We need to wrap up the evaluations so we can select a few winners and let the speakers see their feedback.

Evaluations are being done through CodeCampEvals.com.  I'd like to thank David Silverlight for the resource and dealing with me (it can be a chore). 

David runs Community Credit, they give stupid prizes to smart people.  Basically you register at the site and log activities you've done throughout the month (went to a UG meeting, went to code camp, spoke at something, blogged about something, etc).  Every activity has a point value (attending a CodeCamp is worth 5,000 points).  At the end of the month they tally up the top point earners and give away prizes, like this Projector Keyboard.

Back to the topic at hand, NoVa CodeCamp 2007.02 evaluations.  Header over to CodeCampEvals.com and select NoVa CodeCamp 2007.02.  You have a list of questions that we'd like feedback on for CodeCamp in general and for each of the sessions you attended.  Your feedback is very important to the speakers, it helps them adjust for their next presentation.

So why would you want to do this?  Beyond your altruistic nature, you mean?  Because we're giving away prizes to two randomly selected feed-backers(?)...

1. Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce by Brian Noyes.
2. livelessons: Developing applications with WWF by Brian Noyes.

You have through the weekend to finish the evaluations as I'm going to close them down Monday (12/5) morning and select the winners.

This CodeCamp seemed plagued with bad luck but, despite it all, I think it went very well.  We have three speakers drop out, one on the morning of the event, and still managed to fill all the sessions.  To make matters worse we got an email COB Friday asking about Pizza and where to order it from, so a frantic flurry of calls through Saturday morning and we still have no idea.



I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone for coming out, it's great to meet some new folks in the community.



For some specific thank yous:

• "The Team": Scott Locke, Brian Noyes, Vishwas Lele and Jason Fabritz.
• Jason Fabritz (and his wife for helping out with a backup pizza plan) and all the volunteers, I think the event ran very smooth and that's a testament to your effort.
• Andrew Duthie for, well, being Andrew
• All our sponsors, specifically Microsoft (provided space and lunch) and AIS (provided breakfast).

EVALUATIONS: We need your help to make the next CodeCamp better.  Head over to http://codecampevals.com/ and fill out the evaluation for NoVa CodeCamp 2007.02.  We'll leave it open for a week or so and then close it to raffle off the Smart Client book and WPF Live Lessons DVD.



VS2008 Install Fest: It's scheduled for December 12, 2007 at 7:00pm at the Microsoft facilities in Reston.  The link to register isn't active yet, when it is I'll let everyone know.



SLIDES: I'm slowly, okay I haven't started yet, getting slide materials online.  They'll be available after the holidays, everyone I have that is.  If I don't have something for a session you attended shoot me an email and I'll pester the speaker for you.  Better yet, you pester the speakers and we'll get their materials online.



Mystery Speaker: We had a last minute change to the sessions because one of our speakers pinched a nerve in his back.  Frank Miller stepped up and did Sharepoint Workflows.  I don't have Frank's email address, if you know it shoot me an email or have Frank contact me.  He'll need his email to see his evaluations.

Downloaded my copy this morning; it came in at just under 4GB in just over one hour and twenty minutes.

We're just 2 days away from NoVa Code Camp 2007.02.  Hopefully the four day work week (for some) didn't take its toll on you and we'll see you all bright and early Saturday morning.



Some quick reminders:

• Registration is closed.  This means we hit the 200 mark for registrants.  Registration is a courtesy to me telling me you'd like to come, we're not checking tickets at the door.  If you haven't registered but still want to attend, drop in, we haven't had to turn anyone away, yet.
• We're doing an "Ask the Experts" panel discussion over lunch, so come armed with loads of questions.
  
  
• Directions.
• Schedule.
• Sessions.

We're making changes to the sessions, we've had two speakers cancel because of family emergencies.



Hope to see you all Saturday.

On minute, you think you have a perfectly normal VS 2005 Web Application project.  The next it's a website.  What's going on?

I've just been through it so I'll, hopefully, spare you some pain.  Remember when I was moving projects around to deal with hard coded paths in VS 2005 solution files with VB.NET?  I had moved around the *.vbproj.webinfo file too.  Apparently that one little file is all that holds together the fragile world of web application projects.  Move it and they revert back to their more primal version; the website.  It looks like that's the case with *.csproj.webinfo though I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing that first hand.

It's a tiny little file with the location of your Web Application in it, that's it.  It shouldn't be in source control, though keeping all development machines looking the same does help, so I'll deal with that. 

Can anyone tell me what's so special about that one file?