• Visual Studio 2008 - Remote Debugging with MSVSMON.EXE
  The application's on one machine and Visual Studio is on another. How do you connect across and debug and get access to symbols and source code? Using MSVSMON.EXE - this video takes a quick look at how ...
  Posted: 25/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Debugging
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• ADO.NET Data Services - Service Operations
  ADO.NET Data Services has a service-side facility for adding pre-built operations ("Service Operations") which can run arbitrary logic which can additionally be parameterised using simple serialised types ...
  Posted: 25/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• ADO.NET Data Services - Query Interceptors
  ADO.NET Data Services has a facility whereby we can plug-in code to run whenever a query for a particular entity set is executed. In this video, we take a look at how we can write these Query Interceptors.
  Posted: 25/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• ADO.NET Data Services - Querying with LINQ
  For a .NET client that interacts with an ADO.NET Data Service, we can use LINQ in order to construct the query on the client side. We construct a query using LINQ and the client-side framework translates ...
  Posted: 24/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• ADO.NET Data Services - A Basic .NET Client
  In this video we'll take a quick look at how we can build a simple, read-only .NET client against an ADO.NET data service and how we can continue to use the URI-based query mechanism to get data from that ...
  Posted: 17/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• ADO.NET Data Services - A Basic Silverlight Client
  In this video we'll use the "ASP.NET Data Services Silverlight Add-On" in order to build a simple read-only Silverlight client for an ADO.NET Data Service.
  Posted: 17/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• ADO.NET Data Services - A Basic AJAX Client
  In this video we'll take a quick look at building a basic, read-only AJAX client for an ADO.NET Data Service.
  Posted: 17/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET, AJAX
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• ADO.NET Data Services - Querying with URI's
  ADO.NET Data Services offers data over RESTful web services - in this video we look at how we can build URI's to represent the different server-side resources that we want to access.
  Posted: 17/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• ADO.NET Data Services - Surfacing Data
  ADO.NET Data Services let us make data widely available through RESTful web services. In this video we take a look at how we can offer data from the ADO.NET Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL and any arbitrary ...
  Posted: 17/01/2008 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET
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• SQL Server 2008 - Reading FileStream Data
  SQL Server 2008 has a new extension to the varbinary(max) datatype which allows you to store arbitrary large blobs "in the database" from the perspective of data access and backup but the actual data ...
  Posted: 19/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#
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• SQL Server 2008 - Writing data with FileStream
  SQL Server 2008 has a new extension to the varbinary(max) datatype which allows you to store arbitrary large blobs "in the database" from the perspective of data access and backup but the actual data ...
  Posted: 14/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#
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• SQL Server 2008 - Change Tracking
  SQL Server 2008 has two facilities for monitoring changes to a table to facilitate (e.g.) loading of a data warehousing or building an online/offline application with syncronisation capabilities.
  In ...
  Posted: 14/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: SQL Server
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• SQL Server 2008 - Table Valued Parameters
  SQL Server 2008 (and ADO.NET in .NET Framework V3.5) have a capability whereby you can pass a whole table of data into a stored procedure in one go. Rather than passing XML or a string, multi-valued ...
  Posted: 14/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET, SQL Server
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• LINQ to XML - Events and Annotations
  LINQ to XML has a way in which arbitrary objects can be used to "annotate" an XML tree. This provides a convenient way to associate a non XML data structure with data stored in an XML tree. You can ...
  Posted: 14/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: C# Version 3.0
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• LINQ to XML - Streaming Large Data Files Out of Memory
  LINQ to XML has built-in support via the XStreamingElement for avoiding the cost of creating a large tree of XML nodes in memory in situations where you are streaming that XML out to (e.g.) disk. ...
  Posted: 14/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: C# Version 3.0
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• LINQ to XML - Streaming In Large Documents
  In this short video we demonstrate one approach to using the LINQ to XML API whilst making use of an XmlReader to stream in the XML.
