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title: "ADO.Net talk went great"
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published: "2004-07-21T15:57:00"
updated: "2004-07-21T15:57:00"
tags: [".Net Original"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Phew! this was an exhausting day! I was feeling pretty sick all through the morning today, but things cleared up a big in the afternoon. I also gave my talk at the C# user group today about ADO.Net . It went pretty…"
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# ADO.Net talk went great

By Roy Osherove July 21, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 21, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Phew! this was an exhausting day!

I was feeling pretty sick all through the morning today, but things cleared up a big in the afternoon.

I also gave my talk at the [C# user group](http://www.comconix.com/ivcug/) today about ADO.Net . It went pretty well. One thing of note was that for the first time my wife, Tal, was in attendance at one of my talks. at the first 5 minutes I was actually mumbling a bit - I was nervous and excited she was there listening to me :)

Anyway -it went pretty great - only I didn't have enough material - so we finished 20 minutes early. Oh well.

A few tips and trick to remember that people really liked:

\- [Throw exceptions correctly](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/04/13/112401.aspx)

\-  [@@IDENTITY==bad, **scope\_identity**()==good](https://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2003/11/13/37217.aspx)

much fun was had by all. I am sooo tired.

On the other had - my voice seems to be shaping up from the talks. I notice that I am less “voiceless” now after 3 hours of talking than I was the first talk I gave (I couldn't actually talk after an hour the first time).

**I'll remind you** about the TDD workshop that is being held on the 28th for the beginners and the advanced one later on in the month. See [http://dev.magen.com/agile](http://dev.magen.com/agile) for more information and registering for those.

## More in .Net Original

[All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original)

- Jul 31, 2004

    ### [My upcoming lecture schedule](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/31/my-upcoming-lecture-schedule.html)

- Jul 29, 2004

    ### [The SQL Server usability advantage](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/the-sql-server-usability-advantage.html)

- Jul 19, 2004

    ### [Unit Testing scalability and performance](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/19/unit-testing-scalability-and-performance.html)

- Jul 18, 2004

    ### [Announcing:Coolest Add-in Contest - Entries available for download](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/18/announcingcoolest-add-in-contest-entries-available-for-downl.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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