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SA Developer.Net 2008 September Pictures
22 September 08 07:02 AM | DanielVanWyk | with no comments

The recent SA Developer.Net event in Cape Town was on Silverlight 2: The Developer's perspective . Nicholas Goossens presented a good talk that showcased how to do a CRUD grid with a nice detail-edit popup.  He even made some changes to the UI using Expression.  Check out his Nick's Blog for the presentation downloads, as well as some really interesting articles about testing. My phone's battery died during the event, so I couldn't take any pictures.  Hilton took a...

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SA Developer.Net 2008 August Pictures
17 September 08 07:25 AM | DanielVanWyk | 3 comment(s)

So, I finally got my phone connected to my laptop and uploaded the pictures to Flickr.  Check it out here:  SA Developer.Net 2008 August: Fight Night . Uploading the files to Flickr was quite a pleasurable experience.  I was able to batch edit the pics to add descriptions and tags.  I could also drag and drop them into a set.  All this time it never felt like I was using a web application.  Flickr impressed me today. I'll upload the pictures of tonight's event...

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SA Developer.Net July Event: LINQ to SQL
31 July 08 11:24 AM | DanielVanWyk | 3 comment(s)

The monthly SA Developer.Net (Cape Town) event was last night at the Microsoft Office and Hilton spoke about LINQ to SQL.  There were quite a lot of people who have used LINQ by now and there were some really good conversations.  Some key take-aways for me: The generated classes are partial, and thus not sealed, and you can add  your own properties and/or business logic separately from the generated code.  This means that you can make your classes Serializable simply by adding...

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