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content/Blog/101-vb-net-2003-videos-released-onto-msdn.md

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ date: 2004-05-18T09:29:00+00:00
 title: 101 VB.NET 2003 Videos Released onto MSDN
 type: posts
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-Recently we launched [a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies), releasing them only a few at a time... but now we've finished that process and all 101 of the videos are available on the site.
+Recently we launched [a series of videos about VB.NET onto the Visual Basic Developer Center](https://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/atthemovies), releasing them only a few at a time... but now we've finished that process and all 101 of the videos are available on the site.
 
-**Just a little note:** If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the [WMP9 codecs](http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs/vcm.aspx) (or [WMP9 itself](http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx), although that is not a requirement) or following the steps in [this KB article](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306699&Product=wmp).
+**Just a little note:** If you experience problems watching these videos, you may wish to try installing the [WMP9 codecs](https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs/vcm.aspx) (or [WMP9 itself](https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx), although that is not a requirement) or following the steps in [this KB article](https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306699&Product=wmp).
 
 **Oh, and for those of you who have asked: Yes, we will make them downloadable at some point, but they aren't ready in that format yet. The second most common question has been for a CD/DVD of these files... not sure on that one, I think we will, but I don't have any ETA...**

content/Blog/12-free-sample-training-modules-about-net.md

@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ type: posts
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 Free sample modules available from the following training courses...
 
-  * [Programming with C#](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2124Cfinal.asp)
-  * [Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2310Bfinal.asp)
-  * [Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual C# .NET)](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2349Bfinal.asp)
-  * [Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2373Bfinal.asp)
-  * [Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2389Bfinal.asp)
-  * [Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual Basic .NET)](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2415Bfinal.asp)
-  * [Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft ASP.NET](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2524Bfinal.asp)
-  * [Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual C# .NET)](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2555Afinal.asp)
-  * [Training integrated into the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Help system: hands-on labs, sample code, documentation, and demonstrations](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8fb566e0-3e92-40e8-b5d4-091d05ab8829&DisplayLang=en)
-    [Sample Modules: Developing Mobile Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2556Afinal.asp)
-  * [Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual Basic .NET)](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2565Afinal.asp)
-  * [Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework](http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2663Afinal.asp)
+  * [Programming with C#](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2124Cfinal.asp)
+  * [Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2310Bfinal.asp)
+  * [Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual C# .NET)](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2349Bfinal.asp)
+  * [Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2373Bfinal.asp)
+  * [Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2389Bfinal.asp)
+  * [Programming with the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft Visual Basic .NET)](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2415Bfinal.asp)
+  * [Developing XML Web Services Using Microsoft ASP.NET](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2524Bfinal.asp)
+  * [Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual C# .NET)](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2555Afinal.asp)
+  * [Training integrated into the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Help system: hands-on labs, sample code, documentation, and demonstrations](https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8fb566e0-3e92-40e8-b5d4-091d05ab8829&DisplayLang=en)
+    [Sample Modules: Developing Mobile Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2556Afinal.asp)
+  * [Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual Basic .NET)](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2565Afinal.asp)
+  * [Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework](https://www.microsoft.com/traincert/syllabi/2663Afinal.asp)

content/Blog/14-part-soup-to-nuts-webcasts-on-windows-forms.md

@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ tags:
  - Development
  - .NET
 ---
-I can't find any other landing page for this, so check out [the blog entry from Georgeo Pulikkathara](http://weblogs.asp.net/msdnwebcasts/archive/2004/09/07/226144.aspx) for all the details...
+I can't find any other landing page for this, so check out [the blog entry from Georgeo Pulikkathara](https://weblogs.asp.net/msdnwebcasts/archive/2004/09/07/226144.aspx) for all the details...
 
-> **[Soup to Nuts – A Webcast Series for Windows Forms Development](http://weblogs.asp.net/msdnwebcasts/archive/2004/09/07/226144.aspx)**
+> **[Soup to Nuts – A Webcast Series for Windows Forms Development](https://weblogs.asp.net/msdnwebcasts/archive/2004/09/07/226144.aspx)**
 >
 > Tune in and learn how to build Windows Forms applications and smart clients in .NET. We’ll take you through all the steps to building an application, from start to finish, as we cover object oriented concepts and delve deep into .NET. During this series of webcasts, you will learn how to create rich user interfaces and access data, and see industry-proven ways to get Windows Forms applications to market quickly. And after viewing the webcasts, work hands-on in the MSDN Virtual Lab.
 
