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This is an archive of the old content from the lhotka.net/weblog blog site, which started in February 2004.

Busy spring 04 February 2004
Longhorn/WinFX hype 05 February 2004
Are web services components or applications? 11 February 2004
My C# journey 22 February 2004
Of ship dates, realistic expectations and hope for the future 12 March 2004
SOA, dollar signs and trust boundaries 08 April 2004
Remoting, web services, SOA and trust boundaries 08 April 2004
.NET 2.0 solution to serialization of objects that raise events 15 May 2004
Services, Objects and People, Oh my! 29 May 2004
Better version of the .NET 2.0 event/serialization solution 31 May 2004
Dispose your Command objects! 02 June 2004
CSLA workshop at VS Live Orlando 06 June 2004
.NET Rocks! show spurs UML discussion 08 June 2004
SOA, CSLA .NET and trust boundaries 11 June 2004
On the road with Roger Sessions and Jack Greenfield 21 June 2004
Middle-tier Hosting: Remoting vs. Enterprise Services 24 June 2004
My Expert C# Business Objects is officially in print 07 July 2004
Things VB can do that C# can’t 14 July 2004
Middle-tier hosting: Enterprise Services, IIS, DCOM, Web services and Remoting 11 August 2004
My blog featured on MSDN 12 August 2004
A tale (or two.aspx) of customer service 20 August 2004
An answer to the Remoting confusion 26 August 2004
.NET service packs available for download 31 August 2004
Long live procedural programming (or was that service-oriented programming?) 03 September 2004
My highfalutin career advice 08 September 2004
More discussion on service-oriented and procedural programming 09 September 2004
Deductive and Inductive UI designs 16 September 2004
Browser wars redux? Why bother… 18 September 2004
Science fiction and SOA 21 September 2004
Blind polling in politics - would it work for technology? 22 September 2004
Object Thinking 26 September 2004
Where is Service-Oriented Design? 28 September 2004
Frameworks, O/R mappers and other plumbing 01 October 2004
More SF book recommendations 02 October 2004
MSDN’s ASP.NET week is coming up 04 October 2004
Electoral vote tracking system 09 October 2004
Web site about .NET languages 13 October 2004
One way SOA is fundamentally new and different 14 October 2004
Not to keep harping on SOA, but really… 21 October 2004
Final SOA post for today 21 October 2004
Lest we forget that technology is far from everything… 28 October 2004
Good summary of service-oriented concepts and tenents 01 November 2004
Make sure to vote 02 November 2004
High voter turnout? 03 November 2004
TheServerSide.NET interview 10 November 2004
SOA: procedural programming redux or emergent technology? 17 November 2004
VS Live San Francisco 24 November 2004
Effective Enterprise Java 01 December 2004
Heartland Developers Conference 2004 03 December 2004
Blogs have no rules? 09 December 2004
WinFS probably won’t debut “until the next decade” 10 December 2004
More information on “emergence” 15 December 2004
Magenic is hiring 17 December 2004
Egyptian mythology and object-oriented design 18 December 2004
Ladybug aka the Product Feedback Center - use it and love it!! 21 December 2004
Passive Data vs “Active” Data 21 December 2004
SOA is dead 02 January 2005
Microsoft has a marketing machine? 03 January 2005
The future of content creation 05 January 2005
Indigo and SOA in San Francisco 06 January 2005
C# event issue resolved 06 January 2005
Less choice leads to better results? 07 January 2005
OSS sabotage of Windows security? 10 January 2005
Will Longhorn mean success for mono on Windows? 13 January 2005
From VAX to Windows 19 January 2005
Web services, DataSets and now…Business Objects 24 January 2005
dasBlog upgrade and a trip to Chicago 29 January 2005
Can a Service have Tiers? 03 February 2005
Indigo: the future of asmx/wse/es/msmq/remoting 08 February 2005
patternshare.org is online!! 08 February 2005
IE news 15 February 2005
Fire bad, tree pretty 18 February 2005
awk 21 February 2005
Comments on patternshare.org and patterns in general 21 February 2005
Contracts and interop 23 February 2005
The Intersection of Objects and Services 24 February 2005
All we need is the browser 25 February 2005
Leaving a job to avoid using C#… What backwards thinking… 02 March 2005
And the world shifts… 07 March 2005
The future of Windows? 09 March 2005
On the silly “VB revolt” thing 11 March 2005
Hilarious Tech Ed promo videos - check ‘em out! 18 March 2005
More on Avalon/XAML 21 March 2005
Proprietary vs “open” languages 26 March 2005
