We'll, after being at MS for over a year now, with the encouragement of friends, I've made the move to blogs.msdn.com. My new blog site is: Blog moved to: http://coadblog.com Which redirects to http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc. Please update your readers. Cheers!

Team System MSDN Public Chat Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developer & Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers When: Wednesday, November 16th @ 10am PST What: Join us to discuss the Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web & Load Testing, and Code Analysis (FxCop & PREFast). We have questions for you, will answer questions from you, and will chat about the exciting new technology. Where: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats

Visual Studio 2005 Express editions (WebDev, C#, VB, C++, J#) are officially Free! for 1 year (expires 11/6/2006). I just watched Steve Balmer give the keynote at the first and official kickoff launch event and he talked about the great Web Developer Starter Kits w/ a demo that was real cool. Want to start up a website fast ? This is the way to get started and experience the awesome power of ASP.NET 2.0! Please be sure to register your free download so we know how popular these are. My guess is that

As of today, Visual Studio 2005 has officially launched! This is a fantastic product that we have all been long awaiting! There are a number of launch events being held in cities around the world the next month. Check out if one is in your city soon. I'll be at the Dallas Launch on November 30th. If you're going to be there, `let me know`|`mailto:noah@coad.net?subject=Dallas Launch Event`. MSDN Subscribers can download Virtual Server/PC images with Team Suite installed for evaluation. This gets you

We have new Visual Studio Team System MVPs! An MVP competency for Team System was just created. You can see the full list of our new Team System MVPs on the Microsoft MVP Site or read what an MVP is . We have 9 Team System MVPs who are truly rock stars in the community. It is exciting to have such stellar people as our MVPs! Welcome to the team ... Team System MVPs! Here are some of their blogs (in no particular order): Boon Tiong Lim Chris Menegay Chris Menegay #2 David McKinstry Jean-Luc David

They're here! The much requested photos from our Texas Wedding & Maui Honeymoon . Just click the links to see the full online photo album. Here are two sneak preview pics. Just married! Enjoing Maui to the fullest! I'm giving this MSN Spaces thing a try since it was quick and easy to create the online photo album. When I get my new website up and running, I'll be able to add a lot more photos. Previous wedding related blog posts: Getting Married Today! , Countdown to My Wedding , 14 Days to I

For the last several years, I've dreamt of having a real leather couch! My living room at my Redmond (Seattle) apartment has been completely bare since I moved in (a year ago) with the occasional influx of moving boxes (from when I moved in then Dawn moved up). Occasionally I'd just sit on the floor in the middle of the completely bare living room dreaming of the day I'd be able to come home to a comfy couch, have guests over, and making it feel like a real home. Now that I'm married (to the wonderful

Introduction Here is my base collection of resources on C#. I'm putting this together so when I write articles or reply to e-mails, I have one central place to point people. This is a live post, which means I'll be updating it as needed. Feel free to make your own additions (in the feedback )! Get C# Visual Studio 2005 C# Express Currently free for the first year (till 11/06), then it will be $50. While not quite free (in the long term), it is a very moderate and reasonable price for the power you

In just three hours I'll be waiting for my beautiful blushing bride at the alter!! I'm in the hotel with my Best Man with half a tux on getting ready to head over to the church. Friends and family are pouring in from around Texas and even the nation for this special occasion. I can hardly wait! At 3am my Best Man and I dropped off a "Happy 0th Anniversary" card and long stem rose in front of Dawn's parent's house for her to find this morning. That's it, I'm trademarking the "0th Anniversary" theme

My wedding is rapidly approaching! Here is how much time is left until my wedding on Saturday April 30th 2005 @ 1:30 PM CST. If it is after that date, the time is counting how long I've been married. Here are two other posts about my upcoming wedding. 14 Days to I Do & Engaged to an Angel Note: RSS Bandit, other RSS feed viewers, and some browsers will not display the timer. Please view this blog post in IE for best results.