Andy Bruss will start out the night with a demonstration on how to use Red Gate's ANTS memory profiler. Contrary to what many believe, you can have memory leaks in managed .NET applications. This tool makes it easy to profile your .NET code and find memory leaks. Red Gate has agreed to give us a license to give away to one lucky member. Anyone else that wants can download a free trial copy of ANTS memory profiler. Get $(ready).with(Rachel Appel); This is a video taped presentation of Rachel Appel doing an introductory level presentation at the November Dallas NDDUG meeting. jQuery aims to redefine the way we write JavaScript, and now with support built into Microsoft Visual Studio, you can more easily write client-side scripts than ever before. In this session, you will learn the basics of jQuery starting with downloading and installing jQuery. We'll then move onto topics such as unobtrusive JavaScript, using jQuery wrapped sets and selectors, creating animations, and c ...

I was recently asked to review Crypto Obfuscator 2010 from LogicNP Software. Since most of my development these days is with Microsoft’s Visual Studio product, I jumped at the chance. Software protection has always been a concern when coding in a language that compiles to any intermediate code.                                 The definition of obfuscate is to make something confusing or difficult to understand. That’s exactly what code obfuscators try to accomplish; take your existing code and make it as hard to reverse engineer and understand as possible. With the advent of languages that compile to intermediate code instead of machine code (Dot Net, Java, etc), obfuscation is more important than ever, as it’s very easy to decompile code back into the high level syntax.           ...