Just published is my article on Designing an Entity Data Model [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/02/DataPoints/default.aspx] with the Entity Framework tools. This article is part of my Data Points column [http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/02/DataPoints/default.aspx] in the Febru

This Holiday season I received a nice gift from the Microsoft MVP award program as I was renewed as a Microsoft C# MVP again for 2008. My program lead, Rafael, notified me yesterday that I was renewed. The MVP award is great for many reasons and I am proud to be a part of the community. Congratula

Technorati Tags: mobile smartphone compact msdn "data points" [http://technorati.com/tags/mobile%20smartphone%20compact%20msdn%20"data%20points"] I enjoy writing mobile device applications. Especially when I can combine modern architectural patterns that I use in most enterprise

I am setting up my schedule for the first quarter of 2008, and the first .NET user group I will be heading to as an INETA [http://www.ineta.org] speaker in 2008 is the Space Coast .NET User Group in Melbourne, Florida [http://scdnug.org/default.aspx]. I will be presenting an approximately 2 hour lon

I had a chance this week to breeze through a new book titled LINQ Quickly [http://www.packtpub.com/linq-quick-starter/book]. It is published by Packt Publishing and written by N. Shateesh Kumar. The book is about 225 pages long and is focuses on how to use LINQ with various  targets. First I will re