{"id":1008,"date":"2004-11-03T07:21:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T07:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/Slides-articles-and-shameless-self-promotion.aspx"},"modified":"2013-09-25T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:14:11","slug":"slides-articles-and-shameless-self-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/slides-articles-and-shameless-self-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Slides, articles, and shameless self-promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have lost the gift, if I ever had it, for what some of my old collegues would call (with a smile on their face) &#8220;shameless self-promotion&#8221;. Last week at Win-Dev attendees at my talks pointed out to me that I didn&#8217;t have a slide that advertised my email address, or web site of samples, or this blog. I didn&#8217;t even have a slide plugging our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0321180593\/qid=1099466127\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14\/002-0130162-3812056?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">SQL Server 2005 For Developers book<\/a>, even. Sheesh&#8230; So I crufted up a slide for day 2. I even forgot business cards. Yep, really.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reason this topic comes to mind is, when I mention you can find more information of some of the new SQL Server 2005, SqlClient and ADO.NET 2.0 topics in an article series I wrote for MSDN online (Data Access and Storage Center), folks ask for references. Here they are:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. ADO.NET 2.0 Feature Matrix<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms379620(v=vs.95).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Generic Coding with the ADO.NET 2.0 Base Classes and Factories<\/a><br \/>\n3. Edit\/Build\/Publish: Schemas in ADO.NET 2.0 &#8211; This is about DbConnection.GetSchema(), a.k.a. information schema functionality ++<br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms379594(v=vs.95).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Using Query Notifications in ADO.NET 2.0<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms971534.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">XML Data Type Support in ADO.NET 2.0: Handling XML from SQL Server 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one more article in the series coming in another month or so. I&#8217;ll keep the suspense going for now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also built my &#8220;do-very-little-for-exposition&#8221; .NET Data Provider using the new ADO.NET 2.0 provider base classes (System.Data.Common and System.Data.ProviderBase)\u00a0, a ProviderFactory, and\u00a0provider \u201cregistration\u201d. An article about the process of building got published in MSDN magazine, a few years ago; this is an update.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There. Was that too shameless for ya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have lost the gift, if I ever had it, for what some of my old collegues would call (with a smile on their face) &#8220;shameless self-promotion&#8221;. 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