Category: News

  • Beantown .NET Meeting 11/1/2007: Michael Stiefel

    Beantown .NET is meeting on November 1. For our November meeting we have Michael Stiefel presenting “Yet Another Application Paradigm: Software as a Service”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.  If you’re planning to come, please send me an RSVP using the contact form — http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx — by…

  • Beantown .NET Meeting on 10/6/2007: Chris Bowen

    Beantown .NET is meeting on October 4. For our October meeting we have Chris Bowen presenting “P&P and Enterprise Library 3.0”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.  If you’re planning to come, please send me an RSVP using the contact form (http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx) by 3pm on 10/6 –…

  • Speaking at Code Camp 8: "WiX Installers" & "TFS: Under The Hood"

    Man! This just snuck up on me.  Code Camp 8 is in less than 7 days!  I’ll be doing two sessions.  Come by and say hello. -Ben   Date(s): 09.29.2007-09.30.2007 (GMT-5) Type: Code Camp Location: Microsoft New England District: 201 Jones Rd, 6th Floor, Waltham MA Update: 9/27/07 — Due to a scheduling problem (my fault),…

  • Dubbelbock TFS 2.0 (Beta)

    Back in May, I released version 1.0 of Dubbelbock TFS.  Dubbelbock 1.0 let you access Team Foundation Server version control from Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) so that you could do check ins, check outs, get latest, and other common commands.  Since then I’ve been fixing bugs and adding new features and now Dubbelbock TFS v2.0 is…

  • Beantown.NET Meeting with Adam Machanic on Thursday 6/7/2007

    The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting on Thursday, 6/7/2007.  This will be our last meeting before Beantown’s summer break (we’ll be resuming in September at a new meeting location).  http://www.beantowndotnet.org   This month we have Adam Machanic presenting “Modeling and Querying Graphs and Hierarchies in SQL Server”.   As always, our meeting is open…

  • Want to access TFS source control from Explorer.exe? Announcing "Dubbelbock TFS"!

    Ever heard of Tortoise SVN?  It’s a great tool that lets you control Subversion source control from Windows Explorer.  Right-click on a file or folder and you can do operations like check-in, check-out, add, etc. I use Team Foundation Server for my source control and have missed the convenience of being able to access source…

  • Speaking at VSLive Orlando 2007

    I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Orlando 2007 in just a few months — May 6 through May 10. I’m doing four 1-hour sessions: Serious WebPart Customization Ever tried to customize how your ASP.NET WebParts look?  Sure, you can change colors and fonts, but what if you want to change the layout?  What if you…

  • Speaking at VSLive San Francisco 2007

    I’m going to be speaking at VSLive San Francisco 2007 in just a few weeks — March 25 through March 29. I’m doing five 1-hour sessions and an all-day workshop.  The talks: Serious WebPart Customization Ever tried to customize how your ASP.NET WebParts look?  Sure, you can change colors and fonts, but what if you…

  • Making FlowLayoutPanel Scroll Using Arrow Keys, Page Up, Page Down

    How do you make the FlowLayoutPanel scroll using arrow keys, page up, page down?  I’ll start with the answers and work backwards: Subscribe to the PreviewKeyDown event and don’t forget to call control.PerformLayout(). Now the problem: If you haven’t checked out the NYTimes Reader application, you’re totally missing out.  It’s this fantastic .NET 3 / WPF…

  • Beantown.NET Meeting: Rob Daigneau – "Implementing SOA Design Patterns with .NET"

    The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting on Thursday, 2/1/2007. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month we have Rob Daigneau presenting “Implementing SOA Design Patterns with .NET”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers.  If you want free pizza, send me an RSVP using the contact form (http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx) by 1pm on…