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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:53 PM

Extend Yourself

I tend to have a fairly long list of things I want to investigate in .NET development. Extension methods have been on my list for a long time. I finally got around to looking into them and wish I had done so much sooner. They are a handy little feature
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Monday, July 20, 2009 5:48 PM

Raleigh Code Camp

TRINUG will be holding a Code Camp in Raleigh on September 19, 2009.  If you are interested in attending, registration will begin near the end of August.  If you are interested in presenting, get your session info submitted as soon as possible
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Monday, July 20, 2009 5:37 PM

Hangin’ with the Big Dogs

I spent this past Saturday at the annual Community Leaders Summit in Summerfield, NC.  Thanks for the invitation, Brian.  It’s an event for folks involved in the developer community to get together, eat some burgers and dogs, and see what the
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:17 PM

Prism Demo

I’ll be speaking July 22 about building a simple WPF application using Prism (Composite Application Guidance or CAG just doesn’t roll off your tongue like Prism) for the TRINUG Design Patterns group.  If you’ve never seen Prism and what it can do
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:42 PM

Code Contracts and Pex

I’ll be presenting on Code Contracts and Pex at the June 17th meeting of the TRINUG .NET in Depth SIG.  If you haven’t used these two products from Microsoft Research, you have missed a treat!  Code Contracts allow you to express pre and post-condition
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:00 AM

Richmond Code Camp

I went to the Richmond Code Camp 2009.1 event this past weekend.  It was a last-minute decision to go and I’m glad I was able to attend.  It was an excellent event, well organized, plenty of good speakers, and pizza for lunch.  What more
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:43 PM

Back by Popular Demand

Last month I spoke with the TRINUG Design Patterns group about Dependency Injection with the Unity framework.  There was a lot of interest and some of the folks wanted more.  So, this month I will be speaking there again and demonstrating the
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:18 AM

Intercept Something

I've been working with the Unity DI framework lately.  The guys at P&P have created a piece of work you really should get to know.  Unity encourages developing highly cohesive and loosely coupled modules for use in your application. 
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Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:32 AM

Object Responsibility

One of the most basic concepts of object oriented design is the class.  A class is one of those things that we know when we see one, but describing what it is, is a little harder.  More importantly, how do we know when we are through creating
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Monday, January 12, 2009 7:30 AM

Design Patterns

I'll be speaking to the TRINUG Design Patterns group on February 25, 2009 about creating highly cohesive and loosely coupled applications using the Unity Dependency Injection framework.  Come check it out.
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Friday, January 09, 2009 9:23 AM

Loosely Coupled Applications

I've been working with the Unity Dependency Injection Application Block lately. It is part of the Enterprise Library beginning with version 4.0. You can also get it as a separate download without EntLib. Pick your flavor at www.CodePlex.com/Unity . The
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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:55 PM

VSLive Rocks!

I spent the last week at VSLive in Dallas .  Think mental overload.  There were more sessions I wanted to attend, than there was time to attend them.  John Papa gave some very interesting presentations on the Entity Framework.  Miguel
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 7:22 PM

Brad Was Here

Brad Abrams came to the TRINUG meeting on April 9 and knocked us all out. He always gives a great presentation and this time he gave us a peek at some of the new technologies from Microsoft. He demonstrated some Silverlight 2.0 features, and showed the
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Monday, February 25, 2008 7:23 PM

Brad is Coming

Brad Abrams (the man behind .NET) is coming to town and he will be speaking at the TRINUG meeting on April 9, 2008.  He'll be speaking about some of the new technologies from Microsoft for ASP.NET development including the new MVC framework . 
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:08 AM

Visual Studio 2008 RTM is Available!

If you are an MSDN subscriber, you can get the RTM version now.  Hurry and get the bits!  Be the first on your block!  If you've been using the beta, read this .  Let the fun begin!!!
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