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I had a friend show me a cool new service a couple of weeks ago called Jott.  Jott is a service that let’s you use your cell phone to leave yourself, or anyone else you setup, an email.

There are several ways you might use this.  But the one that I find the most useful is to send myself reminders.

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Several weeks ago, we discussed the point of Multi-Layered Architectures.  We discussed what a multi-layered architecture looks like, and the problems it solves.

Today, what I want to examine is the question, “Is the LINQ model we’ve been looking at since then really multi-layered?”

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While it is true that LINQ will allow you to write all of your data access in .NET without writing a line of SQL, many organizations have already determined that using stored procedures to retrieve the data from their database is the preferred way of accessing the data.

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Last week we looked at the extension points Microsoft has wired into the LINQ to SQL classes and how they can be used to achieve some of the capabilities of the Business Logic Layer (BLL) in a multi-layered architecture.

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This just in from Windows Vista Team Blog

• Late Friday we made SP1 RTM available to individuals and companies who participated in the SP1 beta program
• At the end of this week we will be making the English version of Windows Vista SP1 available to Volume Licensing customers.  Other languages will follow soon after
• Later this month, SP1 will be available to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers