Part II of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group ORM comparison happened yesterday.  It started off nice and calm but ended with a bang or two.  No there were no fight or arguments between the presenters or attendees but mother nature let loose on the Phoenix area last night.  Especially...

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://vslive.com/2008/newyork/ If you make it over...

Very Quick Note: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released finally (in combination with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 of course). To sum up for some people, note that VS 2008 SP1 includes ADO.NET Entity framework (and its designer) as well as ADO.NET Data Services, but NOT ASP.NEt MVC framework...

By Nannette Thacker In the final installment of this tutorial, we look at importing the uploaded Excel spreadsheet into the application database tables using the DAL. The article series hosted on 4guysfromrolla.com continues with Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters:...

With just the schema alone, the ASP.NET membership (role, profile, etc.) database does not have enough information to operate correctly. There are a few records needed or else the ASP.NET membership and other providers will throw an error complaining that it may be an invalid version. This is good, of...

The July July and August 2008 meetings of Southeast Valley .Net Users Group ( SEVDNUG ) will host a comparison of different Object Relational Mapper / Data Access Layer technologies. Requirements have been to established so that there is a common database and user interface to compare these technologies...

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 presentation. We will start with an overview of what...

In January 2007 I complained about the support for renaming fields in VS Tools for DB Professionals. It looks they have a good solution for it in their latest CTP (look in the Refactoring section). I did not find time to install VS2008 SP1 beta in a VM to then be able to install the VSTS 2008 Database...

Here are the highlights from the TechEd 2008 Keynote (as seen from afar by watching the TechEd 2008 Keynote and reading posts and press): Via Microsoft PressPass , here are the key announcements (with my notes): Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 will be available this August Silverlight 2 beta 2 will be 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 for Microsoft Corp. on SQL Server 2008 and Visual...