Background:
Specializing in Silverlight 2, WPF
(Windows Presentation Foundation) and .NET programming;
utilities and debugging in C#, managed and unmanaged
C++. Consultant since 1985 in Microsoft operating
systems and languages. Contract work for clients
including Oracle, Borland and Microsoft.
I'm currently available for Silverlight or WPF contract work.
Send me an email at the address above and we can talk about
your project.
Below is a list of my Conference / User Group talks on
Silverlight.
For content details see the individual talk slides or outlines.
.NET Group - Robert Half International: Sacramento, California
Thu. - 2008-Jan-10 Introduction to Silverlight
PPT Slides
Below is a list of my user group talks on .NET debugging.
With links to my PowerPoint slides and Word notes.
Description of Content:
1) .NET Debugging Tools other than Visual Studio:
DebugView, FileMon and Process Explorer from the point of view of
.NET applications developers. See slides from 1st half of
2005-09-07 presentation:
Slides-2005-09-07
2) .NET Production Debugging Using Dump Files:
Overview of how to remotely diagnose bugs at customer sites using
dump files. Covers the use of ADPlus, WinDbg and the SOS debugger
extension to create and analyze dump files of .NET programs that
are crashing, hanging or have other bugs.
See slides from 2nd half of 2005-09-07 presentation:
Slides-2005-09-07
3) What's New in Visual Studio 2005 Debugging:
Overview of enhancements to debugging in VS 2005. This includes Edit
and Continue, DataTips, Debugger Visualizers, Enhanced Breakpoints,
Tracepoints, Exception Assistant and Just-My-Code.
See my presentation notes:
AlansNotes.doc
Possible future .NET Debugging topics:
- Using Reflector / ILDasm / ILAsm to better understand details of the
.NET framework that can effect your application code.
- Coding techniques that can make your program more “self-debuggable”:
Catching unhandled exceptions and sending crash / bug reports and
logs directly back to you from the customer.
List of Individual Presentations:
Sacramento .Net User Group: Sacramento, California
Tues. - 2006-Jan-31
www.sacdotnet.org
What's New in VS 2005 Debugging?
See my presentation notes:
AlansNotes.doc
East Bay .NET Users Group: Pleasanton, California
Thurs. - 2006-Jan-12 - 7:00 pm
www.baynetug.org
1st Half: What's New in VS 2005 Debugging?
See my presentation notes:
AlansNotes.doc
2nd Half: .NET Production Debugging Using Dump Files:
See slides from 2nd half of 2005-09-07 presentation:
Slides-2005-09-07
Association of C and C++ Users: San Jose, California
Tues. - 2005-Nov-08 - 7:00 pm
www.accu-usa.org
.NET Developers Association: Redmond, Washington
Mon. - 2005-Sep-12 - 6:00 pm
www.netda.net
SDForum Windows SIG: Palo Alto, California
Wed. - 2005-Sep-07 - 6:30 pm
www.sdforum.org
Sacramento Visual Studio Users Group: Sacramento, California
Tues. - 2005-Aug-09 - 6:30 pm
www.sacvsug.org
