I'll be at the Denver VS.NET User Group meeting tonight to sign a copy of my new book, LINQ Programming/McGraw-Hill. Kathleen Dollard is giving a presentation on Rethinking Object Orientation.

 

Also, I'm giving a C# 4.0 and VS 2010 presentation tomorrow night at the Boulder VS.NET User Group meeting.

I just released v0.20 of LINQ to Twitter.  This release includes support for User queries, such as Followers, Friends, and Show.  This was an interesting deployment for me because it fleshes out the Strategy pattern for managing different types of queries.  There were three parts of the code I needed to modify: (1) add an IRequestProcessor derived type for User queries, (2) Add a Users property to TwitterContext for to return a TwitterQueryable<User>, and (3) add the User query type to the Simple Factory used to get an IRequestProcessor.  The rest of the code operates on IRequestProcessor and other stuff, but I didn't need to touch it.

You can view a free copy of Chapter 1 from C# 3.0 Unleashed: With the .NET Framework 3.5 on CoDe Magazine.

My previous blog entry was on named parameters and it felt a little funny writing it that way.  In reality, a Named Parameter is just a label on an argument.  Why wouldn't they be called Labeled Arguments?

Brad Abrams blogged another in a series of posts on Framework Design Guidelines; this one on Extension Methods.  Extension methods were a new feature of C# 3.0, added mostly to support LINQ.  However, they can be useful in other scenarios, such as building reusable libraries.

 

The Rocky Mountain Tech Tri-fecta needs you, speakers and attendees.  Please pass along this call to others.  Blog about it.  Send me a link to your blog post and you’ll go into a special drawing for a cool giveaway.  (keep reading, even if you’re not local, good excuse to come to a beautiful place like Colorado, see some snow, learn some stuff)

 

Ok, so what exactly is a Tech Tri-fecta?  Gotcha.  Three different technology families, all on the same day at the same place at the same time.  It’s a Code Camp.  It’s a PASS Camp.  It’s a Windows Server Camp.

 

Saturday February 21, 2009.  Aurora Community College, Centre Tech Campus.  Checkin at 8am, sessions start at 8:30 and we will end by 5pm.

 

Speakers:  one of the directives of the “camp” mentality is to get as many speakers up in front of the group as possible, and cut out all the fluff.  Code.  Code.  Code. (or fill in the blank with your preferred technology of choice, just cut out the fluff first).  We currently have 42 spots to fill and if numbers warrant it, can add to it.   Sessions are 50 minutes long, including any Q&A.  Submit however many you’d like.  If topics overlap, we’ll coordinate the speakers to work out an arrangement to get the session in front of the audience and get them both there as well.  If you’re way enthusiastic and submit 8 sessions, we may ask you to rank them for us to pick from.

 

Attendees:  Hanselman (yea, Scott Hanselman is coming).  Yack.  Huckaby.  Golightly.  Dollard.  Bagby.  Massi.  Milroy.  Neilson.  Jacobs.  Shirey.    All in one place.  All for free.  Sessions are still being finalized but all of these tech Rock Stars have come on board and will be presenting sessions for us at the Tri-fecta.  How cool is that?

 

www.rmtechtrifecta.com for session submissions and for registration.  There are three links for registration, one for each main track.  This will not force you into a track, just help us plan for room space based on interest.  So pick the track that you are most likely to attend, if you can’t decide, just register somewhere, we’ll figure it all out, promise.

 

Can’t forget the Sunday fun too.  A semi-organized day of skiing/boarding.  On the registration page is the link to register for the bus trip to Copper.  The final price will be determined by number of folks going, but we’re shooting for $40 range for bus to/from and lift ticket.  So, join us again on Sunday to have some fun up at Copper.  Registering here will not obligate you to anything, just get us your info so we can coordinate the day.

 

Brought to you by your local user groups, SouthColorado.NET, Colorado Springs SQL Server UG and Colorado Springs Windows User Group.  We’d also like to thank our sponsors, Microsoft, Colorado Technology Consultants, The Association for Competitive Technology, Modis, TekSystems, Red Gate, Consortio Services and CS Tech Cast.

 

So here’s your chance to have your name up in lights (figuratively of course) next to some pretty awesome and smart folks.  Come join us!

 

Questions?  Want to sponsor us too?  Contact Julie Yack at julie@coloradotc.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Yack

Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc

A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

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I updated the ADO.NET and C# Tutorials today.  No new content to speak of, but mostly bug fixes.

 

The Obama Song by by Michael Franti & Spearhead:

 

 

I wrote a new ASP.NET Security article on C# Station.  It discusses each of the Login controls and explains how you can manage custom user data, matching it with user accounts in ASP.NET.  There is tons of information and technical details on ASP.NET Security - much more than a single article can cover.  However, I focused on things that I've experienced and work-arounds that you might need to know about in the process of securing a site.  Nevertheless, this article weighs in at over 20 pages, depending on Font size, meaning that I cover a lot of ground.  I hope you find it useful and I would like to hear about your own experience with similar problems.