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Tech Valley Code Camp: DATE MOVED!

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:01:03 GMT

... We're now targeting February (02/2009), with a snow date of March. More details to follow.

Animated Musical Holiday Lights at TVUG

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:27:18 GMT

"Abstract: This month, learn how to build an animated light show set to music, much like the famous holiday light show videos you may have seen on YouTube. This session will cover how to build the hardware, how to build the software, and how to combine them to create a synchronized musical show for your home. When: Tuesday November 18th, 2008 - 6:30-9PM Where: VersaTrans Solutions, Latham, NY"

Regular Expression Visualizer-A Must Have Tool

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:48:52 GMT

A review and example of Roy Osherove's new Regular Expression Visualizer for Visual Studio.

Chad Meyers: Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:16:11 GMT

FTA: "I did a consulting gig for a few years at a very large government institution and I picked up some wisdom about how to best serve the customer (even sometimes in spite of themselves), how to remain sane, and how to maintain your scruples while doing it all. I typed these up on Twitter awhile back and then forgot about 'em."

REST Services and Metadata Endpoints in WCF

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Exposing documentation for REST based services in WCF

Sexagesimal Conversions in .Net

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:31:04 GMT

Provides a library for geo-spatial converstaions as well as ontroduces the concepts of sexagesimal conversions and geo-spatial translation.

Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Do you use twitter? If you don't you should, it is a great way to find out what is happening in the programming world. Here is a list of some well known programmers and their twitter URL. Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman, Dare Obasanjo, John Lam and many more are on this list

The True Story Behind LINQ to SQL

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:01:01 GMT

An architect's story of how LINQ to SQL came to be. "For the sake of LINQ and the customer in general, we took up the OR/M torch officially, announcing our intention internally and starting the political nightmare that became my life for the next three years."

Did Microsoft Violate TestDriven.NET's EULA in Enforcing Its Own EULA?

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Phil Haack provides a useful analysis of the recent legal wranglings between Jammie Cansdale of TestDriven.NET fame and Microsoft.

Sharpen Your Unit Tests, Forget VB

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:01:01 GMT

VB.NET programmers should be writing their unit tests in C#.

Simple ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks that You May (or may not) have Hear

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:01:01 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 is an awesome framework for developing Web applications. If you've worked with it for awhile then that's no secret. It offers some great new features that you can implement with a minimal amount of code.

Adding a transparent background to a Vista Gadget

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:46:01 GMT

Adding a transparent background to a gadget is easy! Simply create a transparent .png file and reference it from your Gadget HTML.