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

For those of you who can't make it to the conference, I will be recording all of my sessions and posting them here.

Back-2-Basics: Exception & Event Instrumentation in .NET

Back-2-Basics: .NET Coding Standards For The Real World

Pictures and Video

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

dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2009)

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

New Classes

• EventLogTraceListener - Works much better than the one that comes with .NET!
• XmlTraceListener - Works much better than the one that comes with .NET!
• LogEntry - Provides tons more debugging information for exceptions and highly configurable!
• Extension classes!
• And More!

Improvements

• ActiveDirectoryHelper
• XmlHelper
• And More!

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

dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2009)

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

MVP Elias Mereb-Windows Desktop Experience_MVP David McCarter, Visual Basic

My day started off very late in the morning because I have been feeling under the weather. I had to go to the speaker room to pick up my shirts to work on the floor in the VB.NET/C# booth. I picked up my shirts and was dieing for some coffee. I asked the lady behind the table if I could grab a cup and she said NO! It's for speakers only. I told her I am leading a Birds of Feathers session but she still refused. It's not like any of the speakers were even getting coffee! Dang, what a way to treat a volunteer and someone running a session.

I was just in time for lunch which featured dry chicken. Yummy! LOL I had a very interesting discussion with a guy from an insurance company. Told me about the major internal application his company is converting from DB2 and Cobal to SQL Server and C#. Told me of their challenges of keeping both systems running during the transition. They have had 20 developers working on this project for three years now and they are just about to go live.

I decided to hit the vendor area before it got too crazy. Since I am a director of the San Diego .NET Developers Group, I hit up as many vendors for support including swag I can use for our raffle. So far this year all vendors are very supportive.

Then it was time for my first shift at the VB.NET/C# booth. Today my first booth mate was the very famous and TechEd speaker Scott Cate. Unfortunately, traffic was very slow. I don't think we talked to 5 people during our 2:15 - 6:00 shift. Made for a very long and boring shift. At least Scott brought his computer and worked on his talk for Tuesday.

During our booth duty, someone from Microsoft came over and informed Scott and I that the pants we were wearing were not acceptable! I now kindly refer to her as the "Pants Natzi". Both of us were wearing black jeans, not black khaki. Like geeks even care. Scott said he brought another pair, but I did not. I told her they said black pants and that was all I had. She said I had to go to Macy's and get a pair or they would not let me work (volunteer) the next day!!! I could not believe my ears. So I left the day early, went to Macy's and found only one pair of black khaki's that would even fit me (I'm 6' 4") for the hefty cost of $81! So if you want to stop by the booth this week and donate to my pants fund... the first person that does will get a copy of my latest book!

I learned that there are only 5,000 attendees this year, down from around 12,000. Out of those, there are only about 2,000 or less of developers.

After the conference I went to Geek Fest held at Lucky Strikes Lanes. Wow, I have never been to a bowling alley like this. It's more of a night club with the hottest waitresses and bartenders you have ever seen! Very fun place complete with pool tables, two bars, DJ and lots of lounging areas.

My day ended with coming back to my hotel craving some real food! After a crappy conference lunch and finger food at the party I needed a good meal. Surprisingly, at my small hotel called The Orchid Hotel, I had a very good steak and fries meal. Perfect to boost my energy for the second day tomorrow.

TechEd - Day 2

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

dotNetDave's Favorite Programming Tools

Building Rich & Interactive Web Applications with ASP.NET AJAX

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2009)

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 came to my talk at the OC .NET User group meeting today, below is a link to the presentation. Enjoy!

Why You Need .NET Coding Standards (2008)

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

Link to my book: http://www.cafepress.com/geekmusicart.165478704

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!

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.

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

Wow, guess what... it's me (David McCarter). I am so excited and proud of this award because it recognizes all of the hard work I have been doing in the Microsoft community here in San Diego for over 14 years. This includes running the San Diego .NET Developers Group, teaching at the University of San Diego California, speaking and helping at conferences including Code Camp, running this web site and writing books and more! Ever since I have became a programmer I have always had a big need to help others in their career. Except for my full-time job (which pays the bills), everything else I do is geared to satisfy that need.

As most user group leaders know, we don't get a lot of gratitude for what we do, so this is a great award to let us know that we are appreciated. I've had a lot of help along they way and they know who they are. I hope to continue to give back to the community as I am a programmer.

Info on the Award:

The INETA Community Excellence Award is given to individuals for their extraordinary efforts and prolonged contributions to the developer community at both the local and national levels. Through their commitment and passion, these people have made profound impacts that will be sustained for years. In honor of their accomplishments, the Community Excellence Award is a one-time award of recognition that will last a lifetime.

