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I am retiring this blog and replacing it with two new blogs:My technical blog will cover .NET, SQL Server, etc. and will be hosted on asp.net.My personal blog will cover triathlons, running, family, e...
I just uploaded the slides and samples from my 3 talks at the March 2009 DevConnections conference.The Talks:ADX201: Coming Up to Speed with LINQLINQ (Language INntegrated Query) is one of the ne...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services has been out about 9 months or so now and I've finally gotten a chance to dig into my favorite reporting server product.My top five new features:A...
I am putting out a call for abstracts to present at the Fall 2009 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov 9-13 2009. The due date for submissions is April 5, 2009. F...
I contributed a blog post to the Microsoft MVP Summit 2009 Blog on Lucy's Legacy Exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. If you enjoy paleontolgy/archeology/history/African culture ...
Lately, technologies like ASP.NET MVC (which hasn’t evenbeen released), and client-focused AJAXhave dominated the mindspace of the ASP.NET community. But in reality, mostASP.NET developers are s...
This was to be the week of a few easy runs and lot of carbs. It was time to enjoy my hard work and get psychologically ready for the race--the California International Marathon (a point to point race ...
This was to be the week of a few easy runs and lot of carbs. It was time to enjoy my hard work and get psychologically ready for the race. I had been battling sciatica in my left leg and buttock for s...
This was to be the week of a few easy runs and lot of carbs. It was time to enjoy my hard work and get psychologically ready for the race. I had been battling sciatica in my left leg and buttock for s...
Just posted my session materials from Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, part of DevConnections Las Vegas, Nov 10-13, 2008.The updated materials, which can be found here, include both slides and samp...
I am putting out a call for abstracts to present at the Spring 2009 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando, March 23-26th 2009. The due date for submissions is September 6, 2009. Fo...
I just posted my slides and samples for a new talk I presented at the Fort Wayne, Indiana .NET Users Group.I thought the talk went well and hope you enjoy the slides and samples which you can find alo...
FWIW, I found it helpful to create this table to compare the query syntax of C# and VB and how it translates into SQL. C# LINQVB LINQANSI SQLfromFromFROMselectSelectSELECTwhereWhereWHEREorderbyOrder B...
Dear Fellow Speaker,With the Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando just around the corner, we would like to start planning the Fall 2008 show, and have it finalized by sometime in April....
It's certainly easy to setup a site to require SSL. Just use IIS Manager and check the Require secure channel (SSL) checkbox on the Authentication and access control dialog on the Directory S...
The next DevConnections show is rolling into Orlando in April. This should be a great show, including a couple of pre-conference workshops that Steve Walther and I will be presenting on ASP.NET AJAX. ...
Visual Studio 2008 is a done deal. It's just a matter of releasing the various versions to the people.Right now, you can download a copy of any of the express versions (VIsual Web Developer Expres...
I just had to do it again: choose 27 sessions (plus a few workshops) from 188 submitted abstracts. Had to go from 38 speakers to 13. I don't think I can emphasize enough how difficult it is to mak...
I have posted the updated samples from my three sessions at last week's extremely successful Microsoft ASP.NET Connections show in Las Vegas (part of DevConnections which had more than 5100 attend...
Shirley Brothers (DevConnections Goddess) just emailed me to tell me we are 78 people short of 5,000 attendees for the upcoming DevConnections conferences in Las Vegas. Once again, this will be a dyna...
This from Steve Dybing at Microsoft:We know many of you have been testing the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC images, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx. It has been brought to ...
I invite you to submit abstracts for the Spring 2008 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference, to be held in Orlando, April 20-24th. Abstracs are due by Oct 26th, 2008.The conference will take place s...
This a revision to prior postings of my ASP.NET Data Controls Tips & Tricks talk. This time for my talk at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections March, 2007 in sunny Orlando.Includes a few new s...
I just uploaded my slides and samples for my Programming SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services talk at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections last week in sunny Orlando.This talk focused on programming SSRS ...
As one of my jobs as Conference Chair, twice a year, I put out a "call for abstracts" for people looking to apply to be a speaker at a Microsoft ASP.NET Connections. In the past, people just...
