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If you have some cool technology info that you’d like to share with your peers, here’s your chance. You still have a little time left before the window closes on speaker submissions for the next Richmond Code Camp , to be held at the J. Sargeant Reynolds
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For those who don’t subscribe, here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff956201.aspx Topics include how to help me help you, and some first impressions of Visual Studio LightSwitch from
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Here’s a neat promotion for my readers in the U.S. If you’ve been wanting to try out Windows Azure and/or SQL Azure, but didn’t want to hassle with providing a credit card, here’s your chance. Through October 31st, 2010, the first 500 respondents
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Hosted by James Senior, and with guest Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team (the primary owner of ASP.NET MVC ), this inaugural episode features a discussion of ASP.NET MVC 3, Preview 1, which was recently released. You can find out all the details about
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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so since he has done a great job of laying out the fantastic lineup of Firestarter events coming this fall, I’m going to swipe my DE counterpart Chris Bowen ’s post on the topic : Starting soon
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The latest episode of the Community Megaphone Podcast is up! In this episode, Dane and I talk to Alan Stevens from Knoxville, TN. This show was recorded live at the CodeStock conference in late June of 2010. Alan Stevens is a father, geek, vegan and software
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I’ve noted a couple of recent blog posts by Scott Guthrie announcing some nifty new tech bits, including IIS Express and SQL Server CE 4…now Scott has finally let the cat all the way out of the bag, announcing Microsoft WebMatrix , a new web development
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When I asked whether Scott Guthrie might have something else up his sleeve after the announcement of IIS Express, I don’t think I quite expected another surprise this quickly. Today Scott has announced a new version of SQL Server Compact Edition which
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I noticed earlier this week, thanks to David Makogon , that a new release of the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (v1.2) is now available . There’s much coolness in this release, particularly with respect to deeper Visual Studio integration (.NET
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As you may have noticed, there’s been a big change to the MSDN blogs this week. We’ve been migrated to a newer version of the blog software supporting our many, many blogs, and unfortunately, one consequence was that they were unable to port over some
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FYI, the servers at blogs.msdn.com are about to undergo a major upgrade of our blogging platform that will require some significant downtime. As a result, my blog will be offline for as much as a week and a half, starting this weekend. Fresh posts will
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Kevin Hazzard has some fun news to share : Wow, what a month for the Richmond, Virginia developer community! In the course of about 40 days, we'll enjoy Alan Stevens, C# MVP appearing at the Chesapeake, Richmond and Charlottesville .NET User Groups, then
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I’ve been rather remiss in blogging about the new episodes of the Community Megaphone Podcast that we’ve been posting recently. Our publishing schedule runs every two weeks on Wednesdays, so you know that every two weeks you can get a fresh dose of local
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Learn about the new things you can do. Find out about the variety of rich application platforms that Visual Studio 2010 supports, including Windows 7, the Web, SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone 7 Series. Visual Studio 2010 is packed with
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I am happy to announce that I’m joining Microsoft on their Developer & Platform Evangelism team as a Developer Evangelist for the New York City metro area! If you’re unfamiliar with the Developer & Platform teams and what role they play in the
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