GCNUG March Meeting - 27 March 2007

Location
This month's (and possibly future) meeting will be held at Benefit Focus on Daniel Island. If you ever attended the past meetings at Blackbaud, you probably remember passing Benefit Focus on the way there. If you need directions follow this link from Benefit Focus: http://www.benefitfocus.com/contact/directions.html

Register Please!
Let us know you're coming! Please RSVP at EventBrite: http://march-gcnug.eventbrite.com/

Topic

The Mole Visualizer For Visual Studio has taken the developer community by storm. It has been written up on major developer blogs all over the world including several at Microsoft. It has been downloaded by tens of thousands of developers worldwide.
This session will cover using Mole on WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, WCF and WF Visual Studio project types. Time permitting; we will also get into how Mole works.
What is Mole? Mole is a very complex Visual Studio Visualizer. Mole was designed to not only allow the developer to view objects or data, but to also allow the developer to drill into properties of those objects. Mole allows unlimited drilling into objects and sub-objects. When Mole finds an IEnumerable object, the data can be viewed in a DataGridView or in the properties grid. Mole easily handles collections that contain multiple types of data. Mole also allows the developer to view non-public fields of all these same objects. You can learn a lot about the .NET framework by drilling around your application's data. Depending on the type of object you are visualizing you can view properties, fields, IEnumerable collection data, an image of the data/control, and run-time XAML.
Mole also allows editing of displayed properties, including properties in the heap.

Presenter

Karl Shifflett is a software architect, Code Project MVP and MCAD from Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF and Microsoft Expression fanatics & evangelists. Currently working on new full featured City Government and Utility Billing WPF product. On the weekends he is finishing a cool multi-player WPF game scheduled for release 2nd quarter 2008. Karl is an exciting and enthusiastic speaker who is a regular at the Enterprise Developers Guild events, Code Camps and has presented in Columbia, SC. He is a member of Team Mole that delivered Mole Visualizer For Visual Studio to the world.