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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">Microsoft UK Developer &amp; Designer Events - Post Event Resources</title><subtitle type="html">If you have attended a developer or designer event in the UK from Microsoft, then there is a great chance you will find related post event resources here. You can also post comments about the event - but anonymous comments will require approval by a moderator. Enjoy!</subtitle><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/atom.xml</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/atom.xml" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="2.1.61025.2">Community Server</generator><updated>2008-09-24T21:00:00Z</updated><entry><title>Microsoft at the PHP UK Conference 2009</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2009/02/26/phpconf09.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2009/02/26/phpconf09.aspx</id><published>2009-02-26T20:01:00Z</published><updated>2009-02-26T20:01:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;27th February 2009&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/" mce_href="http://www.phpconference.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;IMG style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title=Imprimir border=0 alt=Imprimir align=right src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ukdevevents/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftatthePHPUKConference2009_84CB/PHPUKConference2009_3.png" width=244 height=63 mce_src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ukdevevents/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftatthePHPUKConference2009_84CB/PHPUKConference2009_3.png"&gt;&lt;/A&gt; It’s great to be here at the conference – I know we’re going to have some great conversations.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Here are some links we think you’ll find useful:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.phponws2008.com/" mce_href="http://www.phponws2008.com/"&gt;PHP on Windows Server 2008&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://port25.technet.com/" mce_href="http://port25.technet.com/"&gt;Port25 - Microsoft Open Source blog&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/"&gt;Microsoft Open Source home page&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A title="FastCGI for PHP" href="http://iis.net/php" mce_href="http://iis.net/php"&gt;FastCGI for PHP&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://windows.php.net/" mce_href="http://windows.php.net/"&gt;PHP for Windows on php.net&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;IRC channel: &lt;A href="http://irc.freenode.net/#php-dev-win"&gt;http://irc.freenode.net/#php-dev-win&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.codeplex.com/SQL2K5PHP" mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/SQL2K5PHP"&gt;SQL Server driver for PHP&lt;/A&gt; (works with SQL Server 2005 &amp;amp; 2008)&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&amp;amp;DisplayLang=en"&gt;Windows SDK&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; &lt;A href="http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows" mce_href="http://wiki.php.net/internals/windows"&gt;Windows specific docs&lt;/A&gt; for building PHP on Windows&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx"&gt;Windows Azure&lt;/A&gt; – Microsoft’s cloud os&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/" mce_href="http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/"&gt;Silverlight - getting started&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9446600" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>markqu</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/markqu.aspx</uri></author><category term="PHP" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/PHP/default.aspx" /><category term="Windows Server 2008" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Windows+Server+2008/default.aspx" /><category term="IIS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/IIS/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-11-27 SQL Server 2008 Overview for Developers (NxtGenUG Southampton)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/11/27/2008-11-27-sql-server-2008-overview-for-developers-nxtgenug-southampton.aspx" /><link rel="enclosure" type="application/x-zip-compressed" length="13352" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/attachment/9146312.ashx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/11/27/2008-11-27-sql-server-2008-overview-for-developers-nxtgenug-southampton.aspx</id><published>2008-11-27T15:55:00Z</published><updated>2008-11-27T15:55:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Speaker: &lt;/STRONG&gt;Eric Nelson &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Location:&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;A href="http://www.nxtgenug.net/Region.aspx?RegionID=9" mce_href="http://www.nxtgenug.net/Region.aspx?RegionID=9"&gt;NxtGenUG Southampton&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks to all those who listened to my session. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Staying in touch:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Email me at &lt;STRONG&gt;eric.nelson&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/A&gt; - tends to be about .NET and data&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100&lt;/A&gt; - all about Visual Basic&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;A href="http://twitter.com/ericnel" mce_href="http://twitter.com/ericnel"&gt;http://twitter.com/ericnel&lt;/A&gt; - pot luck :-)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Links:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SQL Server 2008 &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SQL Server 2008 Express – download the free version &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Recent recordings at Sqlbits &lt;A title=http://www.sqlbits.com/#sessions href="http://www.sqlbits.com/#sessions" mce_href="http://www.sqlbits.com/#sessions"&gt;http://www.sqlbits.com/#sessions&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Filestream Article &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Spatial demo 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;9 parts on learning spatial &lt;A title=http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlean/archive/2008/11/01/sql-2008-spatial-samples-part-1-of-9-how-to-learn-sql-spatial.aspx href="http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlean/archive/2008/11/01/sql-2008-spatial-samples-part-1-of-9-how-to-learn-sql-spatial.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlean/archive/2008/11/01/sql-2008-spatial-samples-part-1-of-9-how-to-learn-sql-spatial.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/davidlean/archive/2008/11/01/sql-2008-spatial-samples-part-1-of-9-how-to-learn-sql-spatial.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;World map &lt;A href="http://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/2092" mce_href="http://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/2092"&gt;World Polygons from Geocommons &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Find overlays (e.g. football venues) &lt;A href="http://finder.geocommons.com/" mce_href="http://finder.geocommons.com/"&gt;finder site at Geocommons&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Generate SQL tables from shapefiles &lt;A href="http://www.sharpgis.net/page/Shape2SQL.aspx" mce_href="http://www.sharpgis.net/page/Shape2SQL.aspx"&gt;Shape2SQL from Morten Nielsen &lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Microsofts Strategic ORM (Object Relational Mapping) technology is ADO.NET Entity Framework. 