Since 1999, I haved looked forward to attending and speaking at the annual TechEd EMEA at the beginning of July. It normally took place either in Barcelona or Amsterdam - both fun places to visit. Well, the format of the show is being changed and moved to November. The official announcement is here ...

[From Ohad ] APress offering several free ebooks on their website !!! Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop Learn advanced .NET programming techniques by getting an insider's look at a complete application! The developers who created SharpDevelop give you the inside track on application development...

For those of you who may not have the time or inclination to go through all 700 pages of the guide I mentioned in my last post , you want to start with this short article: Preparing Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications for the Upgrade to Visual Basic 2005

Do you want the opportunity to work with Brad McCabe ? Brad is a MSDN Content Strategist, responsible for the VB and Data Access Dev Centers (and probably some others). He is part of the team responsible for much of the content on MSDN. If you like writing and explaining technology the position of a...

Version 2.0 of the popular Updater Application Block has just been released. It has been enhanced and modified to work with other applications blocks in the Enterprise Library , which was released in January. The Updater block allows you to get much of the functionality of Whidney's Click-Once Deployment...

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics as well.

I am finally getting a handle on the post-VSlive backlog... This year's VSLive San Francisco was another good event. There was the usual fun (and education) meeting old friends and colleagues. There was also meeting new faces to old acquiantences - such as Sam Gentile , whose blog I always read, but...

Last week, I posted about the availability of the new set of application blocks in the form of the Enterprise Library . While I am still very excited about these blocks, and am already working to incorporate them in 2 current projects, there was one major disappointment. When I opened the code for these...

Speaking of ISVs and VS 2005 ... One of my current areas of expertise and interest in migrating VB6 developers and projects to .NET. Over the past 2 years I have had the opportunity to have many formal and informal discussions and consulting engagements on this topic, including my VB Upgrade Tour through...

I'll be doing 2 sessions at VSLive! in San Francisco this year. One on Data Access Strategies and Tactics and the other on VB.NET Worst Practices . I'm looking foward to getting together with friends and colleagues as well as checking out the content (and reactions) to the special full day on Indigo...