Mark Dunn

My company has been working with Doug Turnure at Microsoft for the past several months developing content for the RampUp site on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/default.aspx . We have recorded videos, developed slide decks, developed demos and written white papers for the SharePoint and...

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My company has been working with Jim Wooley, one of the co-authors of "LINQ in Action", to translate code samples on MSDN to Visual Basic. The first fruits of this labor are the Entity Framework samples listed below. I hope this is good news for VB developers that have stuggled with the fact...

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I really enjoyed TechEd this year in Los Angeles. Most of my time was spent in the TechEd Online area working with Susan Boyd to record some panel discussions and interview various industry experts. It's always a fun gig for me and I never fail to learn something new from each interview. First up is...

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The Silverlight Toolkit adds Visual Basic samples The Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 release is enhanced with Visual Basic source code for both Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 . The Toolkit is a collection of controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle...

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Microsoft Patterns & Practices' Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named Prism) which initially was released only for C# is now made available by Microsoft in VB.NET as well! The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more...

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Rockford Lhotka has just published his latest set of books on Business Objects aka CSLA .NET 3.6. We're excitied and will be updating our CSLA Master Class to include coverage of the 3.6 framework. Congratulations Rocky! on the birth of another book....

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As an INETA speaker, I have the opportunity to give talks at several user groups each year. Over the past 18 months, I've mainly concentrated on Windows Workflow Foundation. I'm looking to get back to some core talks on the subject of Visual Basic this year. At the moment, I have a talk on Using XML...

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I'll be teaching a custom Introduction to Object Oriented Programming class the week of April 6 in Montgomery, AL. My students for this course are all mainframe programmers so I'm excited about the challenge of conveying OO concepts to the group. I'm working on content for the next couple of weeks and...

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IE8 is finally out of beta and if you want to get your hands on it just follow this link: http://www.microsoft.com/ie8 . IE has always been my primary browser of choice because I spend a lot of time on MS sites. One of the first things you'll probably notice is the speed increase for page loads. IE8...

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I'm starting to blog now after a few false starts in the past. Lack of time seems to be my biggest excuse. I will try to post at least a couple of informative or fun things every month.