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If you are interested in added Bing.com maps into your web sites, check out the SDK's below:

Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK 6.2

This software development kit (SDK) provides programming reference and how-to topics for getting started with the Bing Maps AJAX Control.

Bing Maps Web Services SDK 1.0

This software development kit (SDK) provides programming reference and how-to topics for getting started with the Bing Maps Web Services

Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK

This software development kit (SDK) provides the binaries and programming reference for the Bing Maps Silverlight Control.

 

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp in San Diego on 11/21 - 11/22. It's always a great time and lots of free training!

I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend. Also, check out my new .NET discussion site called DotNet Army!

Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services

Learn how to build real world nTier applications with the new Entity Framework and related services introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1. With this new technology built into .NET, you can easily wrap an object model around your database and have all the data access automatically generated or use your own stored procedures and views. Then learn how to easily and securely expose your object model using WCF with just a few line of code using ADO.NET Data Services. The session will demonstrate how to create and consume these new technologies from the ground up. Lots of code!

Slides: Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services.pdf (2.88 MB)
Demo Code: EntityFramework.zip (859.84 KB)

dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools

This session will focus on my favorite Visual Studio add-ins and other tools that makes programming faster and easier. I will focus on tools that are either free or very affordable. Tool categories include Writing Better Code (easier, faster and correct the first time!), Code Helpers, Documentation (helper and creation), General Utilities and more. These tools are designed to impress your boss and get you home at a reasonable time. Packed full of demonstrations and very few PowerPoint slides! Licenses for some of the 3rd party products I will be demonstrating will be given away (over $1,100 worth), so be sure to attend and bring a business card!

Slides: dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools.pdf (1.82 MB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Learn how to build rich web application interfaces using ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. This new technology makes programming JavaScript into your ASP.NET pages easy, increasing the power and functionality of your applications, reducing round trips to the server, and making it easy to consume web services for dynamic content. In this session you will be introduced to the new client and server controls for ASP.NET and Java Script to learn how to build a rich Web 2.0 experience for your users.

Slides: Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX - 2009.pdf (2.36 MB)
Demo Code: AdventureWorksAjax.zip (803.65 KB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2009)

This session will guide any level of programmer to greater productivity by providing the information needed to write consistent, maintainable code. Learn about project setup, assembly layout, code style, defensive programming and much, much more. We will even go over some real in production code and see what the programmer did wrong in "What's Wrong With this Code?". Code tips are included to help you write better, error free applications. Lots of code examples in C# and VB.NET.

Slides: Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-2009.pdf (3.8 MB)
Demo Code: CodingStandards.zip (245.54 KB)

Pictures and Video

Pictures & Video from This Years Code Camp:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/socalcodecamplosangeles2009/
  

Pictures from past SoCal Code Camps:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/socalcodecamp/

Video from past Code Camps:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746528613401358938&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3743731164665646189&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8296273637053089146&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8271841448294012140&hl=en

 

I hope everyone in Arizona and southern California is planning to attend this years Desert Code Camp on 6/13 and SoCal Code Camp in San Diego on 6/27 - 6/28. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" at my sessions for $12, cheaper than the web site (no tax and shipping), please bring exact change or check.

I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend. Also, check out my new .NET discussion site called DotNet Army!

Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services

Learn how to build real world nTier applications with the new Entity Framework and related services introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1. With this new technology built into .NET, you can easily wrap an object model around your database and have all the data access automatically generated or use your own stored procedures and views. Then learn how to easily and securely expose your object model using WCF with just a few line of code using ADO.NET Data Services. The session will demonstrate how to create and consume these new technologies from the ground up. Lots of code!

Slides: Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services.pdf (2.88 MB)
Demo Code: EntityFramework.zip (859.84 KB)

dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools

This session will focus on my favorite Visual Studio add-ins and other tools that makes programming faster and easier. I will focus on tools that are either free or very affordable. Tool categories include Writing Better Code (easier, faster and correct the first time!), Code Helpers, Documentation (helper and creation), General Utilities and more. These tools are designed to impress your boss and get you home at a reasonable time. Packed full of demonstrations and very few PowerPoint slides! Licenses for some of the 3rd party products I will be demonstrating will be given away, so be sure to attend and bring a business card!

Slides: dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools.pdf (1.82 MB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Learn how to build rich web application interfaces using ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. This new technology makes programming JavaScript into your ASP.NET pages easy, increasing the power and functionality of your applications, reducing round trips to the server, and making it easy to consume web services for dynamic content. In this session you will be introduced to the new client and server controls for ASP.NET and Java Script to learn how to build a rich Web 2.0 experience for your users.

Slides: Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX - 2009.pdf (2.36 MB)
Demo Code: AdventureWorksAjax.zip (803.65 KB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2009)

This session will guide any level of programmer to greater productivity by providing the information needed to write consistent, maintainable code. Learn about project setup, assembly layout, code style, defensive programming and much, much more. We will even go over some real in production code and see what the programmer did wrong in "What's Wrong With this Code?". Code tips are included to help you write better, error free applications. Lots of code examples in C# and VB.NET.

