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Friday, January 18, 2008 2:09 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WebForms, Events, WCF, Home, Newsletter, VS2008
Our designer is having a field-day with this "at the Movies" theme for our upcoming review of Visual Studio 2008 being held Feb 7th from 8:30am-12:00pm @ the Paramount in Toronto. Grab a copy of this movie poster before it gets "whacked" by the lawyers.
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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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Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Testing, Home, Newsletter
We have a very exciting internship project coming up this summer for a university student, perhaps co-op - but not mandatory. This high-profile project is to develop a software system to monitor the various systems in a “green” home that is
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:52 PM
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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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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter
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
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Monday, July 05, 2004 3:42 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, Home
I'm co-chairing two tracks of DevCan coming up in Setp/Oct in Vancover/Toronto (exact dates to follow) - see www.devcan.com for more. I'm doing the architect track and web track. If you have ideas for content you'd like to see, or have a topic you'd like
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Monday, June 28, 2004 6:57 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Events, Home, Newsletter
Vendor-based classroom training is traditionally little more than reference material content, but has the advantage of taking you outside of your typical day (usually for a week) and forces you to sit and spend some quality time with some new technology on a grand scale. A lot of the material can be acquired through googling on the job. The problem with googling for small bits of information is that you miss the bigger picture and a full architectural understanding of how best to accomplish some
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:52 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WebForms, Events
I'm presenting an overview on ASP.NET 2.0 tonight at CTTDNUG . There isn't a great abstract on the site - and in fact, I will physically be unable to do the objectspaces stuff since the new version of VSNET CTP doesn't even have it in it anymore. Don't
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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
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