SQL Saturday #95

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SQL Saturday in San Diego, CA on September 17th. It’s always a great time and lots of free training! I will have a limited number of my latest book to sell "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" ($12) and a DVD full of conference … Continue reading SQL Saturday #95

ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 – Update 1

ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 introduces two new features: The DbContext API is a simplified abstraction over ObjectContext and a number of other types that were included in previous releases of the ADO.NET Entity Framework. The DbContext API surface is optimized for common tasks and coding patterns. Code First is a new development pattern for the … Continue reading ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1 – Update 1

SQLSaturday #73

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SQL Saturday in Huntington Beach, CA on April 9th. It’s always a great time and lots of free training! I will have a limited number of my latest book to sell "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" ($12) and a DVD full of conference … Continue reading SQLSaturday #73

Desert Code Camp 2011.1

I hope everyone in Arizona is planning to attend this years Desert Code Camp on April 2nd. It’s always a great time and lots of free training! I will have a limited number of my latest book to sell "David McCarter's .NET Coding Standards" ($12) and a DVD full of conference sessions on video, slides, … Continue reading Desert Code Camp 2011.1

Wish List for Visual Studio and .NET 4+

After using .NET 4 and Visual Studio for about a year now, here is my wish list for an upcoming release: Visual Studio 2010+ Speed up loading in virtual environments like VMWare and Parallels. I've seen VS 2010 take up to 5 minutes to load in VMWare. Not acceptable! Building Projects/ Solutions The ability when … Continue reading Wish List for Visual Studio and .NET 4+

Fullerton Code Camp 2011

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp in Fullerton, Ca on 1/29 – 1/30. It’s always a great time and lots of free training! I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend. Building nTier Applications with Entity Framework Services Learn how to … Continue reading Fullerton Code Camp 2011

Los Angeles Code Camp 2010

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp in Los Angeles on 10/23 – 10/24. It’s always a great time and lots of free training! I will be presenting the following sessions and I hope you will attend. Back-2-Basics: Exception & Event Instrumentation in .NET This session will … Continue reading Los Angeles Code Camp 2010

Learn .NET from dotNetDave!

Fundamentals of the .NET Framework class will be starting up at UCSD Extensions in San Diego, Ca

San Diego Code Camp 2010

I hope everyone in southern California is planning to attend this years SoCal Code Camp in San Diego on 6/26 – 6/27. 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 … Continue reading San Diego Code Camp 2010