Paul Sheriff will be speaking to our user group Wednesday night on Debugging tips and tricks. With his interactive and easy to understand presentation style, his sessions are highly recommended. Details below.
Wed 21st Oct 2009
Abstract: If you have not really dug into the VS.NET debugger, then this seminar is for you. You will explore all the various breakpoint, tracepoint, data tips, and the myriad features that this powerful debugger let’s you use. You will see how to set conditional breakpoints, learn to filter threads based on their thread id, and learn the difference between the Watch window, locals and immediate window.
You Will Learn:
1. Set breakpoints with hit counts, filters, conditions.
2. See how to use data tips, visualizers, and make object ids
3. See when objects are about to be garbage collected
4. Learn how exception handling can be used as a debugging aid
About the Presenter: Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).
Meeting Agenda:
* 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
* 6:30p Presentation Starts
* 7:30p Break
* 7:45p Presentation Resumes
* 8:45p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016 . Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way.
This is a Green Dot Corporation sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.
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So I went to the OCDotNet user group meeting last night to see Paul Sheriff. Paul is a great speaker and it was a packed room. He was doing a talk on debugging, which is something that absolutely EVERY developer needs to master.