Presentation - Sydney .NET User Group - LINQ to SQL and WCF

Today I presented at the Sydney .NET User Group. The topic was using LINQ to SQL with WCF in a three tiered architecture.

It was quite a good turn out and I had lots of good audience feedback during the session. Thank you to all those who attended the session. I hope you all found it useful.

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Presentation - Canberra User Group - LINQ to SQL and WCF

Yesterday I presented in an unusually cold Canberra. The topic was using LINQ to SQL with WCF in a three tiered architecture.

There was a lunchtime session at King O’Malley’s Irish Pub followed by an evening session at Microsoft Canberra.

A big thank you to Adam Cogan and Justin King for accompanying me to Canberra and proving useful feedback. Also a big thank you to those who attended the seesions for the interesting view point and discussions we had on the topic.

Resources

• Slide deck
• Solution Files
• Northwind sample database

Weekly Training - Working with large sets of data in ASP.NET

This weeks lunchtime training at SSW was about dealing with large (over 50,000 records) in ASP.NET. It was also my first screencast, so be sure to check out the video.

The Databound Drop Down List

I covered the disadvantages of trying to display a list of clients in a drop down list. The rendered page for 50,000 records

The drop down list:

• Rendered out a 5MB page
• Took 17 minutes to load on a dialup account

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Weekly Training - Debugging in Visual Studio 2008

I recently had a few of the junior and work experience developers asking for some help in solving some coding issues.

More often then not the answer was in front of them but they didn’t know about tools such as Quick Watch, Navigating through code, Breakpoints and the Callstack window.

I decided it was time to get back to basics and show them all the tools they can use to find and solve the issues themselves.

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Weekly Training - LINQ & Silverlight

This weeks session was on LINQ and Silverlight.

LINQ

The LINQ session was a pretty basic roundup of some of the most common extension methods that you use with LINQ. Try filling out the blanks in the following code snippet

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