This week I have been spending some free time in the reviewing the VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate. There are some nice features in the product that I am really excited about such as the new data designers and the TableAdapter in ADO.NET 2. Of course the oft discussed generics are pretty awesome, too.

I went out to grab the VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate [http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/] and the SQL Server 2005 September CTP [http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005/productinfo/ctp.mspx] a few days ago from the MSDN subscriber site [https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions]. The download took a lo

If you are going to be in the Albany, NY area on Tuesday, Nov 8th, stop by at 6:30pm at the Tech Valley .NET User Group [http://www.tvug.net/] meeting. I'll be presenting and demonstrating the enhancements to ADO.NET 2 [http://www.tvug.net/site/294/default.aspx] using the latest release candidat

The amount of good content in the Microsoft WebCasts is quite amazing. The conferences such as VSlive, Tech Ed, Code Camps and Dev Connections are great too. Of course there are the occasional duds, but overall there is a lot of good content in there. For me, what sets apart a good presentation is n

A few months ago I am finishing up my article on System.Transactions [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/DataPoints/] for MSDN Magazine [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag] at about 3am, decide to hit the sack and review the article one last time before I submit it the next day (the due d