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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, April 01, 2005 1:41 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, WinForms, WebForms, Home, MSF
I'm just heading back home from Vancouver tonight on a red eye. When I get home, I have time for a load of laundry or two and then I'm flying to Mexico. Not just for some R&R, but I've also arranged to speak at the Mayan Riviera .NET User Group. (MR.
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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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Overview The IntelliSense in the PDC bits while editing XAML had problems inside Style elements as well as when completing tags and reformatting. This patch addresses those issues to improve the developer experience. System Requirements PDC '03 release
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On December 9th , myself and Dave Lloyd will present an in depth sneak peak of the next release of .NET: Visual Studio .NET 2.0 (code-named "Whidbey"). This should be a really fun presentation but seating is pretty limited. Adam Gallant from Microsoft
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Microsoft is needs a holistic view of their platforms and development tools. I didn't see that this week, I doubt any of us will. What I did see was 7 data access techniques in various stages of ready now, coming soon, and coming much later: Use a DataAdapter
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