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Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:26 PM

Talking WCF on Devcasting

While I was in Vegas for Un-Mix 08 , I sat down with Derek Hatchard to record a show for Devcasting . About a week later Derek decided to repave his machine but unfortunately, he forgot to backup the recording of the interview. We got together over Skype...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:02 AM

TechEd BOF Session: Strategies for Moving Your Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET

If you're not familiar with the concept, a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session is an open discussion lead by a moderator who is not a Microsoft employee. The sessions are not presentations, there are no projectors. Unlike the Keynotes and Breakout sessions...
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:37 PM

Visual Studio 2008 to be Released on November 15th?

Don Box hints that it may be so. http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/archive/2007/11/10/49001.aspx
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:56 AM

Visual Studio 2008 "How Do I" Videos

If you're interested in seeing some of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 in action, you should check out the series of "How Do I" videos at http://www.visualstudio2008beta.com/videos.htm . There are 13 up there now and more will be...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:08 PM

Using a Splash Screen from an External Assembly in Visual Basic 2005

This issue came up on one of email lists I'm involved in and I though the solution was worth sharing. The developer wanted to know how to use a splash screen from an external assembly (i.e. a DLL) in a Visual Basic 2005 Windows application. If you...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:56 AM

Application Settings Made Easy with My and Visual Basic 2005

Most applications require some configuration settings that could change over time. Classic examples would be a connection string to a database, the URL to your company web site, or the path to a log file. These settings could be stored in the application...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:07 AM

Some Specifics on Generics

Generics are the most significant language addition to .NET 2.0. They allow for code re-use in ways not previously available and make it much easier to write type-safe, better performing code. That is, they help you turn runtime exceptions into compile...
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:58 AM

Keep Client Applications Responsive with the BackgroundWorker

Many applications need to perform some kind of long-running task like downloading a file, performing a complex calculation, or retrieving data from a database. Executing these tasks can make your application become unresponsive and end up making your...
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