Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 Training Kit. The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management. I always love free training material. Enjoy. Via Elegant Code.
After the nightmare that was the Team Foundation Server 2005 installation I was secretly dreading the 2008 upgrade. But somewhere in the back of my mind I was also cautiously optimistic as well. I mean could it possibly be any worse than the 2005 install? I did my homework pouring over the install instructions over the past few days. I wanted to be ready for anything. Fortunately for me, I didn't have much to worry about. Two resources that helped immeasurably were the Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Grant Holliday's Tips for upgrading from...
I'm back. It's been a long time since my last post. Since then Alexa is 1.5 times older, I've been promoted at work, I've gotten more involved at church and I'm busier than ever. I did have a good logical reason why I stopped blogging but I'm going to save that for later. I've also been able to move the blog from .Text to Community Server thanks to Kevin Harder and his migration tool. I was able to move web hosts as well. I'm still going to keep the personal stuff on Jorriss.com and the technical stuff at Jorriss.net. The design of...