El .NET Developer Group Cobán será el anfitrión este próximo 6 de diciembre para un evento como nunca se ha visto en nuestro bello Cobán, el Microsoft eXperts RoadShow. Tendremos una serie de conferencias dictadas por excelentes exponentes de la tecnología informática en la región de Centroamérica y...

I recently had the chance to sit down with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell at DevConnections Orlando to record a session of .NET Rocks about Silverlight 2 .  They're both a lot of fun to talk with and could probably talk all day without realizing it I think. They'd keep you entertained the whole...

I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that...

Thanks to everyone that attended the Visual Studio 2008 course yesterday. It was a lot of fun talking about all of the new stuff available in VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 and hearing the different projects people are working on. As promised, here's the lab code from the course: http://www.xmlforasp.net/LabFiles...

Hola amigos. El Microsoft eXperts RoadShow de Latinoamerica empezo el dia de hoy. Revisen sus fechas y ciudades en el presente listado. No se lo pierdan. País Ciudad Fecha Hora Lugar Registro Perú Tacna 24-Nov 14:00 Auditorio del Colegio Médico del Perú Aquí Perú Lima 25-Nov 8:00 Auditorio Cibertec Aquí...

Manning is saying good-bye to 2008 by giving away some ebooks and unprecedented discounts in our Countdown to 2009 campaign! Each day in December they are offering a special deal good for one day only. Additionally, they are also giving away a free ebook every day to one lucky winner. Register here to...

Building functions instead of expression trees. The functional programming features of the latest versions of C# allow developers to harness a very expressive programming paradigm to solve challenges in new, elegant ways. Two of the very interesting new features are the “Func<>” delegate and the...

Yesterday I posted an entry describing a method for building functions as opposed to building expressions to get a more succinct syntax, and in general a more functional approach. There was a touch of reflection in there though, so I wasn’t too sure what the performance would be like. Even though the...

I had a great time speaking at DevConnections in Orlando this year.  A lot of fun people were there and I had the opportunity to talk with several of them about some of the applications they were building.  As promised, here’s the code and slides for my talks. Getting Started with Silverlight...

If you are hooked into VS 2010 then this is an essential kit. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed...