Jackie Goldstein's Weblog

I just noticed that my blog is listed on the MSDN Data Access and Storage Developer Center.

If you're not familiar with it, you should definitely  check out this very usefull resource, run by Christa Carpentiere

So yesterday I am sitting in the lobby of a building on the Microsoft campus, since I arrived a few minutes early for a meeting.  Out of the corner of my eye, I notice what I think is a familiar figure entering the building. Yes, it was Bill Gates - reminding me that this building also has the executive offices.  But I've seen Bill up close before, so this is not what this posting is about.

On Monday night I was the guest speaker at the Seattle .NET Developers VB User Group meeting. This is a group run by Robert Green of the VB team and meets monthly on the Microsoft campus. Robert had asked me to come and speak next time I was in town - so there I was !

As many of you probably know, one of my main areas of interest and expertise is migrating both applications and developers from VB6 to VB.NET.  It is a topic that I have spent alot of time researching, thinking, and presenting. 

I thought I would share with you some of the significant changes that I have encountered in the course of some work that I am currently doing with ADO.NET 2.0.

I'll be spending the last 2 weeks of August out in Redmond and I am starting it off by doing the main presentation at the Seattle .NET Developers Association VB meeting on August 23 (at the Microsoft campus).  Here are the details:

Two weeks ago I posted a reference to Don Box's thoughts on when to use ASMX, ES or Remoting.  Although Don's post included references to several other people, including Rocky Lhotka, Rocky has just come back with another, more extensive posting, outlining his thoughts on the subject.  A good read.

Addy Santo points out a very distrubing proposition by Luke Hutteman - that we should promote a chain letter / spam between blogs in order  (ostensibly) to gain visibility for blogs.  I agree with Addy, and the numerous commentors on his and Luke's blogs, that this is a bad idea.  I do not need more noise and useless emails/postings in my inbox.