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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:55 PM

Great Tool for Learning LINQ to Entities

As part of my research and preparations for my presentation on the new Entity Framework at the VSLive New York conference, I came across a great tool (thanks to Kim ) for learning and playing with LINQ to Entities queries. The application (C# source code...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 10:13 PM

Observations from VSLive! San Francisco 2008

I recently (OK, 10 days ago) returned from my annual pilgrimage to San Francisco, to speak at the main VSLive conference. My presentations this year are described here . I'd like to share with you two observations / surprises from this conference: (1...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 3:53 PM

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...
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Friday, February 02, 2007 12:36 AM

Microsoft Developer Academy (Israel) - A great event !

Yesterday's major developer event for Microsoft developers, Microsoft Developer Academy , was a great success. Over 2,000 developers attended the event, which offered a choice of 25 different breakout sessions, plus another 6 panel discussions. I...
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Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:55 PM

Sessions I'll be Giving at VSLive in Boston

VSLive! is coming to Boston this week and I'm scheduled to give 2 presentations: (1) SQL Server 2005 Everywhere (2) .NET Worst Practices - What's Wrong With This Code ?! According to an email I received a few weeks ago, the latter session is rated one...
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 5:42 PM

ADO.NET v3 CTP now available !

If you want to get your hands on the first bits of ADO.NET 3.0, you can download the CTP from here . Pablo Castro announced it over here - here is what you get to play with: The ADO.NET Entity Framework, which includes: The Entity Data Model (EDM), which...
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Sunday, July 09, 2006 10:34 PM

ADO.NET Best Practices Podcast - One of the best on Dr. Dobbs

I recently received the following email message regarding a Podcast interview I did about 6 months ago: Hi Jackie, Hope all is well! We did an interview with you on VB6 to VB.NET migration back in the early part of this year for .NET Cast. I wanted to...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:07 AM

ReportViewer: A great control - but beware...

One of the coolest controls in VS 2005 is the ReportViewer control. It is a powerful control for previewing, printing, and exporting (XLS or PDF) reports based on data in your database. However, t his control is something of weird animal - it is not part...
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Monday, February 06, 2006 9:52 AM

More Interview Segments on Upgrading to VB.NET and ADO.NET

In addition to the first segment that I mentioned was posted last month , there are now a total of 4 segments of that interview available here for your listening pleasure - let me know what you think!
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Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:09 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Windows Forms DataBinding FAQ

The new, and vastly improved, Windows Forms data binding support in VS 2005 is one of my favorite features. There is a good document, Visual Studio 2005 Windows Forms DataBinding FAQ , to answer some of the most common questions regarding the details...
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