mszCool's thoughts and cents revealed

While preparing the workshop and discussing the variety of LINQ technologies in the aforementioned workshop I really started thinking of when to use which technology in the big landscape of data access possibilities on the Microsoft platform. Summarizing...

As announced in the previous blog, publishing technical papers about interesting architectural concepts from customer and partner engagements is going to be a focus for me from this time forward. Click here for downloading this first paper in the series...

Two weeks ago I did an MSDN Briefing about Windows Communication Foundation. While we are still post-processing the recording for this briefing we wanted to make the downloads available, earlier. Here you can find the material from the briefing: Click...

Thanks to Jim Wooley I have to extend what I wrote about my LINQ-Architecture thoughts before . Actually LINQ to SQL supports putting the OR-Mapping definitions into a separate XML file instead of having the mapping meta data applied as attributes on...

I am especially proud to announce this next technical paper: during the past months we've been working with www.derStandard.at on designing and implementing a Silverlight -based application platform for building InfoScreen applications. Special thanks...

Attached you can find an updated version of the demos I've presented at TechEd Europe 2007 . I figured out that under some circumstances the downloaded demo does not really work and so I included some fixes as in the following bullet-list. You can...

I know it's a few weeks ago, already, but now I managed to get the demos and presentation of MiX Essential and the ASP.NET workshop on the technical university of Vienna published. You can find for download them at by clicking the following links: ...

I have totally forgotten to mention that the HP banqpro/ paper was the reasion why I updated my samples from last year's TechEd Europe 2007. Actually I created this examples not just for TechEd but also based on the requirements I've been told by HP in...

Yesterday I visited Ernst & Young in Prague for a Workshop on the variety of LINQ technologies. Thanks to my TechEd Presenters of the Tools & Languages Track last November 2007 (Luca, Luke and Mike) I was able to give a good workshop based on...

Yes, you may have noticed - except my blog from yesterday I left my blog alone for several months now. Well the main reason really was that I started thinking about what should I blog!? Should I blog about all these standard topics (yet another ???-technology...