Hello Everyone,  I will not be able to join you guys on Monday evenings for 6 mons or so, as i am taking some advanced level courses in enterprise...
There is a school in Framingham by name American International College and they are a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner.They have a good set up and the...
Hi Everyone, The Nashua code came is on Feb 28. Your New Hampshire .Net User Group and Daniel Webster College are teaming up to bring New Hampshire are very...
I just came upon this link. Abe and I are fans. Check it out! http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/product.aspx?re_ms=oo&family=onenote&rps=1&culture=en-US -...
The 2nd shot has been extended yet again. You pay Prometric $125 and take the exam. If you fail, you can take it again for free. If you pass, you get 25% off...
Hi, At the meeting on Monday I discussed several events of interest to New England developers over the coming few months. I thought that I'd reproduce them...
It's MLK tomorrow and inaugeration week, so we're not going to hold session this week. Next week we'll resume with the last chapter in the book. Have a great...
I am sure in this economy you may know someone that you are trying to help with their job search. Please refer people to this seminar that you feel could...
Hi Everyone, We're going to be covering the last chapter "Chapter 17: Supporting an application" which reviews some instrumentation and performance/health...
It's probably going to the MS-Press book, but there are a few others out there that are being reviewed by Hoyt and possibly others. That is going to be part of...
Ok. I already have the MS-Press book and have had good luck with them in terms of past exams but I am also open to using another book if there is a valid...
Hi Marc, I agree. I think there was some concern about the depth of the material, but I'm open to hearing pros and cons, and look at the books side by side. We...
Hi Abe, I probably won't be able to make it tonight. I will be fine with whatever those that are there decide. Marc ________________________________ From:...
Here are three candidate SQL Server books, listed in one person's view of their appeal, the best first. :) 1. Gibson: SQL Server 2005 Database Developer -...
Hi Hoyt, I am fine with any of these books. However, I would not necessarily equate brevity with quality. Fewer pages means less material covered or less...
Hi, Marc, I have not purchased the book, yet, so I don't have it in hand -- but from the Amazon page for the Gibson book: The CD-ROM features: - Six full...
I have to agree with you Hoyt. :) I would be in favor of trying the Gibson book. But am willing to go along with the consensus at the meeting tonight. Marc ...
I just wrote: For that purpose, broad and deep is more useful, again indicating Gibson, I ... That makes no sense, even to me. :) I mean -- something that...
Thanks Hoyt for doing the legwork. Remember that we may supplement the book by referencing msdn articles, there are good T-SQL programming books out there,...
From what I heard this weekend I believe that LINQ is nice but the Entity Framework itself is where the future is. LINQ only supports SQL Server while the...
I stand corrected, yes I meant to say EF. Chris Bowed presented an excellent overview this weekend. Here's a blog post from the EF team on the topic ...
Following your link, Abe, and reviewing the comments -- it appears that Entity Framework is premature, an unfinished work -- but it's the direction MS is...
Hi Folks, First I'll address the immediate goals: We've just finished covering the 70-547 exam material "Designing and Developing Web-Based Applications Using...
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