January 2010 Entries
I have been going around Texas giving a talk on ASP.NET Dynamic Data and got a follow up question: “If my Entity Data Model is in a class library, how to I get ASP.NET Dynamic Data to see it?” I thought I would put together a quick video explaining the steps. Here is the video: And if you wanted to see the original presentation here you go!
I would like to thank all those that helped put the event together, most notably Toi Wright and Chris Koenig. I had a wonderful team (Cedric, Jag, and Rick) without whom this project would have never been completed. I also have to give a big thank you to Paddy who works with the charity, as she spent many hours with me prior to the event figuring out the requirements. I had a great time working on the website for the Lil Goldman Early Learning Center (http://www.lilgoldmanschool.com) and am honored that the crowd thought our application was worthy of 2nd place....
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Visual Studio2010 with Team Foundation Server 2010 is Microsoft’s latest and most anticipated release of its Application Lifecycle Management tools. Join us as we explore the new features and capabilities of the collection of tools that make up the toolset formerly known as Team System. IntelliTrace, automated UI testing, Test Impact analysis, hierarchical work items, Gated Check-In – it’s all there. Developers, testers, UX designers, and project managers alike will find something interesting in this session.
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Trent Nix is a Dallas, Texas-based consultant with Notion Solutions, a consulting services firm helping companies improve their software development capabilities through the use...
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Traditional debuggers show you the state of your application at the current time with limited information about events that occurred in the past. You must either infer events that occurred in the past, based on the state of your application at the current time, or restart the application to re-create past events. With IntelliTrace, you can actually see events that occurred in the past and the context in which they occurred. This reduces the number of restarts that are required to debug your application and the possibility that an error will fail to reproduce when you rerun the application....
Another in the series of UG presentations that I have recorded for INETA Live.
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Microsoft project codenamed "Oslo" was recently branded as SQL Server Modeling Services, but don't get tripped up by the name. SQL Server Modeling still contains textual and graphical modeling tools and a language for modeling data and creating domain specific languages (DSL) and is still being developed by the Connected Systems team. It is a good choice for building enterprise-level data-driven applications and it is also contains general-purpose technology for raising the level of abstraction for creating other types of systems. We'll explore where "Oslo" has...
Another in the series of UG presentations that I have recorded for INETA Live.
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Come join Microsoft and Notion Solutions as we present the latest tools and techniques for managing your software process to attain quality software using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools provided with this release. These new tools provide significant value beyond what is available with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008.
Getting Familiar with the New Visual Studio 2010: This is an overview of Visual Studio 2010 and ALM tools and highlights the difference between Visual Studio Team System 2005/2008 and the new...
I had a great time at the event this past weekend. With the help of a few stand in camera operators (thanks Todd, Bill & Rick), I was able to capture most of the meetings during the weekend. Here they are for your viewing pleasure.
Click on the image to watch the video.
BravoTECH Hosts 2010 Microsoft Charity Challenge, Dallas TX
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Another in the series of UG presentations that I have recorded for INETA Live.
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Zeeshan Hirani (http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani) is working on a new book of Entity Framework Recipes for Apress (http://amzn.com/1430227036). In this talk he gives us a preview of some of the things that he will be covering in his book. Entity Framework Recipes provides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Microsoft’s Entity Framework, Microsoft’s vision for the future of data access. Entity Framework is a model-centric data access platform with an ocean of new concepts and patterns for developers to learn. With this book, you will learn...
Another in the series of UG presentations that I have recorded for INETA Live.
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Do dependencies in your Unit Tests keep you up at night?
Do your tests pass only when the stars are aligned and your database and file system are in a certain state?
Are you tired of seeing your Unit Tests end up as Integration Tests?
What if we told you that you won't have to worry about dependencies in your unit tests EVER AGAIN?
Then join us at the...
Another in the series of UG presentations that I have recorded.
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We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend
January 15 - 17 2010
This 3-day event matches developers with charities to develop applications for those charities. At the end of the 3 days, all of the participants will vote and the winners will be proclaimed champion coders.
More information at http://www.wearemicrosoft.com
GiveCamp: Coding for Charity
GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals – from designers, developers and database administrators to marketers and web strategists – donate their time to provide solutions for...