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Beantown .NET Meeting on 3/5/2009: Bill Wilder — "Microsoft's Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight"
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week — Thursday, March 5th. For this month’s meeting, we’ve got Bill Wilder talking about “Microsoft’s Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight”. 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 3/5. Click…
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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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My slides from VSLive Orlando 2008
I just finished up doing VSLive Orlando 2008 this week. To all of you who were in my sessions, thanks for coming. For those of you who missed the conference, you should go to the next VSLive. Here are my slides from this year’s talks: Win & Web App Installers with WiX De-mystifying TFS Reporting…
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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…
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VSLive Austin 2007 Slides & Code
Last week I was speaking at VSLive Austin 2007. Here are some links to download my slides and sample code. Serious ASP.NET WebPart Customization (slides) / (code) Serious Team Foundation Server Customization (slides) / (code) Serious Team Foundation Server Source Control (slides) / (code) Worshipping LINQ to SQL(Joint session with Richard Hale Shaw) (slides) Workshop…
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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…
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Managing TFS Team Build History: Delete Completed Builds From "All Build Types" & Bug Work Item Drop-downs
Here’s another blog post that came from an attendee question at VSLive Vegas. In Team Foundation Server (TFS) there are at least two places where you can see completed Team Builds: the “Team Builds – All Build Types” screen and the Bug work item’s “Found in build” and “Resolved in build” drop-down lists. Here’s what it looks like…
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Custom Lazy-loadable Business Collections with NHibernate
I was at VSLive Las Vegas last week and one of my talks was on NHibernate development. One of the guys who was in my session came up to me and asked “how do I create my own custom collection that I can use in NHibernate that still lets me do lazy loading?” The core…