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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...

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...

Off to TechEd EMEA in Barcelona

I'm completing final preparations for my trip to Barcelona next week for the annual Microsoft TechEd (EMEA) event. I'll be there from Sunday through Thursday and am giving the following presentation Mashups and Windows Live - Not Just for Browsers (WIN203...

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...

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...

SQL Server Compact Edition is Back!

No new software, but a new/old name... The recently renamed SQL Server Everywhere (the successor to SQL Mobile and SQL CE) has been renamed back SQL Server Compact Edition - see the details here . I have spent alot of time over the past few months speaking...
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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...

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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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...

Amazing set of tutorials on Working With Data in ASP.NET 2.0

You really must check out this new set of 15 (with even more to come soon) detailed and easy to understand tutorials on working with data in ASP.NET. It covers many of the common, and often not obvious, tasks that you'd want to accomplish with data in...
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