  Posted: 03/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: LINQ

 

• LINQ to XML - Querying with XPath
  In this video we take a quick look at using XPath queries with the LINQ to XML API.
  Posted: 03/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: LINQ

 

• LINQ to XML: Working with Schema
  In this video, we take a quick look at how we can perform schema validation when working with the LINQ to XML API.
  Posted: 03/12/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: LINQ

 

• WF V3.5 - Building WCF Services Using Workflow Foundation
  In .NET Framework V3.5, Workflow Foundation comes together with Communication Foundation in order that we can easily build a Workflow and make it available as a WCF service. In this video, we'll take a ...
  Posted: 21/11/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Web Service, Workflow
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• Using HTTP, XML and JSON in WCF V3.5
  Windows Communication Foundation V3.5 makes it easy to offer services which are addressed with a simple URI, accessed over the HTTP protocol and return simple XML or JSON serialized data. This is great ...
  Posted: 21/11/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: AJAX, Web Service
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• LINQ to Entities - Deferred Loading of Entities
  ADO.NET V3.0 will come with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and a flexible object relational mapping layer that plugs in to LINQ - LINQ to Entities. In this video we'll take a look at how the framework deals ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET, LINQ, SQL Server
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• LINQ to Entities - Defining and Executing Queries
  ADO.NET V3.0 will come with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and a flexible object relational mapping layer that plugs in to LINQ - LINQ to Entities. In this video we'll take a look at the difference between ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ADO.NET, LINQ, SQL Server
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• LINQ to Entities - Metadata Generation Tools
  ADO.NET V3.0 will come with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and a flexible object relational mapping layer that plugs in to LINQ - LINQ to Entities. In this video we'll take a look at how we can use metadata ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, ADO.NET, LINQ, SQL Server
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• LINQ to Entities - The ObjectContext
  ADO.NET V3.0 will come with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and a flexible object relational mapping layer that plugs in to LINQ - LINQ to Entities. In this video we'll take a look at one of the key types ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, .NetFramework, ADO.NET, LINQ
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• LINQ to Entities - Intro (Metadata, Querying, Updating)
  ADO.NET V3.0 will come with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and a flexible object relational mapping layer that plugs in to LINQ - LINQ to Entities. In this video we take a quick look at how to obtain build ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: LINQ, SQL Server, Visual Studio
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• Deploying Office 2007 Add-Ins with ClickOnce in VS 2008
  Visual Studio 2008 has great capabilities for building .NET Add-Ins for Office 2007 (and Office 2003). In this video we'll take a look at how you can now use ClickOnce deployment for your Office Add-Ins ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Office, VisualStudio
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• Durable Services with WCF V3.5
  Windows Communication Foundation in .NET Framework V3.5 has some new capabilities around easily building services which manage long-running conversations with clients. The new framework bits make it much ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NetFramework, Web Service
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• Offering Syndicated RSS/ATOM Data from WCF V3.5 Services
  Windows Communication Foundation V3.5 comes with a built-in object model that makes serialization and consumption of syndication formats like RSS and ATOM a lot easier than hand-cranking your own XML. ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, .NetFramework, Web Service
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• Using ASP.NET Client Application Services in Windows Forms Apps
  Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework V3.5 offer a productive mechanism to make use of ASP.NET services such as membership, roles and profile from a Windows Forms smart client. In this session we'll take ...
