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Perhaps I should know about this already, but I was not-so-blissfully unaware that you can disable that annoying, nagging popup window that keeps asking you to reboot after new updates are installed. That dialog drives me absolutely insane, as I'm positive it waits for me to be doing some important coding...

Windows Quick Tip: Disabling the Windows Update Reboot-Nagging →

Available on the MSDN Subscriber downloads. Get it hot off the press! Of course, you may be best off waiting a bit for the load to calm down, as the servers are very busy serving up VS downloads to the masses of developers currently downloading....

Visual Studio 2008 Released →

If you would like a dropdown that displays one static item suchas “–Choose One—“ while the rest of theitems are data bound, then check out the code below: < asp : DropDownList ID ="drpProucts" runat ="server" DataSourceID ="ProductsDS" DataTextField ="ProductName" DataValueField ="ProductId" Width...

ASPNET Quick Tip: adding a static item to a databound dropdownlist →

Trying to keep up to date? Download the .NET 3.5 Commonly referenced namespaces poster . There's two sizes, a nice .pdf file and a two file split download in case you want to re-wallpaper your cubicle....

.NET 3.5 Common Namespaces →

November13 th : Central Penn.NET User Group Meeting ScottAllen’s topic is titled “Going Asynchronous with ASP.NET AJAX”. Judy Calla will be speaking about SQLReporting Services. November19 th : LehighValley .NET UG Meeting Thetopic and speaker are TBD. November27 th : .NET Valley Live...

November 2007 Developer Events in Pa →

Multitargeting is targeting specific versions of the .NETFramework, in the Visual Studio 2008 Betas and later you can target the 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5frameworks for development. So, why multitarget? You may have tosupport existing code bases that were previously written using Visual Studio2005 targeting the...

Visual Studio 2008 Multitargeting →

Download the VB9 Beta language specs here . And the C# version is here . There's some new great features listed in the VB9 specs, I'm looking forward to digging into query expressions, generic type inference and partial methods (all described in the VB doc)....

Language Specs Released (VB9/C#) →

On October 24th at our monthly .NET Valley meeting, we are pleased to have Steve Andrews from RDA Corporation speaking at on Visual Studio 2005 tips and tricks. It looks like a fun night for developers! Welcome, Steve! I also am preparing to speak at the Harrisburg Area Code Camp 2007 on Dec 1st. As...

.NET Valley Event - Oct 24th →

Start here: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/learning/whitepapers.mspx . DataProgrammability http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_dp.mspx What'snew for XML in SQL Server 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_xml.mspx Performance: http://www.microsoft.com...

Some SQL 2008 Resources & Whitepapers →