We are hosting a FREE day-long event at the Microsoft Irvine,CA office all around SQL Server 2008.  We are trying something a bit new in that we'll be providing content for both Developers and for ITPros.  If you are interested in attending, please register at http://www.firestarterevents.com/ as we have limited enrollment capacity.  Also, pass this along to your DBA and ITPro friends who are interested in learning technical information about SQL Server 2008.  We are adding session information to the FireStarterEvents sites daily, so check back for frequent updates!

Depending on the success of this event, we are considering future events like this - that is around a product or technology, with both ITPro and Dev content provided.  If you have time, take the super-short survey on the FireStarterEvents site to tell us which topics you are most interested in.

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If you are looking for good overview of LINQ and how to implement it in an ASP.Net application you can check out my LINQ presentation which was recorded at a User Group meeting in Florida. Follow the Link (pun intended) below to watch the video on INETA LIVE. A new interactive companion website to the new main INETA website.

Enjoy.

Doc (Daniel N. Egan)

I wanted to thank everyone for attending my talk on the Past, Present, and Future of ASP.Net AJAX. You will find both the PowerPoint slides and the sample code below. If you have any questions be sure to drop me a line.

Happy Programming

Doc (Daniel Egan)

A PDF Version of the Presentation : LaunchVS2008PDF.zip (1.57 MB)

The Main Project website for the presentation : Launch2008MainProject.zip
Required for Project :
Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (FREE)
Downloaded and installed ASP.Net AJAX Control Toolkit

The project showing the Ajax History Injection :History1.zip
Required For project :
ASP.Net Extentions Preview

Don't Miss it!!! Code Trip is coming to your town. I was able to attend both the LA and Irvine Code Trip events and a great time was had by all.

Tim Heuer Woody Pewitt and Jason Mauer (Microsoft DE's) are roaming around the country on a bus to spread the word.

Check out the site and where they will be next at http://thecodetrip.com/

The site is a cool combination of LINQ, Silverlight, Virtual Earth, and other cool MS goodies. If you have time find a location near you and check it out.

Doc

While trying to copy a Virtual Machine onto one of my back-up drives I ran into the "Not enough space on drive" error. Of course the drive I was copying to was 500GB so I knew that I had space.

After a little bit of checking I realized that the drive was still FAT32. I had never converted it to NTFS. FAT32 wont let you copy anything over 4GB.

Anyway, to fix this is pretty easy, you can use the command line tool convert.exe to change the file system from FAT32 to NTFS. 

the following command will do the trick --   convert D: /fs:ntfs (where D is the drive you want to convert)

Now I am able to copy over those 10GB files. :)

I know this is old news to some but..... It is easy to forget what you dont use ;)

Doc