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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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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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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:32 PM

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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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 2:14 AM

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...
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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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Friday, January 13, 2006 12:27 AM

First parts of .NET Cast interview now online

Back in December, I had a great time chatting with Mark Baker on as they interviewed my for a series on Upgrading to VB.NET that they were doing for their .DevNet .NET podcast series. The interview is posted in approximately 15-minute chunks and the first...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:14 PM

New Article on SQL Query Basics

If you are new to writing SQL queries and what to get an understanding of the fundamentals, then check out my new MSDN article Writing SQL Queries: Let's Start with the Basics
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