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Posted:
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:03 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, Events, Home, Newsletter, VSTS, Architecture, SharePoint, WPF, Silverlight
Silverlight 3 will soon be released. And to properly celebrate the excitement of its release, ObjectSharp is teaming up with Microsoft to present an action-packed first look at the UX3 platform, live from the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto.
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Last Week Mike Flasko from the ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) Team blogged about what’s coming in V1.5 which will ship prior to VS 2010. I applaud these out of band releases. One of the new features is support for two-way data binding in the client library
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I’m sure we’re going to look back at 2009 and say “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ and it will no doubt be interesting. Here’s my predictions…. Social Networking Everywhere Although online social networking companies are already struggling
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DevTeach Montreal is less than a month away but it’s not too late to register. This is a great conference with sessions covering .NET FX, Future, SQL Server, VSTS/Team System, Silverlight, Agile Development, Software Architecture, ASP.NET. Aside from
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An early Christmas present from our friends in Redmond! Beginning October 1, 2008 subscribers to VSTS Developer Edition and Database Edition will have access to the additional SKU. This was reported this week over at the MSDN VS 2010 & .NET Framework
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With all this heat, I almost wrote "perspiring". Why not beat the heat, and stay cool inside while watching these web casts from MS Canada targeting aspiring architects. With the predicted shortage in IT in the upcoming years, we're sure to
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Last week at TechEd I gave a talk about building data access layers with the Entity Framework. I covered various approaches from not having a data access layer at all, to fully encapsulation of the entity framework - and some hybrid approaches along the
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A quick heads up to let you know that VS 2008 Service Pack 1 is now available (links below). It typically takes a couple of months from this point before we'll see a final release. This Service Pack includes new cool feature: ADO.NET Entity Framework
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Posted:
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:06 PM
by
Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Orcas, ADO.NET, SQL, Services, Home, Newsletter, Architecture, VS2008, Entity Framework
In Part 0: Introduction of this series after asking the question "Does the Entity Framework replace the need for a Data Access Layer?", I waxed lengthy about the qualities of a good data access layer. Since that time I've received a quite a
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During the past month, Danny Simmons let us all officially know that SP1 of VS 2008/.NET Framework 3.5 will be the delivery mechanism for the Entity Framework and the Designer, and that we should see a beta of the entire SP1 very soon as well. No release
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