  Posted: 13/10/2007 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, .NetFramework, ASP.NET, VisualStudio
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• Namespaces in VB with LINQ to XML
  XML and Namespaces go together like Terry and June. In this session we'll look at how we can work with XML namespaces from VB using LINQ to XML.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Querying XML in VB with LINQ to XML
  We'll use this video to have a quick look at how we can query XML using LINQ to XML and how it offers us a clear, concise, maintainable syntax for querying XML data.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Creating XML in VB with LINQ to XML
  LINQ to XML offers radically new and slick ways to create XML. In this session we'll take a look at how we can statically and dynamically generate XML from VB.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Namespaces in C# with LINQ to XML
  XML and Namespaces go together like Terry and June. In this session we'll look at how we can work with XML namespaces from C# using LINQ to XML.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Querying XML in C# with LINQ to XML
  We'll use this video to have a quick look at how we can query XML using LINQ to XML and how it offers us a clear, concise, maintainable syntax for querying XML data.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Creating XML in C# with LINQ to XML
  LINQ to XML offers radically new and slick ways to create XML. In this session we'll take a look at how we can statically and dynamically generate XML from C#.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Transactions in LINQ to SQL
  In this video we'll talk about how we can use transactions when we are working with LINQ to SQL.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Inheritance in LINQ to SQL
  You can persist .NET types from an object hierarchy into a relational table using LINQ to SQL. In this session we'll take a look at how that's done.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• User Defined Functions in LINQ to SQL
  LINQ to SQL has facilities for exposing your own user defined functions to the framework whether those be scalar valued or table valued. In this session we'll take a look at how that works.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Using SQL Functions in LINQ to SQL
  A large number of SQL server's standard functions (and functionality) are exposed through the functions that are callable from a LINQ to SQL query. In this session we'll look at a few examples of how this ...
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Updating with Stored Procedures in LINQ to SQL
  Take control of your inserts, updates and deletes by passing changes through your stored procedure layer on their way to the database.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Transactions in LINQ to SQL
  In this video we'll talk about how we can use transactions when we are working with LINQ to SQL.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Inheritance in LINQ to SQL
  You can persist .NET types from an object hierarchy into a relational table using LINQ to SQL. In this session we'll take a look at how that's done.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• User Defined Functions in LINQ to SQL
  LINQ to SQL has facilities for exposing your own user defined functions to the framework whether those be scalar valued or table valued. In this session we'll take a look at how that works.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Using SQL Functions in LINQ to SQL
  A large number of SQL server's standard functions (and functionality) are exposed through the functions that are callable from a LINQ to SQL query. In this session we'll look at a few examples of how this ...
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Updating with Stored Procedures in LINQ to SQL
  Take control of your inserts, updates and deletes by passing changes through your stored procedure layer on their way to the database.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Concurrency in LINQ to SQL
  LINQ to SQL presents an optimistic concurrency model that is driven by the mapping data that you provide to the framework. In this video we look at how that works.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Updates with LINQ to SQL
  The title says it all - how do we do updates when using LINQ to SQL?
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Deletes with LINQ to SQL
  The title says it all - how do we do deletes when using LINQ to SQL?
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Inserts with LINQ to SQL
  The title says it all - how do we do inserts when using LINQ to SQL?
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Code Generation Tools in LINQ to SQL
  LINQ to SQL comes with tools both inside and outside of Visual Studio for generating artefacts that we can then feed to the framework to drive the mapping process. In this video we explore those tools.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Mapping Schemas to Classes in LINQ to SQL
  In order to use LINQ to SQL we need to let the framework know how to map between the relational schema and our .NET types. In this video we look at the mechanisms for doing this.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Understanding the DataContext
  The DataContext provides connection-like functionality for us and has many capabilities such as executing commands, providing access to collections of entities from the database and identity and tracking ...
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• Introduction to LINQ to SQL
  Here we take a quick look at what LINQ to SQL is, what it does for us and what the various aspects to the technology are.
  Posted: 16/04/2007 by Mike Taulty
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• VB9 - Dynamic Interfaces
  Dynamic interfaces bring the idea of 'duck typing' into Visual Basic 9.0, allowing you to reference an object through an interface even if the object does not implement the interface as long as the object ...
  Posted: 14/11/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: VB9
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• VB9 - Dynamic Identifiers
  Dynamic identifiers in VB9 allow you to easily invoke methods without necessarily knowing that the method is called at compile time. Whilst this is possible today, the VB9 syntax makes it natural and easy.
