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VS 2008 at The Movies, Feb 7, 2008 Toronto Paramount

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:09 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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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. Read More...

Visual Studio, SQL Server, and Windows Server 2008 Launch Events in Toronto

Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:18 PM by Barry Gervin | 0 Comments
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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 Read More...

Toronto Architect Forum, this Thursday

Posted: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:04 AM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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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 Read More...

Hello 2.0

Posted: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:32 PM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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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 Read More...

More on LINQ, XLinq and perspectives.

Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:08 AM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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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 Read More...

What is the world saying about Microsoft's C# and VB LINQ Project

Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:51 AM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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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 Read More...

Reflections on the PDC Day 1 Keynote

Posted: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:00 PM by Barry Gervin | 3 Comments
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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 Read More...

Metro Toronto .NET User Group Meeting September 8th: Managed Code in Sql Server 2005

Posted: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:36 PM by Barry Gervin | 0 Comments
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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. Read More...

DevTeach Conference in Montreal

Posted: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:12 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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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 Read More...

New Course! Architecting Applications with Visual Studio Team System (Bootcamp)

Posted: Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:17 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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On March 17th in Toronto, I'll be teaching our first delivery of this new course. It's a one day hands on, instructor led - whirlwind bootcamp style course that gives you a lap around Visual Studio Team System - specifically with a Solution Architect's Read More...
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