I want to see some of the geek graphic arts talents to design a new Rock The World tour t-shirt for 2018. I will wear the winning design at every event I speak at in 2018, including India! Here is the info on the contest. The Winner Will Receive... 2018 Rage for Code t-shirt. Your [...]
Rock Your Development With A Real World Example
I've just released by brand new conference session "Rock Your Development With A Real World Example" on video-on-demand. This video is for you if you want to see how I implemented proper architecture in Microsoft Azure. To see this session, live and in person click here to check out my conference schedule. Rock Your Development [...]
Rock Your Technical Interview (2017)
I've just released a brand new version of my Rock Your Technical Interview conference session on video-on-demand. It's packed full of new tips for 2017! To see this session, live and in person click here to check out my conference schedule. Röck Yoür Technical Interview from David McCarter on Vimeo. Save 50% if you purchase [...]
There Isn’t A Shortcut To Success
Developers have asked recently how can they quickly be successful as a software engineer, gain more customers or release the next killer app. Well I am here to let you know that there is not a shortcut to success in the software business. Real success comes with a lot of hard work and a lot [...]
Retrieve The Status of a Windows Service
Here is an easy way to get the status of a Windows service. ''' <summary> ''' Gets the status of a Windows service. ''' </summary> ''' <param name="serviceName">Name of the service.</param> ''' <returns>ServiceControllerStatus.</returns> ''' <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">Service not found.</exception> ''' <exception cref="System.InvalidOperationException">Service not found.</exception> Public Function ServiceStatus(serviceName As String) As ServiceControllerStatus Dim service As ServiceController = LoadService(serviceName) If service IsNot Nothing Then Return service.Status Else Throw New InvalidOperationException("Service not found.") End If End Function ''' <summary> ''' Loads the service. ''' </summary> ''' <param name="serviceName">Name of the service.</param> ''' <returns>ServiceController.</returns> Private Function LoadService(serviceName As String) As ServiceController Return ServiceController.GetServices().Where(Function(p) p.ServiceName = serviceName).FirstOrDefault() End Function Here are the values for service status: ContinuePending Paused PausePending Running StartPending [...]
New Software Trend… Quietly Removing Features
I am not sure what is going on with new releases of software in the last few years, but many companies like Microsoft, Apple and more are doing this more and more. As a user, this is frustrating. As a software engineer, it is making me scratch my head in wonderment and increases my frustrating [...]
Properly Implementing the Singleton Pattern
One of the popular coding patterns is called Singleton. I use it currently in my dotNetTips Dev Utility for the configuration object. The pattern is defined: In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one object. This is useful when exactly one object is [...]
dotNetDave Rocks Denver!
For the first time the dotNetDave Rock The World Tour hits Denver on June 23, 2017. I will be doing the keynote at Denver DevDay. If you are in the area, I hope you will come check out my keynote and learn at the conference. Here is the topic of my keynote. Improving Code Quality... [...]
dotNetDave Rocks Azure BootCamp – 2017
For the first time I will speaking at the Azure BootCamp in Southern California on Saturday April 22nd. I hope to see you there. I will be doing the session below. Rock Your Development With A Real World Example This session will demonstrate concepts in the first four parts of my series titled "Improving Code [...]