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Released August 2008 as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Works with SQL Server, Oracle, MySql etc to expose relational tables as Objects and simplify db development &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;MSDN Library &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Microsoft SQL Data Services, part of the recently announced &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx"&gt;Azure Services Platform&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Stores data in “the cloud” – a Microsoft managed database service accessible via SOAP or simple HTTP (REST). Move all/some of your data off premise. &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;On MSDN (SDK etc to download) &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9146312" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author><category term="ADO.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ADO.NET/default.aspx" /><category term="SSDS" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/SSDS/default.aspx" /><category term="Data" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Data/default.aspx" /><category term="SQL Server" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-11-19 What's new in Visual Studio 2008 SP1</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/11/22/2008-11-19-what-s-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/11/22/2008-11-19-what-s-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx</id><published>2008-11-22T15:51:00Z</published><updated>2008-11-22T15:51:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;On Wednesday 19th we delivered this session in Leeds, hosted by our good friends &lt;A class="" href="http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/" mce_href="http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/"&gt;Black Marble&lt;/A&gt;. A big thanks to all who showed.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We have previously posted &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/07/2008-10-07-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;FONT color=#006bad&gt;the links for these sessions&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presentation:&lt;/STRONG&gt; What's new for Presentation&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presenter:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Mike Taulty &lt;A href="http://mtaulty.com/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#006bad&gt;http://mtaulty.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presentation: &lt;/STRONG&gt;What's new in Data&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presenter:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Eric Nelson &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#006bad&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9132767" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author><category term="ADO.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ADO.NET/default.aspx" /><category term="Data" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Data/default.aspx" /><category term="LINQ" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx" /><category term="Visual Studio" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-11-13 SQL Server 2008 for Access Developers at the Access User Group</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/11/13/2008-11-13-sql-server-2008-for-access-developers-at-the-access-user-group.aspx" /><link rel="enclosure" type="application/x-zip-compressed" length="5286" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/attachment/9066592.ashx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/11/13/2008-11-13-sql-server-2008-for-access-developers-at-the-access-user-group.aspx</id><published>2008-11-13T19:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-11-13T19:00:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Speaker: &lt;/STRONG&gt;Eric Nelson &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Thanks to all those who listened to my session. Apologies that we did run out of time (as I suspected – but still sorry)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Some answers to Q&amp;amp;A during the breaks:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;What are the differences between the Express edition and the Compact Edition? Nicely &lt;A href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/8/8/e8859616-e95d-41fe-9f81-ff88388d772b/SQLServer%202008CompareComapctExpress.pdf" mce_href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/8/8/e8859616-e95d-41fe-9f81-ff88388d772b/SQLServer%202008CompareComapctExpress.pdf"&gt;summarised here&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Does normal backup/restore work with Filestream? Yes (see the article link below)&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;How convert from postcode to coordinates? Various services are out there. Try nearby (link below) as a starter.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Links&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Code for my demos is attached.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SQL Server 2008 &lt;A title=http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008 href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;SQL Server 2008 Express – download the free version &lt;A title=http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/ href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/"&gt;http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Filestream Article &lt;A title=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Spatial demo&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Generate INSERT statement (remember – build polygon &lt;STRONG&gt;anti clockwise!)&amp;nbsp; &lt;A title=http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/ href="http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/" mce_href="http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/"&gt;http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Plot spatial data on Virtual Earth (as extracted from SQL 2008) &lt;A title=http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/visualise.aspx href="http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/visualise.aspx" mce_href="http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/visualise.aspx"&gt;http://mikeo.co.uk/demo/sqlspatial/visualise.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Find latitude and longitude from postcode. Several free services. Try &lt;A title=http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/ href="http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/" mce_href="http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/"&gt;http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;NOTE: We all think latitude and longitude. BUT spatial sw (such as SQL 2008) is longitude then latitude&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Microsofts Strategic ORM (Object Relational Mapping) technology is ADO.NET Entity Framework. 