-oh... and you can be entered to [win an XBox](http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/officialrules_net.mspx), just by attending... as if that would make a difference....
+oh... and you can be entered to [win an XBox](https://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/officialrules_net.mspx), just by attending... as if that would make a difference....

content/Blog/30-more-hours-of-oblivion-coming-wow.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
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 I'm far from having used up all the gameplay in the initial release of Oblivion, and I haven't even gotten into the expansions, and now they've announced an additional expansion with a ton more gameplay that I can jump into on the 360... amazing.
 
-> [Even More Oblivion on the Shivering Isles](http://news.digitaltrends.com/article12115.html)
+> [Even More Oblivion on the Shivering Isles](https://news.digitaltrends.com/article12115.html)
 > Thursday, January 18 @ 11:10:00 PST
 >
 > Bethesda Softworks has announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, an official Oblivion expansion for Windows and the Xbox 360.

content/Blog/5-minutes-of-fun-with-mike-and-jerry-from-penny-arcade.md

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ date: 2006-08-23T08:38:00+00:00
 title: 5 minutes of fun with Mike and Jerry from Penny Arcade
 type: posts
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-[![On10.net interview with Penny Arcade](http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/0/ac03b515-a6db-4712-9fcb-cd41b3d7fd0e/PennyArcade_small_on10.jpg)](http://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/5132/)
+[![On10.net interview with Penny Arcade](https://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/0/ac03b515-a6db-4712-9fcb-cd41b3d7fd0e/PennyArcade_small_on10.jpg)](https://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/5132/)
 
-With [PAX](http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com) only days away, we've posted [an interview with the Penny Arcade](http://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/5132/) guys on 10. I love this video, but the 5 minutes of footage doesn't really do justice to the 45 minutes it took to get even that level of serious commentary out of Jerry 🙂
+With [PAX](https://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com) only days away, we've posted [an interview with the Penny Arcade](https://www.on10.net/Blogs/TheShow/5132/) guys on 10. I love this video, but the 5 minutes of footage doesn't really do justice to the 45 minutes it took to get even that level of serious commentary out of Jerry 🙂

content/Blog/8-part-interview-with-anders-hejlsberg.md

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ date: 2004-02-07T03:15:00+00:00
 title: 8-Part Interview with Anders Hejlsberg
 type: posts
 ---
-On July 30, 2003, Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java, and Bill Venners, editor-in-chief of Artima.com, met with **Anders Hejlsberg** in his office at Microsoft. Check out the entire eight-part interview [here](http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/homepageheadlines/hejlsberg/default.aspx), or follow the links below to find each individual section.
+On July 30, 2003, Bruce Eckel, author of Thinking in C++ and Thinking in Java, and Bill Venners, editor-in-chief of Artima.com, met with **Anders Hejlsberg** in his office at Microsoft. Check out the entire eight-part interview [here](https://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/homepageheadlines/hejlsberg/default.aspx), or follow the links below to find each individual section.

content/Blog/a-blog-what-was-i-thinking.md

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ date: 2003-02-26T10:34:00
 title: A Blog, what was I thinking?
 type: posts
 ---
-I think I have to blame [Kent Sharkey](http://www.googlism.com/?ism=Kent+Sharkey+&type=1) for this; he put up his [blog](http://www.f1group.com/ksharkey/blog.aspx) and it has been nagging at my mind for days now... "I should have a blog", "hey I think I have something to say"... but I couldn't decide on the implementation details... should I build my own blog tool, use a site like [http://blogger.com](http://blogger.com), or [radio.userland](http://radio.userland.com/)?
+I think I have to blame [Kent Sharkey](https://www.googlism.com/?ism=Kent+Sharkey+&type=1) for this; he put up his [blog](https://www.f1group.com/ksharkey/blog.aspx) and it has been nagging at my mind for days now... "I should have a blog", "hey I think I have something to say"... but I couldn't decide on the implementation details... should I build my own blog tool, use a site like [http://blogger.com](https://blogger.com), or [radio.userland](https://radio.userland.com/)?
 
