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Is this thing on?

So it’s been a while since I did a blog post.  I’m sure that many of you forgot that I was in your RSS reader, assuming you’re still using an RSS reader and not finding everything on Twitter.  Hopefully the fact that I was quiet didn’t get me
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Mar 28 2010 10:53 AM
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jQuery and Microsoft - ScottGu's Blog

I just have to note this announcement from Scott Guthrie: jQuery and Microsoft - ScottGu's Blog: "I'm excited today to announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward." Microsoft shipping jQuery? What's the world coming
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Nov 20 2009 10:22 AM
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Chris Woodruff on Astoria

Chris Woodruff was the speaker at this week's Dayton .NET Developers Group.  He talked to us about Astoria, or what is now known as ADO.NET Data Services.  ADO.NET Data Services is a way to easily expose data via services.  He gave us a
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Sep 26 2008 07:10 PM
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Bill Vaughn in Dayton

Bill Vaughn will be visiting Dayton Wednesday.  If you don't recognize his name, it may help to know that he is the author of Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server: Best Practice Architectures and Examples, 7th Edition (Microsoft
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Aug 25 2008 11:04 PM
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devLink Day 2

I started the second day of devLink by doing my presentation on WPF for Developers.  It was a new experience for me speaking in a college lecture hall, and with a microphone, but I think it went well.  I had a good group of people for the first
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Aug 25 2008 03:07 AM
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devLink Day 1

It's my first trip to devLink and so far it's been well worth the drive.  The keynote was a disappointment, but everything after that was great; one important issue with the keynote is that we were a group of mostly developers, and I don't think
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Aug 23 2008 08:50 AM
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Developer Events this Week

There are several developer events this week that you might want to attend.  On Monday, the Cincinnati Java User Group will have James Carman discussing Advanced Wicket.  On Tuesday, the Cincinnati .NET User Group will be having a panel
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May 19 2008 07:01 AM
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West Michigan Day of .NET Wrap Up

Saturday's West Michigan Day of .NET was another great event.  I really enjoyed the facility at Davenport University.  There were many places to sit and chat with people.  Not that I did much other than go from one room to the next. 
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May 13 2008 07:06 AM
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Remote Desktop Crash and DirectX SDK on Vista

So I'm about to start development work today and I crank up remote desktop to access the virtual machine on my development server.  And it crashes.  So I try accessing other virtual and real machines.  And it keeps crashing.  So I
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May 03 2008 12:37 AM
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Indianapolis Code Camp Wrap Up

Saturday was the first  Indy Code Camp.  Mike Wood, Dan Hounshell and I drove up together and each had the opportunity to speak.   I did my presentation on WPF for Developers and I think it went pretty well.  I paced it a little
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Apr 29 2008 08:59 PM
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Indianapolis Code Camp and other upcoming events

Tomorrow is the Indy Code Camp.  I'll be doing my WPF for Developers presentation again that I first did at the Central Ohio Day of .NET.  I've been tweaking the presentation this week based on the feedback I received from the first one (thanks
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Apr 25 2008 07:29 PM
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Central Ohio Day of .NET Wrap Up

The Central Ohio Day of .NET (CODODN) was another great community event.   I started the day by giving my presentation on WPF for Developers.  I think it went pretty well and I definitely enjoyed it. I stuck around in that room to see Nino
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Apr 21 2008 04:48 AM
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WPF for Developers at CODODN

I did my WPF for Developers presentation for the first time yesterday at the Central Ohio Day of .NET.  The most surprising thing was how many people were interested.  There ended up being 55 attendees by the official count, but I heard several
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Apr 20 2008 06:00 PM
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Application Class and Main method in WPF

I recently ran into an interesting aspect of WPF applications that I had not previously seen.  It started with this error: Program 'DemoCorp.UI.exe' does not contain a static 'Main' method suitable for an entry point I had copied an App.xaml file
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Apr 19 2008 05:53 AM
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Upcoming Regional Developer Events

There are number of upcoming developer events in the region.  All are full day free events on Saturdays.  Some are full, but are accepting stand by registrations.   If you haven't been to one of these events, I highly recommend them
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Apr 16 2008 01:39 AM
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Community Launch Event

Since Microsoft is not doing an official HEROES happen {here} launch event in Cincinnati, several local user groups and Max Technical Training are sponsoring a community launch event over three separate meetings.  The first meeting is Tuesday April
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Apr 15 2008 06:32 AM
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Decisions, Decisions

Thursday evening there are two user group meetings: Greater Cincinnati VMware User Group and a special meeting of the Cincinnati .NET User Group.  This will be the second meeting of the VMware group.  I enjoyed the first meeting and met a
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Apr 03 2008 04:32 AM
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Michigan Tour - Day 2

After starting the day with a little relaxation and watching some of the tournament games, I headed out toward Lansing for the Greater Lansing User Group .NET (GLUG.NET) meeting.  But before the meeting, I was able to stop by and visit TechSmith
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Mar 21 2008 10:19 AM
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Michigan Tour - Day One

Today I did my software architecture presentation for a group at Domino's and for the Great Lakes .NET User Group (GANG).  The presentation at Domino's was a "lunch and learn" meeting.  We all gathered in a conference room, with
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Mar 20 2008 08:52 AM
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Detroit Launch Event

Since I'm in Michigan speaking at user groups this week, I had the opportunity to attend the Detroit launch event today.   The drive to downtown Detroit wasn't much fun, but also could have been worse.  I got through registration just
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Mar 19 2008 08:19 AM
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TFS Error Deleting a File

I've recently had the dubious pleasure of beginning to work with Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Server).  At this point, I'm only using the version control.  It's quite a change from Subversion, which I have been working with for several years
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Mar 15 2008 11:11 AM
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Miguel Castro at the Cincinnati .NET User Group

Miguel Castro spoke Wednesday night at the Cincinnati .NET User Group on Sexy Extensibility Patterns.  Not just extensibility patterns, sexy extensibility patterns.  Miguel was in town courtesy of INETA, and was on his first visit to
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Mar 14 2008 07:34 AM
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LinkedDayton Meeting

I recently ran across someone on LinkedIn belonging to a LinkedCincinnati group and after a little searching also found a LinkedDayton group.  Each has an associated Yahoo group for messages: Dayton and Cincinnati.  The Yahoo groups have been a
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Mar 12 2008 07:54 AM
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Upcoming Cincinnati User Group Meetings

There are a couple out of town speakers visiting our Cincinnati user groups in the next couple of days.  Tonight (Tuesday March 11), Craig Utley will be speaking at the BI (Business Intelligence) SIG of the Cincinnati SQL User Group.   He
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Mar 11 2008 10:59 PM
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Always makes me chuckle

It always makes me chuckle when I see something like this from a Microsoft site: Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0131' Disallowed Parent Path /downloads/Default.asp, line 15 The Include file '../downloads.html' cannot contain '..' to indicate the parent
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Mar 05 2008 05:29 PM
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SQL User Group Wrap Up

At Tuesday's Cincinnati SQL User Group meeting, Maria Stone of Strategic Data Systems (SDS) gave a presentation titled Advanced Transact-SQL Programming in SQL Server 2005.  As you might guess from the title, it was a detailed, low-level
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Feb 27 2008 07:16 AM