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Windows Azure @ MSDN Developer Conference, 1/22/2009
For those of you who didn’t manage to get out to Microsoft PDC 2008 in Los Angeles in October and missed all the Windows Azure content, don’t despair — the MSDN Developer Conference is coming to a city near you. A nice feature of MSDN DevCon is that you get a lot of the same…
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Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 11/6/2008 — 4 short talks by 4 different speakers
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, November 6th. For our November meeting, we’ll be doing 4 short talks by 4 different speakers. – Josh Melvin – “Break Out Of Your Cell: Table-less HTML Layout” – Jerry Feldman – “A 30 Minute Intro To Linux” – Benjamin Day – “A Quick Intro to…
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Audible.com Works On Zune!
I’m not sure how I missed this but Audible.com finally supports the Zune! -Ben
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Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition and Database Edition are now merged
For those of you who have ever wrestled with what kind of license you should get of Visual Studio Team System — Developer or Database — well, this is for you. Microsoft just announced that they’re merging the two editions for Visual Studio 10 (aka “Rosario”). You’re probably thinking “well, that’s all well and good…
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Dubbelbock for Visual Studio 2008 Released for free
Well, Visual Studio 2008 was released in February and I finally got around to getting Dubbelbock updated for VS2008. The funny thing is that most of the delay had to do with modifying the licensing code since I’ve decided to release it for free. In addition to being able to access Team Foundation Server source…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 7/10/2008 with Chris Bowen on XNA
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting on Thursday, July 10th. For our July meeting, we have Chris Bowen from Microsoft presenting “Introduction to Game Development with XNA”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 7/10. Click here to RSVP.…
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Speaking at Beantown .NET User Group on TFS2008 6/12/2008
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, June 12th. For our June meeting, I’ll be presenting “Team Foundation Server 2008” as part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Event program (http://tinyurl.com/3uz2c3). As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please…
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Beantown .NET Meeting in Waltham on 1/31 with David Chappell
Beantown .NET is doing a special joint meeting with Boston .NET, Boston .NET Architecture, and New England Visual Basic Professionals user groups at Microsoft in Waltham on Thursday, January 31. (Thanks to Chris Bowen for organizing this.) For this meeting we have David Chappell presenting “Understanding Software + Services”. As always, our meeting is open…
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Quoted in an article on multicore development
Newsflash– I got quoted last week in an article about Microsoft’s Parallel Extensions for .NET 3.5 by Jack Vaughn. (Thanks, Jack!) -Ben
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The Windows Process Activation Service service terminated with the following error: The system cannot find the file specified."
I’m not sure if this is related to the Vista Service Pack 1 Beta but I installed the SP1 beta recently and then within the next week or so I couldn’t start IIS (W3SVC). When I’d try to start W3SVC I’d get an error saying “The dependency service or group failed to start.” A little…