Last week I've been in Dallas, TX on training from Wintellect. The title of the training is "Debugging .NET Applications, A Devscovery-Intense Series" and the speaker is John Robbins - the famous Bugslayer and co-founder of Wintellect. He is author of "Debugging Applications for .NET and Windows" that is on my bookshelf.

Duration of training is tree days. The course is stuffed with information about debugging .NET applications. Starting from "the basics of coding" all the way to advanced topics about using WinDBG with SOS and ADPlus. The training took place in one of the Microsoft's building in Irving. The number of people in the conference room was about 30. The audience seems to be pretty savvy on debugging issues and there were a lot of good questions. During presentations John pointed a lot of tips and tricks and almost every slide was backed-up with samples from his new (work in progress) book. All samples were available to download and the right to use this code in production applications was granted to all participants. Main accent was put on using new features of Visual Studio .NET 2005. The new features of VS 2005 debugger (intellisense, advanced breakpoints, visualizers etc) are bringing a tremendous value of performance and convenience in programmers day to day job.

So, speaking short, my expectations from this training matched absolutely with the reality. This was my second conference with Wintellect (another one was Devscovery 2004 in Atlanta, GA) and I'm completely satisfied with its content and the way it was presented as well as with the pricing ($750 p/person). I would be glad to recommend it to any level of software developers, from juniors to seniors and even PMs.

Thanks a lot John for such a good job! Oh, and don't forget to send me that second diploma you promised .