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Silicon Valley Code Camp Oct. 3-4 : Schedule is up!
28 September 09 12:37 PM

As I mentioned before , I’ll be speaking this weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp ( http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ ). This is a FREE event at at Foothill College and it’s not just Microsoft technologies. A lot of great speakers will be there too. Read More...

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Channel 9 Interview: LINQ Language Deep Dive with Visual Studio 2008
21 July 09 10:19 PM

Ever wonder what really happens when you write a simple LINQ query? Dim query = From row In db.Customers _ Where row.Country = "Canada" _ Select row A lot of new language features went into the compilers in Visual Studio 2008 to make even this Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Channel9

Good Times at DevTeach, Vancouver
19 June 09 05:24 PM

Last week I spoke at DevTeach in Vancouver which was held at the beautiful Four Seasons in downtown. I love this Canadian conference because the attendees are great – super friendly and social, and ask a lot of great questions. I mostly interacted with Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, XML, VS2010

dnrTV: More Fun with Office and XML Literals
20 April 09 12:33 PM

Yesterday Carl posted another dnrTV show with yours truly. This is a follow up from the last show where I went over the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML in order to manipulate and query Office documents. Last show focused on CustomXML parts and Word content Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Videos, DevCenter, XML, VSTO

Community Article: Scaling ADO.NET DataTables
17 December 08 12:43 PM

We just released a new community article onto the Visual Basic Developer Center by one of our MVPs, Jeff Certain , called Scaling ADO.NET DataTables . In this article Jeff shows shows us how to query and aggregate data using the built in DataTable methods Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, Community, Article, Data

I'm Speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp on Saturday Nov. 8th
05 November 08 12:33 PM

There are over 1100 people registered for the Silicon Valley code camp this year! Wow! That's a couple hundred more than last year. This is a free event people, so there's no excuse not to come out to Foothill college this year. And it's not all Microsoft Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, VS2008, Community, DevCenter, Office

SDN Conference Day 2
08 October 08 03:04 AM

Today I woke up at the crack of dawn because I had an 8:30 AM session. Okay maybe not quite the crack, but for me it was early . Especially after a night of socializing. That's a really cool thing about conferences here, the attendees love to go out with Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML

First Day at SDN Conference
07 October 08 03:28 AM

I'm here in the Netherlands in a town called Noordwijkerhout near Amsterdam at the SDN Conference with a lot of great speakers and sessions . I took these shots while the attendees were in session. There's good food, great vendors and lots of entertainment Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, DevCenter, XML, Office, Entity Framework

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MSDN Magazine - Dynamic Data Entry With XML Literals
01 October 08 06:49 PM

Check out the latest news on the VB Dev Center . I'm finally headlining myself ;-) I'm in the October issue of MSDN Magazine . I've been managing the content for the Basic Instincts column for a little over a year now where we rotate writers from the Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, WPF, LINQ, Community, Article, XML, Data

Data on the Smart Client Talk at Bay.NET UG
21 August 08 01:48 PM

Last night I spoke to SF Bay.NET user's group on Data Binding in Winforms and WPF, focusing on Line-of-Business (LOB) application scenarios. I showed how you can use the same data sources with Winforms and WPF, walking through binding scenarios with DataSets, Read More...

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Filed under: WPF, Speaking, LINQ, Community, Winforms, DevCenter, Data, N-tier

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Channel 9 Interview: XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
15 August 08 12:18 PM

I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Yang Xiao , a tester on the VB IDE. In this interview Yang shows us the new XML Schema Explorer in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . This new window is invoked when you right-click on an XML literal element Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, LINQ, VS2008, Community, Channel9, XML

TechEd Panel: VB XML Literals for C# Developers
03 July 08 10:00 AM

This week TechEd Online posted the TechEd panel I was on with Erick Thompson and Shyam Pather of the SQL Data team. I thought it was a pretty funny panel description they came up with, ala Dr. Strangelove : VB XML Literals for C# developers or: How I Read More...

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I Survived TechEd
09 June 08 04:20 PM

I feel like I need a T-shirt that says "I survived TechEd". It was my first time at TechEd and no one can really prepare you for how much work and play takes place at a huge conference like that. I had a BLAST. Our VB6 to .NET migration talks went well Read More...

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Filed under: Visual Basic, Speaking, LINQ, Community, VB6, Interop Toolkit, DevCenter

DevTeach Day 2 - LINQ to Everything
15 May 08 09:17 AM

Before I post about DevTeach Day 3 I thought I'd report back how the LINQ session I did yesterday evening. I mentioned yesterday that I volunteered to fill in for Roy Osherove because he ended up in the hospital. Good news is that he emailed this morning Read More...

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I Made it to Toronto! Day 0 and 1 at DevTeach
13 May 08 09:32 AM

Monday: I wake up at 3:15am CA time and get to SFO to make a 6am flight to Toronto. (Note: Air Canada flights do NOT leave from the international terminal, they leave from domestic terminal 3, go figure.) But the flight was pretty nice, TVs on the back Read More...

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