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It’s rare that a developer doesn’t need some familiarity with the database his or her applications are targeting, so this session (divided in to five parts) provides a bit of insight into features of SQL Server 2008 (and 2005) that they should be aware of when building .NET applications. The…

Universital Inc of Jacksonville, Florida, has released an innovative mail notification application for Windows Mobile.  During the JAX CodeCamp (and incidentally, Hurricane Fay) devfish sat down to talk with lead developer Wayne Sepege about his project.

There are plenty of new things to talk about with Internet Explorer 8, and no time like the present since it’s officially released! In this screencast, we begin with a tour of the new consumer features from the relatively minor of tab groups and improved zooming through the major with tab process…

Once the initial allure of the cool graphics and animation capabilities of Silverlight has passed, you’ll probably say to yourself, "Hey, my app needs data too!" Well, this session delivers on that – not once, not twice, but thrice! We’ll look at accessing remote data services from…

ReactionGrid is a virtual world startup based on OpenSimulator technology.  I recently drove down to Fort Pierce, Florida to talk to Robin and Kyle Gomboy, two of the three owers of ReactionGrid, about virtual worlds and how the the idea of using virtual worlds changes when then…

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the unsung hero of the .NET 3.0 release.  With Workflow Foundation you can model business processes as sequential flows and state machines at a level of abstraction that brings both the developer and the business analyst in on the conversation. …

There’s no shortage of choice when it comes to building applications on the Microsoft platform – traditional desktop application or browser-based application?  Web Forms or Win Forms? AJAX or Silverlight?  Rich versus reach?  This session covers the array of options and offers…

REST (Representational State Transfer) is all the rage as a lightweight, web service architecture that relies on existing web standards such as HTTP and XML.  In this session, you’ll get insight into the roots of REST, including its four main tenets, and be able to critically discern how…

In this screencast, Jim O’Neil, Developer Evangelist, takes us on a tour of ASP.NET Dynamic Data, introduced with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  Dynamic Data leverages LINQ to SQL and the ADO.Net Entity Framework to provide a scaffolding approach to quickly build a CRUD…

The Fourth Annual Orlando Code Camp took place on March 28, 2009. Microsoft Developer Evangelist Joe "Devfish" Healy was there with his trusty camcorder to get some video and talk with the organizers. If you're not familiar with .NET Code Camps, they're community organized events…