Jackie Goldstein's Weblog
Microsoft, .NET, and other stuff...
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8 Free eBooks from APress
[From Ohad]
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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 this session in the past, but this time I will also be incorporating some new ideas and lessons learned from a distributed architecture framework that we have been developing.
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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, this control is something of weird animal - it is not part of the .NET framework, but is an add-on control that is part of Visual Studio. This fact results in 2 main issues:
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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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ASP.NET Product Team in Israel Next Month
Yosi Taguri from MS Israel posts that the ASP.NET product team will be visiting Israel next month. There will be a public seminar on March 13th (see Yosi's post for the agenda). There will also be an opportunity for a few teams to work directly with the ASP.NET team on migration their existing 1.1 applications to 2.0. Contact Yosi (yosit@microsoft.com) if you think you have a candidate project.
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More Info on the Soon-To-Be-Released ASP.NET Project Model Update
Back in December, I mentioned (with great excitement) an effort within the ASP.NET team to return to VS 2005, the ASP.NET web project model that we knew and loved from VS 2003. Alot of progress has been made on this effort - you read all of the details in this post by Scott Guthrie himself.
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February Israel Visual Basic User Group Meeting
This month’s speaker is no stranger to IVBUG members, but the topics he is going to cover, may be relatively unknown to you. He is going to cover two different, interesting topics:
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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 2 segments are already posted on CMP Media sites including DotNetJunkies, SqlJunkies, DDJ, Byte, Software Development, etc. You can also go directly to the series home page at http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/podcasts/dotnetcast/
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SQL Server Management Studio Express
This isn't really new news (it is 2 months old) but I wanted to make sure people are aware of it.
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ASP.NET Project Model coming back to VS 2005
Good news for those of you who miss the ASP.NET project-based model, as it was in VS 2003 (and removed in VS 2005). It is making it's way back to VS 2005 and a preview version is already available. Check it out in Scott Guthrie's blog entry