.NET Chalk Talks: Visual Studio.NET: Tips, Tricks and Toys

What:	CAIT Technical Breakfast Briefing: .NET Chalk Talks
Topic:	Visual Studio.NET: Tips, Tricks and Toys
Facilitator:	Kevin Grossnicklaus, President & Chief Architect, ArchitectNow
Cost:	Free of charge
When:	November 3, 2009
Time:	7:30am-8:00am: Networking/Breakfast; 8:00am-9:30am: Briefing
Where:	CAIT (Washington University-West Campus), Training Room 24
Attire:	Business casual suggested
Register:	Online Registration, training@cait.wustl.edu or 314.935.4444 (registration may be limited to only two persons per organization)

As a service to the St. Louis technical community, CAIT will be offering a series of technical breakfast briefings which highlight emerging technology and best practices. These briefings are free but are limited to the first 40 registrants. So register now for the first session of the .NET Technical Briefings.

Session One: Visual Studio.NET: Tips, Tricks and Toys
For nearly all .NET developers, regardless of the types of applications you are building or the company you build them for, Visual Studio.NET is the tool around which you base your careers. Since its release in 2002 this tool has evolved into an extremely powerful development environment supporting many languages, plug-ins, application types, designers, and other features. On top of all of these capabilities and features Microsoft has built an enormous amount of configurability into the tool itself. During this session we will cover dozens of Visual Studio.NET 2008 tips and tricks ranging from editor configuration settings to keyboard shortcuts to optimizing searching and navigation to customizing the layout and development experience. Plus, we will also share and demo some of our favorite (and FREE) Visual Studio.NET plug-ins which we use every day to help us be more productive. We'll also share some other freely available developer tools we use outside of VS.NET. If getting the most productivity out of your development environment is important to you or if you are just interested in what might save you time, then this is the session for you. This is also a great chance to share your own tips and tricks while getting ideas from your peers. So come ready to interact and share your own knowledge and we promise that everyone will leave with numerous ideas of how be more productive as a developer.

FACILITATOR
Kevin Grossnicklaus is a software architect with over 10 years experience designing and writing custom software throughout a number of industries. He is currently the President of an architectural consulting and training firm called ArchitectNow. Previously, Kevin spent 10 years as the Chief Architect of SSE, a St. Louis based technology firm, where he was responsible for assisting development teams in designing, architecting, and building enterprise scale, distributed applications built on the Microsoft .NET platform. Kevin is also an instructor at the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) at Washington University in St. Louis. At CAIT, Kevin provides training and mentoring on Microsoft .NET technologies to students from Boeing, Anheuser-Busch, and many other of St. Louis' Fortune 500 companies.

CAIT is a not-for-profit organization within Washington University in St. Louis that serves as the center for information technology (IT) leaders in the St. Louis region. Our purpose is to help organizations make continuous advancements in productivity and enhance the region's competitiveness as a thriving, world-class IT community. We accomplish this by providing the forum for IT executive interaction and the highest quality IT training & professional development opportunities, leveraging the resources of Washington University, local IT leaders, and experts and vendors throughout the country.