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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:53 PM

Extend Yourself

I tend to have a fairly long list of things I want to investigate in .NET development. Extension methods have been on my list for a long time. I finally got around to looking into them and wish I had done so much sooner. They are a handy little feature
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:42 PM

Code Contracts and Pex

I’ll be presenting on Code Contracts and Pex at the June 17th meeting of the TRINUG .NET in Depth SIG.  If you haven’t used these two products from Microsoft Research, you have missed a treat!  Code Contracts allow you to express pre and post-condition
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:49 PM

Sentient DSLs

The Channel 9 guys made my day today!  Check it out.  http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-14-Sentient-DSLs/
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Friday, January 09, 2009 9:23 AM

Loosely Coupled Applications

I've been working with the Unity Dependency Injection Application Block lately. It is part of the Enterprise Library beginning with version 4.0. You can also get it as a separate download without EntLib. Pick your flavor at www.CodePlex.com/Unity . The
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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:55 PM

VSLive Rocks!

I spent the last week at VSLive in Dallas .  Think mental overload.  There were more sessions I wanted to attend, than there was time to attend them.  John Papa gave some very interesting presentations on the Entity Framework.  Miguel
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Friday, October 24, 2008 2:12 PM

Enough Said...

PDC
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:14 PM

Slick Tools from SlickEdit

Over the last few weeks I've been using the new suite of tools from SlickEdit for Visual Studio. They are organized in two toolboxes, one for editing and one for version control. Installation into Visual Studio 2008 was smooth and painless. Installation
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:08 AM

Visual Studio 2008 RTM is Available!

If you are an MSDN subscriber, you can get the RTM version now.  Hurry and get the bits!  Be the first on your block!  If you've been using the beta, read this .  Let the fun begin!!!
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Friday, October 05, 2007 5:51 PM

Rob Zelt, MVP

Rob Zelt , one of TRINUG's own, has been awarded a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the community. Great work, Rob! Congratulations!! No one deserves it more. Now, if he will still let me hang out with him at B&N...
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Monday, August 06, 2007 7:01 AM

Computer Graphics on Steroids

For those of you with excellent graphics skills, doing animations may be just another day at the office. For the graphically challenged like me, it's magic! There are a bunch of video clips on YouTube by Animusic that are just that kind of magic for me.
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Friday, June 22, 2007 1:32 PM

Wondering What Else You Can Do With Your Fingers?

Computing is about to change radically with Microsoft Surface . Think of it as tablet computing on steroids. Your tabletop has never been so cool! Imagine smart phones, smart credit cards, and smart mp3 players all interacting seamlessly with your tabletop!
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Sunday, May 20, 2007 7:15 AM

What is Popfly?

What is Popfly ? It's some very cool technology from Microsoft. This thing takes drag and drop development to a whole new level. If you haven't seen a demo of it, check it out here . This is just an example of the cool new things coming out of Microsoft
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