December 2008 Blog Posts

2009 South Florida Code Camp

[English Version] Free your calendar on Saturday, February 7th 2009 because one of the biggest Code Camps in the US is coming back to town! Yes, the 2009 South Florida Code Camp is now open for registration. The Call for Speakers is also opened so if you know something about something and would love to share your knowledge send your proposal. This year we are also continuing the All Spanish Track, so if you have Spanish Speaking friends, co workers, etc let them know [Version En Espanol] El Code Camp del Sur de la Florida ha...

posted @ Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:13 PM | Feedback (2)

A Lap Around The Virtual Earth Control - Download

Excuse my lateness, but I finally got around uploading the demos and presentation for the Lap Around The Virtual Earth Control I presented at the South West Florida .NET Developer Group. You can download it here. Happy New Year!

posted @ Monday, December 29, 2008 1:37 PM | Feedback (0)

Windows Azure and SQL Server

I was playing around with Windows Azure and when I tried to debug the Development Fabric tried to create a storage. Apparently the storage is stored in SQL Server and the default configuration is to use SQL Express. Since I have a full version of SQL Server installed on my machine I got the nice error: “The SQL server instance ‘.\SQLEXPRESS’ could not be found. Please verify that SQL Express is installed and running.” I knew there had to be a config file somewhere that had the wrong connection string so a simple search and some clicks found me...

posted @ Sunday, December 21, 2008 11:36 PM | Feedback (1)

SW Florida .NET Developer Group Presentation

I will be presenting the new ASP.NET Virtual Earth Live Control at the South West Florida .NET Developer Group on December, 18th 2008 (this upcoming Thursday). I will be demoing some of the features of the control. See you there!

posted @ Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:46 AM | Feedback (0)

ObservableDictionary Object

I was in need of an ObservableDictionary object for .NET 2.0 and there was no CLR object that met my requirements. All I needed was a Dictionary object that would notify me when a value was changed. I created a CodePlex project where you can download the code.   Happy Programming!

posted @ Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:19 PM | Feedback (0)