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AZGroups.org Postcard Idea

VistaPrint.com is a place that prints very cheap (free sometimes) business cards and post cards. I’ve used them in the past for my user group business cards. The printing is free, but you have to pay fro shipping, and they usually have a VistaPrint Logo on them. For community stuff, it’s

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Trip Report: Scottsdale Arizona Event Conference Planning

Monday May 10th, 2010 represents my largest and best event to-date, that I have ever hosted. For the last seven years, I’ve grown a technical audience around Microsoft programming / developers in the Phoenix area. Some travel from California, New Mexico, and other parts of Arizona, but for the

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Pulling EasySearchASP.NET Off the Market

We’ve been talking about this for a while, and today is the magical day. EasySearchASP.net will no longer be a product sold by myKB.com, Inc. While the product still has a support life, and there are still (minute) sales, it is no longer financially prudent to keep the product on the market. We’re n

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AZGroups User Group Cards Free from FreeBusinessCards.com

Once every couple of years I remember FreeBusinessCards.com and order business cards. They print a VistaPrint.com advertisement on the back, but that is fine with me. I’m using the service, to print business cards for http://AZGroups.org. Expect to pay around $5 for shipping, and wait 2 or 3 w

VSTricks

#72 Use Ctrl+H to bring up the Quick Replace Window

You’re probably used to using [CTRL]+[F] to open the Find/Replace dialog. Did you know that [CTRL]+[H] will open directly to the Quick Replace dialog? The command is Edit.Replace, in case your keybindings are different. You’ll need to press the Replace or Replace All button to invoke the find and re

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#71 Bookmark all of your Quick Find results

Sometimes when you’re looking for something in code, it would be nice for the results to persist. Instead of routing the results to the standard find box, this tip / trick shows you how to add a bookmark to all of the result findings. Then you’re free to use the keyboard shortcuts around

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VS2010 Launch Talk: What’s New?

Here are my talking points for the Visual Studio Launch event today. I’m covering the “What’s New” talk. When I put this together, I didn’t want to just show a bunch of fancy new features that you may use someday. I really wanted to show Studio features that will make y

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Feedback on AZGroups Feedback Form

Next Monday is the 7th Annual day of .net with Scott Guthrie. I’ve been doing this event for many years and this year (for the first time) I’ll be asking for a feedback / eval form to be turned in at the end of the day. In true community fashion, I would like to ask

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Voicemail Codes to Remember for ATT Phone Users

If you have AT&T – but use another voice mail server like Google Voice, here are some codes that are useful to know. Actually these codes are useful to know, even if you use the default voice mail, because you can do things like set the amount of time your phone rings, before your voice