• MSDN Unleashed - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:00 PM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
  Session 1 - What’s New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers
  Session 2 – Build next generation applications with Silverlight 2.0
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032391568&flag=1
  
  
• Microsoft Executive Briefing-Nashville, TN - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:30 AM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:30 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  In an effort to provide visibility into our software roadmap as well as deeper integration with the local Microsoft team, we will be hosting a monthly invitation only executive briefing series for our enterprise and select agreement customers.
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032395341&flag=1
  
  
• Microsoft ArcReady: Professional Patterns On The Job - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:00 AM - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:45 AM Central Time (US & Canada)
  Session 1: Mastering the Soft Skills
  Session 2: Organizational Dynamics
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032391707&flag=1
  
  
• Join Microsoft and Compuware for a Developer Tools and Platform Roadmap Presentation - Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:00 PM - Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:30 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
  Welcome Time: 5:30 PM
  Topics for this presentation include: · What is coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 ·  .NET 4.0 and C# futures · Azure and Software + Services
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032396380&flag=1
  
  
• Connect + Share Summit - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:30 AM - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
  The Microsoft Connect + Share Summit is an executive-level event designed for business and technical decision makers, that will demonstrate how leveraging Microsoft solutions can help overcome costs, optimize the organization, and respond to changing needs. This innovative executive session is designed to showcase the benefits of the full integrated Microsoft platform.
  https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032393582&flag=1
  
  

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This hotfix rollup fixes several issues in the WPF Designer. This hotfix rollup applies only to the computer that has Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 installed.

•When a resource in an external resource dictionary is updated, Visual Studio 2008 crashes.

•WPF Designer cannot load read-only attached properties, such as the VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups property.

•If users or codes set a data binding locally, and then the users or codes clear the data binding, WPF designer reports the following error message:

'System.Windows.Data.Binding' is not a valid value for property

•If a Win32 project is set as the startup project, WPF Designer cannot load solutions in Visual Studio 2008 or in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.

•When you set and then delete the Source property of a WPF WebBrowser control, Visual Studio crashes.

•When you move a control that uses the MultiTrigger class or the DataTrigger class in the Style class, WPF Designer may generate an InvalidCastException exception.

KB Link - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958017

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A few people in conversation over the weekend had no idea about this...so I'm posting for the 'fashionably late' crowd ;-P

Link : Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

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Another excellent year at TechEd!  After all these years, I still enjoy the lengthy, opinionated and inebriated conversations over technologies, implementations, products, etc.

I did make it to a few interesting sessions and spoke to a few 'official' types about various things ASP.Net MVC, Velocity, Unity, Oslo, etc...  The presentation I actually enjoyed the most was Andrew Connell's 'Don't be a Tool...' SharePoint dev talk...really good stuff from an outstanding presenter.  I was just happy to hear someone actually tell developers to be developers again and quit whining...this could turn in to a <rant/>...I'll stop now.

As usual, the most interesting stuff happens after hours ;-P  Every year I say I'm going to capture more evidence, but I always forget to take pictures...here's the few I ended up with this year.  It was great to see all my old friends and meet quite a few new ones.  I love all of you nerds.  Big props to the Fl crew for organizing the ]inbetween[ event.  And oh, btw, before I forget....SHAREPOINT NATION!!!

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@alanstevens has organized a Meetup of tweeps, twitters and the like...see you there...

Info/links on Allan's Blog

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When:
Thursday, April 10th 6:30pm

Speaker: Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens is a passionate and experienced software developer living in Knoxville, TN. Alan has had a lifelong love affair with technologies of all sorts. He became a software developer with the creation of his first application, because there was nobody around to do it for him. Life hasn't been the same since. Alan regularly speaks at industry conferences and user groups.  Alan is the President of the East Tennessee .NET Users Group.  When Alan is not playing with his kids, enjoying a fine cigar, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates his blog at http://netcave.org..

Meeting Location:
3 Lakeview Place, 22 Century Blvd.
Suite 140
Nashville, Tennessee  37214
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See http://www.nashdotnet.org/ for more info

May 1st

Register --> MS Launch Event - Heroes Happen

The Nashville Visual Studio .NET User Group Leadership will be staffing the INETA booth, so stop by for a visit.  I'll be there...and you should all buy me drinks afterwards! ;-)

ArcReady Event: Architecting for Scalable and Usable Web Applications

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:00 AM - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:45 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:45 AM

Microsoft Corporation

2555 Meridian Blvd, Suite 300
Franklin Tennessee 37067
United States

Register Online

Here's a simple twitter.com api wrapper.  Should be easy to use and self-explanatory.  Set a ref, create an instance of the TwitterWrapper class, and go...

I should be posting the metaweblog/twitter WM5/6 client soon.  I couldn't find one that would support BlogEngine.NET.