dotNetDave Rocks Dog Food Con 2015

For the first time I will speaking at Dog Food Con on October 7th & 8th in Columbus, Ohio. If you are in the area, I hope to see you there. Here are the sessions I will be doing: Röck Yoür .NET Coding Standards With lots of new material for 2015, this session will guide … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks Dog Food Con 2015

Fixing Coding Mistakes On The Fly in Visual Studio 2015

Here is a great video on some of the new code analysis built into 2015! https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Fixing-Coding-Mistakes-On-The-Fly-in-Visual-Studio-2015/player?format=smooth

Universal Windows Apps: Debugging and Profiling

Here is a good video demonstrating a few of the cool new debugging features in Visual Studio 2015. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Visual-Studio-2015-Final-Release-Event/Universal-Windows-Apps-Debugging-and-Profiling/player?format=html5

Performance Improvement When Debugging .NET Code With Visual Studio 2015

There are a lot of great improvements coming out in Visual Studio 2015. One is showing you the timing of calls as you step through your code while debugging. Read the blog post by clicking here.

Why You Need Source Control

I once interviewed for a company that has 90% market share of the check scanning software used in mobile phones. The interview was with the CTO and towards the end I asked him what they use for source control. He said "we don't have source control". I could not believe my ears. I was dumbfounded. … Continue reading Why You Need Source Control

Introducing Smart Unit Tests

A few weeks ago I was able to spend some time with the PEX & Moles team at Microsoft. I worked with them to help make unit tests easier to generate and work great with Code Contracts. Here is an announcement on what is coming out in Visual Studio 2015: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/19/introducing-smart-unit-tests.aspx

TGIF – Using StyleCop from Microsoft

Here is an excerpt from my Rock Your Code Using Visual Studio Add-ins conference session. If you are a C# developer and not using StyleCop, WATCH THIS!

dotNetDave Rocks The dotNetGroup.org

I hope everyone in the Las Vegas area and attendees of IT/Dev Connections will attend this special meeting of The dotNet Group.org on Thursday September 18th. Below is the session I will be doing: Rock Your Code With Visual Studio Add-ins This session will focus on my must have Visual Studio add-ins and other tools … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks The dotNetGroup.org

dotNetDave Rocks Visual Studio Live! Orlando 2014

For the first time the  dotNetDave "Rock The Nation Tour" is coming to Visual Studio Live! in Orlando on November 17-24th! I hope you will attend my sessions below. Röck Yoür Cöde Using Code Contracts This session will introduce developers to the new powerful new feature that is part of the .NET 4.5 framework called … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks Visual Studio Live! Orlando 2014

256 Seconds with dotNetDave (E1) – Visual Studio Online

In this first episode dotNetDave talks about source control and demonstrates the new Visual Studio Online. You now have no excuse not to use source control!