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Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:42 AM

Generics , Extension Methods, and XML Serialization

At the Jax SQL Saturday I was asked to turn a .NET object into an xml file and then reverse the process. Step 1: Serialization with extension methods C# 3.0 comes with this cool feature called extension methods. This is syntactical sugar for static methods...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:52 AM

C# 3.0 (.NET 3.5) Language Features & Delegates

Two more questions from the floor at TechEd. Perhaps the most frequent question at TechEd is “What are the new features of C# 3.0?” Here is the short list: • Implicitly typed local variables • Extension methods • Lambda expressions • Object and collection...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:47 AM

Building a solution with many projects is SLOWWWWWWW

This week I am attending TechEd in Orlando FL and I was honored to be requested to work the C# booth by the MVP and C# teams. I got many great questions from attendees and I thought I would post some of the more interesting ones. So here goes. An attendee...
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Friday, April 25, 2008 11:51 AM

Chage the colors on a button

Got a question from an attendee at the Orlando Launch Event, he wanted to know how to change the colors of a button from code (i.e. the click event). Both of these items are properties on the button and can be changed easily with the following code. button1...
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Monday, February 18, 2008 5:20 AM

DateTimePicker control and its DateTimeKind setting

I got this information from one of my ONETUG members (thanks JT) and I thought I would share. There's a "feature" in the .NET 2.0 framework for the DateTimePicker control. When you assign it a value for the DateTime, it will inherit the...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:56 PM

2008 SQL Saturday Tampa

SQL Saturday Tampa 2008 was great, a big thank you to the organizers Pam, Wes, and team, great job guys! To those that attended my session on the SQL CLR I have uploaded my presentation here ( http://cid-afc22ba66ea68f7d.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public...
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Monday, February 11, 2008 7:29 PM

C# Tutorials

I was asked to provide some links to online C# Tutorials. I threw the list below together in 5 min, I know I have missed some great sites so please augment my list by leaving a comment. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx http://windowsclient...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:23 AM

South Florida Code Camp 2008

The South Florida Code Camp was another great event. Many thanks go out to the team that worked the countless hours to put it together. For any of you that attended my talk on .NET Reflection here is my Code & PowerPoint. http://cid-afc22ba66ea68f7d...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:34 AM

Orlando VS2008 Installfest

Back in November we did the Orlando VS2008 Installfest, and I have got to commend Microsoft for this forward looking opportunity. With the release of any new product there are always barriers to migration. The largest revolve around incompatibilities...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:09 AM

Using the CCR for Line of Business Applications

For fun I have been playing around with Microsoft Robotics studio ( http://microsoft.com/robotics ) for a long time now and I have listened to Microsoft’s George Chrysanthakopoulos tell us how cool the CCR was in just about every webcast. Well I have...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:44 PM

Execute a Stored Procedure: Quick and Dirty

Ok, I usually try to only talk about best practices but sometimes we all need a quick an dirty few lines to execute a stored procedure, no Enterprise Data Access, no LINQ, just System.Data and the managed provider for our given DB. Well here goes. 1 ...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:17 AM

Generate, Compile and Execute Code Dynamically

Like any good developer, when someone comes to my desk and says you cannot do something I have to prove them wrong. This was one of those challenges. He said you cannot “generate, compile and execute code on the fly in .NET”. I said yes you can, he said...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 4:08 PM

.NET Cheat Sheet

A great article by Don XML on the differences between .NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 Great to explain to your boss what each version of the .NET framework can do! http://reddevnews.com/techbriefs/article.aspx?editorialsid=832
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:59 AM

Central Florida Tech Fair

Here you can download my presentations from the CFL Tech Fair. http://onetug.net/Documents/CFL_Presentations.zip
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 9:16 PM

BarCamp Orlando

Here is the powerpoint ( http://www.onetug.org/DNN/Portals/0/member_files/2007_09_23_BarCamp.ppt ) for the presentation that I plan on doing Sunday at BarCamp Orlando. See you there! In the presenation I will provide an overview of MS Robotics Studio...
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