April Meeting of the Rockford .Net User Group

Wednesday April 26th we had another meeting of the Rockford .Net Users Group. About 10 of us showed up early to discuss making some formal decisions about the structure of the group. I was named interim President until a formal election can take place in May or June. I gave the presentation on items presented at the Wisconsin .Net user group Deeper in .NET 2006! This was a really great day full of very good presentations all for the low low introductory price of FREE!!. Next year I hear they might double that price!

The slides to my presentation can be found here. There is not much in there as far as a pretty slideshow, just a bunch of links to other sources on the net. In fact I didn't even clean up the display text of the url [I know... very Lazy]. I need to get some work done now as I will be going home early to check out the progress of the new pool being put in.

Chris

Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

Jeremy D. Miller -- The Shade Tree Developer

This site has some nice infomation about TDD and Unit Testing. Didn't want to lose this with all the computers I read from.

Chris

Source Code For Aunt Barb's Magical Picture Mover and Elixir

Ok the wait is over. I have finally got of my !@$ and fixed up some code. Not a lot but I figured if I wait until I really like the code, bloging my not be "in" any more.

So here it is.

Enjoy. Please post comment to this site so that the whole community can participate in the discussion. I would prefer that over sending a private email. Unless you really hate the code then feel free to keep that between you an I. ;-)

Chris

Unit Testing In VS

I saw this blog from Dave Donaldson About Unit testing and thought it was worth sharing.

Chris

Presentation @ the Rockford .Net Users Group

A few weeks back, I gave a presentation about some new features in Visual Studio 2005. Mainly Click Once and the new backgound worker component. I promised everyone that I would post the powerpoint file and the code for them look through. Well I have now finished half of the promise. You can find the powerpoint file here. I am doing a little bit of clean up on the code and hope to have it ready by the end of the weekend. If I don't please bug me as I respond very well to guilt :-)

You should also download and use the very nice SharpReader RSS/Atom Aggregator to get automatic notifications of updates to this blog. You shoud use this link as the feed for the blog.

I would also like to hear ideas from other User Group members and Non members on how we could grow the group. After talking with Josh Holmes last month we got some good ideas and I will put some of them here when I get more time.

Later,

Chris

My First Blog (coming to the party late)

This is my first attempt at starting a blog. I was encourgaged to do so last month by Josh Holmes after he gave a talk @ the Rockford .Net Users group. After the presentation, several of us went to Friday's for some beer. Josh gave us some real good ideas on how to get a user group to really take off. I'm looking forward to implementing some of his ideas in the Rockford .Net User Group.

So here you go Josh, my first post, all thanks to you!

Chris