June 2006 - Posts

The Name Game, Part Deux

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 Read More...

The Ramifications of .NET 3.0

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 Read More...

TechEd 2006 - Best Practices for ASP.NET Security session

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 Read More...

An answer to a CardSpace (aka InfoCard) question

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, Read More...

TechEd 2006 - Day 1

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 Read More...

And so it begins...TechEd 2006

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 Read More...

The Five Stages of .NET Conversion (for VB6 Developers)

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 Read More...