“Live” .NET Rocks interview 27 March 2005
“The” and “A” in VB? 01 April 2005
New VB site: VBRun 05 April 2005
Is Indigo compelling or boring? 18 April 2005
Free training anyone? 20 April 2005
How about Covenants instead of Contracts for service oriented design 21 April 2005
My article on extending the CMAB is now online 22 April 2005
Message-based WebMethod “overloading” 03 May 2005
Good SOA article 08 May 2005
Some Service-Oriented Design thought 24 May 2005
VPC lessons learned 06 June 2005
Tech Ed Speaker Auction 09 June 2005
Who is Mort anyway? And why should he care about VS 2005? 13 June 2005
Announcing the SQL Server/Visual Studio/BizTalk Connected Systems Developer Competition 14 June 2005
MIT blog research paper - do your part! 23 June 2005
More on Mort and the future of languages 02 July 2005
Microsoft Names Magenic Worldwide Partner of the Year for Custom Application Development 19 July 2005
Congratulations, you’ve installed DasBlog! 20 July 2005
Should all apps be n-tier? 21 July 2005
A variety of physical n-tier options 23 July 2005
Extending the 3-tier conversation to the web 24 July 2005
Speaking of mobile objects (agents) 26 July 2005
Bad news on the regulatory front 05 August 2005
CSLA .NET 2.0 09 August 2005
Authors can’t win 11 August 2005
.NET Rocks! interview 15 August 2005
DataSets – not all they could be 29 August 2005
Want to help with Katrina efforts by programming? 04 September 2005
This is why I love being part of geekdom 06 September 2005
CSLA .NET 2.0 Change Log 07 September 2005
Post-PDC networking blues 19 September 2005
Windows Forms data binding issue in VS 2005 23 September 2005
More on the Windows Forms data binding issue 25 September 2005
Windows Forms data binding issue: conclusion 28 September 2005
Windows Forms binding issue: A component solution 05 October 2005
A CSLA .NET 2.0 style class 06 October 2005
ASP.NET 2.0 Data Binding Frustration 13 October 2005
My PodcastStudio.net interview is online 31 October 2005
Reenabling MSDTC under WinXP SP2 01 November 2005
Anticipated effort to move from CSLA .NET 1.x to 2.0 02 November 2005
More issues with ASP.NET object data binding 15 November 2005
Where are all the CSLA .NET users? 18 November 2005
Strongly typed DataPortal_XYZ methods in CSLA .NET 2.0 18 November 2005
What I got out of Object Thinking 01 December 2005
Commercial CSLA .NET? Open-source CSLA .NET? 04 December 2005
Yet again: VB vs C# 07 December 2005
AJAX is a new Microsoft technology?!? 07 December 2005
Looking for CSLA .NET 2.0 resource file translations 13 December 2005
A shameless plug 28 December 2005
Not a show stopper? In what universe? 03 January 2006
Dislike all those extra DLLs? Ditch them! 04 January 2006
Two things… 06 January 2006
More Billy Hollis blogging 13 January 2006
ASP.NET thread switching 17 January 2006
Go Live licenses for WCF and WF 18 January 2006
MIX 06 - Microsoft Web Conference 19 January 2006
Software is too darn hard 23 January 2006
CSLA .NET 2.0 Public Beta coming soon 24 January 2006
CSLA .NET 2.0 Public Beta Available 30 January 2006
Focus on the object model, not the “feature list” 02 February 2006
Expert VB/C# 2005 Business Objects update 07 February 2006
Authoring tools 12 February 2006
Should validation be in the UI or in business objects 01 March 2006
Expert VB/C# 2005 Business Objects book status 04 March 2006
My ARCast interview is online 09 March 2006
All in all we’re just another brick in the wall… 13 March 2006
Order of book releases 19 March 2006
CSLA .NET 2.0 release code available 22 March 2006
dotnetrocks interview on CSLA .NET 2.0 30 March 2006
Forests, trees, testing and design 31 March 2006
Expert VB 2005 Business Objects beta ebook online 04 April 2006
DNR TV on CSLA .NET 2.0 07 April 2006
Sometimes security helpers help too much 12 April 2006
What I’ve been reading lately 16 April 2006
CSLA .NET community contributions 01 May 2006
Some software really is too darn hard 02 May 2006
Iron Architect Contest 03 May 2006
Expert VB 2005 Business Objects in print 03 May 2006
New CSLA .NET forum is online 05 May 2006
Extending controls to handle Nullable types 12 May 2006
Dynamically loading assemblies from shadow directories 13 May 2006
Expert VB/C# 2005 Business Objects show strong sales 25 May 2006
CSLA .NET 2.0.1 available 31 May 2006
.NET 2.0 plus WinFX = .NET 3.0 09 June 2006
CSLA .NET 2.0.2 available 17 June 2006
Web design woes 25 June 2006
CSLA is “it” 27 June 2006
New web site 11 July 2006
CSLA .NET 2.0.3 available 14 July 2006
