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VSLive! Dallas is approaching (Dec 8 - 11 2008). I'll be there, again, along with many other excellent speakers. If you use the priority code SPGET, you'll receive $300 off your registration! Here's the info: VSLive! Dallas – The Adolphus...
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In case you were looking for the two articles I wrote on the System.Linq.Enumerable class (taking into account the fixes in the recent blog post here), you can find the articles here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700332.aspx http://msdn...
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Yes, it's true. I have become an iPhone fanboy. I love this thing, and feel totally disconnected when I don't have it with me (which isn't very often). There was originally one single feature that I felt Windows Mobile did better than the...
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I finally worked out the details to fix the errors in the Enumerable article on MSDN because of breaking changes in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (thanks to Bob Schild for pointing out the problem!) In Part II of the article, replace Figure 6 with the following...
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I recently ran a two-part article on the Enumerable class in MSDN magazine. Unfortunately, there's a significant lead time on these articles, and I wrote it using VS 2008 RTM. VS 2008 SP1 introduced a breaking change in the Enumerable.Cast method...
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Finished up presentations today for VSLive Las Vegas--if you need to download presentation content for any of my talks, drop by http://www.mcwtech.com/2008/vslive to download the content for the sessions. In the "Build a WPF Application in an Hour"...
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Someone asked today so I thought I'd share it here too. Virtual PC 2004 5.3.0.582 13.040 Virtual Server 2005 1.1.465.0 13.206 Virtual PC 2004 SP1 5.3.582.27 13.306 Virtual PC 2004 SP1 5.3.582.32 13.306 Virtual Server 2005 SP1 Beta 13.518 Additions...
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Microsoft opened up the kimono today on Press Pass . The next release of Visual Studio is Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. In addition, if you go down the page here , you find some juicy goodness: " Better Together – Visual Studio Team...
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Well, we're 30 days out from PDC 2008 pre-con day. I'm doing a pre-con on VSTS . A big part of the pre-con is best practices and worst practices, or anti-patterns. As I get things all nice and packed up into a nice package with a bow on top, I'm...
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One of my passions is virtualization (esp. in the MSFT world). In July, I did a .NET Rocks show and talked about Hyper-V and more . Later I also did a Run As Radio show also on virtualization . Finally in August, Martin Woodward and I did a Team System...
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On MSDN Subscriber downloads . A quick look at the Microsoft.com downloads site and I don't see it yet for the .NET Framework 3.5 but I imagine soon. Update: .NET Framework SP1 is here . VS is here . Thanks to Paolo Barone for the links. And now TFS...
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Wahoo! Congrats from (Tech Ed) South Africa. As of now it's not on MSDN subscirber downloads. And as of now the eval is not on Microsoft.com. But soon baby, soon. Update: bits are on MSDN Subscriber downloads!
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As I have several times in the past, I'll be heading for New York City for VSLive soon. In the past, this conference has been a lot of fun, full of useful sessions. The folks at 1105 Media created a video to help promote the conference, and you can...
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I have a few SanDisk Cruzer USB sticks. One thing that annoys me is the U3 app. I appreciate what they're trying to do ... OK ... wait ...maybe I don't. No, really, I just want it off my stick. Go to SanDisk's site and get their U3 Launchpad...
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No, not time for He-Man , just time for a mobile hardware upgrade. I spend a good portion of my time working with virtual machines. And in doing so, I'm always looking for more power when I'm on the road. This week I was able to make three great...