Yep thanks to some incredible help from Daniel Egan and David Wells the SoCal Code Camp (www.socalcodecamp.com) web site is up and taking sessions! Please get your sessions submitted ASAP so we can come up with the schedule sooner then later.

Thanks

The great guys at Accentient have a great resource for anyone who is using Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation. Check it out.

Team System Widgets

OK for years we all have used Google to search MSDN* well now we have a dedicated MSN search site for MSDN at http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/search/ I would like to see if anyone has feedback for the teams that put this together.

* If you did not know how to do that all you need to do is in the Google search text box type in “site:msdn.microsoft.com” (without the quotes) and Google will only return the results from MSDN (this also works for MSN search)

INETA is doing some cool webcasts that sound interesting. It looks like this may become something they start doing more often if response is good so tune in.

Microsoft recently released more controls that can work with ATLAS "Atlas" Control Toolkit you can see all the new components demoed at the samples page.

I am on the road this week at the Microsoft Technology Summit which is on the Microsoft campus in Redmond my fellow DE from Phoenix Tim Heuer is doing an excellent job of blogging about it on his blog.

tags: mts06

Do you want to see what is new in Visual Studio 2005?

The new Microsoft office in LA (333 So. Grand Avenue, 33rd Floor, Los Angeles CA 90071) will be hosting the 2 day class "What's New in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005" from 9am to 5pm on 4/24 and 4/25 (EDIT: I had the wrong dates the first time, sorry).

You will have to take a train in to downtown or pay for parking, you will be on your own for lunch but the class is free.

To sign-up Click Here I am sorry if the class is full by the time you see this.

On the .Net Security Bolg Shawn Farkas blogs about doing debugging clickonce application, he talks about the gflags tool.

Debugging a Partial Trust ClickOnce Application

I get a lot of questions about how to get more information about XXXXX and my number one resource is the Microsoft WebCasts I most like the On-Demand WebCasts as I can consume them when I want.

I just want through the last few months and based on some of the requests that I have gotten of late this is a list I think may be interesting to a wide number of people but you can search the list yourself at Find Events and Webcasts.

Now comes the crappy part! Some of the events below may not be available but if you keep checking back for the recording to become available.

WinFX
	MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Identity in Financial Services (Level 200)
ASP.NET
	MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Internationalization (Level 200)
	MSDN Architecture Webcast: Web Services Security Patterns (Level 200)
	MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Caching (Level 200)
	MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Part Controls (Level 200)
General
	MSDN Architecture Webcast: Migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Level 200)
	MSDN Webcast: .NET Framework: CLR Internals (Level 400)
	TechNet Webcast: Linux and Open Source Software: A Technical Perspective and Overview (Level 300)

 You can also subscribe to the RSS feed for upcoming events at Upcoming Live Webcasts.

The next meeting of the Orange County Windows Mobile User Group on April 6th will feature Martin Smekal, the CEO of Tablet Kiosk, he will be showing the EO V7110 so if you want to see the future come on by.

OK I know this has taken way too long but I finally can now give Robert his XBox. Robert did you give up hope? If you don’t know what I am jabbering about at the Visual Studio Launch in Anaheim last November there was a special Southern California Users Group meeting after the launch event where we raffled a XBox 360. I said it that time that I did not have one and that I could not promise when I would get one but yesterday in one of my spot checks at one of the local stores to my disbelieving hears I got YES we have some. It turned out only to be one (I would have bought as many as I could) but at this time I only owe one anyway. So Robert congratulations and I am sorry it took so long, my wife started to question my sanity with all the checking I did so I am glad to have this over! I don’t think I will be giving away any more XBoxs for a while…

Microsoft is hosting two SDL Workshop (Secure Development Lifecycle)

OK so what the heck is that?

2-day workshop which will include a detailed overview of how MSFT conducts threat modeling of line of business applications and utilizes threat models to avoid costly development cycles late in the SDLC.  This event reviews Application Threat Modeling and Secure Application Development and is delivered by Microsoft’s Application Consulting & Engineering (ACE) team.

 

So what dose that mean? If you register quickly you can get exposed to some great methodology and tools that you can use to help ensure you make good secure decisions if your architecture and code.

 

Dates:

March 29-30, 2006 – Microsoft Irvine

April 27-28, 2006 – MSFT San Diego

 

To Register: (OK this is an IQ test!)

Go to the MS Events site then search for:

Irvine: 1032291896

San Diego: 1032291895

 

OK so you are lazy or failed the IQ test:

Irvine

San Diego