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Speaking at Lansing Day of .NET
I got an email last week informing me that my Monorail talk has been accepted for Lansing's Day of .NET on June 21st. Woo Hoo!! If you check out the session list, you'll see that Michael Eaton will be presenting an ActiveRecord session and Jay Wren will be using Windsor Container for is IoC talk. We've got just about the whole Castle Project stack covered -- in one day! And the event is totally free! Don't miss it!
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Ann Arbor GiveCamp
I'm proud to announce that we've now got a website for the Ann Arbor Give Camp. This is a great opportunity for local developers to give back to the local community. The website has all the details but here it is in a nutshell: Local charities gives us a brief overview of some development-related task they need help with (building a new website, updating an existing website, a small data collection app, etc...). We take a bunch of local developers that have volunteered their time for a weekend and we get stuff done!
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Come to GANG next week!
Next week, our local user group (GANG) is having Jason Beres -- INETA Speaker and Director of Product Management for Infragistics -- come and talk about building applications with Silverlight 2.0. I'm really looking forward to this one since I haven't had time to dive into Silverlight myself. Come on down to Microsoft's Southfield, Michigan offices on Wednesday, May 21st at 6:30pm.
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The Elder will be back!
Keith Elder will be back in Michigan next month for the Lansing Day of .NET! This is great news. Keith is a great presenter and is always entertaining and informative. I've submitted a couple of abstracts myself. Even if I don't present, I'll still be there.
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Lazy Loading/Eager Loading
The NHibernate FAQ has a new post about complex object graphs and lazy loading. If you use NHibernate (or, ActiveRecord -- which makes NHibernate a whole lot easier), it's worth a look. The technique described can greatly improve the way your app interacts with the database. OR mappers are nice, but you need to make sure you understand what is happening with the database calls that are made automatically by your OR framework.
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Navigating around in the VS.NET IDE
Last week, Bill Wagner and I were providing some C# training for one of our clients. Bill showed the class how to use F12 to jump to the definition of a method. One of the students asked how to go back to your previous position and Bill didn't know the key binding off hand.