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Ramp Up

Microsoft has started a new program called Ramp UP ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx ). “Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 01-06-2009
ASP.NET charting controls

Microsoft released a set of controls called the ASP.NET charting controls. I don’t know if they licensed this from Dundas, however in one of my projects I was able to replace Dundas with this in about 30 min. Most of the class names are the same. Oh and they are FREE!!!!! The only caveat is that you...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 12-05-2008
WCF & Using Statements

I was attending the Dallas Connected Systems UG last night ( http://biztalkusergroup.com/ ) and during the presentation I made the bold assertion that one should NOT use the "using statement" when working with WCF. Now I am a HUGE proponent of the using statement in normal circumstances. IMHO...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 11-13-2008
Microsoft Web Platform Installer

While I was not able to attend PDC, Microsoft did good by the community and has provided free recordings of many of the sessions ( http://www.microsoftpdc.com ). While this is cool and has some great content, the purpose of this blog post is to talk about the Microsoft Web Platform Installer ( http:...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 11-03-2008
Building a solution with many projects is SLOWWWWWWW

This week I am attending TechEd in Orlando FL and I was honored to be requested to work the C# booth by the MVP and C# teams. I got many great questions from attendees and I thought I would post some of the more interesting ones. So here goes. An attendee, let’s call him Bob, came up and said that his...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 06-04-2008
Fiddler Web Debugging Proxy

Went to an MSDN event by Russ ( http://blogs.msdn.com/rfustino/ ) a few weeks ago and during his demo he displayed this cool tool called Fiddler ( http://www.fiddler2.com/ ). A must have debugging tool for any Smart Client or Web Developer. Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 09-04-2007
Notes from the TechEd 2007 Birds of a Feather I did with Alan

Shawn Weisfeld C# MVP President Orlando .NET Users Group http://www.shawnweisfeld.com shawn@shawnweisfeld.com Alan Stevens President East Tennessee .NET Users Group alanstevens@gmail.com http://netcave.org/ Notes by Dave Noderer: daven@computerways.com (thanks Dave for taking notes during the session...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 06-09-2007
VB.NET vs. C#.NET

Ok so I know that this is a heated subject but I thought I would weigh in with my opinion and hopefully add some to the conversation. The focus of my discussion is not the “syntactical sugar” as one of my colleagues calls it but actual performance. To keep things the same I wrote two chunks of code one...

Posted to Shawn Weisfeld [MVP] (Weblog) by sweisfeld on 12-13-2006

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