Raymond Lewallen

June 2006 - Posts

• David Yack in Oklahoma City today speaking on data binding

  Thursday, June 29, 2006 (PST) - June 29th, 2006 Meeting with David Yack speaker: David Yack location: Lunch - OSU-OKC; Evening - OKC Downtown Library ASP.NET 2.0 Extreme Data Binding How many demos have you watched that show how to put the controls on the page, but forget to tell you what to do next?  We will look at how to further leverage the Data Binding capabilities in ASP.NET 2.0.  Have you noticed that you're configuring the same Data Source control on multiple pages?  Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to set the same options? We will explore techniques for customization and extension of the Data Binding controls and how to increase your team productivity. David Yack, is the president of Colorado Technology Consultants. David is a Microsoft Regional Director and is also a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. David embraced .NET during the final beta days of version 1.0. David is a frequent speaker at user group and industry events and is on the author team of two .NET 2.0 related books. You can always track David down via his blog at http://blog.davidyack.com where he writes about his .NET adventures. Posted Jun 29 2006, 10:11 AM by Raymond Lewallen with no comments Filed under: .Net Development

• TechFest 2006 is coming in October!

  If you are in the Midwest USA, start making plans for this!  Tulsa .Net User Group is holding a TechFest in October!  Its going to be a lot of fun and there are a lot of great speakers already lined up, such as Bill Vaughn, Ron Jacobs, Carl Franklin and many more, including myself.  I’ll be presenting 2 sessions.  1 on continuous integration and the other on creating and using strongly-typed wrapper classes for session, cache and viewstate.  Check out all the sessions that are on the table so far.  A large variety of topics are going to be presented, and there is certainly some sessions that you’re interested in attending if you are in the area. Oh yeah, and its FREE!! Posted Jun 20 2006, 08:31 AM by Raymond Lewallen with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development

• Presentation downloads from Wichita Code Camp

  For those of you who attended the code camp in Wichita, KS on Saturday, June 3rd, below are the links to the downloads of the sessions I presented. Session/Cache Wrapper for VS2003 Session/Cache Wrapper for VS2005 Continuous Integration (includes: cruisecontrol.net, subversion, tortoise, FxCop, NDepend, NAnt, TestDriven.Net (includes NUnit), NCover, dotMath) Posted Jun 03 2006, 02:46 PM by Raymond Lewallen with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development