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With all this heat, I almost wrote "perspiring". Why not beat the heat, and stay cool inside while watching these web casts from MS Canada targeting aspiring architects. With the predicted shortage in IT in the upcoming years, we're sure to
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:06 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, Services, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008, Entity Framework
In Part 0: Introduction of this series after asking the question "Does the Entity Framework replace the need for a Data Access Layer?", I waxed lengthy about the qualities of a good data access layer. Since that time I've received a quite a
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:20 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, SQL, C#, Services, TechEd, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008, Entity Framework
So the million dollar question is: Does the Entity Framework replace the need for a Data Access Layer? If not, what should my Data Access Layer look like if I want to take advantage of the Entity Framework? In this multi-part series, I hope to explore
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:43 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, WCF, Home, Architecture, VS2008
Are you an architect or an aspiring architect interested in learning what's new this year for the MS platform? On February 11th, 2008 come to the MS Canada Office in Mississauga and visit yours truly and some other dazzling speakers to learn more about
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:43 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Orcas, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, WCF, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008, SharePoint
Attachment(s): TSPUG Barry Gervin 20071219 SP Workflows with VS2008.pptx
Last night I gave a presentation to the Toronto SharePoint Users Group on using Visual Studio 2008 to build SharePoint Workflows. I also covered a little bit on LINQ to SharePoint and WCF/WF integration at the end. Attached are my slides. Enjoy.
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I guess by the very definition of an architect, you would have to have aspirational qualities. Mohammad Akif & and Dave Remmer, Architect Evangelists with Microsoft Canada are putting on a series of web casts just for you. Check them out.... Architecture
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Rob Howard and Frans Bouma still are. And I guess, I am now too. Let's summarize a few of the facts from these counter points: Any form of pre-compilation or cached query plan arguments are moot betweem SQL and Procs. Rob has some outdated information
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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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Friday, May 27, 2005 4:18 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Services, WCF, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
Do you consider your database as a service? It's worthwhile to review the tenents of a service oriented architecture . The first two tenents above are probably the most relevant to my question. If you do all of your data access through stored procedures,
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Sunday, September 12, 2004 3:34 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, C#, Tips, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
Yes, it's the longest title of all VS Live Orlando presentations! It's a big topic and it deserves a big name. I'm heading out Monday night to hurricane country to deliver this talk on Tuesday morning. I like this topic because when you get into it, it's
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