I just checked the Las Vegas forecast for the next week as I head out for MIX tomorrow.. But I know mostly I have to dress for indoors and a/c.
WROX AJAX book cover
Wally is wondering which of the two possible covers might work for an upcoming book.
I thought I’d help him out by make the decision a little harder.
Mike Taulty’s LINQ to SQL Screencast series
Mike Taulty has been doing short screen casts about LINQ to SQL. I love his approach as I know from experience how difficult it is to try to give a decent presentation of LINQ to SQL in a single 90 minute session when you have to start from scratch.
There are 9 so far and more coming. Here is a link to the latest (that includes links to the first 8 as well). Stay tuned for more.
EDM Wizard patch for Orcas Beta1 is available
From the ADO.NET Team blog:
Late last week, after bits had been finalized, we found a bug in the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Wizard that shipped with Visual Studio “Orcas” beta 1. The problem has now been corrected.
Please download and install the patch available at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f69e9eb8-0ebd-4fba-a4cc-2050297ba75b&displaylang=en to fix the problem.
An International Bar Room Brawl of Ideas at DevTeach
Panel on Open Source in the Microsoft Community at DevTeach
This year the bonus session (Wednesday May 16 at 18:00) will be a panel of speakers debating the Open Source in the Microsoft Community. This panel discussion takes a look at open source in the Microsoft community from technical, cultural, and business perspectives in a frank discussion with recognizable contributors to and users of open source software for Microsoft platforms. Panelists are: Alan Griver, Oren Eini, Jeremy Miller, Roy Osherove and François Beauregard.
The best part is that Ted Neward will be moderating the panel. There is nothing moderate about Ted Neward though. He will fan the flames for sure. This will be fun.
“Blimey!” – Silverlight Rad Controls from telerik
I have been futzing with WPF/E today trying to get the concepts down and when I looked up, I saw a post from Mike Taulty that said telerik has Silverlight radControls!
The “blimey” comes from MIke, because the relative American exlamation is R-rated! 🙂
Very cool demos.
Installing Silverlight (WPF/E)? Don’t forget the project template.
It took me a while to figure out how to get the WPF/E project template into Visual Studio 2005. Read more…
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Telerik’s new Reporting Tool
In their Q1 release, telerik is including the first release of telerik Reporting. With my well-documented, love/hate relationship with Crystal Reports, I was definitely eager to see telerik’s implementation. Telerik is all about simplicity (of use) and design. So this first pass at Reporting has some really great mechanisms for formatting reports in a CSS-like manner, which I really like. Another big win for me over Crystal is that while Crystal has evolved into a .NET tool, telerik’s was designed in .NET. So you can interact with all of the controls in the report in the same manner as any other control in .NET.
Another benefit is the ease of using the reports in a winform or a webform. The only thing I know that is different is that the webforms don’t support multi-column reports.
While there are definitely some more complex things I can achieve in Crystal (and I have the scars to prove it) that I can’t yet do in this first version of telerik Reporting, I expect great things to come of this tool as we see it growing over future releases.
On top of all of this, I’m happy that I can actually copy and paste more than one control at a time.
There’s a lot more to see in there. Check out the download. You can also download the extensive help files.
Three things Developers might not know about ASP.NET (and should)
I watched a short interview with Scott Guthrie and learned some interesting things about ASP.NET (such as it is the technology behind MySpace’s 4 BILLION page views a day)… read more…
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77 degrees today!
While there are still a few patches of snow on the ground, we have had a spate of warm summer like weather for the past few days. Last time I looked this morning the thermometer said it was 77 degrees! Where I live we aren’t supposed to do our planting before Memorial Day (sees and hardy plants are okay, but not things like tomatoes, many types of herbs and other annuals) – that’s how long we can expect frost for. Yet here it is April 23rd and it was 65 at 7am and now nearly 80 degrees. Crazy weather. Beautiful weather. I’m looking at my garden (which was covered with snow only 4 days ago) and feeling as though I am way behind the 8 ball already in getting it ready!