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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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Friday, September 17, 2004 1:54 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Testing, Home, Newsletter
There is a new critical security vulnerability that affects a wide range of software that can't be easily patched through Windows Update. The vulnerability lies inside of GDI+ and can allow a maliciously formed JPEG image file to create a buffer overrun
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We now have a course available for BizTalk 2004 in our Toronto office. I get so many of these requests about BTS2K4 these days. Matt Meleski , who is our BTS guru is teaching the first one on July 5th . Matt's been using BTS 2004 right throughout the
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:22 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Services, Security, Events
Myself and Adam Gallant delivered an MSDN Deep Dive last week about developing Smart Client applications. I covered the overview & secure data access sections. The samples and IssueVision (1.0 C# & VB) along with the slides are available over
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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 9:34 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, Events, TechEd
Highlights in this exchange of newsgroup posts... Paging is cut Server cursors cut (SqlResultSet class) Async Open is cut, but not excute SqlDataTable class cut (Good - that was a bad design pattern to propogate) Command sets are cut, but you can still
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I've been doing a lot of testing lately. A lot. I'm building a database agnostic data access layer. It has to be as performant as using typed providers, and even support the optional use of a typed provider. For example, we want to allow developers to
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Many people think that datasets are stored internally as XML. What most people need to know is that Datasets are serialized as XML (even when done binary) but that doesn't mean they are stored as XML internally - although we have no easy way of knowing,
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So you want to build your own entity objects? Maybe you are even purchasing or authoring a code-gen tool to do it for you. I like to use Datasets when possible and people ask why I like them so much. To be fair, I'll write a list of reasons to not use
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