June 2006 - Posts
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So long DLinq. Hasta la vista XLinq. You now have new names. And while they are more descriptive, they just don’t have the same ‘cool’ factor for me. Especial since I would have expected ELinq, SLinq and OLinq to have been added. Oh
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If you weren’t listening closely, you might have missed the announcement that the WinFX technologies have been renamed to .NET 3.0. One of the questions I have been fielding frequently here at TechEd is ‘what does .NET 3.0 mean to .NET 2.0
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So if you put best practices in the title for a session, whether it be at TechEd, PDC or whatever, then I think it should be mandatory to actually discuss what the best practices are. Yes, I know that best practices is a dumb name for what is really prescriptive
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At the beginning of June, I worked at the realDevelopment ‘06 tour stop in Toronto as one of the MVP experts. Half of the day is devoted to Web security and a great deal of attention is paid to CardSpace . If you’re not familiar with CardSpace,
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Yesterday was my first full day ever at a TechEd conference. The first part of it was blown working with customer issues, so it wasn’t until the afternoon that I got to go to my first session. Which was a talk on how to get Windows Workflow and
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Arrived at the hotel a few minutes ago, after spending a wet by nice weekend at Cape Cod with my wife. Yes, I wasn’t as eager as my colleagues to get started on the technical content. So sue me. :) Throughout the week, I’ll be blogging whenever
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For developers, the move from VB6 to VB.NET (or any .NET language) is much more of a mental one than anything else. The syntax of VB.NET is sufficiently familiar to avoid syntax overload. But the functional differences are significant enough to make one
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