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Stop Forum Spam has an API that allows you to query their spam list using a REST call. I've written a simple wrapper for their API and created a HttpModule that checks the clients IP against the spam list. Making http requests is very expensive so...

Over on endpointTV Aaron Skonnard from PluralSight has a series of screencasts introducing some of the time saving features of the WCF REST Starter Kit which is available to download from codeplex . Found via Sundar Narasiman's Blog

Mike Nash has announced that the betas for both Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 will be released to the public shortly , however if you have a TechNet or MSDN subscription then you can access them now.

Didn’t make it to the PDC in Los Angeles this year? Feeling overwhelmed by all the developments and announcements that went on that week? You’re not alone! Come join NIMTUG for rePDC, and you’ll learn all about the best of the best including Azure, Windows...

Unfortunately Jesse Liberty has had to cancel his Silverlight talk that was to be held on 23 Sep.

Indexes and indexing are huge topics and given half a chance, Kimberly and Paul could talk for days on this stuff! In this session, they've chosen their favorite indexing topics to discuss. The internals section will cover the structures and benefits...

I was pondering this idea when I read a blog: http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html A lot of people go to Google every day. We search for things, check our mail, find something on the map, and the list goes on. But are we customers...

I’m a big fan of ReSharper and lately I’ve been installing the nightly builds which has resulted in a little pain with some dodgy builds but overall I’m still allot more productive. Yesterday I noticed that Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta had been released...

Next Monday (28th April) we have Mike Azocar coming over from the States to talk about Scrum development with Visual Studio Team System. Scrum is a incremental process commonly used with Agile software development. Mike will be covering Scrum development...

I recently solved something that was really annoying me in Vista. I had just started tagging photos when i mis-spelled the tags. So I right clicked the tag in the left pain and chose to delete (and remove from all pictures). To my irritation the option...

Some initial performance glitches with VS 2008 Web Development have been resolved and a patch has been released. Read more about it on Scot Guthrie's blog post http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/08/vs-2008-web-development-hot-fix-roll...

Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 have finally been RTM. For those of you also on the W2K8 beta program you will be able to download from the connect website. Unfortunately Vista SP1 hasn't been made available to beta testers on connect yet. http...

We've had to close registration for the Community Launch this Thursday because we've hit the limit on the number of attendees. Well actually, due to a small issue with the code in our events module, we've gone over it, :S. We're having...

We've had to close registration for the Community Launch this Thursday because we've hit the limit on the number of attendees. Well actually, due to a small issue with the code in our events module, we've gone over it, :S. We're having...

Today I was testing a deployment ASP.Net site build that I added some WCF services to. All other non deployment builds passed all testing so I was stumped when testing one of the services I got the following error. Value cannot be null. Parameter name...