<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 11/21/2008 8:48:23 PM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/NET-blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=1fb32dc0-2fbf-4f5c-a287-6ae54d1e451f" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Leslie</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:48:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Leslie</title><url>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog</link></image><item><title>Windows Presentation Foundation</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/10/29/windows-presentation-foundation.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/10/29/windows-presentation-foundation.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is such a good technology, that every time I look at it or read something about it, I find more to like. For example, you can use WPF to develop Windows applications or a kind of web application called XBAP (XML Browser Application).
 
When developing a Window ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:43:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Visual Studio 2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WPF/default.aspx">WPF</category></item><item><title>Windows Workflow Foundation</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/09/10/windows-workflow-foundation.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/09/10/windows-workflow-foundation.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) enables you to create workflow-enabled applications in Windows, and as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. WF includes visual designers for use within Visual Studio. It can work with Visual Studio 2005. You will need to go to this address for the necessa ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:45:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WF/default.aspx">WF</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Visual Studio 2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WCF/default.aspx">WCF</category></item><item><title>ASP.NET Custom Controls</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/09/04/asp-net-custom-controls.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/09/04/asp-net-custom-controls.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[When creating an ASP.NET project, you may find that the built-in controls do not do exactly what you want them to do. At these times you may want to create a reusable control of your own design. 
 
There are basically two types of custom controls: user controls and custom server controls.
 
A us ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:04:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Visual Studio 2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category></item><item><title>Best Laid Plans</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/07/17/best-laid-plans.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/07/17/best-laid-plans.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[I had planned to do a bunch of posts back in mid-June, but somehow it did not happen. That will happen to the best of us. Anyway ...
 
The latest news is that MS Press has just released a prep guide for one of their new exams for .NET Framework 3.5. This exam is 70-502 for Windows Presentation Fou ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:53:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WPF/default.aspx">WPF</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Visual Studio 2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category></item><item><title>Teaching Visual Studio 2005 - Part 1</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/06/09/teaching-visual-studio-2005-part-1.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/06/09/teaching-visual-studio-2005-part-1.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[This week (and next) I am teaching Visual Studio 2005 (or 2008) and I thought it would be nice to share some of the insights I get almost every day in teaching and explaining the .NET technology.
 
One thing that is really nice in Visual Studio 2005/8 is the Document Outline window. This tool is u ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Programming with Abstractions</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/06/03/programming-with-abstractions.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/06/03/programming-with-abstractions.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[In the book &quot;Dreaming in Code&quot; (by Scott Rosenberg), there is a section on programming today being done as a layer of code on top of another layer of code on top of another layer of code, etc. Most developers realize this because they work with compiled languages that are then turned into  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:21:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/ADO.NET/default.aspx">ADO.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Declarative Programming/default.aspx">Declarative Programming</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Procedural Programming/default.aspx">Procedural Programming</category></item><item><title>Problems in Software</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/06/02/problems-in-software.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/06/02/problems-in-software.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Lately, I have been reading a book called &quot;Dreaming in Code&quot;, by Scott Rosenberg. It is about a coding project for a product devised by Mitch Kapor (formerly of Lotus fame) called Chandler. But there are three chapters in the book that I think every developer or IT manager should read: C ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:58:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One Step Back, Two Steps Forward</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/05/14/one-step-back-two-steps-forward.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/05/14/one-step-back-two-steps-forward.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
The people at Microsoft Learning who do do courseware, took a page from the recent past, and revived a wonderful ASP.NET class from the .NET launch 6 years ago, 2310. This course has been upgraded not only with the latest features of the .NET Framework 3.5, but also with .NET Framework 2.0 feature ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:33:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/AJAX/default.aspx">AJAX</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx">LINQ</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Silverlight/default.aspx">Silverlight</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Visual Studio 2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category></item><item><title>New .NET Technologies</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/2008/05/07/new-net-technologies.aspx</link><guid>/NET-blog/archive/2008/05/07/new-net-technologies.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
For me, one of the most exciting things is new technology. And with the introduction in the .NET Framework 3.0 of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), I couldn't be happier. The .NET Framework was distributed, freely,  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leslie Koorhan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:46:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WCF/default.aspx">WCF</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WF/default.aspx">WF</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/WPF/default.aspx">WPF</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/NET-blog/archive/tags/Visual Studio 2008/default.aspx">Visual Studio 2008</category></item></channel></rss>