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I am an independent .NET and SharePoint Developer living in The Netherlands. My main focus lies with C# and the .NET Framework but I am also a newbie enthusiast in Ruby and Rails.

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MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer

MCTS: WSS 3.0 Application Development


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Archive for March, 2009

MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer

0 Comments Published by Erik Burger March 18th, 2009 in Programming

As of this morning I am officially allowed to call myself Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Application Developer! Needless to say, I am quite pleased with myself The question is, what will I do next? The MCPD upgrade exams for Visual Studio 2008 aren’t available in my area yet. I am considering Windows Workflow Foundation [...]

Exploring Telerik OpenAccess: Unit Testing your Business Logic using Rhino Mocks

6 Comments Published by Erik Burger March 17th, 2009 in Programming

I’ve been playing around with Telerik’s OpenAccess ORM for a while now and I am slowly falling in love with it. Since I started using it I have literally not touched my SQL Server Management Studio once except to view the content of my tables. Why? Because OpenAccess supports forward mapping. I create my class [...]

Getting Closer to the MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer Certification

0 Comments Published by Erik Burger March 3rd, 2009 in Programming

I’ve been away for a while due to illness but I haven’t sat completely still. Last Friday I passed the 070-529: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Distributed Application Development exam. This completed my MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications. In addition to that, I passed the 070-526 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows-Based Client Development [...]