There are several things to consider before you sit down to write a book. But here are 10 I wanted to share because I think they are either very important or not spoken of enough.I've gone down this road many times, but I took a long break between books and instead focused on other areas. Of cou

I had to laugh at this. It is from CSI NY. Just watch ... no explanation needed.

I'll be heading to Miramar, FL on July 8th [http://fladotnet.com/] for the local .NET User Group meeting to speak to the group about the Entity Framework and LINQ. I "hope" the final bits are released by then, but not on July 8th, please (yikes!). I went through a major overhaul of my

I've decided to at least try to put all of the code sample in my Data Access with Silverlight 2 book [https://www.johnpapa.net/all/silverlight-2-book-cover-mock-up/] in both VB and C#. While VB was once my main language, C# has long since been the primary language I use.  Thankfully, there is th

I've prepared dozens of articles and presentations on the Entity Framework over the past year and a half and the questions always start with "Why would I want to use this instead of XYZ?" LINQ to SQL, a variety of ORM tools, straight up ADO.NET, custom data layers, CSLA.NET and this li