November 2007 - Posts

Visual Studio 2008 Loadfest / Halo Fragfest / Guitar Hero Rockfest!

For those of you in Atlanta or the surrounding area, we (the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals, Atlanta .NET User Group and Microsoft (aka Doug Turnure)) will be hosting a Visual Studio 2008 Loadfest, followed by a Halo Fragfest / Guitar Hero Rockfest in place of the regularly scheduled "talks".  All the fun (and loading) will be happening at the Microsoft Greater Southeast District office in Alpharetta on Monday, December 3rd beginning around 6 PM or so.

Be sure to bring your laptops!  The first 150 people to arrive get a FREE copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional.  Yes, we know it's not out yet, but trust us, you will get a pretty boxed copy (when it does come out).

The gaming facilities will include 9 very large TV's with 9 XBox 360 Elites each with four controllers.  Can you say "Holy Crap Batman, I'm there!"  Bringing your own guitar is optional!

Having an accurate count of attendees would be extremely helpful so please register here if you plan on attending.

See you then!

Microsoft Corporation
1125 Sanctuary Pkwy.
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30004

Yet Another great looking public facing MOSS Internet site!

A good friend of mine recently architected, developed and launched kroger.com using the MOSS 2007 platform.  This is yet another example of using it as a public facing site.  This isn’t to say that there weren’t a few hurdles, he mentioned many, but all in all, it seems to be a success and it "looks" awesome!

Hopefully this will be the first of many Fortune #25 companies jumping on board (Kroger is #21 at press time)!

Check it out!

You Don't Need to Copy PDB Files to Debug in the GAC!

I generally don't post a link without much else but this was a no brainer and I feel every SharePoint developer, heck, every .NET developer needs to know this.  My friend and SharePoint pal, Doug Ware has discovered how to debug assemblies in the GAC WITHOUT having to copy the pdb symbols file to the MSIL folder.  In other words, simply attaching to the correct w3wp worker process will work.

It's awe inspiring, I had no idea!

I'm not going to steal his thunder so you will have to read all about here!