The Ultimate Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Blog
by Zain Naboulsi
Random Coolness: The Church -- Reptile
Reptile - The Church
Author: zainnab Date: 11/12/2008
Resources for the TekFocus Event: New Features in Visual Studio 2008 SP 1
I'm a little late on these but here they are :) Whats New in VS2008 SP1 clean.zip
Author: zainnab Date: 11/12/2008
Research Love
Cimbiosys: A platform for content-based partial replication Venugopalan Ramasubramanian; Thomas...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/10/2008
Observer Pattern Webcast Resources
Webcasts here: https://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/pages/design-patterns.aspx Slides and code in...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/05/2008
It's Time to Vote!!!
It doesn't matter which party you support your vote still counts! Want to find out IF you can vote...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/04/2008
Developer Round Table
I'm happy to announce that Shawn Weisfeld, a prominent MVP, has started up the Developer Round Table...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/03/2008
THE NATURE OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IS RADICALLY CHANGING … ARE YOU READY?
12/9/2008 -- Houston<RSVPcodes>Use this RSVP code when you register:MDCEXTB</RSVPcodes>...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/03/2008
SMTP Theory of Reply Codes: Food for Thought...
I was visiting the C# SIG in Dallas a while back and, Jef Newsom from Improving Enterprises was...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/03/2008
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
https://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/downloads/default.aspx Web Platform InstallerThe Web Platform...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/02/2008
A First Look at Windows 7
<=== Not an official logo but I like it :) From the post:===The first thing to note is that this...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/02/2008
Azure: Seriously Cool Cloudness
In case you haven't heard yet we have announced our major could services in the form of Azure. From...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/02/2008
Microsoft Web Deployment Tool Sandbox
Thanks to Mark for turning me on to this...
Author: zainnab Date: 11/01/2008
Contest / SWAG/ Contest / SWAG: Just in case it got lost in the noise...
In case you missed it we have a contest going on!! :) Detail here:...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/31/2008
Design Pattern Goodness: Introduction to Design Patterns
Webcasts here: https://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/pages/design-patterns.aspx Slides and Links attached :)...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/30/2008
Design Patterns
Webcasts Page MSDN and TechNet Search PagesMSDN Webcast Page:...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/30/2008
Team System Café
From my bud in the Hearland district, Randy Pagels, some Team System love: === The...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/29/2008
A good—but rare—case of when a query hint can save your life.
Great little article by Boyd Evert on query hints. Feel the love...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/28/2008
WPF Love from PDC!!!!
We announced some new control love for WPF: DataGrid Ribbon Visual State Manager Check out the cool...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/28/2008
Random Coolness: Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta -
Author: zainnab Date: 10/28/2008
DevCares at TekFocus
Dev Cares is a series of FREE half-day events sponsored by TekFocus and Microsoft. Targeted...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/28/2008
SPE Houston Slides and Links
Here are the slides and links from the lecture today, enjoy!! :) SPE Houston.zip
Author: zainnab Date: 10/22/2008
Distributed in-memory cache - Velocity
My bud, Hanu, recently brought this to my attention and blogged about it...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/22/2008
Win Free Vista Ulitmate and/or Training Vouchers !!!
In case you missed the earlier...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/18/2008
Random Coolness: I AM CANADIAN -- Molson Commercial
Author: zainnab Date: 10/17/2008
Random Coolness: Demitri Martin flip chart and art
Author: zainnab Date: 10/16/2008
Win Some Swag: The Second Zain Blog Contest Begins!
Yep, it's that time again. I feel the urge to purge some swag and what better way to do it than with...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/15/2008
Microsoft Learning Love: Get Your Test On!!!
Just got this from the MS Learning folks and thought I would pass it on...===Microsoft Learning has...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/15/2008
Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation: Deep Dive Webcasts
Ultra cool series for your 'casting pleasure: Webcast TitleBeyond the Endpoints with Windows...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/15/2008
Check Out Your Social NetMap
I was recently turned on to this righteous tool from one of my...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/15/2008
Downloading the Silverlight 2 Bits
Just got this and thought I would share:===The link to the Silverlight 2 installer to use is...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/14/2008
Random Coolness: Flash Gordon Movie Trailer
Author: zainnab Date: 10/13/2008
Microsoft's Vision of the Future: Virtual Worlds Are Coming At You :)
Imagine a Photosynth / Virtual Earth combination with avatars you can interact with in this space....
Author: zainnab Date: 10/13/2008
Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology
W00t!! ...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/09/2008
Cool Architecture Webcasts for the Aspiring Architect
Thinking about becoming an architect? Check out these webcasts and feel the love! :) Aspiring...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/08/2008
Silverlight 2 RC0 Is Available
From: https://silverlight.net/GetStarted/sl2rc0.aspx Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 (Silverlight 2...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/07/2008
Dallas TechDays -- Nov. 18th - 20th
We have a BIG event coming up called "TechDays"! Essentially, the marketing people needed some busy...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/07/2008
PDC: FREE pre-conference workshop Sunday October 26th -- WomenBuild!
Here’s the link to register. Facebook group for WomenBuild...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/06/2008
Want Some Windows Server 2008 Love?
Then head on over to this link and download an eval VPC to see how cool this new OS...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/06/2008
Tulsa TechFest : This WEEK!!! Thursday, Oct 9th and Friday, Oct 10th!!!
Come to the TechFest!! I'll be there along with a bajillion other seriously cool...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/06/2008
Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases via the Entity Framework
The ADO.NET team blog mentioned this coolness. Check out their blog:...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/05/2008
Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper for 6.2
Creating Microsoft Virtual Earth mashups and applications just got a whole lot easier. This...
Author: zainnab Date: 10/05/2008
Random Coolness: Lawrence of Arabia
Very cool closing to a scene @ 10:20
Author: zainnab Date: 10/04/2008