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Released August 2008 as part of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Works with SQL Server, Oracle, MySql etc to expose relational tables as Objects and simplify db development &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;MSDN Library &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Microsoft SQL Data Services, part of the recently announced &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx"&gt;Azure Services Platform&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Stores data in “the cloud” – a Microsoft managed database service accessible via SOAP or simple HTTP (REST). Move all/some of your data off premise. &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;On MSDN (SDK etc to download) &lt;A title=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9066592" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author><category term="Data" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Data/default.aspx" /><category term="SQL Server" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/SQL+Server/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-10-24 MSDN Roadshow Re-Run</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/24/2008-10-24-msdn-roadshow-re-run.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/24/2008-10-24-msdn-roadshow-re-run.aspx</id><published>2008-10-24T16:29:01Z</published><updated>2008-10-24T16:29:01Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Session 1&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;ADO.NEXT – Entity Framework &amp;amp; Data Services&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speaker: &lt;/strong&gt;Eric Nelson &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Not already signed up to MSDN Flash? Then check out &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;Interested in Visual Basic? Then check out &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ADO.NET Entity Framework&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;MSDN Library &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;EF Dev Manager &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;FAQ &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Entity Framework Design &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Entity Framework sample project to explore ESQL and LINQ to Entities &lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples"&gt;http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/archive/2008/10/15/q-a-how-can-i-use-linq-with-new-data-types-in-sql-server-2008-such-as-the-geospatial-types.aspx"&gt;Using Entity Framework with SQL 2008 types&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;A bunch of EF extensions – Lazy Loading, Stored Procedures, Sample provider etc &lt;a title="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/adonetefx" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/adonetefx"&gt;http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/adonetefx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Code generation using &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScottHanselman/~3/420856175/T4TextTemplateTransformationToolkitCodeGenerationBestKeptVisualStudioSecret.aspx"&gt;T4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ADO.NET Data Services&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;MSDN Library &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Team blog &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/archive/2008/10/14/q-a-how-do-i-use-ado-net-data-services-with-linq-to-sql-and-enable-read-write.aspx"&gt;How do I use ADO.NET Data Services with LINQ to SQL and enable read/write&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Session 2 ASP.NEXT – The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Session 3 Building Rich Internet UI with Silverlight 2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Session 4 Getting the most from the Visual Studio Team Suite Toolbox&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9014691" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author><category term="ADO.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ADO.NET/default.aspx" /><category term="Data" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Data/default.aspx" /><category term="LINQ" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx" /><category term="Visual Studio" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx" /><category term="ASP.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-10-14 and 2008-10-16 Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 SP1</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/16/2008-10-14-and-2008-10-16-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/16/2008-10-14-and-2008-10-16-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx</id><published>2008-10-16T23:34:00Z</published><updated>2008-10-16T23:34:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;On Tuesday 14th we delivered this session in Birmingham and on Thursday 16th in Edinburgh. A big thanks to all who showed.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We have previously posted &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/07/2008-10-07-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx"&gt;the links for these sessions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presentation:&lt;/strong&gt; What's new for Presentation&lt;/font&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Mike Taulty &lt;a href="http://mtaulty.com"&gt;http://mtaulty.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presentation: &lt;/strong&gt;What's new in Data&lt;/font&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Eric Nelson &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9008088" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Microsoft at London Future of Web Apps 2008</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/09/fowa.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/09/fowa.aspx</id><published>2008-10-09T03:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-10-09T03:00:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;



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}&lt;/style&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Update... &lt;a href="http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/"&gt;Silverlight 2 is released! 14th Oct 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Get free stuff...&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img title="Future of Web Apps logo" style="width: 297px; height: 178px" height="178" alt="Future of Web Apps logo" src="http://london2008.futureofwebapps.com/images/content/fowa_badge1.png" width="297" align="right" mce_src="http://london2008.futureofwebapps.com/images/content/fowa_badge1.png" /&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/"&gt;Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition&lt;/a&gt; is a free version of Visual Studio for building all kinds of web applications - you'll also get the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/express.aspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/express.aspx"&gt;free version of SQL Server 2008&lt;/a&gt; from the same place.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://silverlight.net/getstarted/default.aspx" mce_href="http://silverlight.net/getstarted/default.aspx"&gt;Everything you need to get started building Silverlight 2 applications&lt;/a&gt; - including download links and information.