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Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:43 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, WCF, Home, Architecture, VS2008
Are you an architect or an aspiring architect interested in learning what's new this year for the MS platform? On February 11th, 2008 come to the MS Canada Office in Mississauga and visit yours truly and some other dazzling speakers to learn more about
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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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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:18 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Events, Home, Newsletter, VS2008
On February 27 in Toronto, MS Canada is hosting the official launch of the above mentioned products. The event will be all day long and in addition to a keynote from COO Kevin Turner, there will be some great breakout tracks running in parallel for IT
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:43 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Orcas, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, WCF, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008, SharePoint
Attachment(s): TSPUG Barry Gervin 20071219 SP Workflows with VS2008.pptx
Last night I gave a presentation to the Toronto SharePoint Users Group on using Visual Studio 2008 to build SharePoint Workflows. I also covered a little bit on LINQ to SharePoint and WCF/WF integration at the end. Attached are my slides. Enjoy.
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:04 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Events, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008
This coming Thursday, Microsoft is hosting the annual Toronto Architect Forum at their offices in Mississauga. The target audience is architects that are *not* in the financial service industry. Here's the agenda: 8:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration
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On Saturday on March 31, 2007 I did a couple of talks at the Toronto Code Camp. The first an overview on the LINQ Project and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. LINQ and Entity Framework Slides Download March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas (install or VPC) Download
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I'm in British Columbia for a few days for the Vancouver stop of the Canadian Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. They are expecting a great turnout - should be one of the largest MS events in town in recent memory. Last night we had a User Group
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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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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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