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Cory Smith delivered a terrific presentation on Vista-fying your VB.NET WinForms Apps!
01 May 07 12:39 PM | dwalker | 2 Comments   

I have heard only rave reviews! Everyone was excited to finally have Cory Smith, MVP from Ft. Worth, come up and give his presentation "Developing for Windows Vista using Visual Studio 2005" . It was even more exciting due to his flight delays Read More...

Filed under: .NET, .NET 3.0, Cory Smith

PathTooLongException work around
22 January 07 12:01 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

Someone just came to me with an issue they were having with a classic ASP application that is using the FileSystemObject to display files as links. Everything was working great, until all of the sudden some files were not showing up. Come to find out, Read More...

Filed under: .NET

My Top 10 Personal Community Goals for 2007
09 January 07 05:35 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

It's really hard for me to believe that 2006 has come and gone. All the things that I was able to accomplish and all the hard work. It's amazing that it was just 14 months ago that I became the President of Tulsa .NET Users Group when then President Read More...

Filed under: .NET, Personal, Presentations, code camp, seminar, architecture, dotnetnuke, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET 3.0, User Groups

First Presentation to my own group TulsaDevelopers.NET
28 November 06 12:36 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

As the President of the TulsaDevelopers.NET group I have made great effort to get presentations from others. I definitely don't want the group to become the David Walker show. That's why when I first started giving my Introduction to Programming Read More...

Filed under: .NET, Personal, Presentations, Windows Communication Foundation, WCF, .NET 3.0

Tulsa TechFest 2006 is gonna blow everyone away - including me!
18 September 06 12:37 PM | dwalker | 3 Comments   

I have been so busy with planning Tulsa TechFest 2006 ( http://www.tulsatechfest.com ) that I've neglected this blog over the last few months. Plus, we've started up the Tulsa SQL Server Group ( http://www.tulsasql.com ) and just last month the Read More...

Filed under: .NET, markus egger, jean-paul boodhoo, .net rocks, carl franklin, mark miller, shaun walker, code camp, trade show, ron jacobs, training, seminar, architecture, dotnetnuke

DallasCodeCamp rocked - add the X to ASP
26 June 06 09:12 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I took the trip down to Dallas with the family and gave my second ever full length presentation on Introduction to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the Dallas Code Camp . We were supposed to have a connection check the night before, Read More...

Filed under: .NET, Presentations

Restoring a SQL Server 2000 backup to SQL 2005
20 June 06 02:56 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I recently was trying to restore a SQL 2000 database to a SQL 2005 database and kept getting this error: "The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'xxxx' database. Backup or restore operation terminiating abnormally." After Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General

Report on the Wichita Code Camp
04 June 06 11:31 PM | dwalker | 3 Comments   

Raymond Lewallen: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen Building strongly-typed session objects, cache objects, and viewstate. If you aren't using a session management object you must. Do a search for session[] and make your developers give a justifiable Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General, Personal, Presentations

My first real presentation: Intro. to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ... and challenges!
01 June 06 11:40 PM | dwalker | 2 Comments   

Just a few more days until my June 3rd presentation Introduction to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) at the WichitaDevelopers.NET Code Camp ! I am ready to go, except WCF is being a pain in the butt trying to get a few things to work Read More...

Filed under: .NET, Personal

March 9th, 2006 - Tech Expo 2006 in Little Rock - Rocked!
09 March 06 10:48 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I just wanted to let everyone know about this very awesome and exciting event! The Little Rock .NET Users Group did a tremendous job on Tech Expo 2006 ! Doors opened at 7:00 am with vendor / sponsor booth's as well as an "Exhibitor Breakfast" sponsored Read More...

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My First Presentation! Smart Clients with .NET 2.0
12 December 05 10:37 PM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I gave my first presentation ever on developing Smart Client with .NET 2.0 at the Tulsa .Net User Group's .NET 2.0 Release Party . Luckily I didn't have to give the whole 1 hour, because we wanted to cover as much .NET 2.0 as we could we split the meeting Read More...

Filed under: .NET, Presentations

New Tulsa .NET Users Group President!
19 October 05 12:50 AM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Man, there's been so much stuff going on, since my last blog! We went on vacation to Galveston Island, TX right and returned the weekend before Hurricane Rita - whew that was close! I've been trying to play catch up on home work for the Tulsa Community Read More...

Filed under: .NET, General, Personal

My.Blogs for VB.Net - the whole My Namespace gets under my skin!
29 September 05 08:43 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

I just saw this on at http://msdn.microsoft.com looks really cool: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/2005/code/MyBlogs/default.aspx But, the whole My Namespace really gets under my skin. I just personally believe that any generic NAMESPACE should Read More...

Filed under: .NET

Caleb Jenkins presented nHibernate/ORM at TulsaDNUG
26 September 05 10:54 PM | dwalker | 1 Comments   

Caleb Jenkins gave a very good presentation on nHibernate/ORM for the Tulsa .NET Users Group tonight. It was enough to give me the opinion that todays ORM isn't of much value to me. Considering that we currently use CodeSmith to generate our Stored Procedures Read More...

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Ron Jacobs on Enterprise Library and The Death of Code Smith?
24 August 05 12:21 AM | dwalker | 0 Comments   

The Tulsa .NET Users Group had the very great privilege of hosting Ron Jacobs for an excellent presentation on the Enterprise Library (formerly known as Application Blocks). You can get his power point slides from his site at RonJacobs.com . I remember Read More...

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