Tonight I will be joining the Sarasota SQL Server User group [http://sarasotasql.net/] and the Sarasota .NET User group [http://www.sarasotadev.net/] at their combined May 2008 meeting. I will be presenting the Entity Framework and LINQ using the new bits that came out 2 days ago on Monday including

Soma [http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx] announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded [http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-

My friend and colleague Brian Peek [http://www.brianpeek.com/] has been developing some awesome and fun applications for a while. As a contributing author to MSDN's Coding 4 Fun Bran has been creating some cool applications that you should really check out at his site at www.brianpeek.com [http:

I've had some requests lately to write some articles that work with LINQ to SQL. I've ben focusing on the Entity Framework a lot due to its vast nature and that fact that its still relatively unknown to many people. So I am going to work on a LINQ to SQL project that ties into a multi tier m

Today I decided to try out a new theme for my site. Rich Mercer has a handful of nice themes [http://richmercer.com/graffiti-themes/#deepblue] posted in his site including this one, which is a variation of the Point Space Blue theme. I'm going to try it out and see where it takes me. Its a prett