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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:53 PM

Getting Ready for VSlive! New York

In two weeks is the VSLive! Conference in New York City, where I'll be giving two presentations. This promises to be another great conference, and especially fun for me to be back in my home town. You can still sign up to attend - see the details at http...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:50 PM

VSLive San Francisco in Less Than 3 weeks

Yes, it is that time of year again (and I say that most happily!) to go out to San Francisco to speak at the VSLive Conference. This year I am focussing on real-world use of DataSets, both with VS 2005 and VS 2008. But don't attend just for that - there...
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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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Sunday, April 23, 2006 3:43 PM

Renaissance's SQL Express / Visual Studio Starter Kit Now Available for Download from microsoft.com

The SQL Express / Visual Studio Starter Kit that we developed for Microsoft is now available for download ! The Teacher Starter Kit is a desktop Winforms application that uses SQL Express as its data store. It is not designed as an enterprise application...
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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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