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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.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Microsoft Gives Bloggers Sub-Aero (2.8) Laptops

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Edelman Public Relations , who's handling PR for Microsoft's Windows Vista Launch , gave Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 laptops as Chr...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard RC

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Microsoft posted the SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard (DBPW) 1.0 Release Candidate bits on December 19, 2006. The Wizard generates a T...
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Friday, December 22, 2006

.NET Framework 3.5 for Orcas Appears Official

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Rumors of .NET Framework 3.5 (a.k.a., .NET Fx 3.5) as the moniker for the Visual Studio "Orcas" LINQ and ADO.NET vNext add-on to ....

Orcas December 2006 CTP Delayed to January

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A new " Notes on the January CTP " post on Charlie Calvert's (C#) Community Blog this morning (12/22/2006) announced a delay i...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Is Beta SQL Server Express SP2 for Vista an Issue?

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The CNNMoney.com site published Business 2.0 magazine writer Owen Thomas's December 15, 2006 " Vista flaw could haunt Microsoft ...

Missing LINQs in Orcas December 2006 CTP

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It appears that the impending Orcas December 2006 CTP won't incorporate several important elements of the LINQ May 2006 CTP. According t...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Visual Basic for MS-DOS is a Killer App of All Time?

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Peter Coffee's " 25 Killer Apps of All Times " December 14, 2006 slideshow for eWeek carries this deck: Microsoft's Vist...

Anders Hejlsberg's Recent LINQ/C# 3.0 Presentations

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Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Technical Fellow and chief architect of the C# language, gave two LINQ-related presentations at Tech•Ed Develope...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Microsoft's Data Access APIs: ODBC to LINQ

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Mike Pizzo, an Architect on the Data Programmability team at Microsoft, has started a four part series that captures the history of Microsof...
Saturday, December 09, 2006

Jon Udell Moves from InfoWorld to Microsoft

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Veteran technology writer, analyst and eclectic Web developer Jon Udell will cease writing his " Strategic Developer " column and...

Orcas RTM to Slip from 2007 to 2008?

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Will the proliferation of LINQ to Whatever s, Entity Framework/Data Model accoutrements, ASP.NET Ajax extensions, and other "hot new fe...
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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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