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Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch 2 Oct 2010 | 10:29 am
The image below links to local MSDN WP7 training events. Yes, this post is a shameless attempt to win a free phone. I really did want to attend one of these training sessions, but I have already mis...
ASP.NET MVC from Basics to Tips and Tricks 17 Nov 2009 | 07:41 pm
I had a great time speaking at the Fort Smith .NET User Group last week. ASP.NET MVC is a subject that I am very passionate about. I recently had the pleasure of developing an e-commerce website for...
Using Paint.NET to Blend Images 23 Mar 2009 | 02:14 am
Sometimes I need to do a little graphics work, but I do not have Photoshop. Instead I use a great free tool called Paint.NET. It is an open source image editing project built with C#. It has a very...
SQL Server 2008 – Filestream Datatype Presentation 13 Jan 2009 | 03:39 am
I will be doing a small presentation tonight at the Fort Smith .NET User Group. I am a little nervous since I have never done any public speaking. Well you have to start sometime. Anyway I wanted t...
Great Time At DevLink 2008 29 Aug 2008 | 03:36 pm
I had a wonderful time at DevLink last weekend, though I am just now recuperating. I must be getting old or something. Anyway it is something to definitely add to the yearly calendar. Getting There:...
TrueCrypt 6a - System Encryption Benchmarks 14 Aug 2008 | 03:14 pm
TrueCrypt is a wonderful encryption package and best of all its free. Many people already use it to encrypt thumb drives and to setup encrypted file stores. TrueCrypt has had system encryption (boo....
ASP.NET WebControl ClientID Bloat 12 Aug 2008 | 03:29 pm
When you have a large control hierarchy this can lead to very large rendered ClientIDs. The following illustrates what is rendered when you have a label within a GridView row within a UserControl wit...
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Released Today! 12 Aug 2008 | 09:18 am
I have been using the very stable Beta, but a full release makes me feel a lot more comfortable. VS 2008 SP1 Download .NET Framework SP1 Download
Using XMLTextReader and DataSets to easily Data Mine Google News with very few lines of code. 11 Jul 2008 | 12:09 pm
Imports: Example Function: You can easily load the Google News RSS data into an "XmlTextReader". The "ReadXml" method of the "DataSet" converts the xml data into a "DataSet". The "NewsItem" cla...
SignTool Error: Signtool requires CAPICOM version 2.1.0.1 13 Mar 2008 | 10:36 am
I had uninstalled some CTP "Community Technology Preview" software. The next thing I know I'm getting this "SignTool" error when trying to publish with ClickOnce in Visual Studio 2005. It wasn't a h...
