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MSDN Subscribers Giveaways Reminder In a previous post I wrote about two MSDN subscribers which I’m going to give away. As I wrote I’m giving this valuable gift to people in the Israeli development community that will be committed to volunteering at least 100 hours to develop open source projects during the following year. This post is only a reminder that on the 26 of September (in four days) the applying form will be closed. Terms of participating: You need to be an Israeli (because if you will...
MSDN Ultimate Subscriber Giveaways A few days ago I got three MSDN subscribers for MSDN Ultimate to give away as I see fit. The subscriptions allow their owner to download and own full featured versions of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate , as well as most of Microsoft software. The retail value of such subscriber is approximately $12,000. Also, the subscriptions are valid for one year of use. So I thought to myself how do I intend to give away such a valuable gift? do I intend to give it in a session...
VS2010 Extension Manager One of the great features in VS2010 is the extension manager . In last DevAcademy4 conference I talked about it a little in my session and showed an extension that I use. Lets see what is it all about. Using The Extension Manager The extension manager in VS2010 is a manager that help to manage and discover extensions to VS2010 . In order to use it we only need to go to the Tools menu and choose to use the Extension Manager menu item. The following figure shows how to...
MIX10 – Summary Home sweet home! I arrived today back to Israel after a trip of six days to the MIX10 conference (three days conference and almost three days “on the roads”). To tell the truth, I was a little disappointed from the conference. I’ve expected more relevant information and less recycling of things that I already know. As you know (if you followed the MIX10 ), there were announcements about Windows Phone 7 , Silverlight 4 , OData protocol, IE9 and more. After being at the conference and...
Get Ready for Sela SDP Conference The PDC conference is over. A new conference is on the way. The SDP conference is going to happen between the 27 to 30 of December. In that conference we ( Sela Group ) are going to to share the future technologies including the ones that where exposed in the Microsoft PDC . In the conference I’m going to have a session with Bnaya Eshet on ADO.NET Entity Framework Evolution in .NET 4.0 . If you want to hear where EF is heading, this is the place to be...
ADO.NET Entity Framework Session at Microsoft A few months ago I wrote about a session I’m supposed to do on ADO.NET Entity Framework at Microsoft Israel . This is a reminder for that session which will take place on October 19 at Microsoft Ra’anana . In the session I’ll introduce Entity Framework and talk about how to use it. I’m also going to dedicate the end of the session for EF4 and show some of the features it include like POCO, Model-Defined Functions and more. If you are interested to hear...