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As a remote worker I'm always looking to find better ways to work with the team that don't involve actually going to Seattle. As much as I love/hate Microsoft, I'm not moving. However, this always puts me at a disadvantage. There's only so many places
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A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable"
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Six months ago when my role changed a bit , I took Chris Sells to lunch at our local food court (where the lady at the Indian Restaurant always shakes the big piece of chicken off her serving spoon before she dishes my plate, but I'm not bitter) to talk
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If your now used to the way that GMail puts an automatic delay on all outbound emails, you might want to set this up for Outlook as well. This is based on these instructions for an older version of Outlook. Here is the equivalent for 2010: 1. Switch to
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I did a second .NET Framework features informal poll recently , and as with all .NET related polls the question comes up: How many PCs have the .NET Framework on it? If you're a company that is considering creating a client application using .NET (not
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The folks in the .NET Framework Setup team have a favor to ask, and it's pretty cool info so I offered to help. Here's the deal. When .NET 4 releases, the .NET 4 Client Profile will be released as a recommended update on Windows Update (WU) for Vista
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I want to thank Microsoft for naming me an ASP.NET MVP for 2010. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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While I (really) unplugged in December of 2009, you can access a nice calendar of all my 2009 posts (as well as other years) at this link . In 2008 I published a Greatest Hits post that I will keep updated, but here's a list of links to the posts I most
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Just about two years ago I joined Microsoft . I'm fortunate to work in a home office with a great team that I now lead . We work for the group at Microsoft that runs MSDN , TechNet , ASP.NET , Silverlight.NET , WindowsClient.NET , basically all the online
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The team I work at Microsoft for is called Server and Tools Online, and one of the things we work on is the Microsoft Developer Network or "MSDN." If you go way, way up, our boss is Soma ( Yes, this Soma ), but down here in the trenches there's
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Based on a tweet from a colleague I decided to keep track of which Windows Home Server Add-Ins I installed, any issues and general comments/feedback with each. The two primary websites for Add-Ins that I could easily find are: Home Server Plus Microsoft
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Our business administrator emailed me just now: Can you please send me instructions on how team members can share their desktop with you while they are presenting? I may want to include this in my meeting requests for them. This is our #1 challenge
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Cross-browser testing is a hassle. Most of the time you can follow standards and get a decent looking website working cross browser, but there's always variations. All browsers have their quirks and older IEs have more than their fair share. As I see
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Have you seen Muutu yet? Its not just another classifieds search engine, but THE classified aggregator and search engine. At first look at the search results you will soon notice that they actually aggregate across the multiple sources available.
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My one-hundred-and-seventy-ninth podcast is up . In this unusual episode of Hanselminutes, organized late at night over Twitter , and recorded as a community conference call, Scott moderates a discussion on open source and the new CodePlex Foundation.
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