Slides: Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-2009.pdf (3.8 MB)
Demo Code: CodingStandards.zip (245.54 KB)

Pictures and Video

Pictures from This Years Code Camp:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/codecamp2009/
  

Pictures from past SoCal Code Camps:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/socalcodecamp/

Video from past Code Camps:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746528613401358938&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3743731164665646189&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8296273637053089146&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8271841448294012140&hl=en

 

If you are a web developer, then Firebug for Firefox puts a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Check it out by going to:

http://getfirebug.com/

 

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp at Cal State Fullerton on 1/24 - 1/25. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" at my sessions for $11, cheaper than the web site (no tax and shipping), please bring exact change.

I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend. Also, check out my new .NET discussion site called DotNet Army!

Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services

1:30PM Saturday - Room: UH 246

Learn how to build real world nTier applications with the new Entity Framework and related services introduced in .NET 3.5 SP1. With this new technology built into .NET, you can easily wrap an object model around your database and have all the data access automatically generated or use your own stored procedures and views. Then learn how to easily and securely expose your object model using WCF with just a few line of code using ADO.NET Data Services. The session will demonstrate how to create and consume these new technologies from the ground up. Lots of code!

Slides: Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services.pdf (2.79 MB)
Demo Code: Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services.zip (849.73 KB)

dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools

1:15PM Saturday - Room: UH 250

This session will focus on my favorite Visual Studio add-ins and other tools that makes programming faster and easier. I will focus on tools that are either free or very affordable. Tool categories include Writing Code (easier, faster and correct the first time!), Code Helpers, Documentation (helper and creation), General Utilities and more. These tools are designed to impress your boss and get you home at a reasonable time. Packed full of demonstrations and very few PowerPoint slides! Licenses for some of the 3rd party products I will be demonstrating will be given away, so be sure to attend and bring a business card!

Slides: dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools.pdf (1.8 MB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

11:30AM Saturday - Room: MH 121

Learn how to build rich web application interfaces using ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. This new technology makes programming JavaScript into your ASP.NET pages easy, increasing the power and functionality of your applications, reducing round trips to the server, and making it easy to consume web services for dynamic content. In this session you will be introduced to the new client and server controls for ASP.NET and Java Script to learn how to build a rich Web 2.0 experience for your users.

Slides: Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX - 2009.pdf (2.36 MB)
Demo Code: Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX - 20091.zip (702.2 KB) UPDATED!

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2009)

2:30PM Saturday - Room: UH 250

This session will guide any level of programmer to greater productivity by providing the information needed to write consistent, maintainable code. Learn about project setup, assembly layout, code style, defensive programming and much, much more. We will even go over some real in production code and see what the programmer did wrong in "What's Wrong With this Code?". Code tips are included to help you write better, error free applications. Lots of code examples in C# and VB.NET.

Slides: Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-2009.pdf (3.46 MB)
Demo Code: Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-2009.zip (94.46 KB)

Pictures and Video

Pictures from This Years Code Camp:

• http://flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/socalcodecampfullerton2009/
  

Pictures from past SoCal Code Camps:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/socalcodecamp/

Video from past Code Camps:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746528613401358938&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3743731164665646189&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8296273637053089146&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8271841448294012140&hl=en

 

If you live in the San Diego area, dotNetDave (a.k.a. David McCarter) will be teaching a 6 week Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX course at the University of California, San Diego Extension beginning on Thursday 1/7/2009 from 5:30pm to 10pm. For more information and to enroll, please click here.

 

If you are going to attend tonights meeting of the ASP.NET user Group SIG, below is the presentation download. I hope to see everyone at the meeting!

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 - 2008.pdf (877.42 KB)
 

If you are coming to the San Diego .NET Developers Group meeting tonight I hope you will be their early for my talk titled "What’s New In VS 2008 SP1". Lots of new additions to this SP, not just bug fixes. Below is a link to the presentation.

VS2008Sp1.pdf (715.88 KB)
 

I hope everyone in California is planning to attend this years Central Coast Code Camp up in San Luis Obispo on 9/27 - 6/28. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" at my sessions for $11, cheaper than the web site (no tax and shipping), please bring exact change.

I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend.

dotNetDave's .NET Utility Assembly (My First CodePlex Project)

 dotNetDaves .NET Utility Assembly.pdf (704.86 KB)

CodePlex site: http://www.codeplex.com/dotNetTips

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 1

 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 1 - 20081.zip (1.05 MB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 

 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 - 200812.zip (1.49 MB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2008)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-2008.pdf (941.06 KB)

Photos

Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/centralcoastcodecamp/

Blog Post about 2007 Code Camp: http://blog.davidmccarter.net/2007/09/23/ThingsIveLearnedThisWeek.aspx

 

If you live in the San Diego area, dotNetDave (a.k.a. David McCarter) will be teaching a 6 week Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX course at the University of California, San Diego Extension beginning on Thursday 7/17/2008 from 5:30pm to 10:00pm. For more information and to enroll, please click here.

