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Scott Dorman

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• Tampa Bay IASA – November 2008 Meeting

  Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 17:15

  We are very pleased to be holding this meeting in cooperation with the Central Florida BizTalk User Group.Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) using BizTalk Server 2006R2. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, the latest version of

• Tampa Bay IASA - October 2008 Meeting

  Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 17:00

  "Fix the Architecture" - Open DiscussionWe have a great group of members with a variety of experience, so bring your architecture problems and leverage those experiences and creativity to help solve them. This is an open discussion format and depending on how many people we have and how many problem

• Reminder: September 2008 Tampa Bay IASA Meeting

  Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 14:26 by Scott Dorman

  Just a reminder that the Tampa Bay IASA September meeting is tonight starting at 6:30 PM. SharePoint Architectural Perspectives While SharePoint does have the one-button install option, it isn't a monolithic application that just gets dropped on a server. SharePoint has a number of moving pieces tha

• Reminder: September 2008 Tampa Bay IASA Meeting

  Posted: 25 Sep 2008 at 13:26

  Just a reminder that the Tampa Bay IASA September meeting is tonight starting at 6:30 PM. SharePoint Architectural Perspectives While SharePoint does have the one-button install option, it isn't a monolithic application that just gets dropped on a server. SharePoint has a number of moving pieces tha

• Visual Studio Macro to Collapse Extra Vertical Space

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 17:06 by Scott Dorman

  A few days ago in one of the CodeProject disucssion forums someone was looking for a way to easily remove the extra vertical whitespace in a file. This is really handy if you copy and paste code from the web or otherwise have a file that has multiple consecutive blank lines that you want to consolid

• Visual Studio Macro to Collapse Extra Vertical Space

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 16:06

  A few days ago in one of the CodeProject disucssion forums someone was looking for a way to easily remove the extra vertical whitespace in a file. This is really handy if you copy and paste code from the web or otherwise have a file that has multiple consecutive blank lines that you want to consolid

• StackOverflow

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 15:43 by Scott Dorman

  Stackoverflow is an interesting new community site launched by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky that just went into public beta yesterday. Jeff has a pretty interesting explanation of what the site is all about: Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze a

• Windows Live Sync

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 15:26 by Scott Dorman

  I have talked about Windows Live FolderShare in the past and have always really liked what it offers. As part of the new Windows Live Wave 3 release, although not an official part of the release yet, is the fact that FolderShare is being renamed and rebranded as Windows Live Sync. As I said, its not

• Windows Live Wave 3 Beta Downloads

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 15:07 by Scott Dorman

  The beta downloads for the new Windows Live Wave 3 applications are here. This includes new versions of: Messenger Mail Writer Photo Gallery Movie Maker Toolbar Family Safety Microsoft Office Outlook Connector To give you an idea of what’s new in some of the products: The look and visible features h

• StackOverflow

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 14:43

  Stackoverflow is an interesting new community site launched by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky that just went into public beta yesterday. Jeff has a pretty interesting explanation of what the site is all about: Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze a

• Windows Live Sync

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 14:26

  I have talked about Windows Live FolderShare in the past and have always really liked what it offers. As part of the new Windows Live Wave 3 release, although not an official part of the release yet, is the fact that FolderShare is being renamed and rebranded as Windows Live Sync. As I said, its not

• Windows Live Wave 3 Beta Downloads

  Posted: 18 Sep 2008 at 14:07

  The beta downloads for the new Windows Live Wave 3 applications are here. This includes new versions of: Messenger Mail Writer Photo Gallery Movie Maker Toolbar Family Safety Microsoft Office Outlook Connector To give you an idea of what’s new in some of the products: The look and visible features h

• .NET Memory Management – Resources

  Posted: 14 Sep 2008 at 21:16 by Scott Dorman

  I present at a lot of the local Florida code camps (and some out of state ones as well) and have a set of presentations that I do which focus on .NET memory management, specifically a "deep dive" on how the GC works and another presentation which talks about how to implement the Dispose pattern pro

• Southwest Florida Code Camp

  Posted: 14 Sep 2008 at 21:15 by Scott Dorman

  It looks like the first code camp to be held in the “swamp coast” of Southwest Florida was a huge success. I think John and the rest of the crew that put this together did an excellent job. I haven’t heard final numbers yet, but they had 175 registered with 26 sessions and a morning of Open Space se

• Tampa Bay IASA – September 2008 Meeting

  Posted: 14 Sep 2008 at 17:08 by Scott Dorman

  SharePoint Architectural Perspectives While SharePoint does have the one-button install option, it isn't a monolithic application that just gets dropped on a server. SharePoint has a number of moving pieces that should be understood by both infrastructure and application architects. In this session,

• Differences between release types

  Posted: 30 Aug 2008 at 19:15 by Scott Dorman

  Phil has an excellent post that builds on Jeff Atwood’s explanation which very clearly describes the differences between the various release types: Beta CTP Daily Builds/Interim Releases Fully Supported Out-of-Band Releases RTM/RTW Releases Service Pack Releases Summarizing what both Phil and Jeff

• Team Foundation Server – How Does Microsoft Uses It?

  Posted: 30 Aug 2008 at 18:31 by Scott Dorman

  If you’re looking at implementing Team Foundation Server, looking for ways to improve your deployment, or just want to know how one of the world’s largest software companies manages their day-to-day development, check out this “series” of blog posts. These are good posts from a management/process l

• StyleCop 4.3 SDK

  Posted: 30 Aug 2008 at 17:01 by Scott Dorman

  Not too long ago I mentioned that StyleCop 4.3 had been released and that the SDK documentation would be out shortly. The wait is over and the SDK documentation is now available. The documentation covers the following sections: Writing Custom Rules for StyleCop Integrating StyleCop into Build Enviro

• CodePlex Usability Study

  Posted: 30 Aug 2008 at 16:51 by Scott Dorman

  If you want to help provide feedback for the next big features at CodePlex and will be in Redmond (Seattle) between September 16 – 19, be sure to contact the CodePlex team to participate in some usability studies. Be sure to include your: Name CodePlex username (if you have one) Phone number where w

• FxCop 1.36 RTM

  Posted: 30 Aug 2008 at 16:46 by Scott Dorman

  I have always been a huge fan of FxCop, especially FxCop 1.36 even though it was a beta release for a long time. I’m happy to say (a bit late) that FxCop 1.36 has finally been released. Some of the improvements are: 200+ bug fixes that reduce noise, missing analysis and rule crashes Support for anal