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It’s here. In my hands (OK, it’s really next to me since I am typing). In all it’s glory. I’ve got the previous four editions. I know I’ll love this one as I did those before it. It’s big and hard bound. 1,232 pages including the index. You can get it...
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While the calendar says July 1, 2009, meaning we’re six months from a calendar New Year. I’m happy to report that Microsoft has renewed my MVP status. I appreciate the honor and look forward to another great 12 months working with the VSTS Team and other...
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Last week (March 24 to 27), I was in London for DevWeek . During the week I had dinner with three friends: Ian Griffiths , Matthew Adams , and Felix Corke . During dinner the conversation naturally turned geek. Specifically, WPF . As dinner progressed...
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Recently, Scott Hanselman went to South Africa. When he arrived he ran into passport troubles . Sadly, I did too back in August of 2008 on my way to South Africa also. I was flying LAX to LHR on United Airlines (UA) and then LHR to JNB and on to DUR on...
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Especially if you’re a developer. Larry Osterman wonders why people complain about issues with a server OS when they try and run it as a client OS. Well Larry, there are logs of reasons. Well ONE big reason for developers want to do it is that they need...
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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...