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/"&gt;Codeplex.com&lt;/a&gt; is one of the open source repositories where you&amp;#8217;ll find loads of ASP.NET and Silverlight projects &amp;#8211; download code for your own use, contribute to existing projects or create your own. Microsoft contributes much of its open source to Codeplex.com including extensions to ASP.NET such as the model-view-controller support in &lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet"&gt;ASP.NET MVC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/codechronicles/default.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/codechronicles/default.mspx"&gt;Code Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;: It's often easy to forget how much commonality there is between our coding worlds - and as programmers and designers we can get pretty passionate about the tools, languages and approaches we use to create software... and every one has its advantages and its quirks... take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/codechronicles/default.mspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/codechronicles/default.mspx"&gt;Code Chronicles&lt;/a&gt; to see where you're favourite programming language comes from.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a title="Microsoft Web Platform" href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/"&gt;Microsoft Web Platform site&lt;/a&gt; includes link to the &lt;a title="Web Platform Installer" href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx"&gt;Web Platform Installer&lt;/a&gt; which auto configures a machine for building and running web applications on Windows in ASP.NET or PHP.&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ukdevevents/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftatLondonFutureofWebApps2008_9E1D/TheStand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="150" alt="TheStand" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ukdevevents/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftatLondonFutureofWebApps2008_9E1D/TheStand_thumb.jpg" width="222" align="left" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;University session links...&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;table class="tableborder"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;th style="width: 222px"&gt;&lt;span class="SessionTitle"&gt;What's all this Silverlight stuff?&lt;/span&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="SessionSpeaker"&gt;with &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/"&gt;Mike Ormond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;        &lt;th style="width: 150px"&gt;&lt;span class="SessionTitle"&gt;Internet Explorer 8&lt;/span&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="SessionSpeaker"&gt;with &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/"&gt;Mike Ormond&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;        &lt;th style="width: 269px"&gt;&lt;span class="SessionTitle"&gt;Start-up and stay-up with Microsoft&lt;/span&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="SessionSpeaker"&gt;with Bindi Karia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr class="tableinner"&gt;       &lt;td class="insideTable" style="width: 222px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.silverlight.net/" mce_href="http://www.silverlight.net"&gt;Silverlight community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td style="width: 150px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie8" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie8"&gt;IE8 Home&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td class="insideTable" style="width: 269px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://microsoftstartupzone.com/uk/" mce_href="http://microsoftstartupzone.com/uk/"&gt;Microsoft Startup Zone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr class="tableinner"&gt;       &lt;td class="insideTable" style="width: 222px; height: 21px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.silverlightscreencasts.com/" mce_href="http://www.silverlightscreencasts.com/"&gt;50 free Silverlight training videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td style="width: 150px; height: 21px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie"&gt;IE developer centre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td class="insideTable" style="width: 269px; height: 21px"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr class="tableinner"&gt;       &lt;td class="insideTable" style="width: 222px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/silverlight"&gt;Silverlight developer centre&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td style="width: 150px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie"&gt;IE Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td class="insideTable" style="width: 269px"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Useful links...&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;table class="tableborder" style="width: 890px; height: 247px"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;&lt;a href="http://streaming.live.com/" mce_href="http://streaming.live.com/"&gt;Silverlight Streaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;&lt;a href="http://silverlight.net/Showcase/" mce_href="http://silverlight.net/Showcase/"&gt;Silverlight showcase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;&lt;a href="http://silverlight.net/Community/" mce_href="http://silverlight.net/Community/"&gt;Silverlight community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/"&gt;Microsoft Expression product information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asp.net/" mce_href="http://www.asp.net"&gt;ASP.NET Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;&lt;a href="http://expression.microsoft.com/" mce_href="http://expression.microsoft.com"&gt;Microsoft Expression community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dev.live.com/" mce_href="http://dev.live.com/"&gt;Live.com - online services for developers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;Get the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/news-press/newsletter/default.aspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/news-press/newsletter/default.aspx"&gt;Designer newsletter&lt;/a&gt; (Expression)&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;Get the &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx"&gt;UK Developer newsletter&lt;/a&gt; (MSDN Flash)&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/" mce_href="http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/"&gt;World Wide Telescope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mesh.com/" mce_href="http://www.mesh.com"&gt;Live Mesh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.photosynth.com/" mce_href="http://www.photosynth.com/"&gt;Photosynth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/"&gt;Microsoft Surface&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width="369"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width="623" colspan="2"&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx"&gt;&lt;img height="78" alt="remixuk_logo" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ukdevevents/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftatLondonFutureofWebApps2008_9E1D/remixuk_logo_3.jpg" width="240" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="SessionTitle" href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/remix08/agenda.aspx"&gt;Free access to video recordings from Remix UK 08&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Blogs for some of the people you may have met at FOWA...