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 your Project Practical Strategies with the Entity...

I will be kicking off my move to South Florida in a few weeks with a 1 day event for the “Practically Done” event series. On Wednesday August 1 st and on Saturday August 4 th I will be presenting “Data Access Done Right”, a full day event in Orlando. Register here for Wednesday, August 1 st – 9am to...

If you haven't seen this yet, Enterprise Library for .NET 2 has been released this month . Ent Lib 2's download is available as well as some webcasts and PowerPoint presentations that go through the features. Looks like the hands on labs will be coming soon. Even if you never checked out Ent Lib 1.1...

In the October 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine I continued my discussion of the Enterprise Library’s Data Access Application Block. This is the final episode in the trilogy where I explore the Enterprise Library DAAB in my Data Points column . I had a lot of good feedback from parts 1 and 2. OK, so I generally...

If you have not checked out the latest build of Ent Lib, you can get the Enterprise Library – June 2005 release here . The list of changes can be found here , as well. Borrowing from their master list, the list of changes to the Data Access Application Blocks are as follows: The new method named GetStoredProcCommandWrapperWithSourceColumns...

In the August 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine I continued my discussion of the Enterprise Library’s Data Access Application Block. This is part 2 in a 3 part series where I explore the Enterprise Library DAAB in my Data Points column . I had a lot of good feedback from part 1, which I will try to answer...

The July 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. The amount of discussion that has surrounded the Enterprise Library and its Application Blocks (good, bad and indifferent) has been tremendous. I decided to create a 3 part series that explores the Enterprise Library Data Access blocks in...

The July 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online. The amount of discussion that has surrounded the Enterprise Library and its Application Blocks (good, bad and indifferent) has been tremendous. I decided to create a 3 part series that explores the Enterprise Library Data Access blocks in...

I was just poking around in Visual Studio.NET 2005 Beta 2 and I noticed that in my VB.NET project there is now the option to create build events! This is a feature that I have used a lot in C# WinForm projects to copy my Enterprise Library configuration files to the targe directory (release or debug...

The May 2005 issue of MSDN Magazine is now available online at http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/05/DataPoints/default.aspx . After a 2 month break, my Data Points column is back. In this issue I discuss several Data Access Strategies Using ADO.NET and SQL , inlcuding some tips on writing queries...