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Friday, January 02, 2009 4:02 PM

My “technology themes” for 2009

I thought it would be useful to start 2009 by briefly summarising what you should expect to find on this blog over the coming months. Data : I will continue to spend time looking at what Microsoft and others are up to around working with data. You should
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:52 AM

SQL Server 2008 for Developers - slides

Just testing out SlideShare for making ppts more discoverable. This is the deck I did for the NxtGenUG Southampton. You can also get the links from http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents . What do you think? A useful way for us to share decks as well as on
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Monday, November 03, 2008 4:55 PM

And the winner is… LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

In 2001 we first demonstrated Object Relational Mapping (ORM) technology for .NET – ObjectSpaces . However it has taken 6+ years to get to the point where we have released an ORM. Actually we released two. The release of Visual Studio 2008 in November
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:00 PM

Links for QBS Event Wed 17th Sept

As promised, the links from my session today on the new data stuff on 3.5 and 3.5 SP1. Thanks for listening. General ADO.NET Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet Mike in our team http://www.miketaulty.com ( search Entity or LINQ ) Data Platform Developer
Posted by Eric Nelson | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:51 AM

A few rough edges in our shiny new Data stack

We have a rather impressive set of new technologies for working with data – LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, Data Services, ASP.NET Dynamic Data etc. What I am finding is… they don’t all get on with each other as well as you might have thought. My
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 12:03 AM

Leeds Events in Nov and Dec – SQL Server Data Services, Entity Framework and more

Just had confirmation that we have added two more MSDN half day events for November and December. Hope to see you there. Nov 19th http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387211&Culture=en-GB   Dec 3rd http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032387846&Culture=en-GB
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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 .
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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 Eric Nelson | 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
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:37 AM

SQL Server 2008 is finished – break out the bubbly

SQL Server 2008 RTM’d yesterday (August 6th). It is already available on MSDN subscriber downloads http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx . Express edition doesn’t appear to be up there yet. Well done to the team.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:36 PM

The best feature in SQL Server 2008 – sqlps.exe?

I am beginning to think it could be humble sqlps.exe. SQL Server 2008 includes powershell support – it is very, very nice. I have barely scraped the surface of sqlps but I know it is a feature that needs to be more widely talked about. You can launch
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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
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Friday, July 18, 2008 7:21 PM

I am installing SQL Server 2008 – not that I planned to :-)

I am looking at the list of things I planned to do today. It does not say “Install SQL Server 2008 RC0”. Yet here I am at 7pm still playing around with SQL Server. It went roughly like this. My notebook was only running SQL Server 2005 Express SP2 Microsoft
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:20 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan
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Monday, June 30, 2008 4:14 PM

Still confused by Data Mining? (I know I am)

Which is why I thought I would point you at this great video resource. You may well get to use it before I do (I think I have my hands full learning to code again - but I have started to skim them). These sessions were presented to 20 Countries across
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