Jackie Goldstein's Weblog

One of the fun demos that I did in my session on the Windows Live SDK at VSLive Dallas earlier this month, was to do a live demo of adding Windows Live Instant Messaging to a live web site in real-time.   I generally think (at least) twice about doing such live demos - especially on a production web site - since SOO much can go wrong.  But adding the Windows Live Messenger control is really that easy!

Next week I'll be in Dallas to speak at the VSLive conference there.   Below are the 3 sessions I'll be presenting there - you can get all of the conference details at VSLive Dallas.

Last week I had the opportunity to attend a special event organized by Boot Camp Ventures.

Kim has a new post that summarizes some of our experience using the Entity Framework in a real client project.

In order to make it easier for developers to familiarize themselves with the Entity Framework, we have put together a list of some of the available resources that we found to be most useful in getting up to speed with the new tools and technologies. You can download it from our web site at

The July 2008 edition of the Renaissance Computer Systems Ltd. newsletter is now available at

http://www.renaissance.co.il/newsletters/NewsOct08.pdf

As part of my research and preparations for my presentation on the new Entity Framework at the VSLive New York conference, I came across a great tool (thanks to Kim) for learning and playing with LINQ to Entities queries.  The application (C# source code) can be downloaded from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/EFQuerySamples