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

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

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.

Scott Densmore [http://blogs.msdn.com/scottdensmore/archive/2005/08/01/446190.aspx] discusses some of the new features in the upcoming release of Enterprise Library 2.0 and how they are trying to get it inline with Whidbey. He also blogs here [http://blogs.msdn.com/scottdensmore/archive/2005/08/16/4

Geoff passed 8th grade math [https://www.johnpapa.net/blogs/geoff.appleby/archive/2005/10/26/133834.aspx] so I thought I would join him in Jr High :-) What is funny is that my daughter is doing math in 1st grade that I was doing in 4th grade. Boy has school changed! <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cell