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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:01 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Home, Newsletter
Community Thoughts Werner Moise has been “reflecting” on LINQ and the more time he spends, the more he's realizing “how well thought out and practical it is”. He has some excellent points. Dinesh wants to know how you feel about
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Bruce Johnson is hosting our next Architect's Breakfast in Toronto this Thursday. In case you haven't been to one in the past, here's a few points of interest. This is more of an interactive event. Round tables of 5-8 have breakout sessions to discuss
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This article on gotdotnet explains in 67 pages of detail how you can integrate VSTS with Project Server for two way automatic synchronization of work items. Nice.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:08 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Events, Home
On XLinq A lot of the questions about XLinq are around how it will sit beside/replace XQuery (and other XML query/transform techniques). Back when I first started doing some .NET 2.0 training in February, I was a bit miffed that XQuery had not made it
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You can download session content posted here . Check daily - they post new stuff as it is delivered.
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This is often a common push back or at least concern with big shops whom are considering adopting Team Foundation. How do we integrate our Java Developers (or non .NET Developers) into the Zen of Team System? Enter TeamPrise . This looks like a serious
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If you're not using BizTalk today in your applications, probably the #1 reason is that you can't afford it. “It's overkill” is probably a big reason as well, but I consider that a variation. Seriously, how many applications do you write that
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:51 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Events, Home, Newsletter
I have to say that the LINQ syntax in VB hits much closer to the mark than C#. More on that later. What is everybody else saying out there about LINQ? Erik Meijer says that VB has become his “programming language of choice.“ Sam Gentile “LINQ
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As you may have heard, the LINQ(Language Integrated Query) Project was announced publicly today at PDC. There will be a lot more information coming throughout the week, but here's the resources available as of today. Overview LINQ Project Overview [ MSWord,
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:00 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Events, WCF, Home, Newsletter
Bill Gates gave a pretty typical high level keynote to introduce the keynote this morning. He talked about the past, how far we've come, and how now is the most exciting time, and that we are in most exciting industry. Not that I don't disagree, but I
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The MicrosoftMax application that was demoed today at PDC is now available for download here . The application allows you to share and publish photo slide shows using an Indigo Peer to Peer channel. The beautiful presentation layer is provided by Avalon
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The community preview site for ATLAS is now available as announced by Scott Guthrie at today's keynote during the PDC Conference in LA. Now availalable is: Documentation Hands-On-Lab Quickstart Tutorials Project add-in for Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 (with
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Bill Simser is a Sharepoint MVP in Calgary Alberta. I just stumbled on his blog today while checking out things at PDCBloggers . He's down at PDC and is blogging a lot about what's going on. My fellow Canadian RD's Kate Gregory , Derek Hatchard , Richard
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For the first time in a few years, I won't be at PDC this year. Dave Lloyd however is our man on the street with play by play coverage. He's already blogging about registration and power outages in LA . Should be a busy blogging week.
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http://www.microsoft.com/canada/launch2005/ Check out the dates for the Canadian Launch Events for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to learn more about when registration opens. I can almost guarantee that
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The VS Team Suite Release Candidate is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I'm downloading now - I'm assuming you'll also need the Sql Server 2005 September CTP which was also released today. Happy downloading.
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