34 posts tagged FarPoint

Of course we were skeptical at first if anyone would log in and chat with us during the single hour that we were available for an online chat with whomever logged in. That was a year ago when it started to pick up in usage.

Balticon 41 Special Guests of Honor, Michael R. Mennenga and Evo Terra talk about their past together in podcasting and the new directions they are pursuing. PROMO: Metamor City Memories of Balticon 41 Discussions about Sci-Fi cons, being panelists, being guests of honor Bald for Joe Murphy Collecting

In April of 2008, TakeNote was selected as an official training partner for FarPoint Technologies. Initially TakeNote is offering hands-on, instructor-led classes for Spread for Windows Forms 4.0 and Spread for Web Forms 3.0 here in the RTP, NC location. Future plans are to offer these classes across the U.S.

Since we last posted in April about Spread for SharePoint, we have developed a Web page with more information. See Spread for SharePoint. “Spread for SharePoint is a Windows SharePoint Server v3 (WSS) integrated spreadsheet Web Part.

Jeff Lynch has a real nice plug for our Spread for BizTalk (what he calls an Excel parser) component. Certainly it can work in Commerce Server 2007. http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch/archive/2008/05/08/commerce-server-2007-importing-excel-catalog-data.aspx As Jeff says, just ping him at jeffrey.t.lynch@[nospam]comcast.net if you need a copy of his entire BizTalk solution.

You can depend on FarPoint to keep up with latest improvements to the the Microsoft .NET Framework in their products, such as Spread for Windows Forms. In the .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft added LINQ (Language Integrated Query, pronounced “link”) to allow developers to perform data queries in their .NET language.

We are in the process of updating our Awards Showcase on our web site. We have been so busy that we have not posted the awards we won in 2007. These include the following 2007 awards from ComponentSource: FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms Top 10 Best-Selling Product Award ComponentSource, the

Howdy Folks! I just wanted to take a moment and inform you that AstroCast has a presence in Second Life. What is Second Life? I’m glad you asked! Second Life is a virtual world that you can create an avatar and interact with people. Our network of podcasts, Farpoint Media is co-sponsoring a region within this world.

That’s the Dallas/Fort Worth Connected Systems User Group, or D/FW Connected System User Group as it is called. FarPoint will be visiting this group later this month and seeing our friends from the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area.

We just wanted to share some photos of the booth at DevConnections in Orlando last week. There were quite a number of people that stopped by our booth and asked about our products. The interest in our Spread for ASP.NET product as well as our Spread for SharePoint product really was a delight for us.