CSLAcontrib project online 18 July 2006
Adapting to the new world of being an author 19 July 2006
I’m not the only one with CSS issues… 19 July 2006
A “Rocky” discount to Paul Sheriff’s new site 21 July 2006
CSLA .NET training class on the horizon 26 July 2006
VB <-> C# conversions 01 August 2006
Where the EU went too far with Microsoft 02 August 2006
A blatant bit of recruiting 05 August 2006
More DNR TV shows 10 August 2006
Where Workflow Foundation really shines 05 September 2006
Answers to some CSLA .NET questions 07 September 2006
CSLA .NET 2.1 BETA available for download 12 September 2006
CSLA .NET logo graphics 22 September 2006
Update on the CSLA .NET training 26 September 2006
Lovely blog post about Agile Methodologies 28 September 2006
If not Agile, then what? 29 September 2006
CSLA .NET 2.1 is available 30 September 2006
Semantic coupling: the elephant in the SOA room 09 October 2006
Credit where credit is due 17 October 2006
CSLA .NET 2.1.1 available for download 16 November 2006
VS Live San Francisco and Microsoft Vista 20 November 2006
Sad news from Iowa 30 November 2006
CSLA .NET 2.1 ebook progress report 13 December 2006
Got my new Zune 15 December 2006
Welcome to 2007 02 January 2007
Rambling thoughts on pragmatic development 03 January 2007
Data binding issue in WPF: with solution 09 January 2007
Should you change values in a property set block? 17 January 2007
I’ve been triple tagged 24 January 2007
CSLA .NET 2.1.2 available 25 January 2007
Switch from cvs to svn 30 January 2007
CSLA .NET Version 2.1 Handbook now available in both C# and VB editions 30 January 2007
Next CSLA .NET training class: Feb 26-28 01 February 2007
Does workflow compete with CSLA .NET? 04 February 2007
ADO.NET Entity Framework, LINQ and CSLA .NET 07 February 2007
CSLA .NET 2.1.4 available 23 February 2007
CSLA .NET 2007 Training Roadshow 02 March 2007
Paul Sheriff’s Inner Circle (updated and shiny!) 08 March 2007
Specialization: the future of our industry? 11 March 2007
Is Computer Science dead? 13 March 2007
String formatting fun 13 March 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 - WPF support progress 15 March 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 early test version available 26 March 2007
Health woes 04 April 2007
VB 9 and C# 3 are not far away 11 April 2007
Twin Cities Codecamp coming up fast! 18 April 2007
DNR TV show on CSLA .NET and data access 19 April 2007
Orcas Beta 1: ASP.NET not enabled by default 23 April 2007
Binding a WPF ComboBox to a display source and a binding source 24 April 2007
Issues with WPF page navigation 26 April 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 test release #3 available 27 April 2007
Silverlight and CSLA 01 May 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 test release #4 available 04 May 2007
More on VS Orcas Beta 1 VPC and ASP.NET 11 May 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 Beta 1 available for download 21 May 2007
How to sync an HP IPAQ 4150 with Windows Vista 29 May 2007
Request for CSLA .NET 3.0 language translations 31 May 2007
WCF NetDataContractSerializer and SecurityException 01 June 2007
Resolution to the NetDataContract/SerializationException issue 11 June 2007
Codeless WPF data edit forms with CslaDataProvider 20 June 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 Beta 2 available for download 22 June 2007
Reminder about CSLA .NET training 24 June 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0 available for download 10 July 2007
Being a Better Developer… in 6 months 12 July 2007
A study in mutual authentication 25 July 2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2 are available now! 26 July 2007
Using XML to store object graphs into SQL Server 2005 31 July 2007
Executing a workflow 01 August 2007
Bridge collapse 01 August 2007
Indexed LINQ @ .NET DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL 07 August 2007
Custom Principals and WCF 09 August 2007
I Am Working On My Using CSLA NET 30 Ebook And Wrote Some Content That I Dont Think Im Going To Use In The Book 23 August 2007
Pandora: Music to my ears! 24 August 2007
Twin Cities code camp needs speakers 28 August 2007
Magenic needs BI people (and .NET people, Sharepoint people and Biztalk people)! 13 September 2007
Hiding a disabled Save button in WPF 21 September 2007
Rebutting some questions about CSLA .NET 22 September 2007
Using CSLA .NET 3.0 ebook available (and CSLA .NET version 3.0.2) 28 September 2007
