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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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Editing Data from Two Tables in a Single DataGridView
15 October 08 06:31 PM
I've had a lot of questions lately on how to display data from two separate tables in the database into a single DataGridView for editing. It sure would be nice if all our data was in a single table, but in reality most of the time it's not. Basically Read More...
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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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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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Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK
30 July 08 07:30 PM
About a month ago the Open XML SDK 1.0 (June 08 update) was released . The SDK provides strongly typed document part access to Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 documents. The SDK has been a CTP for a while, but last month version 1.0 was finally Read More...
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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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Dynamic Data Entry with WPF and LINQ
24 June 08 03:29 PM
In my last post on this subject I explored creating WPF UI's dynamically using XML literals. The one part that bugged me a bit was that even though the UI was dynamic, we were using a fixed object model of our customer (using LINQ to SQL classes). I wanted Read More...
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Dynamic UI with WPF and LINQ
12 June 08 04:51 PM
Lately I've been getting my hands deep into WPF with my line-of-business (LOB)/data-based application mind set. I'm taking a different approach to the technology resisting the urge to put on my amateur-designer hat and instead purely focus on data, data-binding, 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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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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Quickly Changing Values of XML Elements Using LINQ
09 May 08 06:33 PM
I've had many questions lately on how you can query for a specific node in an XML document (or fragment) and change it's value using LINQ. (This must mean that people are really starting to use this stuff so I'm pretty excited.) This is really easy to Read More...
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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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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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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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