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Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd? Perhaps a geek? No? Maybe a spaz, dork, dweeb or wonk. Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or the ASPInsiders meeting. Quite possibly you're just a normal person. Regardless, why not join us for some Mall Food at the ...

The Beta of .NET 3.5 and VS2008 SP1 is out. I'm sure everyone is blogging the heck out of it, so I'll try to add my own specific kind of value. There's fixes, many improvements (some subtle, some dramatic), and some new technology. Should You Fear This (Beta) Release? Maybe a little bit. Don't be afraid of the new assemblies or the bug fixes, I ...

Have you ever looked at a word you use and see every day, like the word ''What,'' and suddenly start doubting yourself and wonder if it's spelled correctly? There you go. What. Is THAT how it's spelled? That doesn't look right. Why would such a simple thing suddenly be called into question? Anyway, there's a glut of technical books out there, and ...

Aptana has a cool Eclipse-based IDE for writing AJAX-y websites. It's got built-in support, via plugins, for most of the major Javascript Libraries. At the core of ASP.NET's AJAX support is the Microsoft AJAX Library 3.5 (direct download), a collection of Javascript classes that you can use in any application, whether it ...

Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd? Perhaps a geek? No? Maybe a spaz, dork, dweeb or wonk. Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or TechReady6. Quite possibly you're just a normal person. Regardless, ...

As a new Microsoft employee, I like the new-found pragmatism at the Microsoft Developer Devision, typified by projects like the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions and MVC. Certainly we all know MVC as a concept is nothing new, but it is new as a philosophy for the ASP.NET team (IMHO). Remember that ...

One month ago I asked you, Dear Reader, to participate in a survey about Screencasts in order to help me, and indirectly Microsoft, improve our screencast techniques. I got 1000 responses in just a few hours and I thank you for it! You also wrote a lot in the free form comments field with 319 of the 1000 ...

My ninety-third podcast is up. Actually it was up two weeks ago, but I was on leave, so I'm catching up. In this episode, I talk to Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann from Microsoft Research about Pex, a Dynamic Analysis and Test Generator for .NET. Subscribe: ...

Here in the US we have this professional Baseball team called the Boston Red Sox. According to Wikipedia (and known to be true) "In 1918, the team won its fifth World Series, and then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history." Stated another way, for 86 years Boston fans rooted for their ...

Kzu and friends have a new pet project called Moq, which may be the coolest derivative open source project name ever. But, before I get into that... There's lots of interesting Mock Object Frameworks out there. The ones that you'll always hear about (because they are awesome) are Rhino.Mocks and TypeMock ...