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Fabulous PDC Infrastructure

Saravana Kumar — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:44:10 GMT

Saravana Kumar writes "... When I saw the email from CSDeveloper competition chair saying my DVD is corrupted and asking me to send it by email or another copy of DVD, I was in panic attack... All I had is my laptop with all the files (around 20MB), funny bit is I left my power adapter in the hotel thinking I have enough power to check my email whole day. Ok, now I need to do something drastic..."

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The Week of Workflow WebCasts has started!

Paul Andrew — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:30:18 GMT

Paul Andrew writes "I'm listening to the first WebCast on the Week of Workflow WebCasts. It's not too late to join if you read this blog entry in the next 15 minutes. Listen to our WebCast on developing simple human workflow on Windows Workflow Foundation. URL: "

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PDC05 Show Off Videos Posted

Michael Swanson — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:13:04 GMT

Michael Swanson writes "Thanks to everyone who submitted a video for our first-ever Show Off event at PDC05. We had 25 total submissions, and we had time to show 22 of them at Thursday night's 2-hour event. You can find all of the submitted videos on Channel 9 under the showoff tag. Please leave comments and feedback for each video so we know what to look for next time. Interestingly enough, because ..."

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PDC Birds of a Feather Forums

Steven Smith — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:10:26 GMT

Steven Smith writes "I was lucky enough to attend a few Birds of a Feather sessions at PDC05, including one hosted by Julia Lerman on Going Solo. At many of these, the time goes by very quickly and many of the attendees have additional questions for the host or for one another that must go unanswered. Further communication is usually limited to a few hastily exchanged business cards, but the group itself disintegrates within moments of the end of the session. Well, in answer to this... "

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Pro VB2005. Didn't know it was orderable yet

Kent Sharkey — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:57:11 GMT

Kent Sharkey writes "While I tend to feel I am somewhat language agnostic, I have worked on Visual Basic books related to every version of VB from 4.0 to 2005 (with the exception of 2003). It seems the latest (small contribution, with a bad cover photo according to Bill) can now be ordered. Wonder if it will ..."

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Debugging Web Applications using Web Development Helper

Nikhil Kothari — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:47:11 GMT

Nikhil Kothari writes "...The tool is implemented as an Internet Explorer browser helper object. When installed, it provides a console window at the bottom on the IE window, and can be launched using the View | Explorer Bar, or Tools menu. This is a pet project that I work on during my spare time. It started as a tool scoped to ASP.NET scenarios, but has evolved into something that targets Web applications in general. A number of features described below are ... "

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Debating Our Rules Engine

Richard Seroter — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:00:24 GMT

Richard Seroter writes "If you're someone deeply interested in rule engine algorithms, and specifically Microsoft's implementation of the Rete algorithm in the Rules Engine that ships with BizTalk Server 2004, then you absolutely must read this facinating study by Charles Young. Charles also talks about some of the background of the debate around our implementation here. I shake my fist at you, Charles, for forcing me to spend 2 hours on a sunny Saturday reading about rules engines! Such interesting stuff. "

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Reflecting on the WCF Messaging Paradigm

Larry Beck — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:59:08 GMT

Larry Beck writes "Thanks to Matt Joe we met at the Ask the Experts session Thursday night and we had an interesting discussion regarding the WCF "messaging paradigm". It came up in the context of a discussion regarding the Service Activity Generator. One of my positioning statements for this utility is that many developers don't want to - or need to - think about the messaging infrastructure that the WCF declarative model hides under the covers. Steve, on the other hand, said that the product team is actually re-thinking this model and may want to have the developer be exposed to more of the messaging paradigm. Consider the following approach: "

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PDC Session Material

trobbins — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:52:30 GMT

trobbins writes "If you couldn’t attend the PDC you can check out the session material here."

