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In this episode of geekSpeak, Microsoft SQL Server guru Aaron Nelson shows you how to take control of your SQL Server with PowerShell. Aaron demonstrates how to perform everyday database administrator tasks like backing up user databases, scripting table objects, and evaluating disk space usage,…

Are you a Microsoft Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developer looking to get the most out of Microsoft Expression Blend? If so, tune in to this episode of geekSpeak where Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Corey Schuman highlights 5 key features of Expression…

In this geekSpeak webcast, industry guru and author Jon Flanders provides details on the caching feature in the recently released Windows Azure AppFabric. AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale, and manage Web and composite applications that run on…

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Andy Leonard discusses best practices for using Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in the enterprise. Andy explains what SSIS does well and doesn't do well and describes common struggles when learning SSIS (expressions,…

In this episode of geekSpeak, Jeremy Likness focuses on the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Testing Framework. Jeremy shows us how to design Silverlight applications to take advantage of unit testing (SOLID and DRY principles), building not only view models but also views that can be tested. Jeremy…

Persistence ignorance is one of the biggest features missing in Entity Framework 1 and one of the most exciting features coming with Entity Framework 4. In this webcast, Dane Morgridge explains how to use plain old CLR object (POCO) classes to build applications that take advantage of the Entity…

In this episode of geekSpeak, Chris Rolon gives us a look under the hood of Microsoft SQL Azure to see how was constructed. Chris discusses the issues involving high availability, failure detection, automatic failover, and the distributed data fabric. Be sure to bring your questions about SQL…

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Kevin Hazzard shows how new caching capabilities in the Microsoft .NET 4 Framework can make your Ruby and Python code fly when running on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Kevin illustrates the benefits of hybrid language application…

What's the best way to get your arms around a collection of data? In this geekSpeak, Steve Bearman helps us explore the Microsoft .NET Generic Collections, which includes the List, LinkedList, Stack, Queue, Dictionary, SortedList, SortedDictionary, and HashSet collection classes. We look at…

In this geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Keith Elder shares tips and techniques from his experience deploying Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services with Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7) in the enterprise. We look at setting up IIS7, configuring IIS 7 with…