  Posted: 14/11/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• VB9 - XML Support
  VB9 becomes the best .NET language for creating and manipulating XML with XML features built natively in the language. In this session, we'll take a quick look at what you can expect.
  Posted: 14/11/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, VB, VB9
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• VB9 - Pieces of LINQ
  In previous VB9 sessions we've explored various features that facilitate LINQ. In this session we'll try and look at how LINQ actually works with those features to add extensible querying support into ...
  Posted: 14/11/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: LINQ, VB, VB9
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• Wrapping Windows APIs with C++/CLI
  C++/CLI is a great technology for marrying existing C/C++ code with new .NET code. In this session we'll take a brief look at how we can wrap up a Windows API with C++/CLI in order to make use of it from ...
  Posted: 14/11/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, API, c#
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• VB9 - Anonymous Types
  Anonymous types is a feature whereby the compiler creates a class on the programmer's behalf rather than having to explicitly go ahead and create a class. We'll take a quick look at how this works in this ...
  Posted: 24/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: VB9
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• VB9 - Collection Initialisers
  Collection Initialisers allow you to initialise a generic collection with a single statement. This video provides a brief overview of how that looks.
  Posted: 24/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• VB9 - Extension Methods
  In Visual Basic 9, it is possible to give the appearance of adding 'extension methods' to classes without changing the classes themselves. We'll explore how extension methods work in this session.
  Posted: 24/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
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  Tags: VB9, Visual Studio
• VB9 - Implicit Types
  In Visual Basic 9, it is possible to declare variables without specifying their types and yet without using late-binding. This session explores how this new implicit typing feature works.
  Posted: 24/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: VB9, Visual Studio
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• VB9 - Object Initialisers
  Visual Basic 9 has the capability to construct and initialise an object all in a single line of code. In this video we'll take a look at how that works.
  Posted: 24/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• VB9 - Relaxed Delegates
  Delegates and events are key features of .NET languages, and Visual Basic 9 will introduce some changes in how delegates can be used. We'll take a brief look at those changes in this session.
  Posted: 24/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• C# Version 3.0 - Expression Trees
  One of the most powerful aspects of Lambda Expressions is the compiler's ability to turn those code-expressions into data that can be manipulated at run-time. This session explores those Expression Trees.
  Posted: 09/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• C# Version 3.0 - Lambda Expressions
  Lambda Expressions provide a powerful new syntax for expressing anonymous methods but they also give us a few more capabilities - this session takes a look.
  Posted: 09/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: C# Version 3.0
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• C# Version 3.0 - Pieces of LINQ
  In this session, we'll take some of the pieces of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) that we've looked at previously in the C# V3.0 language and start to build them together.
  Posted: 09/10/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, C# Version 3.0, LINQ
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• C# Version 3.0 - Anonymous Types
  In version 2.0 of the C# language the compiler learnt how to generate anonymous methods. In version 3.0 it's learnt how to generate anonymous types. It's fiendishly clever, and we'll have a look at how ...
  Posted: 19/09/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, C# Version 3.0
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• C# Version 3.0 - Collection Initialisers
  In C# version 3.0, a generic collection such as List<T> can be initialised in a single line of code. Here we take a quick look.
  Posted: 19/09/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, C# Version 3.0
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• C# Version 3.0 - Extension Methods
  In version 3.0 of the C# language you can write methods that 'appear' to belong to other classes. These are called extension methods, and we have a look at how it's done in this session.
  Posted: 19/09/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, C# Version 3.0
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• C# Version 3.0 - Implicit Typing
  It's possible to declare local variables without specifying their types in C# version 3.0. Is this late-binding? Is it variants? Watch the session to find out.
  Posted: 19/09/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, C# Version 3.0
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• C# Version 3.0 - Object Initialisers
  A quick look at the new Object Initialiser feature in the C# language version 3.0, which lets you create and initialise an instance of a class all in one line of code regardless of constructors.
