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New and Improved VB Community Site on MSDN
The VB Community area of the MSDN web site is undergoing some major changes. Although this area has been around for a while and contained good content, it now has a new owner - Robert Green. Robert is a Program Manager on the VB Team (and an all-round great guy :-) ) and is responsible for VB community. Expect to see this area evolve and grow over the coming months.
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Thoughts on VB.NET Migration/Adoption
A while back, an MS Product Manager asked me for my thoughts on the current state of VB.NET migrations and adoption. I thought I would share my thoughts here and see if others think my thoughts are brilliantly insightfull, stupid, or just plain useless...Please let me know what you think !
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Blog listed on MSDN Data Access Dev Center
I just noticed that my blog is listed on the MSDN Data Access and Storage Developer Center.
If you're not familiar with it, you should definitely check out this very usefull resource, run by Christa Carpentiere -
Did I really see that ?!!?!
So yesterday I am sitting in the lobby of a building on the Microsoft campus, since I arrived a few minutes early for a meeting. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice what I think is a familiar figure entering the building. Yes, it was Bill Gates - reminding me that this building also has the executive offices. But I've seen Bill up close before, so this is not what this posting is about.
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Presentation at Seattle .NET Developers VB User Group
On Monday night I was the guest speaker at the Seattle .NET Developers VB User Group meeting. This is a group run by Robert Green of the VB team and meets monthly on the Microsoft campus. Robert had asked me to come and speak next time I was in town - so there I was !
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Migrating from VB6 to VB.NET Content Available Online
As many of you probably know, one of my main areas of interest and expertise is migrating both applications and developers from VB6 to VB.NET. It is a topic that I have spent alot of time researching, thinking, and presenting.
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ADO.NET 2.0 Comings and goings
I thought I would share with you some of the significant changes that I have encountered in the course of some work that I am currently doing with ADO.NET 2.0.
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Speaking at Seattle .NET Developers Association
I'll be spending the last 2 weeks of August out in Redmond and I am starting it off by doing the main presentation at the Seattle .NET Developers Association VB meeting on August 23 (at the Microsoft campus). Here are the details:
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Rocky Lhotka on When to use ASMX, ES or Remoting
Two weeks ago I posted a reference to Don Box's thoughts on when to use ASMX, ES or Remoting. Although Don's post included references to several other people, including Rocky Lhotka, Rocky has just come back with another, more extensive posting, outlining his thoughts on the subject. A good read.
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The worst of all worlds
Addy Santo points out a very distrubing proposition by Luke Hutteman - that we should promote a chain letter / spam between blogs in order (ostensibly) to gain visibility for blogs. I agree with Addy, and the numerous commentors on his and Luke's blogs, that this is a bad idea. I do not need more noise and useless emails/postings in my inbox.
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Advanced Data Access with ADO.NET and Oracle
As someone who gets called upon alot for data access issues, but admits to knowing close to nothing about working with Oracle databases, I am glad to see this new article on accessing complex Oracle data types from ADO.NET 1.1
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Pat Helland - Sings Bye Bye to Mr CIO Guy
Who says technical superstars don't have any other interest or talents ?!
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Practicing Safe Computing !
Scoble has reminded me of what my friend Dan Appleman is up to these days. Dan has alot of cool stuff to credit (besides beign a really nice guy), but is probably best known to VB developers as the author of the “bible” for accessing the Win32 API from VB and for the development tools and controls developed by his company Desaware. When we last had a chance to chat, he was preparing to hit the road to promote his new book on computer security Always Use Protection: A Teen's Guide to Safe Computing. For an educational, although perhaps humbling experience, check out his quick security quiz.