The Strong Coders Community will be hosting its Ask An Expert Live chat on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM Pacific Time. Get your tough development questions answered by Microsoft MVPs, Regional Directors, and other industry experts. Community experts will be on hand to answer your .NET- and Visual...

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I'm happy to announce that Bill Ryan is now a blogger here . In addition to maintaning his main blog , he'll be sharing his technical knowledge here too....

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Last night, I upgraded this site to Community Server 2007. The upgrade took a while as this site requires changes to the CS codebase and other tweaking. Other than that, the upgrade went OK for the most part and there are a couple of issues to work out. With this upgrade comes three new Community Server...

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Announcements Continuation of the 1st MVP Live Chat Join the Strong Coders Community, Scott Guthrie , General Manager, Microsoft Developer Division, and Microsoft MVPs for the continuation of the 1st MVP Live Chat on Friday, February 16, 2007 from 8:00pm-9:00pm EST. Get your tough questions answered...

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Join the Strong Coders Community, Scott Guthrie , General Manager, Microsoft Developer Division, and Microsoft MVPs for the continuation of the 1st MVP Live Chat on Friday, February 16, 2007 from 8:00pm-9:00pm EST. Get your tough questions answered by experts. No question is too hard. The chat will take...

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WHEN: Friday, January 12, 2007 at 8:00 PM EST WHERE: Strong Coders Community MVP Live Chat chat room DRESS: Optional -- it's a chat room Microsoft MVPs will be ready to answer your questions live via chat. Instant answers to your deepest, darkest .NET questions, like: * Is ViewState evil? * Do I really...

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Announcements The first MVP Live Chat will take place on Friday, January 12, 2007 at 8:00 PM EST. Microsoft MVPs will be there to answer your questions via live chat. To join the chat, click the chat icon ( ) on the main forum page next to the MVP Live Chats forum. December Strongest Coders Congratulations...

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Announcements Welcome Leisure Suit Larry and fellow console creatures. December is the launch of The Gaming Lounge , a set of gaming and XNA forums for the inner-gamer in all of us. Plug in and let us know what you think. Prizes Congratulations to the November Strongest Coders. Thanks to those members...

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I'm proud to announce the launch of Live Chat and Messenger on this site using CuteSoft's Cute Chat and Web Messenger components. Not only can you get your questions answered and answer questions, but also hang out with others in the developer community live. We're also pleased to announce that the MVP...

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StrongCoders.com is proud to announce the launch of its community site featuring brand new specialized forums in addition to its already-popular blogs. Ask and get your questions answered by experts in areas such as generics, .NET Framework 3.0, architecture, patterns and practices, agile development...

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Congratulations to Blake Niemyjski for winning the 1000th Registered User Contest . He now has a copy of Infragistics NetAdvantage 2006 Volume 1 with Subscription. This is just the beginning of more exciting stuff. Stay tuned for more details to come....

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So far, this site has done pretty good for a small site with over 900 registered users. I thought it would be cool to have a contest for the 1000th user who registers for this site. So, I'll be giving away Infragistics NetAdvantage 2006 Volume 1 with Subscription to the 1000th registered user. Good...

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I've decided to open up registration for blogs on this site. If you'd like a blog on this site, send us an email and tell us why, including a little bit about yourself. Remember our motto is, "Where the extreme coders hang out," so you must adhere to that expectation....

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I just upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 RTM. The upgrade worked without any issues. If you guys notice any issues, please post in Site Issues ....

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I just upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 RC1. The upgrade worked without any issues. If you guys notice any issues, please post in Site Issues ....

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I just upgraded this site to Community Server 2.1 Beta 2 to take advantage of the fixes in CS 2.1. The upgrade worked without any issues. If you guys notice any issues, please post in Site Issues ....

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I'm currently on the job market and am looking for employment preferably in the Southern Orange County, California, Northern Virginia, and Maryland areas, but am willing to relocate anywhere in the US if the job is right for me. My resume can be downloaded in Microsoft Word format here ....

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Group ( Of Experts) Generics is one of the most noted changes to the .NET Framework 2.0. Generics will reduce overhead due to boxing/unboxing and the amount of errors in your code . Want to learn about .NET Generics but don't know where to start? Join StrongTypes and get your questions answered by our...

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Have you ever wanted to support a good cause while buying software? Well, even if you haven't quite thought of it that way, you can now. From its own mission statement, " DotNetCharity.com serves as an outlet for .NET software professionals who want to 'pay it forward'" by offering their services at...

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The world's most versatile and usable list control just got better. Version 3.1 offers extensive improvement to its Visual Studio design-time support and Firefox rendering, as well as exciting new features like SuperSearch, the most powerful ComboBox filtering behavior available. See the whole list of...

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Good news. Tonight I got my MVP nomination from the MVP lead for my contributions to the ASP.NET Community. Yeah!

A special thanks to all that made this possible.

Just found out about a site called Community Credit which gives stupid prizes to smart people. Things such as writing a blog entry will earn points. You can win prizes such as Ebola or Flesh Eating Disease (both pictured below). Now that's awesome....

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If you've been waiting for a listbox control that does it all without making you work late... here it is. EasyListBox is back and better than ever. Here are some new features that make ELB 3 the perfect gift idea for that stressed-out programmer: > Automatic item caching -- no more Viewstate! This...

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Group <StrongTypes>( Of Experts) I have created a Yahoo! group called StrongTypes. The focus of StrongTypes is to discuss and provide free, friendly, expert help in the area of .NET Generics. Visit StrongTypes and get your .NET Generics questions answered by a Group of Experts today....

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