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How Do Your .NET Applications Know If They’re Running Under Windows 7?

Sometimes it’s the little things that seem to drive ya nuts while developing an application. This is a follow up post to a my How Do Your .NET Applications Know if They're Running Under Vista? post from September 2008. There are features in Windows 7 that are NOT available in earlier versions of Windows so there may be times when you need to know what OS your application is running under. Determining the OS version is as simple as checking a few properties on the the System.Environment.OSVersion...

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Posted On Sunday, October 18, 2009 1:07 PM | Feedback (0)

Get “Ramped Up” and Learn New Software Development Skills for Free!

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while now… Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program that will help you build professional development skills. Ready to move forward in your software development career? Ready to learn new skills, say SharePoint development for example? Well then head over to Ramp Up and check out the available tracks and start moving forward today! Tracks include: SharePoint for Developers Web Development With ASP.NET Learn ASP.NET: For PHP Developers...

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Posted On Friday, July 31, 2009 10:02 AM | Feedback (1)

Beautifying Code in Visual Studio With Format Document

I don't know about you but to me looks are everything! :-) I have a long way to go before I'm even close to resembling something beautiful but that doesn't mean my code has to suffer the same fate. I don't know about you but I can't stand working with program code or HTML that isn't indented and formatted correctly. I find it hampers my productivity. A Visual Studio feature I use all the time is Format Document. You'll find it on the Edit menu under Advanced. Hope this helps you have a beautiful...

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Posted On Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:12 PM

Raleigh Code Camp - Saturday, November 15th

Attention southeastern U.S. software developers! If you're in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, or anywhere else in the southeast U.S. don't forget to mark your calendar for next Saturday! Not sure what a Code Camp is? Check out this link and find out! Raleigh Code Camp Saturday, November 15, 2008 , 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: ECPI I'll be presenting a session on integrating Microsoft Virtual Earth into your web applications. Hope to see you Saturday! Have a day. :-|...

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Posted On Sunday, November 09, 2008 11:34 AM | Feedback (2)

FREE Visual Studio 2008 Pro, Expression Web 2 and the Tech-Ed DVD Set For All DevTeach Attendees!

Yes, you read that title correctly. All attendees at the DevTeach conference Dec 1 - 5 will receive VS 2008 Pro, Expression Web 2, and the Tech-Ed DVD set free. How sweet a deal is that??!! So in addition to kick ass session content, hanging out with world-renowned speakers like DevTeach keynote speaker Ted Neward, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of DotNetRocks fame, my fellow Microsoft RDs Tim Huckaby, Joel Semeniuk, Stephen Forte, Guy Barrette, & Barry Gervin, as well as CoDe magazine editor...

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Posted On Friday, November 07, 2008 4:43 PM | Feedback (3)

Silverlight How-Do-I Videos With VB Sample Code!

I have good news for the VBers interested in making the leap into the world of Rich Internet Applications (RIA). In additon to being available in C#, the Silverlight team has posted VB sample code for all of their How-Do-I videos. Thanks Silverlight team! Have a day. :-|