Clint Rutkas

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  14 minutes, 43 seconds
  TWC9: SQL Server 2012, Windows Phone, Async, Azure, HTML5 and more

  This Week On Channel 9 Jan 27, 2012 at 3:59 PM 2 Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez and Greg Duncan

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  This week on Channel 9, Dan and Clint discuss the week's top developer news, including:

  • [0:30] SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event, March 7th
  • [1:17] Free Windows Phone Training (Peter Kuhn [aka Mister Goodcat]), http://www.goodcat-trainings.net
  • [2:05] 8 Must-Have Tools for Windows Pho...
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  26 minutes, 43 seconds
  Updates to the Coding4Fun Team!

  Coding4Fun Blog Jan 13, 2012 at 2:52 PM 6 Brian Peek , Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Greg Duncan and Rick Barraza

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  Dear friends,

  As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves.

  Our Team

  We've expanded our team...

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  23 minutes, 53 seconds
  TWC9: December 2nd - Nuget, HTML5, SignalR and an updated tool list from Scott

  This Week On Channel 9 Dec 02, 2011 at 12:23 PM 5 Clint Rutkas , Dan Fernandez , Duncan Mackenzie and Greg Duncan

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  This week on Channel 9, Clint (who came in while on vacation just to record the show) and Duncan (who didn't hide well enough from Clint) discuss the week's top developer news including:

  • [1:05] Introducing the Project2NuGet approach. (Denis Knaack) [Found via suggestion from Brian Peek, http://www.br...
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  26 minutes, 29 seconds
  Concluding Thoughts - 25

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:30 AM 4 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  In this final video, Bob talks about approaches to solving common issues that arise for new software developers, where to turn for help, how to search for answers to technical questions, how to ask for help and become part of the .NET community, how to create a personal knowledge base of books and a...

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  14 minutes, 20 seconds
  Getting Familiar with the My Namespace - 24

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:30 AM 3 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  This video demonstrates the use of the My Namespace in Visual Basic which provides a short-cut to often used classes in the .NET Framework Class Library.  We demonstrate how to use the My Namespace to retrieve information about the user's computer, search for files on the file system, perform f...

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  22 minutes, 35 seconds
  Understanding Event Driven Programming - 23

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:29 AM 0 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  In this lesson we demonstrate how events are utilized in the .NET Framework Class Library specific to Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET Web Forms applications. In all three examples, we see how Visual Basic is generated by the IDE to "wire up" a user action or application event to code that han...

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  25 minutes, 8 seconds
  Filtering and Managing Data in Collections using LINQ - 22

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:28 AM 0 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  Building on the work from the previous lesson with generic collections, in this lesson we start by talking about how Structured Query Language provides a means of working with sets (collections, groupings, etc.) of data. In a similar way, the LINQ syntax provides a simple way of working with groups ...

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  25 minutes, 15 seconds
  Working with Collections - 21

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:28 AM 2 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  Collections are a more powerful form of arrays. In this lesson we demonstrate an "old style" collection (pointing out their limitations) as well as several of the newer, strongly typed generic collections (List(Of T) and Dictionary(Of T1, T2)) utilizing the generics syntax.

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  12 minutes, 22 seconds
  Gracefully Handling Exceptions - 20

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:28 AM 0 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  Exceptions occur when an application experiences some unexpected problem at run time. This lesson discusses how to use the try catch finally block to anticipate potential problems and attempt to shield the end user from those problems as much as is possible. We discuss best practices when checking f...

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  18 minutes, 10 seconds
  Enumerations and the switch Decision Statement - 19

  Visual Basic Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners Nov 21, 2011 at 9:28 AM 2 Clint Rutkas , Bob Tabor and Golnaz

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  Classes can contain many different types of information, not just Properties and Methods. We begin demonstrating the use of Enumerations because often in the .NET Framework Class Library, properties can only be set to a pre-determined subset of possible values. To illustrate this point we create our...

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