CSLA .NET 3.0.2 (VB.aspx) available for download 03 October 2007
ReMIX presentation video is online 10 October 2007
Using CSLA .NET 3.0 now available in VB and C# 17 October 2007
Lost email 18 October 2007
Considerations in Evaluating Onshore vs. Offshore Software Development 24 October 2007
Serializing business objects to Silverlight/AJAX? 05 November 2007
Primary motivations to move from 2- to 3-tier 13 November 2007
Barcelona User Group & Live Meeting 16 November 2007
Magenic wants you - this time with a quiz! 27 November 2007
CSLA .NET 3.5 status update (Dec 5) 05 December 2007
Microsoft .NET and CSLA .NET version confusion 07 December 2007
Enjoying the Holiday Season 10 December 2007
Video webcast of a CSLA .NET interview 19 December 2007
The costs and security benefits of n-tier over 2-tier 21 December 2007
January’s Magenic webinars (including one on CSLA .NET) 07 January 2008
CSLA .NET 3.5 Jan 15 preview release 15 January 2008
Why so few WPF/XAML grid controls? 22 January 2008
Why enable the data portal behind a web service? 24 January 2008
MIX08 is coming up soon - I’ll be there, will you? 28 January 2008
CSLA .NET 3.0.4 refresh available 22 February 2008
VS Live San Francisco 2008 coming up soon! 25 February 2008
High Speed Cell Modem Saves the Day 27 February 2008
CslaDataProvider: The final step 27 February 2008
CSLA .NET 3.5 property code reduction 28 February 2008
Consolidated blog feed for Microsoft Regional Directors 03 March 2008
Thoughts on MIX 08 09 March 2008
CSLA .NET 3.5 code reduction with child objects 10 March 2008
Web server issues, on top of issues 14 March 2008
Do you use VB late binding? If so, how? 16 March 2008
Webcast on SOA, REST and related topics 16 March 2008
CSLA .NET class: May 5-7 in Toronto 24 March 2008
CSLA .NET version 3.5 is now available 03 April 2008
VS Live Orlando coming soon! 11 April 2008
My philosophy on using new technologies 12 April 2008
Silverlight serializer 13 April 2008
Podcast recapping MIX 08 21 April 2008
Free Comic Book Day 2008 22 April 2008
Prototype Silverlight data portal 23 April 2008
CSLA .NET Master Class training 24 April 2008
Magenic Technology Summit 13 May 2008
ClickOnce and incremental updates 20 May 2008
[The ]inbetween event - very cool! 21 May 2008
Walk for the Cure 27 May 2008
My Vista Experience (thus far) 30 May 2008
CSLA Light object serialization 10 June 2008
Community Megaphone 12 June 2008
CSLA Light serialization implementation 14 June 2008
Expert 2008 Business Objects, CSLA Light, C# and VB 23 June 2008
CSLA Light data portal and n-level undo 24 June 2008
Twin Cities User Groups for Developer Geeks 25 June 2008
VS Live New York and Las Vegas 01 July 2008
DNR TV show on CSLA .NET 3.5 11 July 2008
CSLA Light data portal options 14 July 2008
Expert 2008 Business Objects tentative TOC 15 July 2008
CSLA Light preview release 15 July 2008
Serious challenge for unit testing in Silverlight 17 July 2008
Nice list of things people should know about VB 21 July 2008
Randy Pausch, rest in peace 25 July 2008
CSLA .NET 3.5.1 RC0 available 27 July 2008
Using CSLA Light Part 2 28 July 2008
Play games, help children, everyone wins! 01 August 2008
CSLA Light Prerelease 2 available 03 August 2008
Using CSLA Light Part 3 11 August 2008
Using CSLA Light Part 4 12 August 2008
CSLA Light data provider 13 August 2008
CSLA .NET ObjectFactory attribute 15 August 2008
Fall 2008 community events 19 August 2008
CSLA into the future 20 August 2008
CSLA .NET on DNR TV 27 August 2008
CSLA Light and CSLA .NET 3.6 Labor Day pre-release 01 September 2008
UnitDriven visual enhancement 03 September 2008
Funny Microsoft commercial 05 September 2008
CSLA .NET 3.6+ in VB - a community effort? 11 September 2008
CSLA .NET 3.6 (Silverlight and Windows.aspx) pre-release (080919) 19 September 2008
CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and for Silverlight Beta 1 released 26 September 2008
Overview of CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and Silverlight 26 September 2008
CSLA .NET Master Class in November 29 September 2008
Silverlight data portal, async calls and 404 errors 02 October 2008
CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and Silverlight Beta 2 release 21 October 2008
Article about CSLA .NET for Silverlight online 23 October 2008
VS Live Dallas 2008 in December 01 November 2008
CSLA .NET for Silverlight webcast on 11/13 05 November 2008
Expert C# 2008 Business Objects alpha book available 12 November 2008
What books should I buy for CSLA .NET? 19 November 2008
