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No, I haven't decided to give up software development for the glitz and glamor of the Jet Set life. I'm just the poster child for our summer training promotion. If you're looking for .NET, SharePoint, VSTS, or BizTalk training in Toronto you should check...
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Some WPF Line-of-Business App follow-up after my presentation at DevTeach today: Great Snippets: Great code snippets I have installed into my Visual Studio for WPF development are the Dr Wpf and Nerd+Art snippet packs.
WPF Coding Conventions: The coding...
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I recently discovered that piping can be used in conjunction with STSADM command. I always found it difficult to use that command. It has too many options and parameters that are not always obvious and often very difficult to use. Piping makes it easier...
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This Channel 9 Video is so impressive, I couldn’t help but think that this is the closest we’ve come to allowing any creative team to invent and then build an interface like the futuristic ones imagined for movies like Minority Report or Iron...
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Greg is in the middle of writing a great explanation of how to build custom WPF 3.5 SP1 pixel shader effects on his blog. He helped me re-create his sample ColorComplementEffect, so I thought I’d offer a sample solution containing an end-to-end...
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A “Week of WPF” begins on Channel 9 with the announcement that the third major release of WPF (3.5 SP1) has gone beta!
Tim Sneath’s blog entry has fantastic detail about what’s coming in this release and all the download/update...
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Live Search got a refresh recently and it's actually pretty good, dare I say may be even better than Google. Performance: The load times are very snappy now and it feels pretty much on par with google performance. Image Search: Functionality on Image...
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A quick heads up to let you know that VS 2008 Service Pack 1 is now available (links below). It typically takes a couple of months from this point before we'll see a final release. This Service Pack includes new cool feature: ADO.NET Entity Framework...
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If you have recently re-attached your content database to the new web application in SharePoint 2007 (whether because you have moved your SharePoint install or simply because you had to re-create the web application on your current server), you might...
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In Part 0: Introduction of this series after asking the question "Does the Entity Framework replace the need for a Data Access Layer?", I waxed lengthy about the qualities of a good data access layer. Since that time I've received a quite a...
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It's amazing what MS will give you, if you give them a Team Canada Hockey Jersey ....
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During the past month, Danny Simmons let us all officially know that SP1 of VS 2008/.NET Framework 3.5 will be the delivery mechanism for the Entity Framework and the Designer, and that we should see a beta of the entire SP1 very soon as well. No release...
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Today was my one year anniversary in my new job as an IT Manager at ObjectSharp. It's been an interesting year; a year full of new experiences and surprises, mostly good ones. One year ago I have traded a job at a public sector for one in a private sector....
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This topic came up in a WCF training session (i.e. ObjectSharp's WCF course ) I am currently delivering so I wanted to post a few references on the subject here: The first is "Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats" by Dare Obasanjo http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/21/design.html?page=1...
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Apparently there is a limit on a number of controls you can have on a SharePoint page. By default, no more than 200 controls are allowed on the SharePoint page. Not sure, why this limitation is there, but it is. To get around this problem, you need to...
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In the Part 4 I covered the XmlTranslatorStream in detail, explaining how it provides powerful coupling of an XmlReader and XmlWriter as it is read. This revealed how BizTalk manages to execute a pipeline of components in an efficient way - because it...
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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP (Community Technology Preview) and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available for download. Even though it's only CTP version at the moment, don't let it discourage from using it, because it seems to be working...
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So the million dollar question is: Does the Entity Framework replace the need for a Data Access Layer? If not, what should my Data Access Layer look like if I want to take advantage of the Entity Framework? In this multi-part series, I hope to explore...
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May 12th is just around the corner and I'm getting excited about DevTeach coming to Toronto for the first time. Guy says it all. DevTeach is unusual in that while the sessions are great, hanging around with the Speakers is what it's all about. I'm really...
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Do you remember when it was not cool to be a geek? Not that I ever let it bother me. I have attended every PDC since 2001. It’s tough to be the coolest guy out of 8000. Now a days it's cool to be a geek , people are coming out of the wood work to proclaim...
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This post I will focus on BizTalk's stream design, and how it allows for the XmlReader and XmlWriter coupling detailed in Part 3 . Once this topic has been covered, we are finally at a point where all of this background can be applied to achieving actual...
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Just in case you haven't heard from every other BizTalk blogger, BizTalk Server 2006 R3 has been announced. This will support the latest release of technologies - Windows Server 2008, .Net Framework 3.5, VS2008 & SQL Server 2008. It will also include...
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I had been merrily using WPF’s built-in support for the Command Pattern for ages (see Commanding Overview, MSDN Docs, and article on implementing the command pattern in WPF, Jeff Druyt)… when suddenly it occured to me that I had no idea what...
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After covering the "why" of streaming design and some comparisons with in memory designs in Part 1 , and then some technical differences in regards to moving processing logic from the pipeline components to the readers and streams they use in Part 2 ,...
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ObjectSharp has always been very community focused. Our consultants run user groups; we speak at user groups, code camps and conferences; we man the experts areas at big Microsoft events; and we run our own community events like Visual Studio 2008 at...
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