 

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp up at University California San Diego on 6/28 - 6/29. It's always a great time and lots of free training! I will also be selling a limited number of my latest book "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" at my sessions for $11, cheaper than the web site (no tax and shipping), please bring exact change.

I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend.

dotNetDave's .NET Utility Assembly (My First CodePlex Project)

10:15 AM - Sunday, June 29, 2008 - Location: 141

 dotNetDaves .NET Utility Assembly1.zip (1.11 MB)

CodePlex site: http://www.codeplex.com/dotNetTipsUtility

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 1

8:45 AM - Saturday, June 28, 2008 - Location: 129

 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX.zip (1.83 MB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 

12:15 PM - Saturday, June 28, 2008 - Location: 129

 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 - 20081.zip (1.82 MB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2008)

1:45 PM - Sunday, June 29, 2008 - Location: 127

 Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-20081.zip (2.86 MB)

Pictures and Video

Pictures from This Years Code Camp:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/sandiegocodecamp2008/

Pictures from past SoCal Code Camps:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/socalcodecamp/

Video from past Code Camps:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746528613401358938&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3743731164665646189&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8296273637053089146&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8271841448294012140&hl=en

 

 

I built a page that uses the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and within it I placed a GridView control that connects to a DataSet (that uses TableAdapers to a SQL Server 2005 database back end) using a DataSource control. I do not use paging in the GridView so that the user can print all of the items in the grid. I noticed that when there are a lot of items in the grid, about 25 or more, the load of the UpdatePanel became very slow. I figured it was my virtual machine, but this even happened on our production server and users even commented on it.

I did the normal things like checked the queries and even looked at the page tracing to determine what controls might be causing the issue. I could not find where the slowdown was coming from. Then, just to try it, I moved the DataSource control for the GridView out of the UpdatePanel. Low and behold the update sped up around 300% - 400%!

My only guess is when the DataSource control was being recreated every time the UpdatePanel was loaded and this just takes time. So now as part of my common practice, I put all DataSource controls at the bottom of the page. It would be nice if the designer did this automatically.

Tip Submitted By: David McCarter

 

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a preview of new features being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A9C6BC06-B894-4B11-8300-35BD2F8FC908&displaylang=en

 

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp up at Cal State Fullerton on 1/26 -1/27. It's always a great time and lots of free training! My fav southern California band Killola will be playing again at the Geek dinner so make sure you arrive early on Saturday to grab one of the limited number of tickets available.

I will be doing the following sessions and I hope you will attend.

dotNetDave's .NET Utility Assembly (My First CodePlex Project)

 dotNetDaves .NET Utility Assembly.zip (614.15 KB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 1

 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 1 - 2008.zip (1.39 MB)

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 

 Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX Part 2 - 2008.zip (1.11 MB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2008)

 Why You Need .NET Coding Standards-2008.zip (1.71 MB)

Pictures and Video

Pictures from This Years Code Camp:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/fullertoncodecamp2008/

Pictures from past SoCal Code Camps:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/socalcodecamp/

Video from past Code Camps:

• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5746528613401358938&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3743731164665646189&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8296273637053089146&hl=en
• http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8271841448294012140&hl=en

 

 

 

If you live in the San Diego area, dotNetDave (a.k.a. David McCarter) will be teaching a 6 week Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX course at the University of California, San Diego Extension beginning on Thursday 2/21/2008 from 5:30pm to 10:00pm. For more information and to enroll, please click here.

 

Below is some code to create a Gmail like UpdateProgress control. Displays a red box with white text in the upper right side of the browser.

<div style="font-weight: bold; left: 90%; color: white; font-family: Arial; position: absolute;
   top: 2px; background-color: red; border-top-width: thin; border-left-width: thin;
   border-left-color: black; border-bottom-width: thin; border-bottom-color: black;
   border-top-color: black; border-right-width: thin; border-right-color: black;">
   <asp:UpdateProgress ID="UpdateProgress1" DisplayAfter="200" runat="server">
      <ProgressTemplate>
         Updating...</ProgressTemplate>
   </asp:UpdateProgress>
</div>

Tip Submitted By: David McCarter

 

The Microsoft website for ASP.NET Ajax:

http://www.asp.net/ajax/

 

San Luis Obispo will be holding a code camp on September 22nd, 2007. I will be attending and presenting. For more info go to: http://www.centralcoastcodecamp.com/

Articles/News:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/story/134783.html

Code Camp on KCOY

My sessions will be:

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Presentation: AjaxSession091807.zip (875.6 KB)

Code Example: AjaxExample.zip (703.12 KB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards

Presentation: StandardsSession.zip (1.6 MB)

Pictures from the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmccarter/tags/cccc/

 

Phoenix will be holding another code camp on September 15th, 2007. I will be attending and presenting. For more info go to: http://desertcodecamp.com/

My sessions will be:

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Presentation: AjaxSession.zip (1023.53 KB)

Code Example: AjaxExample.zip (703.12 KB)

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards

Presentation: StandardsSession.zip (1.6 MB)