John Papa is a professional Web Developer and storyteller. He currently leads the Academic Cloud Advocacy teams at Microsoft and formerly worked for Disney.
There is a LINQ to AD project on CodePlex [http://www.codeplex.com/LINQtoAD]. Its a project that has some good merit to it, especially since AD is so horrible to query. LINQ to AD allows you to query a AD structure for groups and users using LDAP. So you can write a query like this to get all user
I am using Instant VB from Tangible Software Solutions [http://tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com/] to convert all of my code samples from C# to VB in my upcoming book Data Services with Silverlight 2. [http://www.amazon.com/Data-Services-Silverlight-John-Papa/dp/0596523092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books
2009 was the year I was finally going to make it to London for DevWeek [http://www.devweek.com/]. I have been to conferences in Europe but oddly never to London. It seems each time it came up there was something I already had scheduled. So this year looked promising. I submitted a ton of topics and
I run a lot of virtual machines for a living. Sometimes it seems like I work for them and not the other way around. Today I converted a VPC image to a VMWare image using VMWare’s Converter program. Why? Because the image was really slow in VPC and I have had better experiences with VMWare Works
A lot has come out over the past few months and keeping up with the technology has been a whirlwind experience for everyone. Yesterday Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 was released [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1-is-on-msdn-today/] which began the first official live versi
