OakLeaf Systems

OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure, Windows Azure SQL Database, Windows Azure SQL Data Sync, Windows Azure SQL Database Federations, Windows Azure Mobile Services and Web Sites, Windows Phone 8, LINQ, ADO.NET Entity Framework, OData and WCF Data Services, SQL Server 2008+, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. TIP: Click the latest item's title below to speed loading.

Monday, April 18, 2005

P&P Enterprise Library, VB, and Data Access Application Block Bugs

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Microsoft's patterns & practices group (PAG) released an updated version of seven Application Blocks for the .NET Framework 1.1 in ...

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Another Alternative to AdventureWorks

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Before the days of COM-based VB6 Web Services, I wrote a VB6 client/server demonstration project that emulated early Web-based retail supply...

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

VB6 to VB .NET Upgrade Wizard Gets a Bum Rap

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As of today, 273 Microsoft MVPs and 4,152 other interested parties have signed a petition to "further develop VB6 and VBA." The p...

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Saturday, March 26, 2005

Northwind vs. AdventureWorks as a Sample Database - Round 2

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Here's more on the issue of AW vs. NW as a sample database for books about Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005. This post uses AW's Sa...

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Friday, March 25, 2005

Northwind vs. AdventureWorks as a Sample Database

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Microsoft "strongly urges" book authors to abandon Northwind as the default sample database in favor of SQL Server (SQLS) 2005...

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

The Opening Salvo - Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

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Welcome to the OakLeaf Systems blog. I'm in the process of writing a new book about database programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2...

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Roger Jennings (--rj): Oakland, California, United States; I'm a Windows Azure Insider, a retired Windows Azure MVP, the principal developer for OakLeaf Systems and the author of 30+ books on Microsoft software. The books have more than 1.25 million English copies in print and have been translated into 20+ languages.

My latest books are Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform for Wrox and Microsoft Access 2010 In Depth for Que.

I'm also a contributing editor for Visual Studio Magazine, write for Redmond Developer News, and contribute to TechTarget's SearchCloudComputing.com blog.

Full disclosure: I make part of my livelihood by writing about Microsoft products in books and for magazines. I regularly receive free evaluation software from Microsoft and press credentials for Microsoft Tech•Ed and PDC. I'm also a member of the Microsoft Partner Network.

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