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If you have ever read my blog you know I love IDE tips that make me more productive. I learned a cool new productivity tip for Visual Studio 2005 today. This is just another great benefit to paired programming. Thanks for the tip Eugene. Tip of the day:
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Doug Porter was good enough to let me know about a .Net Datawindow 2.0 Web Cast This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. As you know I am a fan of the DataWindow . I however have some issues with it in the .net world, because the SQL and UI
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The last day is always quiet. Many have left. Went to a session this morning. Then went to the hands on lab, they were great this year, Blair and I did a Sparkle lab. That was very very cool. Too bad I couldn't capture a video of it. My windows application
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I attended a great session on C#. Talking about Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods, Object Initializers, Anonymous Types, and Query Expressions. Here are a couple things explained, the others would be way more work then I can handle. We went to Universal
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Went to the keynote this morning. It was all about servers. Some cool demo's but nothing too exciting. I guess if you get all excited about servers it must have been good. There was an excellent video before the session started though. Microsoft people
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This morning at the keynote we were shown some new products that Microsoft is coming out with and a new designer for Visual Studio. The products are touted by Microsoft as their Expression Family of Products they include: Acrylic Graphics Designer This
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If you are at PDC and you are Canadian there are two informal get togethers going on. Excuse: Breakfast Date: Thursday Sept. 15th Time: 7:45 am - 8:30 am Location: Under the Canadian Flag in the dinning area Excuse: Beer Date: Thursday Sept. 15th Time:
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Barry Gervin has a post with some LINQ links that is very useful. Just to show you how easy it is. Here is the Query Don Box wrote during the key note today. I haven't seen it yet but I am told it's even easier to read in the VB syntax. This is only the
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This afternoon I attended three session and they were all good. I already mentioned the VSTS session in my last post. After that I went to a session on SQL Server 2005: Building Distributed, Asynchronous Database Applications with the Service Broker .
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So the first keynote was very long. It was good though. They told us we could buy an i-mate JASJAR at mobile planet for $149. But when the session got out they were sold out. Apparently they had 1000 for nearly 10,000 people. I went to mobile Planet the
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It's day 1 of PDC. Well not counting the precon. I Caught the first bus from my hotel to the conference. Mostly because I'm still on Toronto time. I got my name tag changed this morning. I of course filled out the form wrong and was walking around as
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Rob Windsor steps off the plane checks into his hotel and heads down to The 64-Bit Question, a .NET Rocks ! Quiz Show . They ask a multiple choice (with three choices) question about Garbage Collection and the contestant on stage gets it wrong so they
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After registering for PDC. I hopped on the bus back to the hotel the driver pointed out that one of the traffic lights was out. Then another and another. All of LA was out. When I got to the hotel the manager was in the lobby explaining that the power
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So here I am in a massive hall at the Los Angeles Convention Centre posting my first PDC Blog. The flight was long and cramped. But I am here all checked in and have my PDC05 bag full of goodies. The conference starts for me tomorrow. But I have avoided
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The built in Static Code analysis in Visual Studio 2005 is pretty cool, and quit intuitive to use. There are a couple of nice features worth mentioning that are accessible right from the Error List. If you come across warnings in your error list put there
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This blog entry is not a battle or comparison of the two languages. I love both of them the same. What I did want to pass along is this great page I found. Actually I think someone may have told me about it but I can't remember who, if someone did point
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