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• The *new* Star Trek

  Posted: 14 May 2009 at 16:08 by CorySmith

  Before seeing the movie, back when information regarding some of the story elements starting coming out, I was extremely concerned regarding the inclusion of yet another "temporal anomaly" being used to spark the story line. It's not that Star Trek hasn't had time travel elements in there from the beginning, it's just that this usually ends up as a crux because they seem to haven't been able to figure out something better to do so "hey, let's do another time t

• San Diego ASP.NET SIG - May 19th, 6pm

  Posted: 14 May 2009 at 15:43 by CorySmith

  I'll be at the San Diego ASP.NET SIG on May 19th doing my LINQ in the Real World discussion. For anyone that has been at my previous "presentations", you'll know that I prefer to have more of a discussion surrounding the topic than a lecture. So if you're in the area and would like to help spark conversation, feel free to attend.

• Looking for suggestions...

  Posted: 01 May 2009 at 20:06 by CorySmith

  What would you like me to write about? Send me a message via any of the contact information (look to the left; if reading this in a aggregator, visit the site ;-)) Yeah, I know, I should have comments turned on; however, comment spammers are vicious and adding road blocks to comments just seems wrong.Anyway, if you have something you'd like me to talk about, shoot me a message and I'll take it under consideration.

• INETA

  Posted: 20 Apr 2009 at 14:30 by CorySmith

  Oh yeah, by the way, I'm now an INETA speaker. ;-)What does this really mean? Well, if you'd like to get me to come out to your user group, all you need to do is put in a request to www.INETA.org and they'll help with the travel/hotel expenses and even pay for the pizza! So here's a chance that you and I can meet face to face, no matter where you live. :-DFor the record, I'm not a "big shot" "important" "super smart" "graduated at the top

• Open Letter to the ClickOnce team.

  Posted: 17 Apr 2009 at 13:23 by CorySmith

  I really like using ClickOnce; however, there are a couple of annoyances that I'd wish would get resolved.1. Can we please get a "sync versions" checkbox somewhere? Meaning, why do I have to change my version number in three different places? I'm sure there are cases where this is desirable; however, I don't believe that it is the norm. So here's my suggestion: On the Assembly Information dialog, next to the Assembly version and File version entries add a "Auto

• Microsoft MVP Summit 2009

  Posted: 25 Feb 2009 at 20:18 by CorySmith

  I decided that I would be adventurous this time around going to the summit. This time around it's just me, my motorcycle, whatever technology I can carry and over 5000 miles of roadway. I've never been on this long of a a trip and have never done this sort of trip without others (noone else I know, it seems, is insane enough to attempt this sort of trip in the time frame I'm attempting to do it). In addition to going to the summit, I'm headed down to L.A. and Las Vegas to meet

• Expired ClickOnce Certificate

  Posted: 13 Jan 2009 at 17:14 by CorySmith

  January 7th, 2007 - Got bit by the expired temporary certificate issue when trying to deploy a ClickOnce application. Never got a "real" certificate since it wasn't necessary for the needs of this particular application. You can't just replace the certificate because that would require that every basically uninstall the old version and visit your deployment location to reinstall. So the only solution at the moment was to change the date on your deployment computer and publis

• Fort Worth .NET Users Group - January 20th

  Posted: 03 Jan 2009 at 21:12 by CorySmith

  If you're in the area, don't miss my presentation: What's New in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.Additionally, I've decided to extend Microsoft's extreme generosity by giving away a copy of MSDN Premium **WITH** Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite!!!!!! Yes, you read that correctly! It's the edition that lists for $10,939!!!!!!!I'm not giving away the actual packaged product, but what I'm giving away is a card that contains an activation number so you ca

• Action Movie Night - January 17th

  Posted: 03 Jan 2009 at 20:57 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday evening, January 17th, 2009, starting at 6:00pm located at my house so space is limited to those that RSVP. The movies being shown are: AND This time around the theme is "The dark side of computer automation".In addition to the movies, I’ll also be firing up the grill for a grillin’ session (weather permitting). This will start around 4:30pm and

• Linq - Episode 1

  Posted: 02 Jun 2008 at 21:55 by CorySmith

  Linq is very, very, very cool.  I can easily envision looking three years from now and wonder "how did we write software without Linq?".  Several recent language editions have helped to reduce code needed and thus made my development life easier.  However, I have to say that

• MVP Summit 2008 - Day 1

  Posted: 14 Apr 2008 at 16:25 by CorySmith

  Although the MVP Summit doesn't actually begin until Monday morning, a lot of activities are scheduled by those in the community just prior to the Summit.  For the last four years, Rod Paddock (Editor-in-Chief for Code magazine) has hosted a BBQ gathering at his house.  This event

• Busy, busy, busy...

  Posted: 12 Apr 2008 at 23:26 by CorySmith

  Sorry for the lack updates; it definitely hasn't been due to a lack of ideas. ;-)  So here's a quick update before I have to get back to it.Right now I'm preparing to head to Redmond for a week of interaction with the various Microsoft product teams and fellow MVPs from around the w

• Fort Worth DNUX - 2/27/2008 @ 6:30pm

  Posted: 27 Feb 2008 at 17:42 by CorySmith

  If you are in Fort Worth and interested in getting up to speed on WPF/Silverlight... XAML is one of the key components of doing so.  Tonight's presentation is XAML 101 being presented by yours truly... Hope to see ya there.http://dnux.org for more information.

• Face Off: VCR vs DVR

  Posted: 21 Jan 2008 at 16:16 by CorySmith

  I know that this entry is bit strange given what is normally on this site, but bear with me...In one corner we have the VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) and in the other we have the DVR (Digital Video Recorder).  Both attempt to solve similar problems.  Both have their strengths and thei

• Action Movie Night - September 22nd

  Posted: 14 Sep 2007 at 03:10 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday evening, September 22, 2007, starting at 6:00pm located at my house so space is limited to those that RSVP.  The movies being shown are: AND&n

• Yet another "user group" in Dallas/Fort Worth - Announcing "dnux"!

  Posted: 15 Aug 2007 at 17:29 by CorySmith

  Announcing the Dallas/Fort Worth dnux group.  What is it?  .NET has been growing in size over the past 5+ years and, as such, it's hard to cover everything in a .NET user group meeting.  Some people may call what dnux is as a "sig"; however, although there are similariti

• Action Movie Night - August 18th

  Posted: 15 Aug 2007 at 17:19 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!(Yeah, I know, it's a bit late in getting this notice out there... but I do have a valid excuse.   To hear it, you'll just have to come to movie night.)This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday&nb

• Oklahoma Code Camp 2007 - Oklahoma City, OK - July 27th, 2007

  Posted: 28 Jul 2007 at 12:12 by CorySmith

  It's dark-thirty in the morning and I'm headed out the door up to Oklahoma City, OK to speak.  I'm going to attempt to get there for the opening, which is about 2 hours and 45 minutes from now... and local.live.com says it's about a 3 hour and 22 minute drive.  We'll se

• Console Event Handling

  Posted: 23 Jul 2007 at 23:19 by CorySmith

  Someone sent me an IM asking if I knew of a way to handle the pressing of the close button on a console application.  After a bit of research, I found a way (and some limitations).  This required stepping outside of the Microsoft .NET Framework utilizing P/Invoke.  This allowed m

• Action Movie Night - July 21st

  Posted: 18 Jul 2007 at 20:40 by CorySmith

  It's time again for Action Movie Night!This is just a quick reminder regarding the Action Movie Night taking place Saturday evening, June 21, 2007, starting at 6:00pm located at my house so space is limited to those that RSVP.  The movies being shown are: AND  Yes,