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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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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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This past 3 days I've spent traveling to and from Redmond to visit with a few of the developer tools teams as part of an Software Design Review (SDR). These are a kind of focus group, with the intention of getting qualitative information from folks about
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Friday, August 27, 2004 3:14 PM
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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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Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:34 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Events, TechEd
Highlights in this exchange of newsgroup posts... Paging is cut Server cursors cut (SqlResultSet class) Async Open is cut, but not excute SqlDataTable class cut (Good - that was a bad design pattern to propogate) Command sets are cut, but you can still
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:14 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Vista, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Security, Testing
Over the past few months, when I question how something works in the .NET Framework (or when somebody asks me).....I have been creating NUnit tests to verify the behaviour of some class and/or methods in the .NET Framework. Initially it is just to observe
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Why is SqlDbType in the System.Data namespace when all the other provider specific types are in their own specific provider namespace? There is definitely some ugliness going on here. I'm not sure it's entirely a mistake. As an aside, why is it SqlDbType
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Friday, October 24, 2003 1:07 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, Services, Events, WCF
...here we come. Myself and fellow ObjectSharpies DennisLee and DaveLloyd are heading out Saturday morning for the PDC in L.A. Stay tuned for our perspectives on Whidbey (essentially . NET 2.0 ), Yukon ( SQL Server 2004 ?), and Longhorn (Windows 2005?).
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