Scott Guthrie returns to Arizona!
Just got the message, @ScottGu is returning to Arizona Friday, April 22nd. Details to follow, but save the date! UPDATE: Registration form is to the right! Sign up today!
7 Free .Net Development and Architecture e-Books!
Thank you to MSDN for re-distributing Anoop’s blog post on these seven FREE .Net development e-Books! The last group are Scribd from DZone, and you have to have a DZone account and be logged in to download, but the rest are freely downloadable from the websites. Here’s the title and link to each: Foundations of ProgrammingMicrosoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Ed.Rob Miles C# YellowBook 2010Threading in C#Improving .Net Application Performance and StabilityApplying Design Patterns DZone Reference CardsGetting Started With WCF…
Excellent article on getting AD info using C#
I’m always getting, updating, and validating against AD info at my company, and today I needed to pull several different schema attributes in one method, and kept running into more and more trouble. Code got bigger and bigger, and I thought there had to be a way to simplify this. I then ran across a CodeProject article definitely worth mentioning. The author, Rajasekhara Sambangi does an excellent job of demonstrating a simplified way of pulling just about anything from AD…
Great upcoming webcasts and seminars
It seems like September through November is heavy on developer and security webcasts. I’m including as many as I can in this entry, if anyone notices others feel free to post them in the comments below. 24 Hours of PASS – 24 one-hour long-ish webcasts from industry experts on SQL related management and development. geekSpeak: Generics and Collections (Level 200) – Webcast providing details and best practices with collections and lists in .Net Framework 3.5Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008…
New code library site
I created a basic code library site to host all of the code snippets I’ve gathered and/or created over time. Go here to visit the site. It’s pretty basic and empty right now, I’ll dress it up a little more as time goes on. I’m also trying to determine a better way of sub-categorizing the code in each of the language tabs. I welcome suggestions. Enjoy!