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Team System at the Aptera Developer Meeting

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

On Thursday, I joined my illustrious colleagues Jason and Tahmoures in presenting various core aspects of Microsoft’s Team System to our development team at our monthly meeting.

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Schrödinger’s Validator

Monday, May 4th, 2009

What if we need to check the Validator controls on an ASP.NET Page without actually displaying the results to the user?

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Broaden Your Event Horizons, part 2

Monday, April 6th, 2009

As promised, here in part 2, I will lay out a code snippet to put some icing on the rich event cake.

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Broaden Your Event Horizons, part 1

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Straight out of the snippet box, coding an Event in .NET is a bit of an anemic experience. So today we’re going to pull our socks up and spice up the Event raising process.

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Common Table Expressions at PASS

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

On Tuesday, I gave a presentation on SQL Server Common Table Expressions at the monthly meeting of the Fort Wayne chapter of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server). It was quite clearly a rousing success, well attended, and sure to be talked about long after Common Table Expressions become the subject of vintage technology jokes and bad career choices.

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