Jackie Goldstein's Weblog

Check out the ARCast recording of Ron Jacobs discussing VB and lanaguage choices with Bill McCarthy.   The whole ARCast series has lots of usefull and entertaining sessions.   You should find this one particularly enjoyable and thought-provoking - Bill is a very articulate and passionate fan of VB.

If you waited to avoid installing beta software on your production machines, you can now download the official released version of IE 7.  Enjoy !

I'll be giving two presentations at this coming week's VSLive conference in New York City.  One will be on SQL Server Everywhere and the other is on the VB My namespace.  If you are at the conference please let me know and/or come by and say hi !

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:

I recently received the following email message regarding a Podcast interview I did about 6 months ago:

Kim has posted some good comments and insights on what makes up a good working environment for software developers.

The July meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group will be held at a special location and special date this month, since we are honored to have Juval Lowy as our special guest speaker.

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 ASP.NET 2.0.  All of the tutorials are available in both C# and VB and are full of screen shots showing what needs to be done.