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Posted:
Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:20 PM
by
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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If you're thinking of heading down to Orlando June 3-6, 2008 - you can check out the list of sessions which has been recently posted here . You also have the option of rating sessions that you might be interested in. I assume this is to help plan room
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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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Korby Parnell tells of an unfortunate story about Rob Caron losing his Pocket PC in the Houston airport and then trying to have his carrier disable it since he has “everything on it”. They also lost their luggage enroute to TechEd in Orlando. How ironic
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At TechEd today, Paul Flessner announced that these products will be released the week of November 7th. Also of interest is that SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services will be available in the express edition. Report Builder will also be pushed down into
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The stakes are getting seriously high on these competitions. How about $50,000 USD? http://msdn.microsoft.com/devcompetition There are lots of prizes - not just the grand prize. There are many categories to develop in so I think there is something here
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Posted:
Sunday, May 01, 2005 8:17 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Humours Distractions, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, TechEd, Home, Newsletter
Use the following voucher number MSAU113E1020. Good until August 31, 2005.
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Posted:
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:52 PM
by
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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If you are as unfortunate as I am, you have a newer Dell laptop that isn't so good at supplying power to “USB bus powered” devices. In windows, it reports surges on the bus and shuts them down. I get this with my external GB firelite drive and my IPAQ
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Posted:
Friday, August 27, 2004 3:14 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, Services, Events, WCF, TechEd, Home, Newsletter
So this will cause a few blogs. I have just heard that.... Longhorn slated for 2006. Longhorn server 2007. Winfx, and Avalon are coming to windows xp in 2006. Indigo as well - and on Windows 2003 as well. These are all part of WinFx that is going to be
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