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Reed Copsey, Jr presented Windows Forms to WPF with MVVM at last Seattle DOT Net User Group Meeting

I am mostly an ASP.NET developer but after watching Reed show the group the basics of WPF and how easy it was in my opinion compared to winforms I am convinced now that I am going to start doing WPF going forward. Reed put together some great slides and a basic application to demonstrate the power ... [More]

Visual Studio - CloudService app "Build fails" Unable to remove directory.

While working on a CloudService application for Windows Azure, I encountered an error saying "Unable to remove directory "C:\HelloAzure\HelloAzure_WebRole\bin\_PublishedWebsites". The directory is not empty. My version of Visual Studio is 2008 SP1, althopugh I assume t... [More]

(MVP) Model View Presenter - Passive View

In my journey to write better software I have been looking at various patterns available. One of them is known as the Model View Presenter or MVP pattern. In doing some reading many of the sites I have come across point to Martin Fowlers website who is well known for his contribution in design patte... [More]

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

Over the last week I have been playing around with the latest ASP.NET MVC 2 RC framework available here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=157071  So far I feel like I have gone backwards from the rich UI development environment of ASP.NET Webforms. However as I write more an more code and... [More]

Seattle .net dotnet user group

Great new user group that is getting started and it is in Seattle. Was hosted at Starbucks who provided a top notch facility for the meeting. About 25 people showed up and  speaker Charles Sterling  gave us a great presentation walking us through the new testing tools in Microsoft V... [More]

An update for the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is available

Posting this for those that may not have seen the latest post update to 3.5 SP1. Might want to check out this Microsoft article if you are having problems after installing 3.5 SP1.  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209

ASP.NET - Ajax - Expression - LINQ - SQL Server - Webcasts

Found some great sites that have links to all kinds of webcasts covering ASP.NET, Ajax, Expression, LINQ, SQL Server and more. If you want to learn about any of these topics the sites listed below are a great place to start. ASP.NET Website - Great website with lots of resources but foun... [More]

.NET 2.0 SP2 Installation - Were to find it

I have seen many people referring to .NET 2.0 SP2 to fix some of the issues I have been dealing with. I finally figured out that the SP2 for the 2.0 framework is not available as of now anyways as a individual download but rather you must download .NET 3.5 SP1 to get the installation. So I d... [More]

Spawning multiple .NET delegates really slow

I recently worked on a project that had a listener service running that took TCP requests and made external calls to a remote WebService. The listener service could have up to 300 concurrent requests. In testing the service it was showing a significant delay in executing requests above 3-4 c... [More]