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Glen Gordon is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft.

He brings free Microsoft events, resources and information to developers in the Southeast.
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    Great architectural overview of RIA with Silverlight 2.0
    If you want to get a nice comprehensive overview of Silverlight 2.0 Architecture Development and Deployment then check out this 4 part series from my colleague Bob Familiar. There's some great information here that covers a broad spectrum of integration Read More...
    Some compelling reasons why you should prefer Windows Vista as a platform for your applications
    Sometimes the people on my team try to just sneak stuff by the rest of us. I was just forwarded a link that's a perfect example of that. It's a whitepaper written by my co-worker right her in Atlanta, fellow DE Doug Turnure . He wrote it in December 2006, Read More...
    Some SQL injection attack misperceptions - and reality
    My colleague Brian just posted about an error page he encountered on a public ecommerce site, and the clues it gave him about how the coding of that site was wrong in a lot of ways.  He gave some good tips on fighting SQL Injection attacks, but I Read More...
    Resources for my WCF3.5/REST talk at Atlanta .NET User Group March 31 2008
    Thanks to all those who turned out for the meeting, despite it being basically on the heels of the Atlanta Code Camp on the 29th. I hope you got a lot out of the talk. Here are some resources that will help out as you explore the topic: The demo code Read More...
    Silverlight and Astoria sample site from Shawn Wildermuth
    Shawn has put together a great sample site showing a Silverlight client consuming the REST based data services provided by Astoria. And he's even made the source code available. Nice job, Shawn! theADOguy - Rant: Silverlight + Entity Framework + Astoria Read More...
    Sample code from webcast "Exploring the System.Net namespace"
    Thanks to those who attended my webcast "Exploring the System.Net namespace" earlier this week. Here is the sample code and slide deck (about 500k download) and I'm still working on the questions that were asked so check back Friday! (Note that this is Read More...
    GSP Developers 2006 Study Groups launching
    The Greenville-Spartanburg Enterprise Developers Guild is launching their 2006 Study Groups this week. They will be holding the meetings in CSI's training room. CSI is located on E. Main St in Easley. Due to the fairly large signup, they will be holding Read More...
    .NET Pet Shop 4: Migrating an ASP.NET 1.1 Application to 2.0
    Here's a useful resource - an article on migrating one of our best practice applications (".NET Pet Shop") from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0. Along the way, look for using the System.Transactions namespace, an upgrade of the membership elements, master Read More...
    Implementing a SiteMapProvider that reads a SQL Server database
    In my current series of MSDN Events, we are covering site navigation. With site navigation, the data for the site map is (by default) stored in a file called web.sitemap that is accessed by the default SiteMapProvider. The provider model allows you to Read More...
    Do you have tab on the menu?
    [While writing this post, I was reminded of the scene in Back to the Future where Marty McFly goes into Lou’s diner in 1955 and orders a Tab (the predecessor to Diet Coke, first marketed in 1963) to which Lou replies "Tab? I can't give you a tab unless Read More...
    Cool article about usage scenarios for web services in SQL Server 2005
    I just read this recent article on MSDN that covers some neat aspects about how native XML web services in SQL Server 2005 might be used. Of particular interest is the samples of PERL scripts for executing T-SQL via SOAP. Read More...
    Need a GUID?
    These days it’s less frequent that you’ll need a GUID. But sometimes you do. I remembered a little utility called GUIDGEN.EXE would create one and place it on your clipboard. I didn’t have that installed, so on a whim I browsed to www.guidgen.com not Read More...
    OOP in VB.NET webcast - demo code
    I've just added the demo code from my webcast Object Oriented Fundamentals in VB.NET to my Presentations page, plus a link to watch the webcast if you missed it or need a refresher. Enjoy! Read More...
    Passing the buck
    One of the nice things about sharing the stage with local .NET personality Michael Earls during my last 2 MSDN Events is that if there’s any questions from the audience during his demos I can give him first shot at answering them. Michael presented Read More...
    Secure that trace.axd file
    In our current series of MSDN Events , we are spending a good bit of time on ASP.NET tracing and showing the usefulness of the trace.axd file. After doing some research around the web (using MSN Search of course!) I came across some information on how Read More...
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