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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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http://www.microsoft.com/canada/launch2005/ Check out the dates for the Canadian Launch Events for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to learn more about when registration opens. I can almost guarantee that
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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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Why would you want to do that you ask? Well for developers, probably the main reason would be to rewrite or wrap up some ugly lotus notes application (or all of lotus notes for that matter) and expose it in outlook. But seriously, there is a good chance
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:17 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
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
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:04 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, Services, Home, Newsletter
Ok, this is very cool - not often somebody gives you something for free. Is your company upgrading to Office 2003 between June & July of this year? Could you envision a customized solution built on top of Office - perhaps using Visual Studio Tools
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Testing, Home, Newsletter
We have a very exciting internship project coming up this summer for a university student, perhaps co-op - but not mandatory. This high-profile project is to develop a software system to monitor the various systems in a “green” home that is
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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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Friday, November 19, 2004 4:40 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, VS2003, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Home, Newsletter, MSF
I just got back from Ottawa, where last night I was speaking to the Ottawa .NET community about Visual Studio Tools for Office. (more on that later). I wasn't surprised by the Grep Cup weekend inflated hotel rates, but I was surprised to find a “2.8%
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