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November 2005 - Posts

A testers worst nightmare

posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 4:45 PM by rrinaldi
I'm sitting at home this saturday evening doing some laundry and going through my laptop cleaning off unused programs.  I noticed that I had VS 2003 installed, and now that our team is moving to Team Foundation Server I figured it was high time to Read More
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Keeping in touch during DevConnections

posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:21 PM by rrinaldi
During DevConnections my lifeline to the office was my BlackBerry.  It also was my lifeline to keep in touch with the guys from the office that came to Vegas with me.  Richard and I had BlackBerry Messenger installed on our BlackBerries and Read More
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Live from McCarren Airport

posted Saturday, November 12, 2005 1:07 PM by rrinaldi
Well, DevConnections is over.  Had a good time and met some good people.  Juval Lowy's session on VS 2005 and C# 2.0 was excellent.  He reaffirmed a lot of my thoughts on C# 2.0 and taught me quite a bit in the process.  Coming from Read More
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AGN203: Why You Need to Use a Code-Generator in ASP.NET

posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 12:06 PM by rrinaldi
So tired.  So very very tired.  Using your brain all day then going out at night really takes a toll on you.  And by the looks of most of the people here, I'm not the only one.  The line for coffee has been getting steadily longer Read More
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VSM354: Building .NET Office Solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005

posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:09 AM by rrinaldi
Morning on the third and "final" day of the conference.  Final being in quotes because there are three post conference sessions on Friday. I'm going to a C# 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.(My blog editor decided to enabling double spacing on Read More
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EOD Wednesday at DevConnections

posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:54 PM by rrinaldi
Today the session quality was "iffy".  I wound up leaving a few early, normally because the presenter named his or her session poorly.  Please people if you are going to be presenting on a topic name your presentations correctly.  If you Read More
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AWF352: ASP.NET 2.0 Script Callbacks

posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:28 PM by rrinaldi
So I can get an IP on the wireless network, but getting IP apparently doesn't mean being able to route to web sites. ughScript callbacks are the official way to get data from the server to the client in a remote scripting way in 2.0 Ajax.NET is the Read More
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VV351: Building Applications, Next Generation: MSBuild

posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 4:32 PM by rrinaldi
Just had lunch with Julie Lerman.  Quite enjoyable MSBuild.exe-Command-line utility available from VS Command prompt- Most common options     - Target           - specify Read More
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AWF252: ASP.NET 2.0 - New Controls and Control Enhancements

posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:57 PM by rrinaldi
To be completely honest with you I have don't have very high hopes for this one. :(  My notes will only cover things that I haven't already heard about.Grrr... Five minutes into the session and Bill Evjen is still introducing himself.  Get to Read More
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VFE202: Formulas for Effective User Experence Design

posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:38 PM by rrinaldi
This sessions is being presented by Mark Miller from Developer Express, and as most of you know (all 5 or 6 of my readers) I'm a big fan of CodeRush which is a product from Developer Express.  This should be quite an interesting presentation considering Read More
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AW352: Migrating from Web Services to SOAs

posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:42 AM by rrinaldi
Good morning! Walked the strip last night so I could see the Bellegaio.  Very sweet hotel and casino.  I've never been to Vegas before so I'm trying to get in all of the "tourist-y" things.Presenter: Dan Wahlin (dwahlin at xmlforasp.net Read More
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AMS255: Developing Rich Web Applications with ASP.NET "Atlas"

posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:47 PM by rrinaldi
Again, I'm late to a session.  They have got to move the break area/lunch area closer to the sessions!  Looks like I didn't miss much right now.  The presenter is going into the definition of AJAX and explaining how you can use it to make Read More
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AMS254: Creating Dynamic Web Sites with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts

posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:47 PM by rrinaldi
Last session ran long so I'm walking into this one about 5 minutes in.  No power can be found, but I do get a nice table to work on. :) Webparts:-Provide users with:      - Flexible display options      Read More
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VMS353: Enterprise-Class Version Control with Visual Studio Team System

posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:13 PM by rrinaldi
Just finished lunch.  I'm currently chilling in the session room waiting for the session to start up while watching my wireless connection go up and down.  At least they provided a connection for us at the convention center, Read More
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AMS352: Best practices and technques for Migrating ASP.NET 1.x applications to ASP.NET 2.0

posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 1:47 PM by rrinaldi
I was able to find a spot close to the wall for this session so I was able to find some quality electric to keep MojoDojo running for this session. Migration Options- Run 1.x and 2.0 web apps side by side- RUn 2.0 in backward compatibility mode- Read More
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SMA201: Tips and tricks for upgrading to SQL Server 2005

posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:20 PM by rrinaldi
Two types of upgrades: Migration and in-placeIn-place upgrades an existing instanceMigration creates a new instance Pre-upgrade work:Check minimum hardware and software reqsCheck the differences in 2000 and 2005 skus - features are differentRun upgrade Read More
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Preparing for DevConnections

posted Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:37 PM by rrinaldi
I'm currently watching a little TV while I do a couple loads of laundry before I start my packing (it helps to have clothes to wear when going to a convention).  Hopefully I'll be able to get a little sleep tonight then I'm off to Vegas for DevConnections.  Read More
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Wireless hard drive enclosure

posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:24 PM by rrinaldi
I’m a guy without a desktop.  At home I only use laptops, which is great and all but it comes with a couple downsides.  One of those downsides is that the collection of old hard drives that I have has been almost completely useless.  Read More
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Qumana Editor

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:46 PM by rrinaldi
By the way, this post and the last one are/were written using a new editor I found called Qumana.  It's free and pretty good.  It doesn't seem to support the community server categories, but it does have technorati tags which seem to make up Read More
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Oysy Sushi

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:37 PM by rrinaldi
If you ever find yourself hankering for some sushi and you happen to be in Chicago's south loop, I would highly recommend Oysy Sushi at Michigan and 9th.  Richard turned me onto the place about 6 months ago or so and I've always been very impressed Read More
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I wish my homework was worth $1.25 mil

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:35 PM by rrinaldi
Adil Lalani did his homework. That homework turned into a web app that he sold for $1.25 mil in cash and stock and he will become an employee of the company that bought his application when he graduates. And who says the bubble isn’t returning Read More
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Another post about Vista DB

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:29 PM by rrinaldi
Heard about this via everybody on the freakin’ earth:   VistaDB 2.1 database for .NET has been releasedThis 2.1 update includes over 60 improvements, including new support for .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2005. VistaDB is a small-footprint, Read More
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Hot Air Balloonist: A Story of IT and Management

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:27 PM by rrinaldi
I’ve heard this one countless times, but I still find it funny: [Via Sean McCormack] Hot Air Balloonist… A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below.   He descended a bit more Read More
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Channel 9 updates Microsoftgadgets.com

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:13 PM by rrinaldi
Noticed today that Microsoftgadgets.com was updated!  After taking a spin around the site I noticed a post from Jeff Sandquist making the ‘official’ announcement. It’s a shame that microsoftgadgets.com is being trolled by Read More
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Is Slashdot still relavant?

posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:05 PM by rrinaldi
From JK from jkontherun.com: Is Slashdot still relevant? Slashdot was removed from my aggregator a long time ago.  It’s too far behind the buzz that already out in the blogosphere and the quality of the commentary is quite poor.  I really Read More
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