&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://wotudo.net/" mce_href="http://wotudo.net/"&gt;Paul Foster&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mtaulty.com/" mce_href="http://mtaulty.com"&gt;Mike Taulty&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/"&gt;Mike Ormond&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/"&gt;Eric Nelson&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/"&gt;David Gristwood&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pblog" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pblog"&gt;Paolo Barone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukisvdev/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukisvdev/"&gt;UK ISV Team&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8977971" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>markqu</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/markqu.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>2008-10-07 Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 SP1</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/07/2008-10-07-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/07/2008-10-07-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx</id><published>2008-10-07T20:07:00Z</published><updated>2008-10-07T20:07:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presentation:&lt;/strong&gt; What's new for Presentation&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Mike Taulty &lt;a href="http://mtaulty.com"&gt;http://mtaulty.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ASP.NET &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;ASP.NET website &lt;a href="http://www.asp.net/"&gt;http://www.asp.net&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;ASP.NET Videos &lt;a href="http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1"&gt;http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;jQuery Intellisense helper &lt;a title="http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx" href="http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;ASP.NET AJAX &lt;strong&gt;ScriptReferenceProfiler&lt;/strong&gt; control &lt;a title="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356" href="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;ASP.NET Rotuing &lt;a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Dynamic Data @ Mix08 &lt;a title="http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24" href="http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24"&gt;http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Dynamic Data Futures on CodePlex &lt;a title="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475" href="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows Presentation Foundation&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;WPF Site &lt;a href="http://windowsclient.net/"&gt;http://windowsclient.net&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Channel 9 &amp;quot;WPF Week&amp;quot; videos &lt;a href="http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/tags/WPFWeek"&gt;http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/tags/WPFWeek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Tim Sneath's blog post on the new features &lt;a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Greg Schechter's series on GPU based effects for WPF &lt;a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;WPF Toolkit Release on CodePlex (DataGrid) &lt;a title="http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963" href="http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Shader Effects and SplashScreen project templates on CodePlex &lt;a title="http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962" href="http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Client Profile &lt;a title="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx" href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx"&gt;http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presentation: &lt;/strong&gt;What's new in Data&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Presenter:&lt;/strong&gt; Eric Nelson &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Not already signed up to MSDN Flash? Then check out &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;Interested in Visual Basic? Then check out &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ADO.NET Entity Framework&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;MSDN Library &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;EF Dev Manager &lt;font color="#009933"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;FAQ &lt;font color="#009933"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Entity Framework Design &lt;font color="#009933"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Entity Framework sample project to explore ESQL and LINQ to Entities &lt;font color="#009933"&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples"&gt;http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;This tool allows you to play around with Entity SQL &lt;a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/esql"&gt;eSQLblast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font color="#009933"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;ADO.NET Data Services&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;MSDN Library &lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Team blog &lt;font color="#009933"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8991694" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author><category term="ADO.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ADO.NET/default.aspx" /><category term="Data" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Data/default.aspx" /><category term="LINQ" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx" /><category term="Visual Studio" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx" /><category term="WPF" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/WPF/default.aspx" /><category term="ASP.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-10-02 Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 SP1</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/02/2008-10-02-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/10/02/2008-10-02-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx</id><published>2008-10-02T21:15:00Z</published><updated>2008-10-02T21:15:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;H1&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presentation:&lt;/STRONG&gt; What's new for Presentation&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presenter:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Mike Ormond (&lt;A href="http://mikeo.co.uk/"&gt;http://mikeo.co.uk&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ASP.NET&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;ASP.NET website &lt;A href="http://www.asp.net/"&gt;http://www.asp.net&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;ASP.NET Videos &lt;A href="http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1"&gt;http://www.asp.net/learn/3.5-SP1&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;jQuery Intellisense helper &lt;A title=http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx href="http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.ipona.com/james/archive/2008/02/15/JQuery-IntelliSense-in-Visual-Studio-2008.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;ASP.NET AJAX &lt;STRONG&gt;ScriptReferenceProfiler&lt;/STRONG&gt; control &lt;A title=http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356 href="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=13356&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;ASP.NET Rotuing &lt;A title=http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeormond/archive/2008/05/14/using-asp-net-routing-independent-of-mvc.