The Community Economic & Development Office of Burlington (CED0) will be putting on a workshop to prepare local businesses for Web 2.0 

The goal is for the Business Technical Assistance Providers to learn more about the current trends using Web 2.0 technologies. In turn they can better assist current and future business owners in understanding how this could enhance their businesses

The workshop is on Sept 20th from 10:15-11:30am.

I’ll be doing a 10 minute talk on blogging and it’s impact on businesses. I’ll use my own experience and Microsoft’s blogging as examples. Can you imagine me trying to keep anything to 10 minutes? 🙂

Burlington’s web infrastructure is growing by leaps and bounds, so they want to make sure that businesses know how to take advantage of the capabilities. I look forward to seeing infrastructure like this permeating other areas of the state.

Thom Robbins is planning his what may be his last New England Hurrah before he heads off to Redmond for his new job! It’s the 6th New England Code Camp! Oct 21-22! Mark your calendars and start your engines!

You can find the slides and demos from Paul’s session on ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls Tips & Tricks on his website at www.deeptraining.com/litwin.

Paul blogged about the meeting here.

I’ve long been confused by the fact that static variables in VB are not the same as static variables in C#, but shared variables/methods/classes in VB *are* like static variables/methods/classes in C#. It made for some cumbersome VB code that didn’t have to be. I think I finally got it cleared up and here is a blog post I wrote trying to explain it (to myself for future reference). [Read more…]

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Rather than our regular monthly business meeting, Vermont Software Developer Alliance (VTSDA) is going to enjoy one of he very special things in Vermont tonight. We will board the Spirit of the Ethan Allen for an evening cocktail and networking cruise on Lake Champlain. For those of you unfamiliar with Vermont, Lake Champlain is huge – 120 miles long and 10 miles wide at Burlington. The weather forecast is perfect, so we have lucked out. (For those of you unfamiliar with Vermont, you just can never know what to expect with the weather!)

Paul Litwin, an INETA speaker, came all the way from Seattle to Vermont to speak at Vermont.NET. Rather than fly in the day of the meeting and out the next morning, Paul arrived on Saturday night in order to enjoy being in Vermont for a few days. Unfortunately, shortly before his trip he agreed to do a project that kept him in front of the computer a good part of the time, but we still managed to get him out to a walk around our neighbor’s mountain farm, visit our favorite swimming pond, meet his first brushhog and even go Chanterelle picking (I don’t mind divulging my secret Chanterelle spots to someone who lives 3000 miles away) and visit a local sugarhouse (Purinton’s) to buy some maple syrup.

Last night was our user group meeting and after local developer, Rob Hale (from G.E.Health Care), did a short talk on the Strategy Pattern, Paul shared with us some of the many tricks he had to figure out for his own work when using the ASP.NET 2.0 data controls. I find that the things I struggle with make good fodder for presentations, so I love this kind of talk. Rather than just diving into the tricks with an assumption that everyone was familiar with the ins and outs  of the new controls, he went through them first. I have not played iwth them a lot so even in the beginner part of the sessio, I learned plenty. The tips & tricks will definitely come in handy and I’m glad that someone else has already done the heavy lifting for me on this stuff! Paul will be doing this talk at ASP.NET Connections in the fall, although without the benefit of the extra time we get when presenting at a user group.

After the meeting, we brought Paul to downtown Burlington to sample some more of the local beer (we had already had dinner at brew pubs on Saturday and Sunday night) and then somehow finished up the night at Ben & Jerry’s. The amusing part of this was that the other woman who came along, web developer Gail Guy (who was also the lucky winner of the FarPoint Spread for Web license we raffled off…the Genom-E Express license went to Roger Gillim from the Vermont Dept. of Health) and I started talking about programming and the guys all rolled their eyes and moved to the other end of the table.

Paul found the secret to being the perfect guest at our house – being kind and loving to our old Newfoundland dogs, Tasha & Daisy. Thanks Paul!

If you are getting either of these errors when using the Publish Wizard for ClickOnce:

• Cannot publish because a project failed to build.
• SignTool reported an error ‘XmlResolver can be set only by fully trusted code.’

Frustrated with the experience of trying to explain the complicated ASP.NET 2.0 Client Side callbacks at user group sessions, I decided to see how this compared to using AJAX.NET and ATLAS. So I rewrote the demo with each of these tools. Here is what I found… [read more…]

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Seriously…. 15! That’s a lot of remembering for my poor brain. [Read more here…]

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EATING CROW! I wrote in May about getting a desktop shortcut with ClickOnce. I have finally discovered a big flaw (well, two actually) in that method. This post explains the flaw and offers up a much better solution! [read more …]

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