Permission-based authorization vs role-based authorization 03 December 2008
CSLA .NET 3.6 RC1 available 05 December 2008
Some thoughts on Windows Azure 11 December 2008
CSLA .NET 3.6 for Windows and for Silverlight is released! 17 December 2008
Happy New Year, welcome to 2009 03 January 2009
VS Live San Francisco 2009 coming soon 06 January 2009
Application Architecture Guide 2.0 12 January 2009
Idiot spammer 15 January 2009
Windows Home Server rocks! 23 January 2009
Interesting Silverlight data binding “feature” 28 January 2009
Life changing tip for XAML editing in Visual Studio 28 January 2009
IE8 and the ASP.NET Menu control 03 February 2009
CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) 05 February 2009
Silverlight online goodies 05 February 2009
.NET Serialization wrappers 10 February 2009
Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project 19 February 2009
Parallel and Concurrency Futures for Microsoft Developers 02 March 2009
Introducing Marimer, LLC 12 March 2009
CSLA .NET 5 day training, San Francisco, May 4-8 12 March 2009
CSLA .NET 3.6.2 Release Candidate available 22 March 2009
Silverlight ComboBox control and data binding 25 March 2009
Intro to CSLA .NET video by Andrew Hallmark 26 March 2009
CSLA .NET 3.6.2 is now available 31 March 2009
Magenic webinars in April 2009 07 April 2009
VS Live Las Vegas 2009 09 April 2009
The beginnings of MCsla 10 April 2009
ugMIX: .NET User Group & Silverlight User Group 16 April 2009
CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series pre-purchase offer 17 April 2009
MCsla – compiling DSL source into M 21 April 2009
CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 4 (N-tier.aspx) online 04 May 2009
Star Trek Movie – Awesome!! 05 May 2009
David Giard interviews Jamie Wright on CSLA .NET 18 May 2009
CSLA .NET 3.6.3 beta available 26 May 2009
WPF 4.0 Data Binding Fix 27 May 2009
CSLA .NET for Silverlight video segment 5 available 02 June 2009
CSLA .NET for Silverlight: N-Tier Data Access video available 05 June 2009
CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series is complete 10 June 2009
When Windows Home Server crashes… 26 June 2009
If you can’t reach me… 29 June 2009
MCsla on the Olso May CTP 01 July 2009
Where’s the workaround for the Windows security vulnerability? 07 July 2009
Chris Sells finally gets VB (I mean dynamic languages) 08 July 2009
Silverlight 3 and CSLA .NET 3.7 10 July 2009
The good and bad of the Kindle 19 July 2009
CSLA .NET 3.7 released with Silverlight 3 support 21 July 2009
Spammed by Google 27 July 2009
Adding DataContextChanged in Silverlight 31 July 2009
Silverlight element binding issue 04 August 2009
Upcoming Magenic webinar schedule for rest of 2009 07 August 2009
CSLA .NET 3.6.3 for .NET 2.0 13 August 2009
Silverlight triggers 14 August 2009
More Silverlight MVVM fun 02 September 2009
CSLA .NET updates: 3.7.1 Beta 3 and 3.8.0 Alpha 2 13 September 2009
CSLA .NET version 3.7.1 available 28 September 2009
CSLA .NET VB 3.6.3 available 29 September 2009
CSLA .NET 3.8 Beta 1 available 03 October 2009
Leveraging data annotation attributes in CSLA .NET 05 October 2009
Gartner too cautious toward Win7 13 October 2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 – and CSLA .NET 19 October 2009
CSLA .NET training – Nov 2009 20 October 2009
Klingon Christmas Carol 21 October 2009
CSLA .NET 3.8 Beta 2 MVVM support 25 October 2009
SOA Manifesto 29 October 2009
CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 3 available 30 October 2009
Prioritizing CSLA .NET work items 02 November 2009
It is only 8, how can it be legacy??? 04 November 2009
DataAnnotations not in the client profile 06 November 2009
Magenic’s own Code Master 10 November 2009
Holiday discounts on CSLA .NET videos 26 November 2009
Core CSLA .NET 3.8 Video Series pre-release sale! 29 November 2009
nunit to mstest for CSLA .NET 4 06 December 2009
CSLA .NET, MVVM AND DNR TV 09 December 2009
ATI Radeon graphics driver fail 14 December 2009
Core CSLA .NET 3.8 video 4 (data portal.aspx) available 17 December 2009
Core CSLA .NET 3.8 video segment 5 (business rules.aspx) available 20 December 2009
CSLA .NET Core 3.8 video series is complete! 29 December 2009
Code Mastery event in Boston: Feb 11 05 January 2010
Spaghetti Podcast online 07 January 2010
StatLight 11 January 2010
All about the “M” 13 January 2010
Windows 7 has rapid adoption 22 January 2010
Code Mastery – FREE EVENT – Boston 25 January 2010
Relating CSLA .NET experience 26 January 2010
CSLA .NET 3.8.2 released 01 February 2010
