Eric Nelson

Yesterday (22nd July 2010) was mvcConf – “the Virtual ASP.NET MVC Conference”. This was an ambitious undertaking by the community to deliver a three track, 20+ session conference for FREE using Liv…

\UPDATE 26th July: A Japanese version of the book is now [available on slideshare\]

\UPDATED 10th March 2010: Edd produced a [2nd post on using IronRuby with WPF/.NET \]

Complex Types make it easier to work with objects, allowing the grouping of related properties in Entities and the reuse of these groupings across Entities.

It is Friday 13th Nov 2009 - which means it is the last day of TechEd Europe in Berlin. Overall I have had a good week – high quality sessions, lots of time with customers and colleagues and a very…

No? Nor me. (If you are wondering what Mocking is, check out my previous post on Mocking, Stubs and Test Doubles.)

This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter.

While chatting with Tim Ewald last week at Devweek we got onto the topic of “ways to improve the MSDN experience” (Tim sits in that team). Part of that discussion was the “Low Bandwith” option for …

- Part 1 – Language and Framework Usage - Part 2 – Visual Basic 6.0 Usage Today (This one!) - Part 3 – Move from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET

In January we created a survey to understand how folks were using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET in the UK. This survey was sent out to individuals we “suspected” had Visual Basic 6.0 herit…

- Part 1 – Language and Framework Usage - Part 2 – Visual Basic 6.0 Usage Today - Part 3 – Move from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET (This one!)

\[Check out other guest posts if you like this one. They are often better than mine!\] One thing I miss about being the Technical Editor of the UK MSDN Flash is interacting with smart individuals t…

On January 1st I switched focus to 100% Azure. My friend and colleague David Gristwood has been firmly focused on Azure through 2009 working with early adopters. We decided to record a podcast talk…