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Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:32 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Events, Home, Newsletter, VSTS
This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch
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Why would you want to do that you ask? Well for developers, probably the main reason would be to rewrite or wrap up some ugly lotus notes application (or all of lotus notes for that matter) and expose it in outlook. But seriously, there is a good chance
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So today our company ObjectSharp placed a bid for 5 of the individuals on the .NET Celebrity Auction. Firstly, it sucks that max bids are not shown for a charitable auction. I would encourage any winners who didn't get to their max bid, to still donate
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:52 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, TechEd, Home, Newsletter, MSF
Be a sport and click on this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499 Then make a generous bid. If you'll win, you'll get an hour (or more) of help from a .NET guru/celebrity (or possibly me). But more, you'll also be helping
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Friday, November 19, 2004 4:40 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Home, Newsletter, MSF
I just got back from Ottawa, where last night I was speaking to the Ottawa .NET community about Visual Studio Tools for Office. (more on that later). I wasn't surprised by the Grep Cup weekend inflated hotel rates, but I was surprised to find a “2.8%
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:41 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Events, Home, Newsletter
As part of the continuing MSDN User Group Tour, I'll be speaking at the Canadian Technology Triangle .NET User Group in Waterloo on Thursday October 7th (tomorrow night). There is a new location for the meeting at Agfa (formerly Mitra) in Waterloo. All
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter
I'm doing a talk at the East of GTA .NET users group tonight in Oshawa. This is the same MSDN User Group tour event sweeping across Canada. I'll be talking about some of the limitations of the Compact Framework and SqlCE. Should be fun - hope to see you
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:56 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter
Tomorrow night I'm presenting at the downtown Toronto .NET users group - topic Pocket PC development with the CE framework. I'll have a new HP 4700 device with a VGA resolution screen for folks to take a look at - courtesy of your friendly neighborhood
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Monday, July 05, 2004 3:42 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, Home
I'm co-chairing two tracks of DevCan coming up in Setp/Oct in Vancover/Toronto (exact dates to follow) - see www.devcan.com for more. I'm doing the architect track and web track. If you have ideas for content you'd like to see, or have a topic you'd like
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Monday, June 28, 2004 6:57 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Events, Home, Newsletter
Vendor-based classroom training is traditionally little more than reference material content, but has the advantage of taking you outside of your typical day (usually for a week) and forces you to sit and spend some quality time with some new technology on a grand scale. A lot of the material can be acquired through googling on the job. The problem with googling for small bits of information is that you miss the bigger picture and a full architectural understanding of how best to accomplish some
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