  Posted: 19/09/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, C# Version 3.0
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Calling Other Workflows
  Workflow solutions can be decomposed into multiple workflows where one calls another just like one subroutine in a program calls another. There are differences such as the asynchronous nature of invoking ...
  Posted: 26/08/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Composite Activities
  Workflow Activities partition into the 'basic' activities which perform a single task and 'composite' activities which act as a container for other Activities. In this session we'll take a brief look at ...
  Posted: 26/08/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Correlation
  Workflow Foundation has automatic capabilities for correlating messages that leave a Workflow instance with messages that are received by that same instance, making message exchange easier to deal with. ...
  Posted: 26/08/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Exposing Web Services
  Workflow Foundation has built-in capabilities that allow a Workflow to be published as an ASP.NET Web Service - in this session we'll look at how this is done and how it works.
  Posted: 26/08/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Web Service, Workflow
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• Building RSS Applications with IE7 in Windows Vista
  Windows Vista ships with Internet Explorer 7, which has a new common store for RSS feeds and a programming interface that makes building RSS support into your applications very simple. This session takes ...
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: API, Vista
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• Using Application Restart and Recovery
  Windows Vista has new capabilities around detecting application crashes, and providing the application with the ability to restart itself in the event of a crash and to recover the user's data. In this ...
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: API, Vista
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Building Persistence Services
  Windows Workflow Foundation comes with its own persistence service that uses SQL Server. However, it is also possible to build your own, and in this session we explore the basics of achieving that.
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: SQL Server, Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Building Scheduling Services
  It is possible to implement your own scheduling service to underpin the Workflow Runtime as it executes activities and workflows. This session takes a look at the basics of writing such a service.
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Building Tracking Services
  Whilst Windows Workflow comes with a SQL Tracking Service, it is also possible to implement your own to track information as activities and workflows execute. This session explores the basics of writing ...
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Calling Web Services
  This session looks at how to make a call to a Web Service from a Workflow.
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Web Service, Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Declarative Workflows
  One of the ways of building Workflows is to model them entirely declaratively in an XAML file. This session takes a look at how we can do this.
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Modifying Workflows
  The Workflow Runtime provides capabilities to modify Workflow Instances after they have started running. In this session we'll look at the code to achieve this.
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Synchronising Activities
  Within a Workflow, it is sometimes important to ensure that a group of activities are scheduled for execution as a single block. This session looks at the Synchronization Activity that enables this.
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Using Persistence
  It is possible to save Workflow Instances into a persistent format in order to save resources or to allow a Workflow host to be recycled. In this session we'll look at using the SQL Persistence Service ...
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Using Scheduling
  The Workflow Runtime uses a pluggable scheduling service in order to execute activities and workflows on threads. In this session we'll take a look at the two scheduling options that come with the Foundation ...
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Using Tracking
  A core capability of the Workflow Runtime is to track information as activities and workflows execute. The Workflow Foundation ships with a SQL Tracking service, and this session explores how to configure ...
  Posted: 26/06/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Custom Activities
  Workflow Foundation is an extensible framework based around adding custom activities. In this session we'll build our first activity and make use of it from a Workflow instance.
  Posted: 03/04/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Host to Workflow Communication
  A host process communicates with Workflow instances by firing events on a shared interface. In this session we'll take a look at how that works.
  Posted: 28/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: State Machine Workflows
  Workflow Foundation has native support for modelling finite state machines. In this session we'll build a simple example and look at how we model states and the transitions between them.
  Posted: 28/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Transactions
  Workflow has rich capabilities for dealing with transactional work. In this session we'll explore how we can make use of the TransactionScope activity and also how to compensate for atomic transactions ...
  Posted: 28/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: c#, Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Two-Way Host/Workflow Communication
  Here we put together two previous sessions and show how we can get asynchronous two-way communication going between a Workflow instance and its host environment.
