On May 21st, Ziff Davis is hosting an eSeminar, Windows 8 for Developers Online Camp. Speakers include Greg Levenhagen, @GregLevenhagen, and myself. Here’s the agenda: - Building a Windows 8 App in 15 minutes or less. - Where is Microsoft headed, how it differs from others (Apple/Google), and why it makes sense. - Win8 Development versus Android, iOS, ......

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Tomorrow, I’m doing a live webinar with Learn Now on Async Programming in C#. More details here: http://bit.ly/17JT792.

@JoeMayo

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Denver Windows Azure Bootcamp On April 27th, 2013, join us at a Windows Azure Bootcamp in Denver, just one of the 95+ locations hosting this massive event. This free one day deep dive class will get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep real world experience with Windows Azure, as well as a series of ......

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Twitter has officially announced API v1 Retirement: Final Dates. The final date will be May 7th 2013. So, if you still have code running on Twitter API v1.0, you’ll need to upgrade to Twitter API v1.1. LINQ to Twitter has supported Twitter API v1.1 for months and you can download it from codeplex.com or NuGet. To help people understand the impact, Twitter ......

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Today, I released LINQ to Twitter v2.1.05, which is available via NuGet or the LINQ to Twitter Download page. This was a critical release because Twitter changed their OAuth handling logic, as explained in the discussion, “oauth/access_token Stopped working today” on their developer site. In particular, this change requires all access_token endpoint ......

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There’s been some discussion recently about whether it’s proper for a language to support null values or not. My guess is that the people having these discussions are a whole lot smarter than myself, so it’s probably best to defer to their judgment on any matters that might conflict with whatever I have to say. That said, there might be semantic differences ......

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I was testing .NET 4.5 compatibility in LINQ to Twitter when I encountered an IOException with the message: “The specified registry key does not exist.” This occurred during a call to System.Net.WebRequest.Creat... This is something that happened after a Windows update, kb2745030. Since this is a security issue, you’ll want to read Microsoft’s article ......

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Tonight, I checked-in changes to streaming in LINQ to Twitter. The primary refactoring was to remove the automatic error handling that had been in place since the beginning of stream support in LINQ to Twitter. The primary problem with my previous approach is that a 3rd party library should not be performing exception handling on behalf of a developer. ......

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Today, I released the latest version of LINQ to Twitter, v2.1.04. Many of the modifications include new parameters for commands and queries, or new Entity properties. A few items were deprecated, so look for Obsolete warnings and minor changes to overloads. i.e. Since Twitter automatically wraps all links with t.co URLs, the WrapLinks parameter is deprecated. ......

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Last July, I blogged about how to do OAuth in Windows 8 with LINQ to Twitter: http://geekswithblogs.net/W... A the time, that worked well, but was still not an optimal solution. It required setting up a page to handle a WebBrowser control, navigating to that page, authorizing, and then ......

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