I've released a brand new video of my conference session titled "Rock Your Microsoft .NET Coding Standards" on demand. This video has lots of new tips, tricks and guidance. To see this session, live and in person click here to check out my conference schedule. Rock Your Microsoft .NET Coding Standards from David McCarter on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Getting Unit Tests Created with IntelliTest Working On VSTS
While evaluating Visual Studio Test Services to build, test and deploy our projects for the company I work for, ran into an issue with running unit tests created with IntelliTests. Simply, the test project would not build due to the PEX engine DLL's not being installed on the images VSTS uses. I contacted support and [...]
dotNetDave Rocks India!
The dotNetDave Rock The World Tour is finally headed to India! I've been wanting to rock India for many years. I'll be speaking at the C# Corner Conference in Delhi on 7 - 9 April. Have you been to India before? I'd like to hear about what to bring/ not to bring, do/ not do [...]
.NET Framework => Core: LINQ AsParallel
In the .NET Framework, if we wanted to process a loop on multiple cores, we simply added AsParallell to the end of the collection as seen below: var files = new List(); foreach (var directory in directories.AsParallel()) { if (directory.Exists) { var foundFiles = directory.EnumerateFiles(searchPattern, searchOption); lock (files) { [...]
dotNetDave Rocks SQL Saturday #611
I hope you will join me for SQL Saturday in Orange County, California on April 1, 2017. I will be doing the session below. Rock Your Technical Interview 2:45 pm in Humanities 305 Have you ever not gotten a job because you weren’t prepared for the interview? Would you like a big raise? Do you need [...]
