Code Camp Oz 2009 – Resource Post

As promised, here’s the resource post for yesterdays VS2010 talk!

The VS2010 CTP can be converted into a Hyper-V image, which is how I was using it during yesterdays demos. If you have Hyper-V head over here to Grant Holliday’s blog to find out how to turn the VPC image into Hyper-V.

Additionally, unfortunately the CTP has actually expired – but fortunately there is a workaround, which is available on Cameron Skinners blog over here.

There are a group of good walkthroughs for a lot of the features I demo’d in the CTP. They are a great place to start looking around. Be sure to also check out the Channel 9 videos from PDC 2008.

If you’ve got any questions around anything in the CTP, or anything you asked in during the presentation that I couldn’t cover at the time feel free to contact me via my email on stephen.godbold @ readify.net by removing the spaces.

Link Summary

• VS2010 CTP
• Grant Holliday – Converting the CTP to Hyper-V
• Cameron Skinner – Preventing the CTP expiry
• Channel 9 VSTS Videos

Update: As requested, my slide deck is now available on slide share. You can get it here.

8 Days and Counting

That’s right, only 8 days left until Code Camp kicks off for ‘09! While I’m madly trying to brush up my presentation to entertain and bedazzle (or at least just keep you awake) make sure you’re checking the scheduling updates on the site, and have everything prepared for a mad weekend of geek fun!

Code Camp Oz 2009 – Where will you be?

It seems Code Camp Oz is starting to ramp up again this year as Mitch has just announced the speaker list! He’s also thrown out the challenge to everyone in the .Net development community to show up and build the atmosphere! Watching the presenters is only half the conference – the other (and arguably more important part) is the social networking. Come and meet other dev’s and share your passion – talk to the presenters, and bounce ideas off your peers!

So do you have plans for the 4th and 5th of April? Do your friends from work? Get a road trip organised and get to code camp!

Canberra .Net User Group – VS 2010 Resource Post

The slide deck for the session including the links are available from here in my SkyDrive. Thanks to everyone who came, and I hope you’ve caught the VS2010 bug!

I must say a really big thanks to Peter Sullivan and Bud de Silva for helping me out with hardware this week. The demo was done on Peter’s laptop and external HDD and I got the CTP from Bud and had his drive as a backup in case things went south with the CTP on Peters. Cheers guys – I couldn’t have done the talk without your help!

If you liked the presentation, and would be interested in seeing it again – or if you’d like to show it to somebody else let me know and I can either try and Camtasia it (not sure about Camtasia and the CTP memory wise) or I can even give it again in person after the holiday season!

Visual Studio 2010 and Canberra .Net User Group

Next Monday I’ll be presenting a walk through of the Visual Studio 2010 CTP at the Canberra .Net user group. If you haven’t had a chance yet to take a look at what’s coming up in the next release of Visual Studio then come along and check it out!

Session Details

Date: Monday 15th December 2008 12:30pm & 4:30pm
Topic: Visual Studio Team System 2010
Lunch Location:

King O’Malley’s Irish Pub
131 City Walk
Canberra City

Evening Location:

Microsoft Canberra Branch
Walter Turnbull Building
Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave
Barton ACT

Check out more details at http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/NETUG/Canberra.aspx

RDN this week!

This week I’ll be presenting a Readify Developer Network session in Melbourne on structuring visual studio solutions for team development. If you’re in town, and didn’t catch my chalk talk at Tech Ed this is a good chance to get some tips on how to set up your solution to make life easier when working in Visual Studio!

Thursday 23 October, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Cliftons, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne

Friday 24 October, 8:00am – 10:00am
Microsoft, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank

LINQ Queries

The performance of LINQ is a key issue for a lot of people in adopting this new tool in their arsenal. A lot of the time they are particularly interested in how LINQ to SQL performs in comparison to a traditional ADO.Net query. The news isn’t all bad. Under the covers LINQ to SQL has to use something to retrieve data, so it’s naturally going to be slower than a direct query mechanism such as ADO.Net. They key here is remembering that LINQ to SQL isn’t just a query tool. It’s an ORM solution, a rapid development tool and a more natural way to query all rolled into one.