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What would you most like for Christmas 2009 as a software developer?
From to … Dear Father Christmas, I would like… for Christmas 2009 And lest we...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009
Migration to .NET of 950,000 lines of Visual Basic code
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Last year I spent a lot of time...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009
UK MSDN Podcast finds a new home – info on subscription details, ITunes, Google Reader etc
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink I have been producing a regular...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast 015 – SQL Azure at TechEd Europe
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink While at TechEd Europe in November...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast 014 – Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services at TechEd Europe
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink This podcast was recorded at TechEd...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast 013 – Code Contracts at TechEd Europe
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink While at TechEd Europe in November...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/10/2009
Windows Azure Platform gets a Current Status Dashboard
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink We are getting closer to being 100%...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/09/2009
Decorate your room with development posters, cheat sheets and more
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink Totally new to me is the Developer...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/04/2009
Feeling very Christmassy today – decorated the team logo
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink It is already December 3rd, we have...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/03/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 012 - Pex automated testing at TechEd Europe
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink [NOTE: Shows 12 and above are not...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/01/2009
Windows 7 resources for developers – in one place
Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson. Permalink My group has been pulling together a...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/01/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for December 2nd: REST or SOAP in 2010?
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/29/2009
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Lazy Loading
[This is the fifth in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/26/2009
QandA: Is the ADO.NET Entity Data Model designer fixed in .NET 4?
[I haven’t done QandAs for a long while – very remiss of me.] Anyway, I have been asked this one so...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/24/2009
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Complex Types and Entities
[This is the fourth in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/24/2009
SQL Azure and Entity Framework sessions from PDC 2009
Two areas I am looking at right now are SQL Azure and Entity Framework 4. PDC had plenty of content...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/23/2009
Free Online and Offline .NET, SQL and Azure Training Resources from Microsoft
I was asked a little while back to pull together the best training resources for .NET development to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/23/2009
T4 Templates and the answer to life, the universe and everything
[This is the third in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2009
Tangible T4 Editor – a life saver
I have been working with T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) lately thanks to the Entity...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2009
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 - Templated Code Generation
[This is the second in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/19/2009
SQL Azure slides and links from EdgeUG session
A big thanks to all those who attended last night to hear about SQL Azure and SQL Server 2008 R2. I...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/19/2009
Using SQL Server Management Studio R2 with SQL Azure
As I mentioned earlier this week, we now have a CTP release of a version of SSMS that is SQL Azure...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/17/2009
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 – Simple Model First Example
This is the first in a series of posts on getting started with the new features in Entity Framework...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/17/2009
TechEd Europe 2009 Highlights and Lowlights
It is Friday 13th Nov 2009 - which means it is the last day of TechEd Europe in Berlin. Overall I...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/13/2009
Pictures of TechEd Europe 2009 – brussel sprouts for the win!
Some pictures from the awesome TechEd Europe. My favourite – “Xmas Lunch” on the Thursday: The...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/12/2009
SQL Server Management Studio now supports SQL Azure
I have had a bit of a “SQL Azure” day at TechEd Europe. I sat through David Robinsons excellent...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/11/2009
Entity Framework 4 at TechEd Europe – standing room only
On Monday at 9am (9th Nov 2009) I presented a session on Entity Framework 4 to several hundred...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/11/2009
Did you know Microsoft makes a mocking tool? Meet the latest version of Pex
No? Nor me. (If you are wondering what Mocking is, check out my previous post on Mocking, Stubs and...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/11/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for November 18th: Do you think you will develop solutions for SharePoint 2010?
SharePoint development has always been a little bit “lumpy” but Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/11/2009
Summary of the Entity Framework 4 changes introduced with Beta 2 and CTP 2
I thought it would be useful (at least to me!) to summarise the new stuff in Entity Framework 4...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/06/2009
The relationship between Entity Framework 4 betas and ctps explained
There seems to be enough confusion about the betas and ctps of Entity Framework 4 to warrant a brief...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/06/2009
The Plan B is all my DEV305 Entity Framework 4 demos as slideware
Next week I will be presenting Entity Framework 4 at TechEd Europe. At least that is what I hope to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/06/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure
Also knows as “that’s where I left my shoe” (you will need to listen to understand that) This is a...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/29/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for November 4th: How excited are you about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download – but are you excited?
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/29/2009
Picture of me
Someone on twitter just asked - “I like your caricature but what do you really look like”. Brace...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/27/2009
Free WPF, Silverlight and 3.5 SP1 training for UK Developers
At the start of 2009 we worked with InnerWorkings to help over 7000 UK developers get access to free...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/27/2009
David Chappell in conversation in the UK about Windows Azure and the cloud
David and I hosted David Chappell and Steve Marx in London on the 6th of October in a packed day...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/21/2009
Windows Azure Platform “free” for MSDN Subscribers and BizSpark companies
Well not exactly free but definitely extremely welcome and a great benefit. The introductory offer...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/19/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 now available – and launch date is set for March 22nd 2010
I am not the biggest fan of Mondays but today is different. Today is a good day. Today we announced...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/19/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for October 21st 2009: Which platforms do you develop for?
Nice and simple – but I think the results will be interesting.
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/14/2009
MSDN Flash Podcast Show 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET Framework 4.0, using Oslo and learning to love the web again thanks to ASP.NET MVC
This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It is an interview...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/08/2009
Slides and links from Windows Azure Platform Storage session
I delivered a session on Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure Database at the UK Azure user group on...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/07/2009
Midnight and the Azure and Entity Framework decks are now final and available for download
You might have been following this series of posts on my preparation for Software Architect 2009....
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/29/2009
Countdown to Software Architect 2009 – the last day retrospective
This is one of a series of posts on my preparations for sessions on Azure and ORMs at Software...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/28/2009
UK MSDN Flash Poll for October 7th 2009: How many lines of code did you write yesterday?
I managed “A smidgen – less than 100”. How did you fair?
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/28/2009