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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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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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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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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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Friday, August 26, 2005 2:36 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Home, Newsletter
On September 8th I'll be speaking at the .NET User Group here in Toronto. I'll be talking about how developers can take advantage of Sql Server 2005's ability to host managed code. Full abstract and registration details are here.
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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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Mr. Reid “NGEN“ Wilkes has a good article in MSDN magazine about NGEN 2.0 coming in whidbey. NGEN is the command-line tool that pre-compiles MSIL into native PE code....which has been around since .NET 1.0. It's can be a good performance kick
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In SQL Server 2005/Yukon you can create user defined types using managed code. User defined types can be used in declaring variable and table columns. It is generally considered to only make sense for scalar types - things that can be sorted, compared,
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:19 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, C#, WinForms, WebForms, Home, Newsletter, VSTS, Architecture
It's been a theme for me over the past couple of weeks where people have mentioned that they can't afford the time to do modeling. If you've done a lot of UML modeling, you know what I'm talking about. But it doesn't have to be that way. Now just to ward
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