Jackie Goldstein's Weblog
Microsoft, .NET, and other stuff...
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Upcoming Events Where I'll be Speaking
I got back this week from VSLive! Toronto, where I did 3 different presentations. They all went very well, although the session on business object data binding in VS 2005 (while a great topic) had some challenges in terms of getting the demos to work with build of VS that I had. Of course, that was pre-Beta2...
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Another Great Online Resource (SQL Server 2005)
Are you ready to experience SQL Server 2005?
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New MSDN Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center
Yes, that does say VB6 :-)
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Look Ma - I'm a Microsoft MVP
Actually, my Mom doesn't read my blog, or do anything having to do with computers. But it is true that I have been selected as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) for 2005, in the category of Visual Studio - Visual Basic.
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April Israel Visual Basic User Group Meeting
The April meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group meeting will be held on April 6, 2005:
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Deprecation in ADO.NET
On the topic of deprecation, I came across this post today from Plip:
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Changes in Sending Email in .NET 2.0
For a project we are currently developing in .NET 2.0 / Whidbey, I needed to send email via a local SMTP server. At the time, I was working with the December 2004 CTP for Visual Studio. When looking around for classes to send email, there seemed to be two different namespaces to deal with this:
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Iron Speed Designer .NET Challenge 2005
Efficens Software, the local Israeli representative of the ASP.NET framework and Code generator Iron Speed Designer, is running a contest for applications developed with that toolkit.
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Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005 and MSDN Subscriptions
This hot off the presses announcement lays out the new pricing (and upgrade) structure for the different versions of Visual Studio 2005, as well as for MSDN subscriptions.
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Version 2.0 of the Updater Application Block
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 in your VS 2003 applications today. Check it out here and download it from here.