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June 2006 - Posts

Atlanta Code Camp videos are a hit

posted Friday, June 23, 2006 1:52 PM by jwooley
I just received word from Jim Mintel at Wrox that the videos from the Atlanta Code Camp are a hit. They are seeing 200 views Wed and 300 Thurs and already another 100 this morning. That's with relatively little advertising. Considering the fact that Read More
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LINQ to Foo

posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:35 PM by jwooley
Soma just announced some additional re-branding of some of the LINQ stack. In addition to LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities, which were announced at Tech Ed, the ADO.Net stack will include LINQ to DataSet. Additionally, standard LINQ is being Read More
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ADO.Next and the Entity Framework

posted Monday, June 19, 2006 12:37 PM by jwooley
Last month, a document describing ADO.Next was published and quickly pulled. A new version was just posted to http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/. I read the original document, but neglected to save a copy of it before it was pulled. Skimming over the new Read More
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Tallahassee Code Camp

posted Sunday, June 18, 2006 1:59 AM by jwooley
The presentation downloads for the Tallahassee Code Camp are available on the download page of this blog. Read More
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LINQ Webcast online

posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:14 PM by jwooley
Last month, WROX press recorded several of the sessions at the Atlanta Code Camp, including mine on how the language changes in VB 9 and C# 3 lead to LINQ. If you missed the talk, you can now watch it online at http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-291776.html. Read More
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Atlanta VB Study Group rises from the wreckage.

posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:27 PM by jwooley
I am pleased to announce that the Atlanta Visual Basic Study Group is back! Please join us next Wednesday (6/21/2006) at the company I work for in Sandy Springs (see below for the location information) who came through when I had 3 other locations which Read More
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DLINQ renamed

posted Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:03 PM by jwooley
As is typical at Microsoft conferences, they have a way of announcing code name changes. Yesterday, they renamed WinFx. Today, Andres Aquiar stated that DLINQ is being changed to "LINQ to SQL". In addition, they are working on "LINQ to Entities" Read More
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Framework 3.0 replacing WinFx?

posted Monday, June 12, 2006 3:19 PM by jwooley
As most of you know already, Soma Somasegar, announced last week that the WinFx has been rechristned as the .NET Framework 3.0.  As usual, Kirk Allen Evans does a good job of debunking the criticism for the change. Brad Abrams, formerly head of the Read More
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LINQ over Datasets (or the Bang is back in VB9)

posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 5:00 PM by jwooley
One of the features that was added to the May CTP of LINQ was the ability to query over DataSets. There are some minimal methods of manipulating data in existing implementations of the DataSet, including filtering with DataViews, the .Filter method and Read More
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Atlanta Code Camp Videos posted

posted Friday, June 09, 2006 6:11 PM by jwooley
At the Atlanta Code Camp, Jim Minatel from Wrox made a surprise offer to record the presentations of several of the speakers. He recorded, the infamous Wally McClure (like we really needed more Wally in our lives ;-), Jean-Luc David, and myself. Jean-Luc's Read More
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LINQ Links

posted Monday, June 05, 2006 3:59 PM by jwooley
I typically try to avoid making link blog posts, but wanted to call your attention to a couple good posts recently regarding LINQ. The Microsoft XML team just put up a good collection of links. I agree completely with the initial statement that the community Read More
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