6 Jun
2008

Architecture Modeling in Rosario with Peter Provost

Yes, that Peter Provost, and this is a great Tech Ed session. We know that the modeling tools in Team System 2008 are, well… there’s room for improvement. How valuable is a Logical Data Center Design Model when we can’t derive it from a reverse engineering action? There has also been much frustration with the […]

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6 Jun
2008

Data Dude Extensibility – How IBM integrated DB2 into Visual Studio

I am sitting in a room at Tech Ed 208 with about 15 people who got up early enough for this session. I am blown away there aren’t more people in here, but I guess the after-party at Universal Studios last night kept people in bed late this morning. This session is a joint presentation […]

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5 Jun
2008

Annoying Bug in Visual Studio 2005

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Today I hunted down a bug in Visual Studio 2005 that annoyed me tremendously for the past couple of weeks. Starting from this certain point in time, without any reason whatsoever (maybe a sun burst targeting my office desk or something), Visual Studio started littering my source tree with folders named Visual Studio 2005. In […]

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9 May
2008

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 – BETA

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“With Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 introduces a large assortment of new features for targeting Windows, Office, and the Web. Developers building .NET-based applications will enjoy improved performance in the WPF designer, new components for Visual Basic and Visual C++, as well as an MFC-based Office 2007 Ribbon. Web developers will see continued improvement […]

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5 May
2008

Meet Me at Agile 2008

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I know it is a bit early to be throwing this out there, but I am pretty excited about this one. I have had 2 sessions accepted for presentation at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. This year’s Agile conference will be in August and if you haven’t been to one of these conferences, do […]

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30 Apr
2008

My VSTO Presentation

On Monday I was privileged to participate in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 product launch by presenting a session on VSTO with Microsoft Architect Evangelist, Bruce Kyle. This is a fairly light presentation intended to introduce some new C# language features, VSTO integration features, SharePoint 2007 work flows, Office extension projects for Visual Studio, and […]

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27 Apr
2008

MS Developer Goodness in Boise on Monday

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MS is hosting a full day of 2008 product launch activities tomorrow down at the Grove in Boise. Along with many others, Rich Hundhausen and myself, are presenting some sessions on new features and tools available in Visual Studio 2008. Being the new kid on the block for doing these MSDN launches, I kinda got […]

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