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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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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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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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Monday, February 28, 2005 11:07 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
VS Live is coming to Toronto again - April 13-16th. This year, the event will be right downtown on the lake at the Harbour Westin Castle hotel. Use Priority Code “BARRY” for a 10% discount when you register. You'll also save an additional $250 if you
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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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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:41 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Events, Home, Newsletter
As part of the continuing MSDN User Group Tour, I'll be speaking at the Canadian Technology Triangle .NET User Group in Waterloo on Thursday October 7th (tomorrow night). There is a new location for the meeting at Agfa (formerly Mitra) in Waterloo. All
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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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