ScottD's Musings

June 4 2007 - Talk @ OKCPRO.NET Developer's Group

2007-06-03T21:59:43Z

Thanks to the great team over at the Oklahoma City Developer's Group, for graciously inviting me to speak at their lunch and evening sessions on Monday, June 4, 2007. If you are located in or near Oklahoma City, please stop by! I'm delivering one of my favorite talks, "Building Middle Tier Solutions using Microsoft .NET". With this session, we will dive into how easy Visual Studio makes our lives by enabling the creation of Web Sites, Web Services, Serialization, MSMQ Integration, and WIndows Services...(read more)

FREE Videos for WPF & Expression Blend

2007-04-26T12:21:33Z

(Courtesy of Caleb Jenkins via Twitter through TelliTwitter . Thanks Caleb.) For those of you interested in Silverlight (WPF) and Microsoft's new Expression Blend design software , check out Lynda.com's new suite of introductory videos through the link below: http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=359&ref=swf...(read more)

Dallas Code Camp Talk Today (4/21/2007)

2007-04-21T12:11:00Z

The Dallas/Ft. Worth community is holding the 2nd annual Dallas CodeCamp event today! The event will take place on the 4th floor of the LC1 building located at Microsoft's Las Colinas office. Registration starts at 8:30am. There are some great talks for this event, including C# 3.0, LINQ, Enterprise Library, Design Patterns, Client Development, Team System, SEO, Mono, Silverlight, and much more. Check out the agenda here . I will be presenting a PPT-Free session, "Building Middle Tier Solutions...(read more)

Test Post From BlogMailr.com

2006-11-08T01:22:03Z

We just launched a new product offering, www.blogmailr.com ! I created this blog entry by using blogmailr.com and sending an email from my Mobile Phone! W00t! Want the ultimate in flexability – by posting and responding to blogs through email? Please check out www.blogmailr.com . It works with ALL blogs that adhere to the MetaBlog API! Published with BlogMailr...(read more)

Scott Guthrie is coming to Dallas! Thu. 11/2/2006

2006-10-26T14:22:00Z

Rob Howard and Scott Guthrie beat me to the punch. The North Dallas .NET User Group is proud to announce that Microsoft General Manager Scott Guthrie is our presenter for our November meeting. We're looking forward to Scott's talk, as he's planning on spending 2 hours with us! He's planning on delivering a brand new ASP.NET Tips & Tricks talk, as well as LINQ and other various goodies! When: Thursday, November 2, 2006 - 6:00pm Where: Intuit, Inc. Headquarters ( Click Here for...(read more)

Scott Guthrie Posts Atlas Delivery Details

2006-09-12T16:37:00Z

For anyone who might have missed it... Yesterday, Scott Guthrie unveiled the details for Atlas v1.0. I'm very excited to see some of the details surrounding Orcas (rich debugging, Javascript intellisense, and designer support)...(read more)

What Are They Thinking?

2006-09-12T15:41:00Z

(non technology post...) From the category of "What in the world are the New York Islanders thinking..." New York Islanders sign goalie to record 15-year deal! New owner Charles Wang sure has made his mark in his short tenure with the team. He's fired Neil Smith months after hiring him, and even considered hiring sumo reslers for his goalie. Another good thread on Neil Smith's firing. An even better perspective from SI.COM. Great quote from SI.COM's Truth's & Rumors...(read more)

Middle Tier Solutions Presentation @ Dallas Code Camp - This Saturday

2006-06-21T13:30:00Z

Do you live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex, and want to learn more about .NET development? Then please join your fellow community members in the first Dallas Code Camp . When: June 24, 2006 at 9:00am Where: Microsoft’s Las Colinas campus, LC1 Building The Agenda will be announced soon, but here’s what I can tell you: There are 18 sessions total, 9 lecture talks and 9 chalk talks The event starts at 9am, with the first session kicking off at 9:30 Lunch will be served, compliments of Microsoft As...(read more)

Recent Web Finds

2006-05-27T05:13:00Z

Just wanted to share some interesting finds... Frans is stirring the pot again... This is dissapointing... " Web 2.0" owned by O'Reilly Raymond is at it again (blogging GREAT STUFF!) This time, he's shared some common Patterns Posters for us to decorate our cube/office walls with Fellow User Group Leader Jeffrey Palermo CORRECTLY defines TDD for MSDN Blogging Through Firefox - Nice Now that I finally ditched that BlackBerry for a VZ6700, I might want to pick up this new browser for Windows Mobile...(read more)

The Motorola Q Is Coming

2006-05-25T17:04:00Z

Looks like we're that much closer to the RazrBerry (aka BlackBerry killer) - the Motorola Q... ...(read more)

Presentation at the Microsoft Security Summit Event in Dallas

2006-04-24T20:29:00Z

If you are attending the FREE Microsoft Security Summit Event in Dallas (@ Dallas Convention Center) tomorrow, please stop by the Developer Track at 2:15-3:05pm. I am delivering a presentation about the Security enhancements built into Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, titled:

Building Reliable and Robust Applciations with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005

The full agenda is listed here.

The talk includes lots of enhancements to manged code (App Domains, Code Access Security, PermView, and FxCop), unmanaged code (/GS flag, buffer overflow protection) as well as a few SQL enhancements (schemas, user management, and permissions/roles). I'd love to add some cool ASP.NET security enhancements, but not sure if I have time to fit those in. If not, then come grab me afterwards and we can chat.

Looking forward to chatting with everyone.

UPDATE: Updated slide deck and Demo Code Located Here.

Visual Studio 2005 Code Snippets for NUnit Developers!

2006-03-06T12:51:00Z

Oh this rocks - wanted to share with everyone else.

Scott Bellware, TDD stud, Microsoft C# MVP, and active community member, created some awesome code snippets for developers interested in writing NUnit test classes.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/scott.bellware/archive/2006/02/28/139446.aspx

C# Code Snippet Library for Visual Studio 2005

2006-02-17T15:27:00Z

After some poking around on the Visual Studio area on MSDN, I discovered a nice little gem worth mentioning...

Ever notice how VB 2005 has a huge amount of code snippets as compared with C#? Well, not anymore J Here are all the code snippets that should have been released with C#/VS 2005.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/codesnippets/default.aspx

Off to the Visual Studio 2005/SQLServer 2005/BizTalk 2006 Launch Event in Dallas

2005-11-30T06:32:00Z

If you are attending the VS 2005/SQL 2005/BizTalk 2006 launch event in Dallas (and I know a large number of you - 3,850 - are registered) today (11/30/2005), please stop by the ATE booth and say hello. Stephen Swienton and I will be manning the ATE Developer area from 1-5pm tomorrow, and will be seen wandering around the event in the morning. Come by and don't forget to pickup your FREE copy of the Standard editions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQLServer 2005 !!!!!

MSDN Article Published - Team System Automated Unit Testing & Code Generation

2005-11-19T22:15:00Z

Yes, I have been a blog-slacker for quite some time now - and I apologize. We're closing down on a huge project at work, and I should pickup my activities in the coming weeks.

Shameless plug alert…

Thanks to Rob Caron, who pointed out that a number of Team System-related articles were published to MSDN Online, including one of mine titled:

Unit Testing and Generating Source Code for Unit Test Frameworks Using Visual Studio 2005 Team System

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/UTFwVS05TmSys.asp

This article covers an introduction to automated unit testing, and provides an insight into setting up a new Unit Test project, and what code is automatically generated for you.