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One this is for sure, there's plenty of materials on getting ramped on the Microsoft stack. We now have up on the MSDN Ramp Up center tracks for SharePoint... Check it out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx www.MyRampUp.com

If you're installing Visual Studio 2005 and need the WCF CTP Extensions, BUT you've already installed .NET 3.0 with service packs, the installer fails. To override the check use the following: msiexec /i vsextwfx.msi WRC_INSTALLED_OVERRIDE=1

Biff Gaut is continuing his tradition of mixing humor with some good technical content as he attends the PDC.  Over the past several PDC's, Biff has always been able to sprinkle his dry sense of humor into the mix of his daily reports on what he sees. Check it out here: http://www.biffspdcnewsletter.com/

Recently, I messed up a set of VHD files that were based upon differencing disks.  Basically, I killed the parent drive - so, any child drives are useless. So, how do you know which drives are differencing disks and what is their parent? One way is through the COM interfaces (that call into an out-of-process server).  Virtual Server ...

There are really a whole bunch of great resources out there that help the community get up & running with LINQ. Personally, with all the additional providers that I've seen (Qak Leaf List) - several of which I see great use for - LINQ to SharePoint and LINQ to LDAP / LINQ for AD. In regards to tools, LINQ Pad is the tool that allows you to ...

Here's something that I just came across, perhaps I just wasn't looking. It's in Beta but it's ultimately a 3rd party library of add-ins, etc. for Visual Studio.  No search, but you can sort on the columns in the categories.  Search is there, down to the category, but I'd also like to search by some attributes (such as free :) ...

Now that GotDotNet has been mothballed and CodePlex is more project oriented, Microsoft has gotten back into the mix with Code Gallery. This is a community site, the content is minimal for now, and quite frankly, the interface is lacking.  While there's search, there's not much meta-data associated with the uploads. We'll see how it pans ...

A timely article appeared in the NY Times today (link) regarding Parallel computing as the next key factor in keeping up with the ever demanding needs of getting things done faster.  As the article points out, the single CPU processor can't address our needs for faster computational capability without literally burning up or melting.  ...

Here's a cool tool that provides an interactive LINQ environment that you can use to develop queries against LINQ sources (SQL, Objects, XML, etc.). If you're working with LINQ and need an environment that supports both expression and language statements in C# or VB.NET, this tool can handle both.  The below shot is using C# statements. A ...

One thing I can say about SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007)development is it sucks.  The tools are weak from creating to debugging.  Something that literally took about 15 minutes in straight ASP.NET took 3+ hours yesterday. So, I'm rethinking my perspective on SharePoint as an Application Platform when the applications are more ...