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Microsoft deprecates its ADO.NET Oracle provider (System.Data.OracleProvider)
I found out today that Microsoft has decided to deprecate its provider for Oracle. In a related note, I got quoted in Jeffery Schwartz’s news article in Visual Studio Magazine about this new development. -Ben
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 4/2/09 — The Unit Testing Throwdown
The Beantown .NET User Group is meeting this Thursday, 4/2/09. The topic for this month’s meeting is Unit Testing. More specifically, it’s “The Unit Testing Throwdown.” We’ll be discussing a range of topics in unit testing with the hope of establishing a list of real-world best practices. This will also be our first meeting at…
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BDC, Inc. Public Training Schedule for March & April 2009
After a numerous requests from potential students, I’ve finally gotten around to scheduling some open-enrollment classes here in the Boston-area. I’m going to be teaching my Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) / Team Foundation Server (TFS) class, Test-Driven Development, and NHibernate classes in Cambridge, MA throughout March and April 2009. Here’s the schedule: 3/23/09 –…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 3/5/2009: Bill Wilder — "Microsoft's Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight"
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week — Thursday, March 5th. For this month’s meeting, we’ve got Bill Wilder talking about “Microsoft’s Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 3/5. Click…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 2/5/2009: Michael O'Hearn "State Management in ASP.NET"
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting on Thursday, February 5th. For this month’s meeting, we’ve got Michael O’Hearn doing “State Management in ASP.NET”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 2/5. Click here to RSVP Our location (75 State…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on 1/8/2009: Michael Stiefel, "Do Domain Modeling and Agile Conflict?"
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting tonight — Thursday, January 8th. For this month’s meeting, we’ve got Michael Stiefel doing “Do Domain Modeling and Agile Conflict?”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP by 3pm on 1/8. Click here to RSVP Our…
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A nice start to 2009.
Yesterday morning was January 1st, 2009. As I was rolling out of bed to make coffee, I stuffed my headphones in my ears and turned on the radio on my (completely functional) Zune. I caught the tail end of a new story on NPR and then they started a new segment about helping the elderly…
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"Team Foundation Server 2008 In Action" is now available
I just got my copy of Jamil Azher’s new book, “Team Foundation Server 2008“, in the mail. It’s an excellent book. Definitely worth picking up. Lots of great content and, best of all, my name is on the back cover — and we all know that that’s what REALLY makes a good book. 🙂 Seriously,…
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Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 12/4/2008: Jesse Liberty on Silverlight
Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, December 4th. For this month’s meeting, we’ve got Jesse Liberty doing “Skinning Silverlight Controls”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you’re planning to come, please RSVP via by 3pm on 12/4. Click here to RSVP. Our location…
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I'm now a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Team System
I’ve been awarded the Microsoft MVP for C# for 3 years in a row. I still write mountains of code using C# and ASP.NET but after a few years of doing tons of consulting, training, blogging, and talks on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server, I’ve finally made the switch. I just got…