John Papa [MVP C#]

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• Silverlight Consuming REST Services

  I just finished writing the first draft of a sample I am including in my upcoming book tentatively titled Data Access with Silverlight 2 by O'Reilly . Without giving too much away yet since the final details of the contract are not set in stone, the... Posted May 16 2008, 04:45 PM by John Papa with | with no comments Filed under: EF & LINQ , Silverlight, .NET, ADO.NET

• DevConnections Las Vegas - Nov 2008

  I'll be speaking at DevConnections in Las Vegas this Fall along with others Julie Lerman and Paul Litwin . The 3 topics I will be presenting are: Data Access with Silverlight 2 Integrating Enterprise Library's Data Access Application Block with... Posted May 16 2008, 12:48 AM by John Papa with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ , Ent Lib, Silverlight

• Silverlight 2 Book Cover Mock Up

  Here is the mock up of my upcoming Silverlight 2 book that I mentioned earlier today . The title is still up in the air, as is the cover art, and ... let's face it ...  just about everything except for the release date of Nov/Dec 2008. ... Posted May 14 2008, 03:08 PM by John Papa with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ , Silverlight

• As it Once Was, I am Writing a Book

  It is 3 am and I am learning the subtle balance of typing with one hand while swaying and comforting  my new born child in the other. She was up late crying ... a lot. She had colic. So we took turns staying up with her to comfort her. The problem... Posted May 14 2008, 01:35 PM by John Papa with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ , Silverlight

• Entity Framework & LINQ Tonight in Sarasota

  Tonight I will be joining the Sarasota SQL Server User group and the Sarasota .NET User group at their combined May 2008 meeting. I will be presenting the Entity Framework and LINQ using the new bits that came out 2 days ago on Monday including the new... Posted May 14 2008, 11:28 AM by John Papa with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ

• Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 Beta Download

  Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded . This includes several updates, includes support for SQL Server 2008, and has a few new products including the Entity Framework, LINQ to Entities... Posted May 12 2008, 01:29 PM by John Papa with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ , SQL

• Silverlight, WCF and LINQ to SQL

  I've had some requests lately to write some articles that work with LINQ to SQL. I've ben focusing on the Entity Framework a lot due to its vast nature and that fact that its still relatively unknown to many people. So I am going to work on a... Posted May 07 2008, 06:31 PM by John Papa with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ , Silverlight, SQL

• Entity Framework Setup - Installation Fun!

  Yeah, I know its expected that when a product is in beta and its ancillary features are released in a CTP that there will be some "interesting" issues in getting set up. But its getting a bit out of control (in a good way) lately with all of... Posted Apr 19 2008, 06:47 PM by John Papa with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ

• Standard Query Operators with LINQ

  In the March issue of MSDN Magazine's Data Points column I explore a variety of the Standard Query Operators and how they work with LINQ. Read more about standard query operators at johnpapa.net ...   Posted Apr 05 2008, 03:09 PM by John Papa with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ

• New EF CTP! ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP is Available

  The ADO.NET team has released the latest bits for the ADO.NET Entity Framework with the June 2007 CTP . There are samples on CodePlex , too. It claims many changes and support for a lot of new features ... I grabbed this partial list from their post:... Posted Jul 02 2007, 09:26 PM by John Papa with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ

• Data Access "Practically Done"

  Full Day of Practically Done Data Access Posted Jun 22 2007, 12:17 PM by John Papa with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ , Ent Lib, SQL

• Entity Framework and its Tools in First Half of 2008

  As I noted earlier , my latest article in MSDN Magazine was just posted a few days ago. If you visited it early on you might have missed the comment from the edtitor which reads: [ Editor's Update - 6/19/2007: The ADO.NET Entity Framework and Tools... Posted Jun 19 2007, 04:17 PM by John Papa with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: ADO.NET, EF & LINQ

• ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview

  My July 2007 Data Points column has been posted to the MSDN Magazine web site . This edition is titled "ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview" . I wrote this using the March CTP and then revised it using the Orcas Beta 1, so the code included works... Posted Jun 17 2007, 12:10 PM by John Papa with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, EF & LINQ

• Code to Gather RSS Feeds

  I recently wrote an article for SimpleTalk.com titled Gathering RSS Feeds Using Visual Studio and RSS.NET . The article is now online and available to read. Here is the abstract for this article: Integrating RSS feeds into applications has become very... Posted May 04 2007, 12:35 PM by John Papa with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET

• Orcas Beta 1 - VPC Images and New Patch Available

  Last week the Orcas Beta 1 was made available for download by Microsoft. It is madeup of 8 large RAR files and can be downlaoded from here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx Some of my excitement was tempered a bit when a bug was... Posted Apr 27 2007, 08:42 AM by John Papa with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET