Jackie Goldstein's Weblog

In my article on new DataSet features in ADO.NET 2.0, I highlight the performance gain obtained when using the new binary remoting format. However, as  Beth Massi points out, there is some code (written by her) up on GetDotNet that you can use to do this today with ADO.NET 1.1.

Mike Gunderloy has an interesting and thought provoking list of things that he carries around on his disk on key.  

I just have to share this afternoon's experience.  I will omit the company's name to protect the guilty (maybe I shouldn't ?)

Last week I gave a presentation on .NET for Microsoft at a seminar for representatives from various groups within the Israel Air Force.   It was one of those moments, and over the courseof the year there are alot of these moments, where I am reminded just how skewed my perspective on Microsoft techologies is.  I have been using and teaching about .NET for well over 4 years now, but that is definitely not the norm within the industry at large.  Despite the large percentage of .NET adoption, I need to remind myself every so often that things that I have been talking about for years, is still brand new to alot of developers out there.

Just a small, personal anecdote on the power of blogging and Channel 9.

I normally only post the announcements of my Israel VB User Group in my blog, because posting the announcements of all of the monthly Microsoft developer and IT user groups would almost become a full time job! The Microsoft User Group community in Israel has really come a long, long way since I convinced them of my crazy idea to start a VB User group over 7 years ago...For the full list and details of the various User Groups, check here.

It looks like it is back to LA for this this year's PDC.  You can get the details and sign up for details here.