I like the best is the “Build Notification tool.” If you are using VSTFS than you’ll probably want to add these Power Tools to y
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I was preparing for a meeting that I have later this week, to talk about how to “Best Architect a SharePoint Infrastructure” and I was referring a a great resource that I’ve been using to both understand and help my customers understand the “in’s and out’s “ of planning SharePoint Installations from
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The office team has just released a Infrastructure and Performance update for Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 (WSS 3.0). Anything to improve the performance of SharePoint in my Virtual PC environment is welcome! My physical servers run beautifully, but running multiple Virtual PC’s on a dual-core lapt
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Eamon Barker posted a list of what he uses for SharePoint development, posted here. I use all of the products that he uses with the exception of Fiddler (a free HTTP debugger), which I just downloaded and it looks very useful. So, one thanks Eamon for your post and the heads-up on Fiddler (Click her
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I was just pointed to this resource by one of the readers of this blog (thanks Sean), as a Open Source option for streaming video on your site, or recording demonstrations (like I’ve done on this blog). I use Camtasia Studio version 5 by TechSmith (www.techsmith.com), which is great software, but it
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I am starting to research Windows Presentation Foundation for a demonstration that I am working on and one of the resources that I was pointed to was the 3 videos that I am linking to below. In addition to that, there are some Virtual Labs, provided by Microsoft, that look promising. After I’ve gone
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I was looking for a LINQ provider for LDAP this morning and ran across Charlie Calvert’s blog that had a great list of Hyperlinks to other LINQ Providers. I will list them below, to save you one click, but you should look at Charlie’s blog, it’s pretty good (I have subscribed to his feed). Here’s th
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This is the latest (update) to the popular and free windows zoom utility called ZoomIt (published by Mark Russinovich). I use it in my videos and whenever I do demonstrations/presentations of my code. It’s lightweight and easy to use. Here’s the description of the tool, from the site: ZoomIt is scre
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Although I am not a Mac owner, I am a major proponent of using Windows Remote Desktop to manage my Development Servers (all Virtual Machines), so I thought that I would let you Macintosh owners know that there is a solution that will allow you to Remote Desktop to your Windows Environment as well. H
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I just found this list of new add-ins for Windows Desktop Search. I like the add-ins, because they give me a finer degree of search filtering and capability within my Desktop Search. The Outlook “Saved Mail” (#3 on the list) is of most importance for me, but I figured I would list all 3, since some
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Although I am not a “Security Professional” by any stretch of the imagination, I have like many developers, servers that are Internet-facing. I was on a search for a free utility that would let me restrict the types of request to one of my Web Server boxes, and stumbled upon this free utility by Mic
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The Ted Pattison group has released a video on how to build AJAX-enabled web parts, using a real-world example. It’s a video goes into some depth, considering the subject, and will shorten your learning process a bit, so I thought that it was worthy of sharing. Here’s the overview (from the site): L
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Here are the latest tools for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) for developers using Visual Studio 2008. This is version 1.2 of the tools (Version 1.1 of the tools released about a month earlier). Here’s the overview: Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project
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This was a very, very good “How to” video on how to add security to your applications with .NET (both in C# and VB.NET). It’s only about 30 minutes long, and offers code downloads in both C# and VB.NET. Check it out here: Click here to access video and code downloads ? Grab this Headline Animator ~R
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In this article we’ll be creating a class to generate CAPTCHA graphics that you can use on web sites to help authenticate users as being human and not an automated process. What Is CAPTCHA CAPTCHA is an abbreviation for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
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As a follow-up to my previous article, How To Create Application Plug-ins In VB.NET, Karl Stoney asked for a more complete example. Hopefully this update will help. Tips and Tricks One trick you can use to make your development of these plugins easier is to have multiple projects in your solution.
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Back From a Hiatus I took about a week hiatus from VB Notebook For .NET while I was working on my other, general topic, blog, OpTempo, and another yet-to-be-released web project but I’m back working on this site now. I just need to figure out a good way to do ‘re-runs’ th
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Here’s installment #6 of my VB.NET interview questions series. Previous Installments: #1, #2, #3, #4 , #5 Feel free to add a comment with your answers. Try to answer them before looking at the comments or searching MSDN or Google for an extra challenge. True Or False 1. Base-
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One problem some programmers new to VB.NET and object oriented programming in general have is understanding interfaces and how they related to classes. In this article, we’ll take an introductory look at interfaces and some of the ways you can use them in your VB.NET applicatio