Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12 nd to 14 th , right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11 th . This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of...
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I received an awesome e-mail on Tuesday from Microsoft. It read as follows:
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success...
There is a good set of articles about Unit Test Patterns in the TypeMock™ site: Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part I This article looks at patterns in unit testing and describes the main patterns found in tested .NET code. It also describes the problems with each pattern. Unit Test Patterns for .NET...
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Or I'll be, on January 23rd. Here is the complete list of web casts for December 2007 and January 2008: Dec 12 - Brian Loesgen - BizTalk Adapters Dec 19 - Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke Jan 2 - Michele Leroux Bustamante - CardSpace – Why should you care? Who’s using it today and how? Jan 9 - Kevin Goff...
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Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA , amongst other things, that they the product team at Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. They are on track to shipping these products before the end of November 2007. They will have the marketing launch...
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Most of us have been testing the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images. Microsoft has announced that the current Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images will expire on November 1, 2007, rather than March 15, 2008 as originally announced. It is strongly encouraged that you take all necessary steps before...
In this series of articles I'll show how (in my opinion, obviously) to the Page Flow Application Block of the Web Client Software Factory could be improved. Removing Database Dependencies Especially in development and demonstration scenarios, the dependency on a database can be a big hassle. In this...
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Introduction There are a number of classes in the in the .NET Framework that expose a static (shared in Visual Basic) property with a reference to an instance valid in a particular scope (usually the current thread). In this article I'll change the Page Flow Application Block to add properties to...
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Introduction I don't like the fact that I need to know the type of a page flow definition. Or even the fact that a page flow definition has a type. In this article I'll change the Page Flow Application Block to be possible to get page flows by its definition name instead of its definition type...
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With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because...
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