Defensive Programming – Let Type Checking Work for You

Since I have been a speaker and a teacher, I have always stressed the importance of practicing proper object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques. If you don’t practice OOP, no matter what language you are using, I guarantee you will end up with a “house of cards” and they all eventually fall. The first “pillar” of OOP …

Speaking at the 2018 C# Corner Conference

On April 13th - 15th of 2018 I got to speak, for the second time, at the annual C# Corner Conference. This conference is one of my favorite to speak at mostly due to the developers in India being hungry for knowledge to help them improve their code and careers and the conference run by …

5 Rules for Your Source Control Repository

I have been using source control programs for a very long time. I believe the first one was Visual Source Safe (don’t laugh, it was a painful experience). Early in my career and throughout I have learned many good practices that I still use to this day. I will share them with you now. If …

dotNetDave Rocks Mauritius (2018)

For the first time, I will be speaking at the MSCC Developers Conference in Mauritius on May 17th - 19th. I'm very excited about bringing my World Farewell Tour to this country and rock the geeks. I hope to see you there for some learning and fun (I will be bringing my guitar). I will …

dotNetTips.Utility Dev App

Today I am announcing my new app called dotNetTips.Utility Dev App. With this app I combined my previous dev cleaner and dev backup apps into one with more features coming soon. Clean Visual Studio & SQL Server Temp and Cached Files This feature will quickly remove temporary and cached files created by Visual Studio and …

dotNetDave Rocks Global Azure Bootcamp 2018

On April 21st, I will for the second time be speaking at Global Azure Bootcamp in Southern California. I am looking forward to this great conference and I hope to see you there. I will have some cool tour swag to giveaway. I will be doing the session below. Rock Your Development With A Real …

dotNetDave Rocks the San Diego .NET User Group

I hope you will join me at the monthly meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group on Wednesday March 14th at 6pm. I will be presenting the session below. I hope to see you there. Rock Your .NET Code Performance The performance of code is always something that is very important. Even more important …