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Oshawa .NET: Building Mobile Applications

I'm doing a talk at the East of GTA .NET users group tonight in Oshawa. This is the same MSDN User Group tour event sweeping across Canada. I'll be talking about some of the limitations of the Compact Framework and SqlCE. Should be fun - hope to see you Read More...

GDI+ Security Vulnerability

There is a new critical security vulnerability that affects a wide range of software that can't be easily patched through Windows Update. The vulnerability lies inside of GDI+ and can allow a maliciously formed JPEG image file to create a buffer overrun Read More...

VS Live Orlando: Building "Operations-Friendly" ASP.NET Applications with Instrumentation and Logging

Yes, it's the longest title of all VS Live Orlando presentations! It's a big topic and it deserves a big name. I'm heading out Monday night to hurricane country to deliver this talk on Tuesday morning. I like this topic because when you get into it, it's Read More...

TechEd (Day 3): Hands On Lab Manuals downloads available to the public

No need to have a TechEd commnet password. You can download ALL the pdf's for the plethora of topics. Some good stuff to see how the newly announced stuff (Team System, etc.) works. Business Productivity Solutions (Office) Data Management (SQL Server) Read More...

TechEd (Day 1): Balmer's Keynote & Announcing VS 2005 Team System

It's official. I'll post more thoughts and analysis about this as time permits, but, things you should know. Microsoft now has a new Team version of Visual Studio to be delivered “Next Year“ according to Balmer. new source control - more details Read More...

NUnit 2.2 beta released

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=377077 Things I like: Assert.AreEquals support to compare arrays of the same length, type and values. You can now put a Category attribute on your fixtures AND methods....and then use that as a filter when Read More...

Building Maintainable Applications with Logging and Instrumentation

I'm doing this MSDN webcast in a few weeks 10/05/2004 1:00 PM - 10/05/2004 2:00 PM (EasternTime) In this session we'll cover the world of logging and instrumenting your application. We'll discuss the various .NET framework components as well as higher Read More...

Downtown Metro Toronto .NET UG Inaugural Meeting!

Finally a downtown user group. First week of every month - and the first one is April 1st - no fooling..at 200 Bloor St. East (Manulife) at Jarvis. This is also the first date on the MSDN Canada .NET User Group Tour across Canada. There is also a raffle Read More...

Datasets vs. Custom Entities

So you want to build your own entity objects? Maybe you are even purchasing or authoring a code-gen tool to do it for you. I like to use Datasets when possible and people ask why I like them so much. To be fair, I'll write a list of reasons to not use Read More...