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Friday, August 08, 2008 9:29 AM

LINQ Overview concept map #2

Just started the day with a swift play with my original concept map .
Posted by ericnel | 4 Comments
Thursday, August 07, 2008 12:11 PM

My first concept map – LINQ overview

Well – my first using a tool inspired by Udi . Took…maybe 5 minutes. Very sweet. Clearly this could be exploded out into much more detail – but I have real work to do :-)
Posted by ericnel | 2 Comments
Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:46 AM

Microsoft Sync Framework released

Ok – I will be honest, I forgot it hadn’t actually released (It is tough keeping on top of the staggered releases we have at the moment!) This is a shameful cut and paste from http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2008/08/06/top-new-features-in-sync-services-for-ado-net-v2.aspx
Posted by ericnel | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:09 PM

PHP driver for SQL Server 2005 Released

Whoops – I nearly missed this one. I previously mentioned our more friendly approach to PHP back in Nov 2007.The good news is we have made version 1.0 of the PHP driver available for download .  We have also posted the source code for our driver
Posted by ericnel | 1 Comments
Monday, July 28, 2008 12:20 PM

UK MSDN events now scheduled

Topics have been chosen, venues confirmed and details posted on our events site . We will be showing up at 6 cities through Sept and October with a lot of the content focused on Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Me – I will be delivering the “data bit”
Posted by ericnel | 1 Comments
Friday, July 25, 2008 2:46 PM

How come nobody ever told me about LINQPad?

I need to know so much more about LINQ than I currently do. What I wanted was a “Query Analyser” for LINQ – rather than keep writing code inside Visual Studio. I can’t tell you how excited I was when I discovered LINQPad .  It is written by Joseph
Posted by ericnel | 3 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:53 PM

Three good reads on REST

Since 2002 (and .NET Framework 1.0) many of us have digging into Web Services based on SOAP, WSDL and the WS-* specification universe. In 2005 I started to get concerned about the complexity that WS-* was bringing, when ultimately in many scenarios I
Posted by ericnel | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:31 PM

Entity Framework v2.0 development underway (and very open!)

The ADO.NET Entity Framework is very strategic to Microsoft - but a) it is a V1.0 technology (although we have been dabbling for some time - remember ObjectSpaces in 2004) and b) it hasn't actually shipped yet. BUT... the good news is V1.0 is pretty much
Posted by ericnel | 1 Comments
 
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