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Please note that my explanation in this post is incorrect. I am sorry if I caused any trouble. In .NET 2.0 disposing the SqlConnection DOES return the connection into the connectionpool. In my experience .NET 1.1 acted differently; I will try to investigate this and let you know.   In many talks, tutorials and books you will find C# ...

MCPTS… MCPD… upgrading from MCAD and MSCD .NET   If you are confused about the new certifications that have been and are being launched this year, try reading this blogpost[1] Why doesn't Microsoft publish this kind of information more clearly is beyond me…   [1] Vishal Joshi's Tangent: Dynamics of VS 2005 Upgrade Exams

I just found out that, as of January 25th, I am a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS). I passed both required exams (in beta). The first exam is a general .NET 2.0 exam (pretty tough) and the second one is a Web Application Exam. Still waiting for the results of the Windows Apps exam (due end this month)

Tomorrow I will be presenting a seminar on WCF at Microsoft's. After many seminars on .NET technologies, ranging from Smart Clients, ADO, VSTO, WPF it will be nice to get into some very technical stuff again. I really like the way Microsoft has abstracted the bad details away from the actual code you write and allows you to configure your way ...

I just learned that I passed the 071-528: TS: Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 - Web-based Client Development exam! It is a beta exam but counts as the real thing towards certification.   Still… I'm awaiting the results of three more exams I've taken and I've scheduled two more for March.

The New Generation of Microsoft Certifications have been announced by Microsoft. I'll be taking one of the beta exams in November. I am really curious what these exams will look like. One of the things I really like is that they allow developers to get a certification that is focused on a particular field of expertise. That's way better than all ...

Last week I taught a class about the Information Bridge Framework and about VSTO. Now IBF isn't that well-known so to share my sources of information I hereby publish my set of links that allowed me to get started with these two.   I know that there is some discussion about the future of IBF (most people I speak about it seem to think that VSTO ...

Five years ago I attended the famous PDC 2000 in Orlando. This was the PDC that presented .NET for the very first time to a crowd of 6000 attendants. It took me a month to really grasp the meaning of what had been shown to us. Not that the presentations were that bad. On the contrary, they were so full of information that it took a lot of ...

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