Here’s the slides and scripts from the talk I gave today at #nhcc2 (New Hampshire Code Camp II).  If you’re interested in the databases, send me an email.  They’re multi-gig, so we’ll have to figure out the best way to get them to you.

On June 5^th Saturday the New Hampshire .Net User Group www.NHDN.Com with New Hampshire Technical Institute (www.NHTI.Com) is presenting a full day of free training on a wide range of developer interests. AND we are throwing in a free lunch.. And you thought there was no such thing..

But you do have to register, See www.TheDevCommunity.Org

We’re got speakers for SQL Server, SharePoint, SilverLight, F#, Reporting Services, Azure, Windows Phone and if we haven’t got what you want we’ll get it..(OK, maybe, maybe not.)

We’re looking for Speakers, Attendees, and Sponsors and possibly a BBQ Cook or two.. We’re looking for YOU!

Sign Up and Come Join us..

I had a great time talking about Globalization and Localization for ASP.NET applications last night at the New England ASP.NET User Group.  There are definately a lot of things that you need to be aware of when you're localizing a site.  Thanks to Dean Serrentino for inviting me to speak.  I've uploaded the slides and demo applications below.

I'm speaking today at the Code Camp in Waltham giving my talk on Speech Recognition using C#.  I've attached the demo files I used.  You can download the content here.

The 1st New Hampshire Code Camp is being help Saturday, Feb 28th at Daniel Webster College.  Registration is now open at http://www.thedevcommunity.org/.  We're looking for developers or DBAs to present at this event.  We're also looking for component vendors or recruitment firms to sponsor the event with giveaways, or to help cover food costs. (Contact me - phil@denoncourtassociates.com or Pat Tormey)

I love going to code camps, I always learn a lot about technologies that I don't get to use in my day-to-day life.  It's nice to network with other developers, learn what problems they're running into and how they're solving them.  The manifesto describes it best: By and For the Developer Community, Always Free, No Fluff...

With the economy in apparent decline, a lot of you developers are looking for ways to make yourselves more marketable.  According to ToastMasters International, presentation skills are "crucial to success in the workplace".  Code Camps are a great way to start refining your speaking skills.  Nobody expects a polished speaker.  All we're looking for is someone to show us some code, help facilitate a conversation, or show us something new.  If you get nervous when you speak in front of people and that's deterring you, partner up with a buddy to deliver the talk with you. Presentations should go about an hour, and budget time for dialog/Q&A.

Here's how to register to speak at the NH Code Camp:
1) Create an account at thedevcommunity.org, or sign into your existing one.
2) Complete a Speaker Registry profile
3) On thedevcommunity.org 's home page, click the submit a presentation link next to Code Camp New Hampshire
4) Repeat (as necessary)

Looking forward to seeing you all there...

I'll be giving a talk on implementing Speech Recognition in .NET this Saturday.  There will be 24 presentations delivered at the code camp.  Register to attend the code camp here.

Adding Speech Recognition to your Application

Since version 3.0, the .NET framework has built in support for speech recognition. It is easy and straightforward to use. You will learn how to use the speech recognition capabilities of .NET. We'll talk about the capabilities of the speech recognition classes. And we talk about best practices and lessons learned.

There really is a single instance of a static field per appdomain.  It kind of says this in the C# language reference, but not very explicitly.  This knocked me around a little because I had assumed that there was a single static field per type within an appdomain.  I had a base type that had a dictionary as a static field and assumed that each class that derived from it had its own instance of the static field.  Not so…

Look at the following test code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text; 

namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            baseClass.AStaticValue = 3;
            inheritedClass.AStaticValue = 4;
            Console.WriteLine("baseClass {0}", baseClass.AStaticValue);
            Console.WriteLine("inheritedClass {0}", inheritedClass.AStaticValue);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
 
    public class baseClass
    {
        public static int AStaticValue = 0;
    }

    public class inheritedClass : baseClass
    {

    }
  }
 }

I expected the results to be
baseClass 3
inheritedClass 4

Instead, the output is
baseClass 4
inheritedClass 4

So unless you decorate the field with ThreadStatic or ContextStatic attributes, static means just one in an appdomain.  Remember that when you are inheriting from objects that have static fields, there’s only one instance of that static field.