Author Archives: devkeydetold

Hello world!

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PLEASE READ: I’m moving my blog…

Starting today, I will be moving my blog.  This may be a little confusing, so bear with me.  To be clear, http://devkeydet.com (which redirects to http://devkeydet.spaces.live.com) will still be my official browser based web presence.  I will still use Windows … Continue reading

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Improving the startup performance of your WPF applications

Quite a few questions came up about WPF at our last two Public Sector Developer Conferences in Seattle & Olympia, WA.  I forgot to let people know that I am keeping a WPF Resources list on my Windows Live Space.  … Continue reading

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WEBCAST: What’s New in the WCF and WF in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) were released in 2006 as part of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with separate extensions for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. These tools were improved on and are now integrated with Microsoft … Continue reading

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WEBCAST FOLLOW UP: What’s New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5

Thanks to everyone who attended.  You can get the deck here and the code here.  The code has been updated for Visual Studio 2008 RTM.   Technorati Tags: asp.net,.net framework,ajax,linq,visual studio

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FOLLOW UP: Public Sector Developer Conference (Seattle & Olympia, WA)

Thanks to everyone who attended.  All of my demos are based on Visual Studio 2008 / .NET Framework 3.5 RTM.  Here are the downloads: Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL – deck, demo code NOTE: You will need to … Continue reading

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Where’s the follow up from the Public Sector Developers Conference in WA?

I know I promised folks I would have all the updated VS2008 RTM code & slide decks for my WCF, WF, & LINQ presentations published by now.  Unfortunately, I am a little behind.  Due to some laptop configuration issues that … Continue reading

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WEBCAST: What’s New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5

NOTE:  This is an updated delivery of a similarly titled webcast.  The demos are update for the final release of Visual Studio 2008.  Due to the amount of content, I have pulled out the "ASP.NET Futures" (now called the Microsoft … Continue reading

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Xobni: I want this Outlook addin

I was catching up on some RSS reading and noticed this little nugget via Sean Alexander.  According to their website: "Xobni Insight is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers effortless email management and provides instant access to the most … Continue reading

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2 new recorded webcast recordings

Robert & James each did a webcast for me while I was away on family leave.  I just update My Recorded Webcasts so you can find the recordings.  The titles are Advanced SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and … Continue reading

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