Vermont IT Jobs: Burlington based Microsoft Gold Partner looking for .NET Devs

Software Engineers Competitive Computing , aka C2, is seeking Software Engineers to design, architect, and maintain .NET applications to support our clients’ eCommerce business requirements. The successful candidates will create high-quality ASP.NET web and eCommerce sites using web-based tools and techniques...

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Heading to San Francisco for the ESDC Conference and the East Bay .NET User Group

Tomorrow I am planning to do something that has caused my husband to laugh uncontrollably. I’m going to get out of bed at 4am. Yes it’s true! That's because I have a 6:30am flight that will take me first to O’Hare airport and then to San Francisco. Why am I leaving beautiful Vermont just when the lovely...

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Vermont IT Jobs: Database Developer/Admin at Gardener’s Supply

Join the team at Gardener's Supply Company! We work hard AND offer a fun place to work with summer bocce games, BBQs, ping-pong tournaments, employee garden plots and much more! We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and outstanding benefits (including a tremendous discount on plants...

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Vermont IT Jobs: Some more .NET Developer Jobs, Drupal and FoxPro, too, in Seven Days

This week’s Seven Days listed a few more .NET developer jobs and one for a Drupal dev. One company I hadn’t even heard of before so happy to discover them. 1. Here’s one I blogged about recently at an wonderful (I’ve worked with them) insurance company in Middlebury, Co-Operative...

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Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010

If like me, you have a “can’t live with it, can’t live without it” relationship with Crystal Reports and have made a significant investment in reporting with their tools, you might be digging around the VS2010 RC looking for Crystal. CR has been embedded into Visual Basic and Visual Studio for many versions...

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Looking for Astoria aka ADO.NET Data Services aka WCF Data Services in VS2010?

Remember... the data service is an item template, not a project template….and that it’s been renamed to WCF Data Services. After you create a project (I usually use an empty web app to host the service), you can find the template in the Web section. Or just use the handy search feature in...

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EF4 Breaking Change: EF4 inner joins affect eager loading many to many

Hooray! Turns out it was a bug ("unintended breaking change) and it's getting fixed for RTM! :) [ see Connect submission and Microsoft's response ] Great catch George! This is an edge case that I had not noticed, but was brought to my attention this morning in an email from Dave Russell who pointed...

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Where are the EF4 providers?

Thanks to Danny Simmons ' comment below clarifying that the provides that support EF3.5 will still work for EF4 " just without new provider affecting features like model first." As far as I can tell, and confirmed by Fabio Pandolfo (@fabiopand on twitter) who is also on the hunt, DevArt's Oracle...

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Vermont IT Jobs: Part-time FoxPro development gig in Burlington through July

From Seven Days Classifieds : Temporary position on breast cancer research project (http://www.uvm.edu/~vbcss). FoxPro for Windows knowledge and experience is required. Half to full-time through July. Strong teamwork skills needed. Flexible hours. Salary commensurate with skills and experience. Send...

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Entity Framework Lazy Loading by Context or by Property?

When Entity Framework finally brought in support for Lazy Loading, there were still complaints. The lazy loading in EF4 is context based, not property based as defined by some of the other ORMs. (I’m not sure which ones or how many.) I was thinking about this today and realized that EF does, in...

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