  Posted: 28/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Workflow to Host Communication
  Workflows are hosted by your application. When a Workflow instance needs to communicate with the "outside world" it will do so through your application's hosting code. Here, we'll see how that is done.
  Posted: 28/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Cancellation Handlers
  At times, Workflow may have to cancel your executing code. When it does so, you can receive notification in the form of a cancellation handler. This session explores cancellation handlers.
  Posted: 21/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Conditioned Activity Group
  The Conditioned Activity Group provides a very flexible activity for executing multiple operations as part of a looping operation. In this session we take a look at how to use it.
  Posted: 21/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Listening for Events
  A common pattern in Workflow is to wait for a event to occur and Workflow Foundation supports this natively. Here we examine how we can use the Listen activity to wait for events to occur.
  Posted: 21/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Logic and Looping
  Simple programming constructs such as looping and conditional logic are represented in Workflow. Here we take a look at how we can model conditions and loops.
  Posted: 21/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Passing Parameters to Workflows
  Sometimes Workflows need to be passed parameters from their hosting environment. In this slot, we'll explore how we can feed data into a Workflow instance before it runs.
  Posted: 21/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Working in Parallel
  Workflow has built in capabilities for executing sets of activities in parallel. In this session we'll explore the Parallel activity and what it can do for us.
  Posted: 21/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: "Hello World"
  In this session we'll look at the Workflow Foundation for the first time and build a simple "Hello World" style application using a code-first approach and then a designer-first approach.
  Posted: 13/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Workflow Foundation: Exceptions
  Workflow Foundation has specific capabilities for handling exceptions in your code, let's take a look at how it's done.
  Posted: 13/03/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Workflow
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• Windows Communication Foundation: HTTPS Transport Security
  The WCF provides transfer security for messages either by relying on the transport or by using message level mechanisms. In this session we'll look at using HTTPS at the transport layer to provide integrity, ...
  Posted: 27/02/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Message Security
  The WCF provides transfer security for messages either by relying on the transport or by using message level mechanisms. In this session we'll look at using message security in order to perform authentication ...
  Posted: 27/02/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• Using the Permissions Calculator in Visual Studio 2005
  This Screencast examines a number of new security features in Visual Studio 2005 including the code access security permissions calculator tool that make it easier for your to build partial trust applications.
  Posted: 23/02/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Visual Studio

 

• "Hello World": Introduction to WPF
  The WPF provides rich new capabilities for user interface, documents and media through a productive .NET API. In this session we'll build a simple application and look at the different approaches to building ...
  Posted: 23/01/2006 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, API, WPF
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Transactions
  The WCF has facilities for coordinating work done by multiple pieces of software under a single atomic transaction. In this session we'll look at getting that set up and working.
  Posted: 16/01/2006 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Bindings
  A great deal of power and flexibility comes from the use of bindings in the WCF to specify communication details. Here we explore a little of the standard bindings and how we can configure them.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Concurrency
  In an server side development, concurrency always crops up and the WCF is no exception. Here we explore the options for single and multi-threaded services.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: DataContract Serialization
  The DataContract is the standard mechanism in the WCF for serializing .NET object types into XML. This session looks at the various options that DataContract makes available.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Exceptions
  Every piece of code needs to think about how to deal with exceptions - the WCF has particular mechanisms for translating .NET exceptions into SOAP faults which we explore here.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Instancing
  WCF services can be singletons, they can be single-call objects or they can have a lifetime that is tied to the session. Let's dive into how we make this work.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Message Encoding
  The WCF offers a flexible choice of mechanisms for turning a SOAP message into something that we can transmit between services. In this session we'll look at the options.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Message Patterns
  And you thought service communication was just request and response? This session looks at how we can use the WCF for one way and two way message exchanges.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Sessions
  The WCF has facilities for maintaining a session of messages between a client and a service. In this session we'll take a look at how we can make use of those facilities.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Typed and Untyped Messages
  The WCF has a lot of flexibility in the way in which it goes from .NET objects to SOAP messages. It can handle parameters and typed/untyped messages. Let's take a look.