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Dynamic Data @ Mix08 &lt;A title=http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24 href="http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24"&gt;http://sessions.visitmix.com/?selectedSearch=T24&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Dynamic Data Futures on CodePlex &lt;A title=http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475 href="http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14475&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Windows Presentation Foundation&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;WPF Site &lt;A href="http://windowsclient.net/"&gt;http://windowsclient.net&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Channel 9 "WPF Week" videos &lt;A href="http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/tags/WPFWeek"&gt;http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/tags/WPFWeek&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Tim Sneath's blog post on the new features &lt;A title=http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2008/05/12/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Greg Schechter's series on GPU based effects for WPF &lt;A title=http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx href="http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/greg_schechter/archive/2008/05/12/a-series-on-gpu-based-effects-for-wpf.aspx&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;WPF Toolkit Release on CodePlex (DataGrid) &lt;A title=http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963 href="http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14963&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Shader Effects and SplashScreen project templates on CodePlex &lt;A title=http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962 href="http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962"&gt;http://www.codeplex.com/wpf/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=14962&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Client Profile &lt;A title=http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx"&gt;http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-intro-client-profile.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;H1&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presentation: &lt;/STRONG&gt;What's new in Data&lt;/H1&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presenter:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Eric Nelson &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Not already signed up to MSDN Flash? Then check out &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/flash/default.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;Interested in Visual Basic? Then check out &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/goto100&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ADO.NET Entity Framework&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;MSDN Library &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb399572.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;EF Dev Manager &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;FAQ &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Entity Framework Design &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Entity Framework sample project to explore ESQL and LINQ to Entities &lt;A title=http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples" mce_href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;This tool allows you to play around with Entity SQL &lt;A href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/esql"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;eSQLblast&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ADO.NET Data Services&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;MSDN Library &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc668792.aspx&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Team blog &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8974104" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>ericnel</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/ericnel.aspx</uri></author><category term="ADO.NET" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/ADO.NET/default.aspx" /><category term="Data" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Data/default.aspx" /><category term="LINQ" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/LINQ/default.aspx" /><category term="Visual Studio" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>2008-09-24 Visual Studio 2008 Seminar</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/09/24/event.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/ukdevevents/archive/2008/09/24/event.aspx</id><published>2008-09-24T23:00:00Z</published><updated>2008-09-24T23:00:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presentation:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Data and Data Access - State of the Nation&lt;BR&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Presenter:&lt;/STRONG&gt; Eric Nelson &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;General&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;ADO.NET Team Blog &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;Mike in our team &lt;A href="http://www.miketaulty.com/" mce_href="http://www.miketaulty.com/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://www.miketaulty.com&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; ( search Entity or LINQ ) 
&lt;LI&gt;Data Platform Developer Centre &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/data/default.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/data/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/data/default.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;Datasets &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/04/12/linq-to-sql-n-tier-smart-client.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/04/12/linq-to-sql-n-tier-smart-client.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2008/04/12/linq-to-sql-n-tier-smart-client.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;LINQ&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;LINQPad &lt;A href="http://www.linqpad.net/" mce_href="http://www.linqpad.net/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://www.linqpad.net/&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ADO.NET Entity Framework&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;EF Dev Manager &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;FAQ &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/dsimmons/pages/entity-framework-faq.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; 
&lt;LI&gt;Entity Framework Design &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/default.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ADO.NET Data Services&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Team blog &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/astoriateam&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;ADO.NET Sync Services &lt;A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726002.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726002.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb726002.aspx&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Microsoft Sync Framework&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;SQL Server Compact&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;Team blog &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/SQLServerCompact/" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/SQLServerCompact/"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#009933&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/SQLServerCompact/&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
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