April 2008 - Posts

Video Presentation: Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9
30 April 08 05:44 PM
The session I did last November at QCon in San Fransisco is online so check it out . In this talk I introduced VB 9's LINQ to XML syntax and XML literals, axis properties, and embedded expressions. It's so weird watching myself but I think it was a pretty Read More...
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I'm Speaking at DevTeach, Toronto...
28 April 08 09:14 AM
... and so are a bunch of other awesome speakers . Join us all at DevTeach (first time in) Toronto, May 12th -16th. I've been speaking at DevTeach for a while where it originally started in Montreal. The organizers expanded last year to include Vancouver Read More...
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Querying HTML with LINQ to XML
25 April 08 04:00 PM
Often times we need to parse HTML for data. Sure in a perfect world everything would have a nice service or API wrapped around it but as we all know this is not always the case. Many times we're left with parsing files or "screen scraping" to get the Read More...
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MVPs, VB and Me
21 April 08 07:15 PM
The MVP summit was last week -- my first summit where I wasn't an MVP but instead an employee -- and what an enjoyable experience it was! It was awesome seeing MVPs from all over the world. Microsoft really throws a great summit, this year renting out Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 3 Database Transactions
16 April 08 12:03 PM
In my previous posts this week I showed how to build a simple distributed application with a Windows client, a WCF hosted middle-tier and a data access layer that used LINQ to SQL: LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier LINQ Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 2 Building the Client
14 April 08 11:03 AM
In my last post we built the service and data access layer for our LINQ to SQL N-Tier application. In this post we'll walk through building a very simple Windows client form that works with our middle-tier. Adding the Service Reference Now that we have Read More...
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LINQ to SQL N-Tier Smart Client - Part 1 Building the Middle-Tier
12 April 08 09:01 AM
In my previous posts on LINQ to SQL I showed how to build LINQ to SQL classes and set up the data binding in your Windows applications. If you missed them: Related Data Binding and ComboBoxes with LINQ to SQL Creating Lookup Lists with LINQ to SQL One-To-Many Read More...
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EastBay.NET Pleasanton UG Launch Event Tonight!
09 April 08 09:18 AM
Come on over to the warm side of the Bay as we kick off hard-core Visual Studio 2008 development with our local Launch event in Pleasanton. We've got pizza!!! :-) Check out our site for more information like registration info and directions. I'll start Read More...
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Resources for Building N-tier Applications
09 April 08 09:05 AM
I've been getting a lot of mails lately from people trying to build n-tier applications with Visual Studio 2008. Luckily, VS now makes it much easier to build these kinds of applications which have pretty much become the "norm" these days. Here's a feed Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 Launch - Hands On Labs
04 April 08 04:20 PM
I was just informed that all the Hands On Labs from the Visual Studio/Windows Server/SQL Server 2008 launch events are available online here . I took a brief look at the " Visual Basic 9 Language Enhancements " lab and in general it looks good although Read More...
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Webcast Tomorrow - Redux - LINQ to XML in Visual Basic
03 April 08 12:55 PM
If you missed my March 21st webcast on LINQ to XML in VB then you get another chance to join me live tomorrow at 9AM Pacific. These webcasts have been loads of fun for me. Although I prefer speaking in front of live people (I like to see your faces) I Read More...
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Video Tutorials on ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework
01 April 08 04:00 PM
Bill Burrows , Visual Basic MVP, has done it again and is creating another series of video tutorials on the ASP.NET MVC Framework . Based on ScottGu's blog posts , Bill teaches us how to use this pattern of web development using Visual Basic. Check back Read More...
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