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I’m back home in NoVA after a brief tour of the Tidewater area, with a stop in Hampton, VA for our MSDN roadshow, then Virginia Beach for the Hampton Roads SQL (and SharePoint) User Group. Though three presentations in a day made for a long one, it was great to see both familiar and new faces. I actually got to put a face to one of the local ...

Join the MSDN Team (Lindsay, Dani, and David) and the rest of .NET Valley for the "Best Wings" in the area. On November 13th, we'll be meeting at the new Quaker Steak & Lube found in Dickson City. The evening will begin at 6pm. .NET Valley will be sponsoring some Wings and beverages. If you are going to attend, we need you to ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:00 PM: RVNUG November Meeting: Geocoding, RSS, and Mapping, Oh My! with G. Andrew Duthie - Take a trip into the wonderful world of geolocation with Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie. Andrew will ...

PDC (Professional Developer’s Conference) has been going on this week and I was not able to attend. However, I got together with some friends (David Penton, Chris Love and Steve Andrews) to put together a quick virtual event so that those of us not at pdc can get some learning done this week. Check it out at http://notatpdc.com. We plan to do more ...

Many of you are probably aware that Microsoft is running a little event for developers this week called PDC. Some of you may already be there, but given the number of developers in the U.S. compared to the size of the LA Convention Center, it’s a good bet that many of you are not. If so, you’re not alone. I’m in DC this week, helping host and ...

Register Here Friday, November 14, 2008 9:00 AM - Friday, November 14, 2008 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Welcome Time: 8:30 AM University of Scranton Room 405 DeNaples Student Center 800 Linden Street Scranton Pennsylvania 18510 United States Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft .NET, Microsoft .NET ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (note the CMAP Code Camp THIS SATURDAY!): Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:00 PM: DC ALT.NET - A Look at Kanban Software Development - Kanban is gaining popularity thanks to a growing number of folks, including Corbis & Yahoo!, who have been ...

Keith Elder has what I think is a nice analogy of the difference between ASMX web services and WCF services: This question comes up a lot in conversations I have with developers.  “Why would I want to switch to ASMX services?” One analogy I have come up with to explain the difference between the two is an airplane ...

A day late, due to the Columbus Day holiday, but here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area (note in particular my upcoming appearance at BaltoMSDN this Wednesday, and the CMAP Code Camp on the 25th): Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:30 PM: October Pittsburgh .NET Users Group Meeting - A ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:30 PM: CMAP Main Meeting: ASP.NET MVC - This session will introduce attendees to the new ASP.NET MVC framework while building a real-world application. "Separation of concerns" will be discussed as the ...