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Well it's just 1 week since DevTeach came to Toronto for the first time. What a great conference and it was my pleasure to be involved as a speaker, track-chair and attendee. The conference organizer Jean-Rene Roy just sent me a note with some of the
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The 2008 Microsoft MVP Summit concluded yesterday with a closing keynote from Steve Ballmer, which was great as usual. This was the second year that the Canadian MVP's wore their Team Canada Jersey's. I was a bit surprised that more countries didn't follow
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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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If you get our newsletter, you'll hopefully appreciate the new layout and content. Thanks to the stylings of Mr. Nick Van Exan and human aggregations of Julie James. The current newsletter can be browsed online at www.ObjectSharp.com/NewsLetter . There
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This past Saturday, I gave a talk at the Toronto SharePoint Camp on building composite applications. I started talking in general requirements terms of why composite applications are useful, what they are, and what are the platform requirements - it naturally
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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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Come to camp on Saturday October 20th, 2007 in downtown Toronto. We'll do paper mache, cook marshmallows over a fire, and learn how to rapidly build collaborative portal solutions. You can visit the site and register here , and they are still looking
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