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I'll be speaking at the Chicago .NET Users Group in Downers Grove on March 15th Stay tuned for details.... http://www.cnug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=31
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This question came up in our VSTS for Developers Training Course in Toronto this week. One of my students wanted to know how to undo or rollback a checkin, something you could do in Visual Source Safe. Unfortunately this feature was cut for V1 of Team
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I'm in British Columbia for a few days for the Vancouver stop of the Canadian Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. They are expecting a great turnout - should be one of the largest MS events in town in recent memory. Last night we had a User Group
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One of the questions we got during the Q&A of the Ottawa VS Launch yesterday was around problems in migrating ASP.NET applications from 2002/2003 to 2005. The Web Platform Team has put together a nice step-by-step guide that covers some best practices
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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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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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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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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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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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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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