I am setting up my schedule for the first quarter of 2008, and the first .NET user group I will be heading to as an INETA [http://www.ineta.org] speaker in 2008 is the Space Coast .NET User Group in Melbourne, Florida [http://scdnug.org/default.aspx]. I will be presenting an approximately 2 hour lon

My October 2007 Data Points column [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/DataPoints/] has been posted to the MSDN Magazine web site [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10]. This edition is titled "SQL Server Common Table Expressions". [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/i

I am evaluating different laptop/tablet PC options that I will use for development, taking notes, and presenting technical content. I have zeroed in on the ThinkPad X61 tablet PC but as many of you know in our businsss we tend to require more power than most people in our equipment. I have also eval

Wow. I admit that I take for granted the daily use of copy and paste features for hundreds of daily tasks. This past weekend I was creating PowerPoint slides for the upcoming Las Vegas DevConnections conference in November and I was copying and pasting some visual images repeatedly on the page. The

My December column of Data Points [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/12/DataPoints/] has just been released and is now available online [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/12/DataPoints/]. This month I discuss WPF data binding techniques, which are a huge improvement over previous