hmmmm...... is this it? http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/02/origami_video.html

If so, very cool. There are sooooooo many uses for a small tablet device.

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This is not an endorsement, but I know some folks that do like the product.. anyways...

"Axosoft is offering their OnTime project management / bug tracking software for $5. You actually get 5 user licenses for that price. The whole $5 goes to the Red Cross."

http://www.axosoft.com/Products/ontime.aspx?cn=otm_stepromo

[From Devcow]

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http://www.origamiproject.com

What is it? What is? I don't know, but I get the feeling I want to!

[From Scoble]

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Frank has annoucned that there is going to be a Code Camp in Richmond, Va on April 22nd. Information is available here: http://www.richmondcodecamp.org

Is going to be held at:

Location:
ECPI Technical College
800 Moorefield Park Drive
Richmond, VA 23236

If anybody else from these parts is interested in attending please let me know.

Tags: Code Camp

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This weekend I did some work on an ASP.Net 2.0 project that I've been meaning to devote some time to because it keeps dropping off the list of important things to do. Anyways, as part of it I needed an easy way to allow for user membership with customer profile selections. With the Membership and Profile  providers and associated control this was really easy to do.

Then comes step 2 where based on those profiles, at a point in time behind the scenes I need to do a couple of things. Suddenly the quick and easy profile provider maybe didn't seem quite so cool with it's serialization of information for all of the user profile data into a single text field. Fortunately, the whole purpose of the provider is to allow us developers to extend or replace to fit our needs.

Enter the custom profile provider. By simply deriving a class of our own from ProfileProvider we're off to the races. Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta provide a great example of creating a FactoredProfileProvder in their Apress book Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in c# 2005. Additionally Hao Kung has an ASP.Net 2.0 Table Profile Provider sample up on the ASP.NET site [HERE]. It was great to so easily create a provider that allow me to store everything in seperate database fields and continue as planned.  

If I come up with anything fancy I'll post it, otherwise check out their code.

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For all of those that know Greg from the Triangle .Net User Group, he has starting a blog over at LimeInTheCoconut (http://www.limeinthecoconut.com/blog) with an initial post on using SQL Profiler.

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Thanks for the suggestions includiong Ioan's suggestion of just inheriting from the form class with my own class. I ended up going a little further and creating a custom item template for a windows form using the Export Template Wizard. This was good anyways because it allowed me to set some default items of my own. For more info there are some good links:

MSDN - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185318.aspx

David Hayden - Creating Custom Item Templates in Visual Studio 2005 - Code Generation and Productivity

MSDN Mag - http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/CodeTemplates/default.aspx

I still would like to find out some way of getting my default from back however, just to know how/where they get defined.

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I've been playing around recently on my tablet with the January WinFX/WPF CTP's and having a great time. Today however I noticed somethign strange. I went to add a new form to an existing windows forms application and I couldn't. A regular windows form not longer seems to be an option. I did some digging and the form template still exists, but I can't seem to add it. I'm hopeing somebody else may have seen this and can offer me a solution? These must get registered somewhere.....

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On Wednesday February 8, 2006 Kate Gregory will be presenting an Advanced Click Once topic at the monthly Triangle .Net User Group meeting as an INETA guest speaker, that will take us much deeper than the previous VS2005/Click Once demos that have been shown. I've had the privilege of hearing Kate speak a few times in the past and can guarantee this will be a must see event. She is an extremely knowledgeable and enjoyable presenter. See you there!

Smart clients offer many advantages over web applications but they must be deployed and installed on the end-user’s computer. The new ClickOnce technology in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 makes this much simpler than it once was – at least in demos. What happens when ClickOnce meets the real world? How can you combine ClickOnce with SMS, or with an MSI install that updates the registry? How can you ensure the prerequisites for your application, including the framework itself, are on the end-user’s computer? This talk will cover these and other advanced ClickOnce scenarios.

Kate Gregory is the Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and a founding partner of Gregory Consulting Limited (www.gregcons.com). Based in Peterborough, Ontario, Gregory Consulting provides mentoring, consulting, and development services throughout North America, using the .NET Framework, XML, Web Services, Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, Java, and Perl. Migration, conversion, and integration of existing applications are a current focus. Kate is the author of numerous books, most recently Visual C++ .NET KickStart. Kate teaches (and develops courses on) .NET, XML, UML, C++, Java, and the Internet. She has a Visual C++ column at codeguru.com, is an adjunct faculty member at Trent University, serves on numerous advisory boards and has spoken at Tech Ed USA, Tech Ed Europe, and VSLive. She serves on the executive of the Toronto .NET Users Group and leads the East of Toronto .NET Users Group

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As much fun as it would be to see MSDN Evangelist Rory turn to a diet of cheese things, I'm concerned about the Ewok. Please do your part and visit TinyThings. (I'm starting to wonder if the name "Tiny Things" has created somewhat of a marketing issue for Rory. I mean, let's face it, who goes looking for tiny things? At least, not without some context. What if i said visit Sexy Technology? Or the Ultimate Windows Mobile 5.0 Podcast? Whatever your preference, please click one and go take a look!)

(For the complete story, visit http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/17356.aspx)

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