  Posted: 30/11/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET
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• Windows Communication Foundation: Type Serialization
  The WCF offers a number of different serialization technologies for turning .NET object types into XML for transmission across service boundaries. This session explores what's available.
  Posted: 20/10/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET
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• Checking WS-I Basic Profile compliance with ASMX V2.0 Web Services
  ASP.NET 2.0 can check the compliance of your web services to the WS-I Basic Profile Version 1.1. This session takes a look.
  Posted: 31/08/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, ASP.NET, Web Service
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• Preserving Application Settings
  It's a common requirement to want to remember application settings, either for the user or for the entire application. Folder names, background colours, all sorts of things. Windows Forms 2 gives us a ...
  Posted: 19/08/2005 by Mike Taulty
• Using custom serialization with ASMX V2.0 Web Services
  With ASP.NET 2.0 web services we can take complete control over XML serialization. This sessions looks at how we might implement that.
  Posted: 19/08/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Using interface based development techniques with ASMX V2.0 Web Services
  ASP.NET 2.0 web services can be built using the traditional class-based method and a new interface-based method which we look at here.
  Posted: 16/08/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Web Service
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• Scenarios - Debugging Assembly loading
  Sometimes your code won't load an assembly. Sometimes someone else's code won't load your assembly. This session looks at ways to diagnose these common scenarios.
  Posted: 05/08/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Using the Background Worker Component
  Putting long-running background activities into their own thread makes sense, and it's natural to want to be able to observe the progress of that activity, or cancel it. But you CAN'T write to the user ...
  Posted: 05/08/2005 by Mike Taulty
• Scenarios - Debugging Exceptions
  .NET error paths are built around exception handling and the debugger has great features for monitoring what's happening with your application's exceptions. This session takes a look.
  Posted: 29/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET
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• Scenarios - Debugging Memory Leaks
  Memory Leaks? In .NET code? This session looks at how we'd diagnose the modern equivalent of a memory "leak" with Visual Studio 2005.
  Posted: 29/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Visual Studio
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• Mechanics - Working with the SOS Debugger Extension
  The Visual Studio debugger can load extension DLLs to extend its capabilities. This session looks at the basics of loading the SOS.DLL for .NET code and introduces what we can do with it.
  Posted: 25/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Visual Studio
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• Mechanics - Additional Tools for Your Debugging Toolbox
  There are a lot of external tools out there on the web which can be of major benefit when you're debugging your code. This session takes a look at a few of the most popular third party tools.
  Posted: 14/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Debugging
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• High Level SOAP Messaging with WSE2.0
  WSE2.0 enables SOAP messaging without IIS or HTTP. In this session we'll check out the high level API that lets us write these kinds of services.
  Posted: 07/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: API
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• Mechanics - Design Time Debugging
  Visual Studio 2005 has new features for debugging without actually writing an application - watch this session to see the new object test bench and other design-time debugging features.
  Posted: 07/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Debugging, Visual Studio
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• Preparation - Building Your Code for Debugging
  In this session we look at debugging debug and release builds and the role of PDB files in Visual Studio 2005.
  Posted: 07/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Debugging, Visual Studio
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• Mechanics - Edit and Continue
  It's back! Visual Studio 2005 reintroduces the idea of "edit and continue" allowing you to alter code whilst in the debugger - this session looks at what you can do with this feature.
  Posted: 01/07/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Visual Studio
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• Mechanics - Controlling Debugger Display for Your Types
  The Visual Studio debugger can be configured to display custom output for your own data types. This session looks at how you do that.
  Posted: 29/06/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Visual Studio
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• Mechanics - Working with Data Tips and Visualisers
  Visual Studio 2005 has great new features for seeing your data in the debugger. This session looks at Data Tips and Visualisers in the debugger and how you can write your own visualiser.
