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Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 Released

While the release of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is getting all of the attention this week, version 2.0 of the Microsoft Sync Framework was also released this week and can be downloaded from here .

Renaissance Case Studies Now Available

A few weeks ago, The Renaissance Computer Systems web site was updated with a set of case studies describing our roles in several recent projects.  Check out Renaissance Case Studies and let me know if you have any comments.

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide

The SQL Server 2008 team has released a document (at 490 pages, we should probably call it a book!)  that covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to SQL Server 2008.  It can be downloaded...

Heading Off to VSLive Dallas

Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there. Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas . VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 This session...

ADO.NET Entity Framework Essential Resources

In order to make it easier for developers to familiarize themselves with the Entity Framework, we have put together a list of some of the available resources that we found to be most useful in getting up to speed with the new tools and technologies. You...

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...

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...

July 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

SQL Server 2008 is almost here – the first release candidate was just released – do you know what it offers for application developers? Dubi Lebel, from Microsoft Israel, will fill us in on the more important benefits for developers, in this 2-session...

Renaissance May 2008 Newsletter now available

The May 2008 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsMay08.pdf This newsletter discusses some of the new projects we've been working on, including a White Paper we did...

Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

My article on this topic just went live on MSDN at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc440724.aspx Since both VS 2005 and VS 2008 were released before SQL Server 2008, most of the designers and tools don't work with SQL 2008. To address this, MS...
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