Jason Nadal

One of the questions I get asked most often about Longhorn is in regards to audio hardware.  1) What is a card that works under Longhorn, and 2) How do I get the drivers working?

After a long time off ...a few weeks of sparse posting, I'm back with some new posts. In case anyone was wondering, I had the opportunity to perform the Verdi Requiem at Carnegie Hall under Maestro Vincent La Selva and the New York Grand Opera Company.  It was a blast, but it's time that I got back to some development work.

Alan Jarvi has compiled a great reference for the Windows Mobile 2003 connection manager screens, located here.  However, the reason I went looking for info was buried in screens not shown.

One of the cooler features of Whidbey and the 2.0 framework is the ability to bind data directly to the Business Layer.  In this article, I'll explain how this can be achieved simply, using the PDC bits. This is very cool, and will be enough to finally stop me from passing DataTables/Readers around through the layers (a big no-no).

The source for the project can be downloaded here.

This is just a reminder that strange things can happen when you try to name a project with an existing class in the .NET framework.  For example, for creating a new sample test project, I usually give it some sort of simple descriptor and put it in my HD's example code folder.

From talks after the Newark Devdays conference, here's an article to hopefully break my blogger's block.  This is my vision for how convergence hardware (between tv and pc), the internet, and the tv viewer seeking more could look in the future. I term these “obese clients,“ using Avalon's extremely rich UI possibilities, and enhancing the stale push-tv model of today.  Let me know what you think....  or even better, get cable companies to think about offering services such as these.

Here's a topic that came up in a discussion after the Newark (Secaucus) DevDays...and an explanation about why I'm writing this....