I just confirmed that on Tuesday July 22nd I will be in Albany, NY for an INETA sponsored user group meeting with the Tech Valley .NET User Group. I used to live in Albany so its going to be fun to check out the area and the user group. The session is titled Data Services with Silverlight 2 and here

Tuesday evening I will be presenting at the Miramar .NET User Group [http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=306] in Miramar Florida, sponsored by INETA [www.ineta.org]. The topic will be the Entity Framework, one which I am always excited to talk about! If you find yourself in the area (near Ft

My July 2008 Data Points column [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700340.aspx] was just released on the MSDN Magazine web site. This month I demonstrate how to use the Entity Framework in a multi-tiered architecture passing entities through the layers via WCF. The code sample [http://downl

It’s really semantics, but the title of my book has been changed slightly to now be called “Data Services with Silverlight 2”. Titles are not super important to me, but it became clear to me as the book was flowing out in Word and OneNote that the many of the topics were tending to be focused on d

I set out to write a book on data access, services, and Silverlight 2 [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/as-it-once-was-i-am-writing-a-book/] and stick to those topics faithfully. I have a sticky note on my desk that shows the main topics and the word “thin” as a reminder to myself to stick to the point