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New Whitepaper: Introduction to Building Windows Communication Foundation Services

Richard Turner — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:49:16 GMT

Richard Turner writes "I am very happy to announce the immediate availability of a new whitepaper: "Introduction to Building Windows Communication Foundation Services" written by the inestimable Clemens Vasters. In this paper, Clemens takes us on a trip through WCF introducing the very simplest concepts first and gradually adding more features and capabilities, illustrating many of the facets of WCF ... including the fact that WCF can be used for remote-invocation or message-based systems. "

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Register for the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Beta Program

trobbins — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:47:30 GMT

trobbins writes "Register for the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Beta Program and learn how Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 can help your organization increase operational efficiency in software test and development, application migration, and server consolidation scenarios. R2 provides support for 64-bit host operating systems including 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, performance enhancements, built-in support for network installations of guest operating systems, and several other features. We look forward to the participation of a large group of beta testers as we complete the development of this product. <> "

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LINQ Designer Receives Prestigious Award at PDC

Matt Warren — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:43:14 GMT

Matt Warren writes "In the wake and fanfare of the disclosure of the LINQ technology preview at the PDC 2005 in Los Angeles this last week, a member of the LINQ design team was presented with a prestigious award for outstanding achievement above and beyond his peers. Erik Meijer, most known for his antics as "Head in the Box" for VB TV and author of many research and academic papers such as "Programming with Circles, Triangles, Rectangles and other 3rd grade geometry", was surprised to find himself the award’s recipient. “The competition was pretty tough,” he was heard to say as he was lead off stage. “I had no ..."

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Channel 9 Video - First look at SharePoint vNext

Patrick Tisseghem — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:42:20 GMT

Patrick Tisseghem writes "Channel 9 goes into Mike Morton's office and have a chat about the next version of Sharepoint with PJ Hough, group program manager on Sharepoint Services Team. The team talks about the future of Sharepoint and gives us a demo. Go here to see the video.... "

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Scoble on MSDN WebCast...Why Not Join Him?

Robert Scoble — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:38:39 GMT

Robert Scoble writes "...Next week I'm doing a different Webcast for the MSDN side of the house. You can read all about all this stuff on the MSDN Events Blog and the MSDN Webcasts Weblog. "

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PDC05: Exhibitor reflections

Ronald Hunt — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:33:38 GMT

Ronald Hunt writes "There were a number of interesting exhibitors at the PDC this year. Beyond the swag, I found a few interesting products here and there. Here are a few that leap to mind..."

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MSDN Flash Volume 9, Number 18, September 20, 2005

Nigel Parker — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:00:14 GMT

Nigel Parker writes "I was lucky enough to go to PDC I thought it only fair to bring all of you back a little gift. So here it is... "The Finalizer" wallpaper! I saw this lethal little guy hanging out in the market place today and I couldn't resist going in close for a photo! WPF + WWF + WCF = MAGIC In the last few days Microsoft has made a huge number of exciting announcements! Mike Torres from the spaces team put it well in his post when he said..."

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TinyCLR and Invisible Computing

Harry Pierson — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:13:10 GMT

Harry Pierson writes "When I was at PDC, I saw the Phidgets folks in the Coding4Fun booth. Is it just me, or is this stuff dying to get merged with MSR's Invisible Computing project? Haven't heard of Invisible Computing? Here's the description..."

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VSTS Beta 3 available early next week in VPC format

Dennis Mulder — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:05:53 GMT

Dennis Mulder writes "VSTS Beta 3 will be available in VPC format through MSDN..."

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Must-own book

Miguel de Icaza — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:18:36 GMT

Miguel de Icaza writes "The new book from Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina: Framework Design Guidelines : Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries is a must-have book for anyone writing .NET and Mono code. I got my copy at the PDC this week and it is a wonderful book. The book includes many of the design guidelines that Brad's blog is famous for. The book is not just a collection of rules, but it also includes... "

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Trying to install Windows Vista on VPC

Johan Danforth — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:12:29 GMT

Johan Danforth writes "As everyone else on the PDC, I got a PDC-version of Windows Vista. I tried to install in on a VPC yesterday, but I never got past the install step where you have to specify on what disk to install to. I tried (within VPC) to delete the virtual partition and format it, but it never got available. I wonder if anyone else experienced the same problem... "

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