Thom Robbins .NET Weblog
A blog of the technical and only sometimes uneventful side of programming in .NET and life within Microsoft
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In case you haven’t seen it Max Karpov at Ipattern.com has some pretty cool podcasts that he is...
Author: trobbins Date: 06/13/2005
Introducing the Logical Datacenter Designer
The Logical Datacenter designer is a new feature of Visual Studio Team Architect. This designer is...
Author: trobbins Date: 06/09/2005
Introducing the Data Sources Window
One of the new features for Windows forms development using Visual Studio 2005 is the Data Sources...
Author: trobbins Date: 06/03/2005
Practical Views with InfoPath
Views are an important part of developing InfoPath forms. Their use enables the presentation of data...
Author: trobbins Date: 06/02/2005
XML Comments with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Basic
Visual Studio 2005 provides a variety of new features. One of those is to provide XML comments...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/29/2005
Introducing the Class Designer
The Class Designer is a new visual tool in Visual Studio 2005 that is used to examine and manipulate...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/27/2005
SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio 2005/BizTalk 2006 Connected Systems Developer Competition
One of my favorite things is to give away free stuff for great code! If you haven’t seen this...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/27/2005
Where you there?
Well after a couple of days out of town, I wanted to post some of the pictures from our recent Star...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/26/2005
Building a Site Map with Visual Studio 2005
Site maps are a visual way to show the layout of a Web site. Similar to an organization chart of an...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/22/2005
Star Wars this afternoon
There is still some room left for the private Star Wars showing this afternoon. Should be a great...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/20/2005
Introducing Login Controls
Question: During the recent Beta 2 Events that I attended, you mentioned the Login Controls within...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/16/2005
Star Wars is Coming to New England - Are you ready?
Attend a Free Star Wars Preview and Celebration including the 1st New England Costume Pageant...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/16/2005
Introducing Web Parts with Visual Studio 2005
ASP 2.0 introduces a variety of new features and enhancements. One of these is Web parts. Although,...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/15/2005
Beta 2 Events
With two events down and two more to go the buzz around Visual Studio 2005 is getting bigger. For...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/14/2005
The No Code Approach to Data Access
ASP.NET has always been a great tool for writing data driven applications. The problem was often...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/07/2005
Introducing Master Pages
Master pages are one of my absolute favorite features of ASP 2.0. A master page is a template that...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/05/2005
Quick Overview of ClickOnce
I was talking with a local customer the other day that was in the process of designing their next...
Author: trobbins Date: 05/04/2005
Announcing the New York City Code Camp!
I am happy to announce that New York City will host its very first Code Camp on June 25, 2005 at the...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/30/2005
How do you do a Mail Merge?
I was talking with one of the Office Specialists the other day. I had been trying to do a Mail Merge...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/30/2005
Got Indigo Day Wrap Up
Thanks to all that attended the Got Indigo Day this week. With over 280 developers talking and...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/29/2005
New Hampshire User Group
Thanks to all that attended the New Hampshire user group last night! As promised here is the link to...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/22/2005
Promoting InfoPath fields
Question: In looking at this example you posted about expression boxes I had a few questions. We...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/20/2005
Extending the Enterprise through Mobile Solutions
Had a great opportunity to attend and present a session at the Regional Architect Forum in...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/19/2005
Importing an Excel spreadsheet
Question: I have been taking a look at the ticket request form sample that you posted. It has helped...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/14/2005
Building InfoPath Rules
In this previous example, I showed how you can bind an InfoPath form to the values of a SharePoint...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/11/2005
InfoPath and the Expression Box
Question: I am trying to total a field within my InfoPath form. Do I need to include a field to hold...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/10/2005
Customizing the Repeating Table
InfoPath provides a variety of benefits for form based development. One of the things that are often...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/08/2005
Got Indigo Day is coming to Waltham!
In case you haven’t heard – “Got Indigo” day is coming to Waltham! We have posted the Agenda at...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/08/2005
Connecting to a SharePoint List
Question: We have recently deployed SharePoint around our enterprise. The other day, I was given the...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/08/2005
InfoPath Dropdowns and SQL Databases
Question: I am new to InfoPath and have really enjoyed the information that you have provided on...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/03/2005
What is an Assembly?
What is an Assembly? Every time you create any kind of application or service using Visual Basic.NET...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/02/2005
What is an Assembly?
Every time you create any kind of application or service using Visual Basic.NET you are building an...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/02/2005
Slides Available
Thanks for everyone that attended the New England Architect Council the other day. As promised you...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/01/2005
SQL Server Webcasts!
Discover how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers database developers the optimal combination of a...
Author: trobbins Date: 04/01/2005
So you want to hold a Code Camp?
Thanks to everyone that attended the Web Cast – “So you want to hold a Code Camp?”. Chris, Patrick...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/27/2005
So You Want to Hold a Code Camp
Thanks to all that attended the Live Meeting today called ‘So You Want to hold a Code Camp’. As...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/23/2005
New Code Posted
Just posted some minor fixes to the user infterface for the Beta of Dev Nuggets! Thanks to the...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/19/2005
Code Camp III: The Madness
Well I am definitely late to the party but Code Camp 3 was a total success! I hope that all who...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/17/2005
Announcing "Got Indigo" Day!
“Got Indigo?” Developing Applications using Indigo and .NET Wednesday, April 27 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/17/2005
New Code Posted
Looks like we are off to a good start with the Beta of Dev Nuggets! Thanks to the people that have...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/09/2005
Beta DevNuggets Announced
Several weeks ago, I was preparing for an event and was looking to collect some basic information as...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/09/2005
Announcing even more content for Speech Server!
Additional content is being added to the Got Speech site which includes some new videos! Speech Flow...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/02/2005
Announcing the Almost Final Agenda for Code Camp 3: The Madness
Take a look here at the official Almost Final Code Camp 3: The Madness! Agenda! We are doing the...
Author: trobbins Date: 03/01/2005
More Content Available
More short video content is now available on https://www.gotspeech.net Testing for Speech or DTMF...
Author: trobbins Date: 02/27/2005
Code Camp Raleigh
Code Camp Raleigh style is in the works! Looks like April 9 at the North Carolina University is the...
Author: trobbins Date: 02/26/2005
Speech Day
Well the dust is starting to settle from Speech Day and it looks like everyone had fun and learned a...
Author: trobbins Date: 02/25/2005
Show me the Code!
Thanks to Carl for a great Mini-Code Camp! Looking for the files? Samples Plug ins
Author: trobbins Date: 02/22/2005