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April 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG)

Note the special date of April’s meeting and the special registration requirements. This month’s meeting will be a joint meeting for IVBUG, IVCUG, and .NET Architects User Groups, so that we can all take advantage of a special guest speaker – Matthew...

Check out The Region

Although it has been around since this past TechEd US, The Region has now moved to ists permanent home at http://www.theregion.com/ The Region is basically the public global center for the 140 Microsoft Regional Directors around the world. It is a single...

July Meeting of IVBUG (Israel Visual Basic User Group)

The July meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug : July 4, 2007 Location : Microsoft Israel 2 Hapnina St , Ra'anana (09) 7625-100 Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the new building across from Amdocs. Turn right at the...

Speaking at Seattle .NET Developers Association

I am happy to be back in Redmond and speaking again at next week's meeting of the Seattle .NET Developers Association. I'll be doing a presentation " Designing Data Access Components and Passing the Data Through the Tiers". I have given variations of...

Shorter Article on preparing your VB6 App for .NET

For those of you who may not have the time or inclination to go through all 700 pages of the guide I mentioned in my last post , you want to start with this short article: Preparing Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications for the Upgrade to Visual Basic 2005

PDC Presentations available for Download

If you couldn't make it to the PDC (or even if you did) you can download the session slides from here . Don't worry if you seem to be unrecognized - just keep going....

DevSource Interview - VB. Data Access, Patterns & Practices, and More!

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics...

Ron Jacobs and his Magical Mixing Machine

After I finished moaning yesterday about my disappointment in the new Enterprise Library , I was fortunate to bump into Ron Jacobs (I am down in San Francisco to speak at VSLive). I used the opportunity to express not only my displeasure, but my concern...

A Disappointment in the Enterprise Library

Last week, I posted about the availability of the new set of application blocks in the form of the Enterprise Library . While I am still very excited about these blocks, and am already working to incorporate them in 2 current projects, there was one major...

ISVs, Access, and VS 2005

Speaking of ISVs and VS 2005 ... One of my current areas of expertise and interest in migrating VB6 developers and projects to .NET. Over the past 2 years I have had the opportunity to have many formal and informal discussions and consulting engagements...
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