Applying MVVM in the VS10 XAML designer 16 February 2010
Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest 18 February 2010
Will the real data object stand up? 19 February 2010
Setting focus in XAML with no code 26 February 2010
Running CSLA .NET 3.8.2 under .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 01 March 2010
Exploring SQL Server Modeling through MCsla 04 March 2010
Good post on C#/VB co-evolution 09 March 2010
Don’t install WP7 in a virtual machine 16 March 2010
Silverlight 4 RC RichTextBox changes 18 March 2010
Restoring PDC laptop from WHS 21 March 2010
CSLA 4 data portal changes 03 April 2010
CSLA 4 business rules subsystem 05 April 2010
CSLA 4 business rule chaining 05 April 2010
CSLA 4 highlights 09 April 2010
CSLA 4 Preview 4 available 16 April 2010
Custom CodeAnalysis Rules for CSLA 19 April 2010
CSLA 4 Authorization Rules 24 April 2010
Chicago code camp on May 1 26 April 2010
Using Rx with the data portal 27 April 2010
CSLA 4 Beta 1 03 May 2010
Do Architects Need to Code? 06 May 2010
A “computer free” future? 07 May 2010
Chicago Code Mastery 12 May 2010
Magenic is hiring 20 May 2010
Silverlight video series index 26 May 2010
CSLA 4 and MVVM video series 02 June 2010
Looking for CSLA developers 08 June 2010
CSLA 3.8.4 beta release 25 June 2010
Silverlight 4 VisualStateManager Valid issue 29 June 2010
Lazy loading children in CSLA 4 and Silverlight 01 July 2010
CSLA 4 release candidate available 08 July 2010
CSLA 4 MVVM video series pre-release offer 13 July 2010
On the use and misuse of patterns 19 July 2010
CSLA 4 release 23 July 2010
MSDN Bytes interview on WP7 26 July 2010
Getting CSLA 4 to compile for WP7 29 July 2010
CSLA .NET and MVVM video series 31 July 2010
Rules for Software Architects 09 August 2010
Unit testing for Windows Phone 7 10 August 2010
CSLA 4 WP7 progress update 2 10 August 2010
Some thoughts on Application Architecture 22 August 2010
Public Facebook page 27 August 2010
CSLA 4 version 4.0.1 released 28 August 2010
IASA training in Minneapolis 01 September 2010
Want to work at Magenic? 02 September 2010
CSLA .NET training, Atlanta, Nov 8-10 30 September 2010
CSLA 4 Executive Overview slides 08 October 2010
CSLA .NET branching and tagging strategy 15 October 2010
CSLA 4 version 4.1 beta release 22 October 2010
Magenic’s first WP7 app 27 October 2010
Silverlight and the PDC 01 November 2010
Talking Business and Objectification with Rocky Lhotka 08 November 2010
WPF vs Silverlight, really? 09 November 2010
CSLA .NET Core 3.8 video series index 22 November 2010
Minneapolis PDC, Code Mastery and more! 29 November 2010
Zune.net rocks 10 December 2010
Impressions of Windows Phone 7 11 December 2010
Using CSLA 4: Creating Business Objects draft online 04 January 2011
TFS extensibility 11 January 2011
HTML5 “standard”? 12 January 2011
CSLA .NET training in Feb 2011 14 January 2011
CSLA 4 version 4.1 release 18 January 2011
Porting CSLA 4 to MonoDroid 19 January 2011
CSLA 4 on NuGet 15 February 2011
Using the TriggerAction control 18 February 2011
CSLA .NET at Open Source Fest: MIX11 21 February 2011
CSLA 4 mono platform porting update 09 March 2011
Using CSLA 4: Data Access draft available 11 March 2011
CSLA 4 training, April 11-13 20 March 2011
Windows Server AppFabric and WCF monitoring 22 March 2011
CSLA 4 version 4.2 alpha release 26 March 2011
CSLA .NET and Windows Azure 27 March 2011
Architect training in May 2011 01 April 2011
CSLA 4 training: June 2011 25 April 2011
Calling Roles.GetRolesForUser in a WCF service 28 April 2011
Using CSLA 4: Data Portal Configuration draft online 04 May 2011
Using CSLA 4: ASP.NET MVC ebook now available 07 June 2011
lhotka.net domain downtime 15 June 2011
Facebook policy 05 August 2011
Visual Studio Live in Redmond 22 August 2011
Back from sabbatical 29 August 2011
WinRT and business apps 17 September 2011
CSLA on WinRT (project start) 18 September 2011
Migrating smart clients to WinRT 28 September 2011
Why MVVM? 03 October 2011
CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 1 release 04 October 2011
Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2012 CFP 05 October 2011
WinRT BackgroundWorker type 12 October 2011
Magenic Code Mastery Altanta content 12 October 2011
Win8, Metro, and WinRT terminology 14 October 2011
Magenic interviews at Build11 18 October 2011
VS Live demos 24 October 2011
Updated Win 8 Dev Platform diagram 25 October 2011
Magenic Boston is hiring 28 October 2011
CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 2 online 31 October 2011