You can also go here for more info and to nominate the next winner! http://www.ineta.org/Champions/CommunityChampionInfo.aspx?Section=2

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 

 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

It's finally official as of May 2008, I am a patented inventor for this pretty cool project I did when I worked at Proflowers.com!
 
http://www.google.com/patents?id=9xeqAAAAEBAJ&dq=%22David+McCarter%22
 
The other guy on the patented is the president of the company, had nothing to do with it. I called one of the attorneys back in 2001 and tried to get the guy who wrote the FTP part put on it but they weren't listening to me. Also told them the diagrams submitted were wrong! Oh well.

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.

The second edition of this book (formerly VSDN Tips & Tricks .NET Coding Standards), is a consolidation of many of the .NET coding standards available today in one easy to read and understand book. It will guide any level of programmer or development department to greater productivity by providing the tools needed to write consistent, maintainable code.

The core of the book focuses on naming standards, how to order elements in classes, declaring methods, properties and much, much more. Code tips are even included to help you write better, error free applications. All code examples are shown in C# and VB.NET. I use this book just about
every day and I hope you will too.
-David McCarter

"David McCarter once again demonstrates his knack for pulling best practices into one cohesive unit with his new book. This book includes everything from how to set up your project to how to declare variables to how to use exception handling. It is a great place to start to build your own set of coding standards."
- Deborah Kurata 5/5/05

To order, go to: http://www.cafepress.com/geekmusicart.165478704

This site has been designed by the SQL Server Data Mining team to provide the SQL Server community with access to and information about our exciting data mining features.

http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/

Refactor! is freely available to all Visual Basic .NET 2005 developers and offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable you and your team to simplify and shape complex code - making it easier to read and less costly to maintain.

Download by going to: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/IDETools/VBRefactor/

Want to see what your site or others looked like in the past? Check out the Wayback Machine at: http://www.archive.org/

Tools for Office download:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905533.aspx

The Microsoft website for ASP.NET Ajax:

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

Microsoft site for the Expression products:

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/default.aspx

Consistently delivering high-quality technology solutions on time and on budget is challenging for any business. The Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) provides people and process guidance—the proven practices of Microsoft—to help teams and organizations become more successful in delivering business-driven technology solutions to their customers. MSF is a deliberate and disciplined approach to technology projects based on a defined set of principles, models, disciplines, concepts, guidelines, and proven practices from Microsoft. MSF version 3.0 updates the Team and Process Models, introduces three new Disciplines (Project Management, Risk Management, and Readiness Management), provides new whitepapers (available online), a new course (1846A: MSF Essentials), public and private MSF newsgroups, and a suite of templates. Moreover, better integration with the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and industry project management standards plus a new MSF Practitioner Program strengthen Microsoft’s proven practices for delivering innovative technology solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/solutionaccelerators/msf/default.mspx

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)

If you live in the San Diego area, dotNetDave (a.k.a. David McCarter) will be teaching a 6 week Fundamentals of the .NET Framework course at the University of California, San Diego Extension beginning on Wednesday 9/26/2007 from 5:30pm to 10:00pm. For more information and to enroll, please click here.

The Microsoft code name “Acropolis” Community Technology Preview is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications. Acropolis is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development.

Looks pretty cool. Check out and download the tools below:

http://windowsclient.net/acropolis/default.aspx

The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. As with all prerelease software, we encourage you only to install these on a secondary machine, or in a virtual machine, as they are not supported by Microsoft Services support teams. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. You can also go to:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx

Resources for IT Professionals:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

Microsoft Web service and distributed systems technologies provide the means for software to connect to other software applications in order to build distributed, service-oriented systems.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/webservices/default.aspx

Here is a pretty cool web site that will monitor your web sites for free!

http://www.montastic.com/

At Microsoft Live Labs we bring scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and the online community together to think about and build a better online world.

http://labs.live.com/

To download go to: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5559918

Microsoft Office InfoPath developers' home on MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905434.aspx

Great article on generating docs for your VB.NET Application:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa289191(VS.71).aspx

The Power Pack controls consist of:

• BlendPanel. This provides a background for a form where the color fades from one shade to another.
• UtilityToolbar. This is a toolbar whose look and feel is similar to the Internet Explorer toolbar.
• ImageButton. This is a button that displays a graphic over a transparent background.
• NotificationWindow. This displays text and graphics in a pop-up window (commonly known as "toast").
• TaskPane. This is a container that provides collapsible frames for displaying additional information on a form.
• FolderViewer. This displays directories in a hierarchical format.
• FileViewer. This displays a list of the files in a specified directory.

For more information, go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbpowerpack.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=45f13070-f2f1-4b51-af91-b14425ff7745&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft patterns & practices are Microsoft's recommendations for how to design, develop, deploy, and operate architecturally sound applications for the Microsoft application platform.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/