-Finally I found [http://dotnetweblogs.com](http://dotnetweblogs.com/) and I realized I was set... lots of .NET chatter, ASP.NET code, and a cool URL. So here I am...
+Finally I found [http://dotnetweblogs.com](https://dotnetweblogs.com/) and I realized I was set... lots of .NET chatter, ASP.NET code, and a cool URL. So here I am...

content/Blog/a-bug-in-my-rss-generator-but-is-it-really-invalid.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tags:
  - Microsoft
 type: posts
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-The RSS generator for MSDN, creator of [this feed](http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml), and many more ... has a small problem. Way upstream, when various people inside the company enter information about an upcoming headline, they have the ability to specify a URL to a download. The intent was for this to be a URL to an actual downloadable file, so when I generate an RSS item from that headline entry, I take that URL and turn it into an enclosure entry in the RSS file.
+The RSS generator for MSDN, creator of [this feed](https://msdn.microsoft.com/rss.xml), and many more ... has a small problem. Way upstream, when various people inside the company enter information about an upcoming headline, they have the ability to specify a URL to a download. The intent was for this to be a URL to an actual downloadable file, so when I generate an RSS item from that headline entry, I take that URL and turn it into an enclosure entry in the RSS file.
 
 ```xml
     <item>
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ The RSS generator for MSDN, creator of [this feed](http://msdn.microsoft.com/rss
 
 This generally works fine, I make a HEAD request with that URL which gives me back the MIME type and the Content Length, both of which are needed for the enclosure element in the RSS item. Sometimes though, people put in a URL to the download's landing page, not the download itself. There are good reasons for this, as the download page often contains useful information and/or multiple localized versions of the download, but it was not what I expected. In this case, I put the enclosure in with the MIME type I get back from that URL, which ends up being 'text/html' and with a byte size that reflects the size of the landing page.
 
-This wasn't really what I wanted to happen, so I need to figure out a solution at my end, but what I noticed today and what has me a little puzzled is that at least two different validators ([here](http://rss.scripting.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Frss.xml) and [here](http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Frss.xml)) report these types of entries as validation errors. The error they specify is that text/html is not a valid MIME type.... but, according to [the RFC(s)](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt) (see 4.1.2 of [this RFC](http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt)) and other sources, it most certainly **is** a valid type. So, is there a hidden rule in RSS that enclosures have to fall within some special subset of MIME types, or are both of these validators broken? Sure, in this case it wasn't really what I wanted, but what if I really did have a text/html document for you to download?
+This wasn't really what I wanted to happen, so I need to figure out a solution at my end, but what I noticed today and what has me a little puzzled is that at least two different validators ([here](https://rss.scripting.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Frss.xml) and [here](https://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Frss.xml)) report these types of entries as validation errors. The error they specify is that text/html is not a valid MIME type.... but, according to [the RFC(s)](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt) (see 4.1.2 of [this RFC](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt)) and other sources, it most certainly **is** a valid type. So, is there a hidden rule in RSS that enclosures have to fall within some special subset of MIME types, or are both of these validators broken? Sure, in this case it wasn't really what I wanted, but what if I really did have a text/html document for you to download?

content/Blog/a-chapter-from-my-kickstart-vb-net-book-is-up-on-code-project.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Hmm... I had no idea it was going up, but there it is...
 
 > [**Click to read Chapter 3: Building Windows Applications
 
->**](http://www.codeproject.com/books/vbdotnetkickstart.asp)
+>**](https://www.codeproject.com/books/vbdotnetkickstart.asp)
 >
 >   * The Way Things Were
 >   * The Windows Forms Model

content/Blog/a-couple-more-team-members-post-details-about-our-new-project.md

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ date: 2006-03-08T08:03:00+00:00
 title: A couple more team members post details about our new project...
 type: posts
 ---
-Adam Kinney, another member of our three-person dev team, [posts our favorite comments](http://www.adamkinney.com/note.aspx?id=112) about [the preview site ](http://on10.net) so far. Scoble, who really is on the same team as me... despite the fact that I've hardly ever seen him ... also [discusses what we have been up to](http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/07/what-my-coworkers-have-been-doing/#respond).
+Adam Kinney, another member of our three-person dev team, [posts our favorite comments](https://www.adamkinney.com/note.aspx?id=112) about [the preview site ](https://on10.net) so far. Scoble, who really is on the same team as me... despite the fact that I've hardly ever seen him ... also [discusses what we have been up to](https://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/07/what-my-coworkers-have-been-doing/#respond).