an overview of my TechEd SA experience…. [read more…]

[A DevLife post]

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Kate Gregory and I leave tomorrow for South Africa to present at TechEd. [Read more…]

[A DevLife post]

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org

One of the talks I will be doing at Visual Studio Connections is “Deciphering C# for VB Developers”. One of the BEST resources for converting your code back and forth is O’Reilly’s C# & VB.NET Conversion Pocket Reference. I have a slide in the presentation devoted just to the book. Now I have dozen copies of the book to give away at the presentation. Thanks to Marsee Henon of O’Reilly!

Here is the description of the presentation

As a Visual Basic developer, have you ever searched for a code sample and then found one that is exactly what you need but written in the C# language instead? The differences between the two language syntax are substantially more than just semi-colons and curly braces. This session is intended to help you understand such idiosyncracies as backwards variable declaration, stringent rules for scoping variables and methods, compound assignment operators and more. This session will be given by a Visual Basic programmer who has felt the pain both deciphering and writing C# code and wants to help you avoid some of the same pitfalls.

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The agenda for TechEd South Africa is now online.

I see that two of my session will be in Session Room 1 – the big room. This room as a capacity of 800 people (okay not so bad as TEchEd US where it’s more like 8,000). But still…. gulp.

The fun begins on Sunday evening at 7pm (Oct 23) with the welcome party!

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I really enjoyed presenting at the CNY .NET Developer Group last week. It was a nice surprise to discover that the meeting was held about 2 miles from where I lived until I was 10 years old. This was the third meeting of this new group and the room was filled to capacity (about 20 or so) which is rea lly impressive for a new group. Andy Beaulieu, the leader of the group, has been getting great attendance since the group started and he should be congratulated. It’s a great thing to have a resource like this and it is clear that Syracuse has been needing it for a while – there is a lot of technology going on there. I spoke about ADO.NET 2.0 and Andy has posted my session powerpoint and code demos on the user group site. They are on my own website as well, on the Presentations page.

Syracuse is easy to get to and I highly recommend this group to speakers who are willing to make the trip. The group is only 1.5 hours from where my parents live and I still have family and friends right in Syracuse, so it’s a fun trip for me. Another hot item that may make it worth the trip is the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.

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A few weeks ago as I prepared for the weekend Code Camp IV in Waltham, I was going back and forth finalizing my four presentations, three of which were on topics that couldn’t be farther from each other. Two talks were related to Web Services: WS Security Fundamentals and Overview of WSE 3.0. A third talk was on data access and the last was on adding TabletPC inking capabilites to the online Virtual Earth mapping application. My brain was everywhere.

I am feeling the same today as I am working on my three talks for TechEd South Africa. Two are somewhat related but still very different: Overview of WSE 3 and Introducing Indigo/WCF. The third is a data access talk on ADO.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 Integration. But of course this as much fun as watching t.v. while constantly clicking on the remote to change channels. Very natural.

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Programming Virtual Earth

• This was a chalk talk, so there is not a formal powerpoint or demos. Check the Virtual Earth category on my weblog for any code samples or insights I post.
• Microsoft’s implementation of Virtual Earth on MSN
• www.viavirtualearth.com   Developer Center run by Dr. Neil Roodyn. Contains articles, references and a gallery of sample applications.
• Virtual Earth on Channel 9
• javascript files for programming Virtual Earth  MapControl.js   ve.js

What’s new in ADO.NET 2.0

There are 3 pages of resources (articles, books and blogs) at the end of the powerpoint presentation, which can be found on my Talks page. Scroll down to “What’s new in ADO.NET 2.0”.

Note that the rules for getting SqlDependency to work for non-admins is now in the powerpoint and can also be found here on the Microsoft Data Access blog.

Demystifying cryptography tools used for WSE, Indigo and beyond

I have modifed the presentation from earlier versions. Please find it on my Talks page under “Web Services Security for Humans: Security Fundamentals prep for WSE and Indigo”.

What’s new in WSE 3.0

1. MSDN WSE Developer Center
2. Multiple videos from WSE 3.0 SDR are all found on the above page
3. Security and messaging Hands on Labs available on above page
4. What’s New in WSE 3.0 article by Mark Fussell

I have uploaded the powerpoint for Overview of WSE 3.0 that I presented at Code Camp IV in Waltham.

You can find them at www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx. Scroll down the page for “Overview of WSE 3.0”.

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I have uploaded the latest versions of my  powerpoint and demo files for this presentation.

You can find them at www.thedatafarm.com/talks.aspx. Scroll down the page for “What’s New in ADO.NET 2.0”

I removed the previous versions so that everything is up-to-date.

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Just a reminder that I will be presenting at the CNY .NET Developers User Group in my home territory of E. Syracuse, NY this Wednesday. My parents still live only about 1 1/2 hours away, it was really easy to justify the 6 hour drive each way as I will actually go to visit my folks for a few days and then do the talk while I’m there. Darn I wish they didn’t still have dialup!

I will be presenting on What’s New in ADO.NET 2.0, a session I enjoy doing quite a lot!!

Although CNY is a new INETA member, this is not an INETA talk, however, I do have two others coming up. WeProgram.NET in December and TechValley.NET in January.