So I desperately needed to rollback the deletion of six source code files, which, by the way, were asp.net custom control classes. See previous postOkay, so maybe the command is nested somewhere below...
I can't believe it. How stupid is Microsoft? I swear. They ship a supposed rock-solid server-based source control system and don't provide a rollback feature? I didn't discover this until ...
A couple of months ago I finished writing and recording a great new set of self-paced videos on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in a partnership with AppDev. A few notes on the course:Over 9 hours ...
XML, Web Services, ASP.NET, etc. guru/author/speaker Dan Wahlin, along with buddy Spike Xavier, has recorded a great song entitled NO MORE DLL HELL. If you've lived in the Microsoft development wo...
Stephen Walther (author of a number of books including the very popular ASP.NET Unleashed and a personal friend) has just released Beta 1 of this AJAX framework: Lollygag. I saw this framework back at...
Over 130 atendees survived a day with me delivering my ASP.NET 2.0 JumpStart Workshop at DevConnections. Thankfully, I had three esteemed proctors who helped a lot: Stephen Walther, Alex Homer, and Da...
It was a crazy trip to Roanoke with all sorts of travel problems but what a great couple of talks in Roanoke. I want to thank the very hospitable Robin Edwards and Howard Buckner, my meeting lead...
I'm flying to Roanoke, VA this week to do a double header on Thursday, October 5, 2006. The talks:A "How To" Guide for SQL Server Reporting Services at the Roanoke Valley SQL Server...
We had a problem recently where one of out developers (a summer intern) left with some files checked out of the Team System Source Control system. Turns out there is no way through Visual Studio 2005 ...
Red Gate software is giving away the current version of their their SQL Prompt tool to everyone. This is until October 3rd when they will ship the new version of this great tool. (By the way, there ar...
I finally finished writing the labs for my SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services class on Monday (Sept 18th). And then I spent the last three-ish nights turning chapter edits back to my wonderful editor ...
I just posted the samples and PDF version of the slides on my page at the Deep Training site.There's lots of nice, useful Data Control/Data Source controls code, including the following 8 tip...
Just ran into the nasty Report Builder error where you attempt to run a report based on a local report model and it barfs with a Report Execution Error. A click of the Details button reveals this:Keyw...
Deep Training (my training company) still has some open slots for the ASP.NET 2.0 with C# class we are teaching in Seattle September 25-29. Anyone interested in signing up, I will be happy to offer a ...
In his well-read blog, Scott Guthrie today announces the renaming of Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX toolkit. In fact, Atlas now breaks into three products:The client-side “Atlas” javascript l...
If you've ever encountered a message along the lines of "not associated with a trusted connection to SQL Server", the problem is usually the SQL Server not supporting mixed mode (a....
Okay, I submitted the labs for chapter 7 yesterday for my SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services course I am writing. Only 5 more labs to complete (plus a little writing for the non-lab portion of chapter...
Today we started the videotaping of my SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services courseware that I am writing under contract for AppDev. The recording is being done at AppDev's offices in Eden Prairie, M...
In SQL Server Reporting Services you can use the almost identical string concatenation operators: moe and curly, er. I mean + and &.Unlike in VB./vBA, the difference has nothing to do with Nulls s...
Well here I am in Eden Prarie, Minnesota finishing up my slides for the first day of taping of my SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services course I am writing and recording for AppDev.
I visited the AppDev...
The march towards recording my new SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services videos continues. Still have about 3 chapters to do (about because I currently am working on 2 chapters so it's an estimate)....
Okay, this one is simple but frankly I always forget it because I don't use it that much AND because there are so many similar sounding classes, properties, and methods that it's not obvious.
To pull ...
I wouldn't think it would be so hard how to figure out how I can blog from my Sprint 6700 (Mobile PC 5.0) phone. I mean I don't exactly live on the bleeding edge.
Is anyone else blogging from the...
I presented my new and improved talk on ASP.NET 2.0 Data Control Tips & Tricks tonight (August 14, 2006) in Burlington VT at Julie Lerman's wonderful VT .Net User Group.
There about 27 p...
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