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One of the questions we got during the Q&A of the Ottawa VS Launch yesterday was around problems in migrating ASP.NET applications from 2002/2003 to 2005. The Web Platform Team has put together a nice step-by-step guide that covers some best practices
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Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:32 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Events, Home, Newsletter, VSTS
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
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:01 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Home, Newsletter
Community Thoughts Werner Moise has been “reflecting” on LINQ and the more time he spends, the more he's realizing “how well thought out and practical it is”. He has some excellent points. Dinesh wants to know how you feel about
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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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As you may have heard, the LINQ(Language Integrated Query) Project was announced publicly today at PDC. There will be a lot more information coming throughout the week, but here's the resources available as of today. Overview LINQ Project Overview [ MSWord,
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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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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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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:12 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, WCF, Home, Newsletter, VSTS
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
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Friday, May 27, 2005 4:18 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Services, WCF, Home, Newsletter, Architecture
Do you consider your database as a service? It's worthwhile to review the tenents of a service oriented architecture . The first two tenents above are probably the most relevant to my question. If you do all of your data access through stored procedures,
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