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Speaker Profiles and Event Descriptions
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April
28 2009 (Tuesday)
Speaker: Doug Holland
Topic: Tips & Tricks for the Visual
Studio 2008 Debugger
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The Visual Studio debugger is a highly underutilized tool
for many developers. In this session, you’ll learn
how to use it like a pro, while picking up new techniques
to fast-forward your problem solving and debugging abilities.
We’ll show you how to use advanced breakpoints, advanced
watch window / Expression evaluator tricks, modifiers, assertions
on the fly, remote debugging, and more. Whether you’re
writing C#, VB, WPF, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, or services,
we’ll provide tips and tricks that will have you debugging
faster and much more efficiently. The debugger is your primary
tool for finding bugs, so join us and learn how to make
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Note: There will also be brief demonstration
of Redgate's ANTS PROFILER by Manoj P Keechilot |
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Doug Holland,
a Microsoft MVP for Visual C#, is presently working as
a software engineer at Intel Corporation in Folsom, CA.
He has been designing and implementing software now for
over 14 years.
Doug holds a masters degree in software engineering from
Oxford University.
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| May
26 2009
Speaker: Eric Neff
Topic: Open Source Additions to your .Net Toolkit
- Using Mono to extend the life of old hardware.
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| In our economic climate some of you will
notice the disappearing IT budgets. In this presentation
Eric will demonstrate the use of Mono, MonoDevelop and
XSP to extend the processing power of old hardware. A
strong focus will be made on porting code from your windows
environment to linux Mono environment without changes
Note: We will give away free Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop cds (www.ubuntu.com)
and OpenSUSE 11.1 w/Mono (www.opensuse.org/en/) cds. These
are live cds that can be booted without requiring installation.
(First come first served )
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Eric is
a .Net consultant in the Sacramento area. Eric has
13 years of experience with specialization in scheduling
and indexing systems. Some recent public sites Eric
has worked on can be viewed at www.playnetwork.com
and www.delvenetworks.com Open source solutions
including Dot Net Nuke, Drupal, Mono, MonoDevelop
and Linux are a new interest for Eric.
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| June
30 2009
Speaker: Chuck Conway
Topic: Dependency Injection
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In .Net, Dependency Injection is a fairly
new addition to a .Net Developers toolbox, but what is it?
How can you leverage Dependency injection in your application.
Can I add it to existing brownfield applications?
In this presentation, I'll define what Dependency Injection
is and the problems it can help you solve. I'll explain
the downsides to using dependency injection -- where it
is not suited. I'll demonstrate dependency injection in
action and how to best leverage its features. We'll also
explore the current Dependency Injection frameworks and
which one would work best for your applications.
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Chuck Conway
is the primary consultant for Chucksoft. He has
been developing interactive web sites for 11 years
and been on the .Net platform for 7 of those years
and has developed in both VB.NET and C#. His experience
ranges from small web solutions to interactive high-volume
web sites to complex business solutions.
Chuck spends most of his time doing what he loves
-- learning how to write great software. You can
find Chuck at http://www.cconway.com
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