GCNUG March Meeting

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 so we can make sure there's enough food for all (without a bunch of leftovers)!

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.

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