Some key differences from last year's Tech Ed experience in Boston.... First, we are in Orlando, Florida where I am reliably informed as my first visit to this part of Florida is an experience akin to Las Vegas with out the glitz. So far, Orlando seems to be living up to it's reputation - from my...

Join us at Tech Ed 2007 where will be discussing the ADO.NET Entities from a ADO.NET Provider writer's perspective. Recently, Microsoft has announced a delay in the release of LINQ for...

We' have delivered a slew of new releases that spans a significant portion of our product line over the past few weeks. This should, understandably explain the silence here for the past few weeks...

We are doing our 2007 round of Expert Series in even more locations this year. Here's an abstract for the level of information you can expect to hear: New development platforms and emerging architectural standards are changing the way we view data, challenging long held views on data access...

Stephen Wynkoop, Founder of the SQL Server World Wide Users Group (SSWUG) writes about 'Understanding Managed Code' in today's editorial on SSWUG.org. The abstract below, make this nothing short of essential reading: "Many NET applications fail to meet user...

I was contacted by M David Peterson, with some additional details on getting FFClickOnce to work in a way to drive you less insane. Definitly worth a...

Getting ClickOnce to work outside of any non-Microsoft browsers such as Firefox is a pain. Scott Hanselman has found a way out of this pickle and talks about it on his...

Wired Magazine continues a fascinating thread which I first picked up on Jonathan Schwartz's blog on what may be quickly becoming the next frontier for enterprise computing. The problem can be framed quite succinctly - how...

ClickOnce gets a reasonable amount of recognition, at least in the .NET world as a simple, tightly integrated but most importantly an effective mechanism to deploy .NET applications. With every new release of a major Microsoft platform, such as Vista, it seems to be always fraught with...