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8th Annual Day of .NET with Scott Guthrie and Special Guest

All of this post started when I saw this tweet:
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Spreading the Word on NuGet

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OK so finally had some time to open my RSS reader and happened upon a nice post covering why and how you should be using NuGet.
I Completely Agree! and decided to follow his post’s desired take away to spread the word on NuGet so I am.
If you are a Microsoft .Net developer, and even though NuGet [...]

Should NuGet be used by third party control makers?

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As I am finishing up the last week of a shortened (by accepting another position) three month contract position I had run into several issues with the referencing of third party controls (and even a couple Microsoft libraries) and even though the current place is targeting .Net 2.0 for their in house development, the work is being [...]

Phoenix Silverlight User Group Feb 2011

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This post goes with the presentation I made to the Silverlight user group in Phoenix, AZ for the Feburary 2011 monthly meeting.

Giving my FIRST EVER presentation

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In a couple weeks I will be giving my first ever presentation to fellow developers. I will be presenting at the Phoenix Silverlight users group at the Feb meeting which is held on Feb 2nd.
I will be giving a talk on using the Silverlight PivotViewer Control (http://www.silverlight.net/learn/pivotviewer/) as well as using PART of the Pivot [...]

Generating Sample Data

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Well tonight I was working on building sample projects for a presentation I am working on that is coming up in a couple weeks. During that process I decided to get the NuGet package management system and got playing with it to see if there was any packages I could use for the demos in [...]

I am finally learning T4… and it is good!

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I had heard about T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) templates a while ago, but never really looked into them. But then as I was learning Entity Framework (EF) and the articles on using T4 templates with EF to create POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) code I read a little on them. I am including links [...]

Links on Silverlight PivotViewer

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Some links collected after hearing the podcast at the first link.

http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=578 -  Matt Jubelirer from Microsoft talks with Carl and Richard about Silverlight PivotViewer, a radical new tool based on Deep Zoom for conceptualizing data.
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/pivotviewer/ – PivotViewer makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data on the web in ways that are powerful, [...]

Couple Quick Links

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Just posting a couple links that I liked that were tweeted by @ScottCate

http://www.generatedata.com/#about 
So what is this site?Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that’s the idea of the Data Generator. It’s a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom [...]

XamlParseException and Resources in WPF

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So being fairly new to WPF when I got a XamlParseException when debugging an application I am developing I did search online, as it wasn’t exactly clear at first what was wrong. The capture below shows the error message, click for bigger view.

So I made a dash to the internet and did a search for [...]