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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:01 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Home, Newsletter
Community Thoughts Werner Moise has been “reflecting” on LINQ and the more time he spends, the more he's realizing “how well thought out and practical it is”. He has some excellent points. Dinesh wants to know how you feel about
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:08 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Events, Home
On XLinq A lot of the questions about XLinq are around how it will sit beside/replace XQuery (and other XML query/transform techniques). Back when I first started doing some .NET 2.0 training in February, I was a bit miffed that XQuery had not made it
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:51 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Events, Home, Newsletter
I have to say that the LINQ syntax in VB hits much closer to the mark than C#. More on that later. What is everybody else saying out there about LINQ? Erik Meijer says that VB has become his “programming language of choice.“ Sam Gentile “LINQ
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As you may have heard, the LINQ(Language Integrated Query) Project was announced publicly today at PDC. There will be a lot more information coming throughout the week, but here's the resources available as of today. Overview LINQ Project Overview [ MSWord,
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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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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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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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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:38 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, TechEd
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)
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Saturday, May 22, 2004 10:00 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, Events, TechEd
It was bumped from The initial 1.0 release, and then as of last PDC slated for Whidbey. Now it looks like we'll have to wait until Longhorn. It's not all bad news however. ObjectSpaces is being re-orged into the WinFs file system. When you think about
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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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