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Introducing Visual Studio 2008 Course
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:
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How Would You Refactor this Code? #1
It's amazing how many different ways there are to accomplish the same task in code. Talk to 2 developers and you'll almost always get two opinions. That's part of what keeps it fun (and potentially why that guy in the other cube is constantly annoying you :-)). In a previous post I wrote, there were several speed enhancement suggestions that were really good so I decided to start a "How Would You Refactor this Code" blog series to get opinions and see different approaches to coding.
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C# 3.0 Features: Extension Methods
.NET 3.5 is out which means all of the great features available in C# 3.0 are available to use now. Here's a quick list of the main language enhancements available in C# 3.0:
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New Song: Story of Your Life (Updated)
All code and no play makes me a dull boy I'm told (mainly by my wife) so I've been getting back into song writing and recording a little over the past few months as time permits. I recently finished up a new song called Story of Your Life that was recorded in my home studio (equipment and software used is listed below for anyone interested). My good friend Spike Xavier wrote the lyrics.
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New Video: Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX
I gave a talk at Desert Code Camp toward the end of 2007 that discussed how Microsoft's Silverlight product could be integrated with ASP.NET AJAX to dynamically display albums obtained from an Amazon.com Web Service. It's taken awhile to get the video posted, but it's now available. The audio in the room wasn't great since no microphone was used so you may need to crank it up a bit.
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Got Code? .NET Framework Library Source Code Released
If you've ever wanted to step into the .NET framework library classes as you're debugging your project then you'll be happy to know that Microsoft has released the .NET Framework library source code. Step in and out of various framework classes, ASP.NET controls, plus more. Read more about it on Scott Guthrie's blog:
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Bill Gates - The Last Day at Microsoft
My good friend Simon Allardice just sent this link to the Bill Gates farewell video. Funny stuff ! :-)
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Upcoming .NET Courses in 2008
I've had several people here in the Phoenix area and others I've met at ASP.NET Connections conferences ask when I'll be teaching specific .NET classes in 2008 and my standard reply has been "I'm not sure at this point". We have things scheduled out past June now so here's the information for those who are interested. Most of the classes listed are 5 days aside from the First Look at Visual Studio 2008 (1 day) and ASP.NET AJAX Programming (3 days).