DevCon slides 04 November 2011
Web sites vs Web apps 09 November 2011
Improving CSLA 4 MobileFormatter behavior 12 November 2011
Windows 8 and WinRT development whitepaper 30 November 2011
CSLA 4 version 4.2 released 01 December 2011
VS10 and SQL Express frustration 02 December 2011
Magenic Holiday Tech Gift 2011 09 December 2011
The Morning Brew turns 1000 12 December 2011
Using CSLA 4: Windows Phone ebook available 25 January 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.3.0 alpha available 26 January 2012
Careers at Magenic 10 February 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.3 beta available 13 February 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.3 release 04 March 2012
Windows 8 CP install experience 05 March 2012
Windows 8 on a laptop 07 March 2012
Announcing ConferenceBuddy 08 March 2012
Why I want Windows 8 on my PC 13 March 2012
Allowing a WinRT app to do loopback network calls 14 March 2012
Early findings going from Silverlight to WinRT 21 March 2012
Windows Forms to Windows Runtime 29 March 2012
Windows 8, Start Screen, Multi-Monitor Usability 06 April 2012
Code Mastery Boston 12 April 2012
Windows 8, BYOD, and AD membership 23 April 2012
DRM-free books 25 April 2012
Should I learn Silverlight? Objective C? HTML 5? 26 April 2012
Using the MVVM pattern requires a framework 07 May 2012
Set rich text into RichTextBlock control 11 May 2012
Meet Windows Azure 24 May 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.3.11 beta available 29 May 2012
Windows 8, live.com, and computer names 01 June 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.3.12 release 07 June 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.5 alpha available 07 June 2012
Tabletop Forge 11 June 2012
Microsoft Windows 8 Surface 18 June 2012
Why Windows 8 is so important 03 July 2012
Is the laptop doomed? 11 July 2012
CSLA data portal changes in version 4.5 30 July 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.5 gets a new logo 01 August 2012
Windows 8 Terminology and Concepts 03 August 2012
VS Live Windows 8 SkyDrive talk 08 August 2012
Side-loading on Windows 8 21 August 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.5 beta 1 released 24 September 2012
More data portal enhancements for CSLA 4.5 01 October 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.5.3 Beta 2 online 04 October 2012
Implementing an async rule in CSLA 4 version 4.5 09 October 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.5 release candidate 17 October 2012
CSLA 4 version 4.5 released with support for WinRT 24 October 2012
How to get WinRT apps to run on Win7 26 October 2012
Classmates.com 28 October 2012
Sinofsky’s departure gives me hope for Windows 12 November 2012
Can you run WinRT apps on Win7? 15 November 2012
I like my Surface RT 25 November 2012
Silverlight is “dead” 07 December 2012
Testing a WinRT app on a Surface RT 20 December 2012
SharePoint folders and OneNote for WinRT 16 January 2013
Cost to enable side-loading on a Windows 8 device 18 January 2013
Light-hearted awareness of gender bias in computing 23 January 2013
Windows 8 LOB deployment ‘story’ 29 January 2013
Perspectives on WinRT app licensing 03 February 2013
CSLA 4.5 version 4.5.11 beta available 06 February 2013
Xbox, phones, and pictures 08 February 2013
Projecting js code from a .NET business layer 14 February 2013
CSLA 4 version 4.5.12 beta released 20 February 2013
Adventures in Git-land 25 February 2013
Windows 8 WinRT licensing ideas 05 March 2013
Windows 8 with actual windows 06 March 2013
CSLA 4 version 4.5.20 release available 19 March 2013
Future of the smart client 04 April 2013
Talking about your own open source project 10 April 2013
Is Windows 8 a success? 02 May 2013
Good Windows 8 sales 06 May 2013
Eden Prairie Optimist events in 2013 23 May 2013
Thoughts on Build 2013 01 July 2013
WinRT as the new Silverlight and WPF 09 July 2013
Aortic update 11 August 2013
Thoughts on Ballmer’s Departure 27 August 2013
Anti-harrassment policy for VS Live 29 August 2013
Aortic Update 2 07 October 2013
Does .NET Have A Future? 07 October 2013
The future of the business desktop 01 December 2013
Yet another boring IaaS offering 03 December 2013
Code Mastery Boston 2013 09 December 2013
CSLA 4 version 4.5.500 released 07 January 2014
Xbox Music on WP8 is lame 17 January 2014
Lumia 1520: First thoughts 03 February 2014
Modern Apps Live LV 2014 08 February 2014
Top Win8/WinRT apps 26 February 2014
Defining disservice 02 March 2014
Bye Bye Lumia 1520 06 March 2014
CSLA .NET beta release supporting iOS 17 March 2014
Modern Apps Live! demo code 20 March 2014
“Mobile” devices 01 April 2014
Windows 8 side loading improvements 03 April 2014
Visual Studio Live Chicago 2014 07 April 2014
What is a modern app? 10 April 2014
Return of the Start menu is low priority to me 24 April 2014
Limitations of Portable Class Libraries 28 April 2014
How does Microsoft compete in the modern apps world? 14 May 2014
Windows 8.1 Store App Fix 30 May 2014
VS Live Redmond 2014 07 June 2014
Visual Studio Live! DC 2014 17 June 2014
CSLA 4 version 4.5.600 release with iOS support 18 June 2014
Xamarin.Forms has some potential 18 June 2014
Sharing Code from WinForms to iOS 01 July 2014
Third Party Dev Tools Strike Back 14 July 2014
Code and Rock and Roll 26 July 2014
Magenic is recruiting 04 August 2014
Live 360 Orlando 2014 05 August 2014
Is the CSLA .NET ViewModelBase class useful? 24 October 2014
Visual Studio Live Las Vegas 2015 08 January 2015
Windows 10 Observations 16 February 2015
Easing back into it 12 May 2015
CSLA .NET forum has moved 15 June 2015
Early thoughts on Win10 10158 30 June 2015
CSLA .NET version 4.6 just around the corner 26 July 2015
Fixing Windows 10 store issues 30 July 2015
Windows 10 store fail and/or mail-calendar frozen 06 August 2015
Should you upgrade to Windows 10? 20 August 2015
CSLA .NET version 4.6.100 release 27 August 2015
PCL, Shared Projects, and NuGet 04 September 2015
Repro steps for issue with NuGet UWP packages 16 September 2015
UWP core assembly name 21 September 2015
Speaking at Live 360! Orlando 2015 22 October 2015
Simple Service implementation with CSLA .NET 26 October 2015
Getting CSLA to .NET Core 06 November 2015
Need women to speak at conferences 13 November 2015
Surface Pro 4 dock w/ multiple monitors 02 December 2015
Visual Studio Live and Modern Apps Live LV 2016 09 December 2015
Referencing CSLA 4.6.300 from ASP.NET 5 10 December 2015
Recovering EA Origin account 13 January 2016
Humanitarian Toolbox Codeathon Twin Cities 19 January 2016
Starting the process of switching to a standard OSS license 22 January 2016
My Windows Phone vs iPhone comparison 31 January 2016
Pre-I IoT 04 February 2016
Some thoughts on current trends 09 February 2016
Which actual Windows 10 apps I use 12 February 2016
Disqus for comments 17 February 2016
HTBox Twin Cities Codeathon Feb 2016 recap 22 February 2016
Xamarin Acquisition First Thoughts 24 February 2016
HTBox and MCM codeathon number 2 18 March 2016
Hololens box opening experience 04 April 2016
iPhone frustration 08 April 2016
Windows to iPhone to Android 14 April 2016
Thoughts from a Windows 10 user 26 April 2016
ctor bug in Xamarin/mono? 20 May 2016
mono DisplayAttribute problem repro 25 May 2016
CSLA PropertyInfo control for Xamarin Forms 26 May 2016
CSLA .NET Version 4.6.400 released 01 June 2016
ASP.NET MVC edit collection of items 07 June 2016
Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2016 11 June 2016
Groove Music and the Your Groove feature 22 July 2016
.NET Core: Using existing resx resource file 25 July 2016
Mobile OS Upgrade Strategies 12 August 2016
Mobile Kids Id Kit Codeathon (and BBQ) 22 August 2016
Visual Studio Live 2016: Anaheim and DC 24 August 2016
What happens to CSLA .NET support if Rocky is hit by a bus? 01 November 2016
Test 30 November 2016
Finding women tech speakers is really difficult 02 December 2016
Pride in Software Development 13 December 2016
Coding standards horror story 22 December 2016
Dealing with Automation 27 December 2016
Coding Standards resolution (part 2) 28 December 2016
Frameworks have value 03 January 2017
Case study in unpreditability being bad 05 January 2017
Microsoft identities - argh! 08 February 2017
A Period of Stability 20 February 2017
VS 2017 and netstandard projects 30 March 2017
Blockchain is today what XML was in 1998 05 April 2017
Exactly what is blockchain? 07 April 2017
Windows 10 S 02 May 2017
Who hasn’t made a major mistake? 04 June 2017
Why I Support Diversity 28 July 2017
Sync OneDrive music to Groove on iPhone 30 August 2017
Magenic at STPCon 2017 07 September 2017
Password keepers and Windows 10 08 September 2017
CSLA .NET 20 Year Anniversary 10 October 2017
Batch processing makes a comeback 07 November 2017
HK Invoke First Impressions 29 November 2017
Rocky on Android 18 December 2017
Xamarin Forms and WebAssembly 15 March 2018
CSLA .NET version 4.7.100 release 22 March 2018
A Bright Future for the Smart Client 24 March 2018