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DevTeach Conference in Montreal

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...

.NET Celebrity Auction

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 Read More...

Trip to Ottawa and Requirements Traceability

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% Read More...

DevCan 2004

I'm co-chairing two tracks of DevCan coming up in Setp/Oct in Vancover/Toronto (exact dates to follow) - see www.devcan.com for more. I'm doing the architect track and web track. If you have ideas for content you'd like to see, or have a topic you'd like Read More...

TechEd 2004 Sesion Slides & Videos Available Online to Public

The site doesn't yet contain everything but things are trickling in. http://microsoft.sitestream.com/TechEd2004/ Read More...

TechEd (Day 3): Hands On Lab Manuals downloads available to the public

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) Read More...

TechEd (Day 1): Balmer's Keynote & Announcing VS 2005 Team System

It's official. I'll post more thoughts and analysis about this as time permits, but, things you should know. Microsoft now has a new Team version of Visual Studio to be delivered “Next Year“ according to Balmer. new source control - more details Read More...

OpenSource Project for Testing Microsoft Software

Over the past few months, when I question how something works in the .NET Framework (or when somebody asks me).....I have been creating NUnit tests to verify the behaviour of some class and/or methods in the .NET Framework. Initially it is just to observe Read More...