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• Chris William's 9 Questions

  For those that are unaware, Chris Williams , a fellow VB MVP does a 9 Questions series with fellow developers and influencers. I was extremely honored to be picked this week and hope you find the series as interesting as I do. Chris is also an active... Posted Jul 31 2008, 01:52 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Accomplishments, MVP, Visual Basic

• Nashville devLink conference sold out!

  August 22-23 For those that don't know, devLink in Nashville is one of the best (if not THE best) community driven conferences out there. I'm super excited to have been invited by John Kellar to host a couple of the Open Spaces sessions. If you... Posted Jul 30 2008, 03:36 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Microsoft, Local Events, Accomplishments, devLink

• How I think Twitter can solve it's problems!

  If you're an avid twitterer (or twit for short), you'll be very familiar with it's downtime issues. Well as I see it, there are 3 major problems Twitter has. Downtime, Spammers, and a lack of viable income. So how do I think it can solve it's... Posted Jul 10 2008, 04:40 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Gadgets

• RegEx tools for Visual Studio & the Social Web

  You might want to skip this first paragraph if you are just looking for the RegEx Tools portion. I still find it amazing how the web can create an online social inner-networking that bobs and weaves an amazing web of connections (confused? me too). Here's... Posted Jun 19 2008, 03:50 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Visual Basic

• Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher Giveaway

  I've recently come into several Certification Exam Vouchers and have decided to host a giveaway. Just post a comment to the blog, and I'll randomly select a winner. All entries must be in by June 30th, 2008. You can also post a comment to my cross... Posted Jun 17 2008, 02:28 PM by Randy Walker with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Training, .Net, Misc, Partner Program

• Congratulations & Thanks to Jay Smith & Michael Paladino

  A big heartfelt thank you and congratulations to two of the developer community builders in the Northwest Arkansas area, Jay Smith and Michael Paladino with special mention to Zach Young. As a Microsoft MVP, one of our benefits this year, is the ability... Posted Jun 09 2008, 06:29 PM by Randy Walker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Northwest Arkansas, Local Events, MSDN, NWA DNUG

• Go visit the Visual Basic Product Team at TechEd!

  It was this time last year at TechEd that Cory Smith introduced me to the Visual Basic product team. He first introduced me to Ed Hickey, who is the VB MVP Lead at Microsoft. The funny story about Ed is, less than a week after Ed awarded me the MVP status... Posted Jun 05 2008, 01:07 AM by Randy Walker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Microsoft, MVP, Visual Basic

• Writing to .Net Config Files

  I've been working with config files for quite some time. I was recently reminded that I needed to finish my original article and share my final findings on my personal best practices for working with config files. One of the coolest and most useful... Posted Jun 05 2008, 12:25 AM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Code Examples, Code Example

• Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group 1st Meeting

  I have vastly been neglecting my blogging. So as not to be outdone by Chris Koenig .... I was able to meetup with the organizers of the event, Jason Pluenneke, Curt Wolfe, Boyd Evert, & Dennis Berk several weeks ago. I am personally very excited about... Posted May 09 2008, 04:28 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Northwest Arkansas, Local Events, Accomplishments, SQL Server, NWA DNUG

• Preferred method for read only Config files

  I had come across an article where you can use the following line to read custom section settings from your config file (where SectionName is the name of your section) in .Net. NameValueCollection myData = (NameValueCollection)System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager... Posted Mar 26 2008, 09:37 PM by Randy Walker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Programming, Code Examples

• Free DevExpress .net controls

  I ran across an ad today that linked me to where DevExpress is giving away over 40 controls for free. I'm a big fan of two of their products (which unfortunately aren't free), CodeRush and their Excel like grid control. Their grid control is a... Posted Mar 06 2008, 10:46 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net

• First Fort Smith .Net User Group Meeting

  Last night was the first meeting for the Fort Smith .Net User Group. It was a great turnout of 38 people and featured Raymond Lewellan talking about Behavior Driven Development. You can read more about the event from the following blogs: Michael Paladino... Posted Mar 04 2008, 02:38 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Northwest Arkansas, Local Events

• Heroes Happen Here Official Launch boasts Silverlight website

  Participate in Live, Virtual, or Hosted Events I received this today via e-mail. You will eventually be able to watch the keynote and other speakers at the official west coast launch. The Silverlight app is definitely more feature rich than many of the... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:57 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Microsoft

• Free Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008

  Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft released a free PowerToy for VS2008. The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly... Posted Feb 03 2008, 11:36 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: .Net, Programming, Microsoft

• More free Microsoft Partner Training

  Here are some more FREE Partner Partner Training Labs: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Virtual Training (6 parts) What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Database Administrators Implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 Working with the New DATE... Posted Jan 28 2008, 08:31 PM by Randy Walker with | with no comments Filed under: Training, .Net, Microsoft, Partner Program