Matt Slay

I felt like the internet needed just one more web site to be complete, so I'm proud to do my part by presenting to you... www.mattslay.com

And, it's even free, so I know you'll get your money's worth.

My software skills include Visual FoxPro, C#, Asp.Net WebForms, and some work in WPF and Silverlight. My focus is Line of Business applications with an emphasis on clean, simple UI designs. You can read more about my background on the About page.

I only write a blog posts when I feel like I really have discovered or accomplished something that would be helpful to other developers. I am not a blogging machine, but I do try to create at least one entry per month. You can check it out here: www.mattslay.com/blog

I'm a huge fan of the West Wind Technologies products by Rick Strahl for both .Net and VFP. The West Wind Toolkit for Asp.Net has many great helper classes for building web applications, an easy-to-use LinqToSql business object wrapper to help create a simple but powerful data access layer to work with SQL Server databases, and the famous DataBinder for easily wiring up your UI controls to your business object entities, and tons more. On the VFP side, I've made heavy use of the West Wind Client Tools for VFP to handle the data access layer in my company's primary line of business app for labor and material tracking, quoting system, and parts database. You can read about my work with the West Wind Client Tools, and the universal extensions I've created for it in my blog post about this topic.

I'm on CodePlex... After I got my head above water in C# and WPF back in 2008, I created and published my WPF Hole Patterns application on CodePlex to share with others. It's a vector based, CAD-like geometry program for laying out circular and linear hole patterns. In all, between the app and the source code, I've had over 100 downloads, so hopefully, it's been helpful to some curious developers to see what they can learn from my efforts. I've since ported the app to Silverlight and used it as a practice field for learning the basics of the MVVM pattern. If you'd like the latest version in Silverlight, just drop me an email.

From October 2008 through December 2009, I was a team member of the PEM Editor project which is an advanced IDE tool for Visual FoxPro for creating and editing properties and methods while working in forms and classes in the VFP IDE. It was released on CodePlex as part of the master VFPX project. You can see and download it here: PEM Editor, and you can also watch the video series which I produce for it. This popular tool, and some of my small contributions to it, have been topics and/or mentioned in the international publication FoxRockX. It's hard to know for sure, but we think there have been around 1,300 downloads since its first release.