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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 Rob has some outdated information
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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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Friday, August 26, 2005 2:36 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter
On September 8th I'll be speaking at the .NET User Group here in Toronto. I'll be talking about how developers can take advantage of Sql Server 2005's ability to host managed code. Full abstract and registration details are here.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:12 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, WCF, Home, Newsletter, VSTS
I'm going to be heading out in a couple of weeks to DevTeach in Montreal. In addition to my regular session talk on Datasets, I'll also be participating in an architecture panel discussion as part of Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio Montréal, Software Architecture
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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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SQL Server 2005 “Yukon” is in beta, but if you'd rather not go through the hassle of installing it (and trying to uninstall it) you can experience it through the magic of online virtual labs. http://msdn.demoservers.com/login.aspx?group=sql2005
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:09 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter
DevTeach is a really nice conference. I went to it for the first time last year and it's a very intimate and interactive conference. While smaller than your TechEd's and PDC's, it manages to attract a very good set of speakers....Kevin McNeish, Brian
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Monday, February 28, 2005 11:07 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
VS Live is coming to Toronto again - April 13-16th. This year, the event will be right downtown on the lake at the Harbour Westin Castle hotel. Use Priority Code “BARRY” for a 10% discount when you register. You'll also save an additional $250 if you
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:04 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Services, Home, Newsletter
Ok, this is very cool - not often somebody gives you something for free. Is your company upgrading to Office 2003 between June & July of this year? Could you envision a customized solution built on top of Office - perhaps using Visual Studio Tools
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Testing, Home, Newsletter
We have a very exciting internship project coming up this summer for a university student, perhaps co-op - but not mandatory. This high-profile project is to develop a software system to monitor the various systems in a “green” home that is
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