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I am extremely honored to announce that I have been nominated to receive the Microsoft MVP Award for my contributions in C#! Hold on; I have not won the award yet. But to be nominated is really humbling. Thank you very much! For those of you who may not know, here is a high-level summary of the MVP award: The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Program recognizes and thanks outstanding members of technical communities for their community participation and willingness to help others. The program...
Posted On Sunday, May 02, 2010 2:57 PM | Feedback (2)
"Grow your skills in 2010" The Enterprise Developers Guild in Charlotte, the Greenville-Spartanburg Enterprise Developers Guild and the Triad Developers Guild have joined with Microsoft and Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to present the 10th MSDN Code Camp to be held in Charlotte. Please join me and fellow developers and code enthusiasts on Saturday, May 15, 2010, at the CPCC Levine Campus in Matthews, NC. The focus this year is Microsoft Visual...
Posted On Sunday, May 02, 2010 2:04 PM | Feedback (0)
Last week, I talked about the need and desire to build a better mousetrap. And by mousetrap, I mean user group website. If you think about it, a website is a good kind of mousetrap. You want people to easily find it. You want it to be enticing so that they want to learn more and get involved. And you want it to provide quality information so that they keep coming back. Of course, having a good website alone will not guarantee the success of the user group. That requires a strong leadership team putting...
Posted On Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:03 PM | Feedback (1)
I think it’s time to build a better mousetrap. And by mousetrap, I mean user group website. Every user group needs a website that they can personalize. Very basic information like who, what, where, when needs to be front and center so that new visitors can easily learn about the group. While the focus should be on upcoming meetings/events, it is equally important to showcase the group’s history. This history helps to create an online community and attract new members as well as retain existing members....
Posted On Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:55 PM | Feedback (0)
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “Deconstructing an ASP.NET MVC Website” at the Carolina Code Camp on Saturday, October 10, 2009. I really enjoyed sharing some of the things I learned while building my first ASP.NET MVC website. As promised, I am posing my slide deck and resource links below. Slide Deck ASP.NET MVC Free ASP.NET MVC Tutorial Free Microsoft Virtual PC VHDs Microsoft Web Platform Installer LINQ to SQL – Many-to-Many Relationships Part I LINQ to SQL – Many-to-Many Relationships...
Posted On Sunday, October 18, 2009 6:15 PM | Feedback (1)
Hearty congratulations go out to Dave Kolb and everyone at the WNC .NET Developers Guild. They are celebrating their first anniversary tonight! Happy Birthday Dave! The WNC .NET Developers Guild is an independent, all volunteer organization, dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community of Asheville, NC and the surrounding areas. Meeting on the second Tuesday of every month, Dave has had a very impressive start over the past twelve months. Their...
Posted On Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:19 PM | Feedback (0)
A friend recently asked how do you make a call to a web page via code. For example, the web page might be designed to return some data in a text-based format and filtered by query string parameters. (While this is more commonly done using a web service, it can also be accomplished by controlling the output of the HttpResponse object.) The following is a basic demonstration of how you might go about coding this in Visual C#: 1: /// <summary> 2: /// Makes a request to a Uniform Resource Identifier...
Posted On Sunday, May 10, 2009 10:03 PM | Feedback (0)
Before we can start this journey together, I should take a moment to declare the foundation upon which everything will be built upon going forward. In other words, I need to tell you which languages and frameworks I currently make my living off of and will be blogging about. And I would like to do so without trying to intentionally fan the flames of the already overblown Microsoft vs. [fill-in-the-blank] wars. While I was in college, I thought I could do it all and be an expert in everything. After...
Posted On Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:12 PM | Feedback (0)
Hello. My name is Mark and this is my first blog entry. I took my first steps in the early 1980s when my father brought home the Commodore 64 followed very shortly by the Osborne Executive. I was hooked. Since then, I have never been without at least one computer. As a result, I pursued a career in Information Technology with the explicit focus of building software applications that help–not hinder–people. After all, computers are overly complicated and generally unfriendly enough. Let's strive to...
Posted On Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:01 AM | Feedback (0)