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Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit. It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning when you get up. It's extremely well put together and I say Kudos to the folks that did it. ...

Last month I blogged about the new Entity Framework 4 “code first” development option.  EF “code-first” enables a pretty sweet code-centric development workflow for working with data.  It enables you to: Work with data without ever having to open a designer or define an XML mapping file Define model objects by simply ...

Remember good developers don't just write source code, they also READ it. You don't just become a great poet by writing lots of poems. Read and absorb as well. Do check out the Source Code category of my blog here, there's (as of today) 15 pages of posts on Source Code you can check out. Recently my friend Jonathan Carter (OData Dude, my name for ...

You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, "The Weekly Source Code." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading as much as they can. I was poking around in the WebFormsMVP project's code and noticed an interesting ...

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If you are looking to follow this series, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed at http://feeds.jasongaylord.com/JasonNGaylord or my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/jgaylord. This series can be followed by using the Hot Links tag. Series Post #5 Quote of the day - "Requirements are like water. They're easier to build on when they're ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also now automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:00 PM: Baltimore SQL Server Users Group ...

I’m in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections Orlando conference and having a lot of fun.  My family came along so I’m splitting time between amusement parks and conference talks which is fun.  I finished up my first talk on  “Getting Started with Silverlight” and wanted to get the code posted.  I’ll provide ...

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now – announcement coming soon).  As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months ...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also now automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar: Monday, March 09, 2009 6:00 PM: Southern Maryland .NET – LINQ to SQL ...