Monthly Archives: August 2008

Frustrated with the Ribbon bar in MS Office?  Here are several solutions.   Click here to follow me on Google+.   As we all found out the hard way, Microsoft completely redesigned the user interface in Office 2007. For some … Continue reading →

I downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Tuesday, 2008-08-12. If you want to download it, you can get it here (this will download a very small EXE, which will then download the rest during install): Small SP1 EXE … Continue reading →

August 9th, 2008 was the 1st annual CodeStock convention. For a rundown of the events, click here. Telerik’s main evangelist, Todd Anglin gave a great presentation on Microsoft’s still beta ASP.NET MVC product. If you’ve never heard of it, first, … Continue reading →

Today (August 9th, 2008) was the 1st annual CodeStock convention. For a rundown of the events, click here. By far, the coolest event was the one on XNA… Microsoft’s free game development SDK for Windows, XBox 360, and Zune (yah, … Continue reading →

Today (August 9th, 2008) was the 1st annual CodeStock convention. For a rundown of the events, click here. The 2nd event I attended was an intro to WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). It was presented by James Bender. Here’s a quick … Continue reading →

Today (August 9th, 2008) was the 1st annual CodeStock convention. For a rundown of the events, click here. The first event was the opening keynote address by Jeff Prosise. He spoke mostly about SilverLight. Here’s a quick and dirty synopsis … Continue reading →

CodeStock 2008, for those of you that don’t know, is a new (and hopefully annual) event for .NET developers. Today was the 1st event. I attended today and here’s the low down of what went down: 7:30 am: Registration. 8:00 … Continue reading →