  Posted: 29/06/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Visual Studio
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• Mechanics - Breakpoints and Tracepoints
  In this session we take a look at setting breakpoints and tracepoints with Visual Studio 2005
  Posted: 16/06/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Visual Studio
• Preparation - Locating and Managing Symbol Files
  Debugging is a whole lot easier with symbol files (PDBs). This session looks at how Visual Studio 2005 works with symbol files and how you can set up your own symbol servers.
  Posted: 16/06/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Debugging, Visual Studio
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• Low Level SOAP messaging
  WSE2.0 enables SOAP messaging without IIS or HTTP. In this session we'll check out the low level API that lets us write these kinds of services.
  Posted: 10/06/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: API
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• Preparation - Building Debug and Tracing into Your Code
  Maximise your debugging by ensuring that your applications are built with the right debugging and tracing output from day 1.
  Posted: 09/06/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Debugging
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• Sending Attachments with WSE2.0 Web Services
  In this session we'll look at passing file attachments from a web service to a client and vice versa
  Posted: 31/05/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Web Service
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• Working with triggers on Data Definition Language
  A new feature in SQL Server 2005 allows us to install triggers on Data Definition Language (e.g. when a table is created). This session takes a look.
  Posted: 31/05/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: SQL Server
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• Debugger Features in Visual Studio 2005
  Posted: 20/05/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Securing Web Services with WSE2.0
  Here we'll take a look at how we can gain authentication, integrity and privacy features for SOAP messages with WSE2.0 and WS-Security
  Posted: 18/05/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Iterators in C# V2.0
  Posted: 06/05/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Enabling WSE2.0 for ASP.NET Web Services
  This session introduces WSE2.0 and shows how to switch on WSE2.0 support in ASP.NET Web Services
  Posted: 29/04/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Web Service
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• Generics in .NET Framework 2.0
  Posted: 29/04/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Using asynchronous commands in ADO.NET 2.0
  In this session we'll look at how we can submit work to the database asynchronously in ADO.NET 2.0.
  Posted: 29/04/2005 by Mike Taulty
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  Tags: .NET, ADO.NET

 

• Working with asynchronous ASP.NET Web Services
  In this session we'll look at both the client side and service side work involved in taking an asynchronous approach to our web services.
  Posted: 29/04/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: ASP.NET, Web Service
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• Code Expansions and Code Snippets
  Posted: 28/04/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Working with existing WSDLs in ASP.NET Web Services
  Here we take a look at how we can implement a service when provided with an existing WSDL document.
  Posted: 28/04/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, ASP.NET
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• Controlling SOAP and WSDL for ASP.NET Web Services
  In this session we'll look at how we can use .NET Framework attributes to take more control of the SOAP and WSDL that ASP.NET generates for us.
  Posted: 30/03/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET
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• The class Designer in Visual Studio 2005
  Posted: 30/03/2005 by Mike Taulty
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• Anonymous Methods in C# V2.0
  Posted: 24/03/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, AJAX, ASP.NET
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• Working with SOAP extensions in ASP.NET Web Services
  This session looks at the SoapExtension extensibility mechanism for ASP.NET Web Services and how we can make use of it.
  Posted: 24/03/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Web Service
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• Working with SOAP headers in ASP.NET Web Services
  This session looks at how we can program against SOAP headers from ASP.NET web services
  Posted: 17/03/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: .NET, Web Service
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• Calling Web Services Asynchronously
  Want to invoke a back-end web service without hanging your user interface? Let's look how.
  Posted: 03/03/2005 by Mike Taulty
  Tags: Web Service
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• The WinForms Property Grid is smarter than you think!
  Posted: 11/01/2005 by Mike Taulty

 

• Working online/offline with the Offline Block
  Posted: 11/01/2005 by Mike Taulty
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