Scott Hanselman has a great list of dev tools. Besides Office, are there any other “MUST HAVE” software/tools for the Tablet?

Just a reminder, we will be having the second NJ Geek Dinner tomorrow (July 7, 2004). See the original announcement.

I finally had a chance to read Mike Gunderloy's "Coder To Developer". The book contains an array of tips and suggestions for just about everything related to software development. Mike spends quite a bit of time going over the various tools developers use on a daily basis. In addition, Mike takes the time to...

"After a few days back in Ohio on a pass, I'm now back at Ft Bliss CRC.  Should be shipping out to Kuwait in the next few days." [ArmySteve]Good luck Steve! Come back safe and soon.

Tech previews of the long awaited .NET 1.1 service packs have been posted: For all OS's except Windows 2003: DownloadFor Windows 2003 Only: Download

Very nice post explaining the x-copy options in SQL Server Express by one of the folks behind the VSData blog:"The preferred way is to simply copy the database into your project.  So, from the project menu, right click and choose “Add new item“ or “Add existing item“.  In either case the MDF (and LDF if present) is copied into...

ahh, can you smell it. Take a step back, its finally here, Beta Season! I will skip the hoopla, and jump right to what I know. Visual Web Dev and SQL Server Express are great tools. Visual Web Dev Visual Web Dev will be primarily targeted to those just getting started with ASP.Net. There is a lot to learn in Visual Studio. In fact, there is so...

Nikhil gives a pretty good explanation of Async Callbacks in Server Controls. ... I think the innovation here is really about how we integrated this into the page lifecycle. This integration stems from our fundamental requirement, which is so fundamental in fact, that as far as I recall, it has remained unspoken for the most part. The...

Borland is now blogging and using .Text. You can get the RSS here.

I want to start a blog petition. I want everyone who agrees with me to blog the following sentence: Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System. Please link or TrackBack to this post so I can keep track of how well this works. If you agree, please spread this around and remember...

I was trying to figure out the syntax for something similar to "Instantiating New Objects From Generics" using VB.NET.Google led me to Jan's post, which has a comment from Paul Vick with a tip about a change in the syntax.Public Function GetItem(Of T As {BaseClass, New})(ByVal MS as String) As T Dim bc as T = new T() bc.MySring = MS Return...

“A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Microsoft” Eric Rudder picks up Lenn. Pretty cool concept. However, I was disappointed to learn Scoble was not on the hood of the car :)

Well, at least for me :) Go to the Amazon home page and you should be greeted with your own custom blog. Basically they try to match your past purchases with new product releases.

MVP, ASPInsider, and all around good guy, Doug Reilly had surgery today. According to his site, everything was a success. Best of luck and hopefully a speedy recovery.

Friday:For a variety of reasons, I decided to attend fly out on Friday afternoon. Left work at 2pm, fought a bit of NJ traffic and made to the airport right on time. The plane boarded as expected, but for whatever reason ended up sitting on the runway for 2.5 hours. With the delay and a 5 hour or so flight, I was finally able to read Coding...