Somehow (I am not exactly sure how) I ended up with a lot of talks that I am doing in January. Between that and two projects I am working on simultaneously at Magenic, I have been extremely busy lately. Those two projects will continue through end of January. In January I will talking at Gwinnett …
At out next Atlanta Leading Edge Microsoft Users Group Rocky Lhotka will be talking about Oslo. Please visit ALEMUG.NET home page to register for this exciting event! Here are the details of this event. Microsoft code-name “Oslo” includes the ability to define your own domain specific language (DSL), a metadata repository hosted in SQL Server …
As part of our first ALEMUG meeting I did a presentation on some of the new features in C# 4.0. Here is what I talked about. First topic was on optional and named parameters in C#. Here is how you would define a function with optional parameters: public static int AddTwoOrThreeOrFourNumbers(int numberOne = 0, int …
Atlanta Leading Edge Microsoft Users Group is meeting tomorrow. Our topic will be new features in C# 4.0 and .NET Framework 4.0. Some of the topics are contra-variance and co-variance, dynamic types, office interop, named and optional parameters, code contracts. Please join us tomorrow for an exciting meeting. See the website for directions and times …
I spoke yesterday at SQL Saturday event in Gainesville, GA. My topic was CLR Integration in SQL Server. CLR stands for Common Language Runtime or .NET Framework. This SQL Server 2005 or higher feature allows developers to write .NET assemblies and deploy them in SQL Sever. You can implement scalar and table-values functions, stored procedures, …
I will be presenting at the next Gwinnett Georgia Microsoft Users Group this coming Thursday. The topic of my presentation will be Entity Framework in general and its applications to Silverlight development. I will be posting the zip file with slides and sample application immediately after the presentation. I hope to see you there!
Atlanta Silverlight Fire Starter event yesterday was awesome! There were over 100 people attending. The vast majority stayed there for the entire length of the event that lasted from 8am until 6pm. All presenters did a great job. All attendees were great. They actively participated in all discussions, asking many questions. Many thanks to all …
My talk at SQL Saturday just ended. My topic was CLR integration – Integrating CLR assemblies to support custom image creation and encompassing complex business logic in SQL server/SSRS. I posted all the code and slides here As always it was a pleasure to talk in front of my fellow developers.
I will be speaking at the upcoming SQL Saturday in Atlanta on April 25, 2009. What is SQL Saturday? It’s a one day free training event for SQL Server professionals organized by a local user group. It takes a lot of work and a lot of volunteers, but it’s also a lot of fun! It …
I just posted the sample project I used for “Intro to Silverlight” presentation at the Atlanta .NET Users group meeting yesterday on SkyDrive. Please follow this link to get the sample project: I would like to thank everyone who attended the meeting.