 Wednesday, June 10, 2009
NYC .NET User Group Next Meeting->June 18th
Thursday, June 18, 2009
An Introduction to Oslo
Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=138919 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
"Oslo" is the code name for a family of new technologies that enable data-driven model based development. First we will explore the nature of model driven development and then apply the concept of model driven development to Oslo. Learn about the three major components of Oslo: the new “M” language, the “Quadrant” data visualization tool, and the Oslo repository. An M tutorial will show you how to capture all aspects of an application schematized in the Oslo repository and use Oslo directly to drive the execution of deployed applications. In addition to learning how to use M to model an application, we will use M to build and interact with domain specific languages (DSLs). See how Oslo interacts with Visual Studio and .NET. We will finish up with a discussion on where Oslo is going and how and when you can adopt it. (Note, there will be enough time for an enjoyable Q&A.) Speaker:
Stephen Forte, Telerik
Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. He sits on the board of several start-ups including Triton Works and is also a certified scrum master. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York. Date:
Thursday, June 18, 2009 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
RESTify your Data Driven Applications: User Group Meeting on Thursday
I will speaking at the SQL Server User Group on Thursday at 6pm. You must register to attend: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134822 Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr 1 to 50th St./Bway N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave. Session Info:
Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss ADO .NET Data Services or “Project Astoria” and see how we can REST enable your data. Then you will learn how to leverage existing skills related to LINQ and data access to customize the behavior, control-flow, security model and experience of your data service. We will then see how to enable data-binding to traditional ASP.NET controls as well as Silverlight Then switching gears we will look quickly at consuming of REST services from any platform (including Ruby on Rails) using Visual Studio and the WCF REST Starter kit. We will conclude with a discussion on developing offline applications with the ability to sync back to the online data service. This is a very demo intensive session.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts
If you are looking for the slides and code for my user group presentation: Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts, you can download it here. Please note, this session and its code is subject to some minor tweaks as the conference season kicks into high gear next month.
Monday, January 12, 2009
NYC .NET Developer Group: Code Camp Recap and Next Meeting: This Thursday
The NYC .NET Developer Group Code Camp III went off great. Thanks to our sponsors Infragistics and Code Project. Even though we had 7 inches of snow predicted, all the speakers showed up and we had well over 200 attendees and gave away a lot of SWAG. We rounded off the day with a .NET Rocks interview of the NJ (not NY!) user group/MVP community. (I called it the Jersey Boys crash the NY code camp!) I made Carl ask them each which exit they are from. (That is an inside NY joke. <g>) On the heels of our successful code camp, we are doing our normal monthly meeting this week! Since I did not speak at Code Camp and we were so busy planning code camp, we figured that I can do the talk on Thursday so save planning. Here goes: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Data Access Hacks and Shortcuts
You *must* register for this event: Registration site: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=134659
Event Code: 134659 Subject:
Struggling with Data Access? Who isn’t? Come and see some Data Access hacks and shortcuts that will make your life easier! In a high energy demo-only session, Stephen shows: how a mere mortal can pass a custom .Net collection to a stored procedure, improves your LINQ queries with Lambdas and expression trees, making complex data models easier to manage in the Entity Framework, creative Sliverlight databinding with LINQ to REST, and transforming your database back end to get enormous performance and productivity enhancements. This is data access for the 21st century! Speaker will also provide guidance along the way about ORMs, LINQ, and EF and encourage Q&A. Speaker:
Stephen Forte, Telerik
Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. He sits on the board of several start-ups including Triton Works and is also a certified scrum master. Prior he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York. Date:
Thursday, January 15, 2009 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Monday, December 15, 2008
NYC .NET Developers User Group->Next Meeting
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Developing Business Applications with Microsoft Cloud Services
Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=132234 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
At PDC Microsoft announced the Azure Cloud Services Platform. This presentation will cover the key features of the Windows Azure operating system that make it possible to build applications leveraging the distributed computation and storage capabilities in the cloud. It will also cover higher-layer .NET Services such as the Service Bus, Federated Identity Management, and cloud-based Workflow as well as SQL Data Services, the cloud based database. We will demonstrate how to build applications that leverage the cloud using the familiar development environment of Visual Studio. Speaker:
Bill Zack, Microsoft
Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He comes to this role after serving as a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services Group of Microsoft Consulting Services. His experience includes developing, supporting and evangelizing .NET/SOA based frameworks used to jump-start development projects for financial services companies.
Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers.
He is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and a member of the IASA Board of Directors He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups. Date:
Thursday, December 18, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Friday, December 12, 2008
NYC Code Camp! January 10th
The New York City Code Camp is planned for Saturday January 10th. We have had an open call for speakers and are going to close it out over this weekend. If you want to be considered to speak, please do send a proposal now. Please send your session abstracts by Sunday December 14th to:
proposalsnyc@codecamp.us
Please create a word doc named yourlastname_abstract01.doc and mail it to proposalsnyc@codecamp.us.
Replace 01 with 02 if you have more than 1 abstract. Replace yourlastname with your real last name. (I have to say this, you would
be surprised. <g>) Put in the doc:
Name:
Session Title:
Audience/Track:
Level:
Abstract:
Demos:
Demo 1 blah blah
Bio: Registration will be announced at http://nyc.codecamp.us/ soon.
Monday, November 17, 2008
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Meeting Thursday
Data Access Smackdown
Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=132141 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
Microsoft introduced several new data access technologies in .NET 3.5 SP1. Which one should you use? Entity Framework? Dynamic Data? ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)? Linq? POADN? (Plain old ADO .NET) What about ORMs? Has Microsoft lost its mind? Join Stephen in a discussion on Data Access Methodologies for the 21st Century, including a discussion of ATOM over REST. Note: This will require some audience participation. Speaker:
Stephen Forte, Telerik
Stephen Forte is Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik, a leading vendor in .NET components. Prior to his position at Telerik, Stephen was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He is currently an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York (Baruch College). Stephen is also a certified scrum master. Date:
Thursday, November 20, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Monday, October 13, 2008
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Introducing Silverlight 2.0: .NET Framework Development in your Web Browser
Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129954 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 technology finally brings the power of .NET development and rich user interfaces into the browser. This session will focus on covering what is new in Silverlight 2 starting with how companies are already using this technology. Next we will dive deeper to look at the .NET Frameworks Data, Network and Interface capabilities in Silverlight. Finally we will briefly cover the new Streaming Media support and compare the XAML implementation to WPF. If you’re new to Silverlight 2.0, don’t miss this presentation. Speaker:
Dmitry Lyalin, Microsoft
Dmitry has been working with Microsoft Technologies for almost 10 years with a variety of companies and titles. As of February 2008 Dmitry joined Microsoft Consulting Services as a Consultant. In this role Dmitry works in the NY/Metro area and across the country to help various customers implement Microsoft Frameworks and Systems efficiently. Date:
Thursday, October 16, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
NYC .NET Developers User Group->Next Meeting This Thursday
Thursday, August 21, 2008
All About the ASP.NET MVC Framework Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129953 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
When it comes to design patterns, the MVC is the granddaddy of them all. First described in the late 70s, the MVC pattern remains very popular in the world of web applications today. In October 2007, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie announced a new Model View Controller (MVC) Framework for ASP.NET. Ever since then, posts about it have spread about it like wildfire through the .NET blogosphere. There's usually at least 2-3 MVC stories a day that show up on DotNetKicks. At several tech conferences and community events around the country, MVC sessions have been standing room only. Just what is the MVC Framework, and why are developers so excited about it?
Come and join us this month as Peter Laudati, Developer Evangelist from Microsoft, breaks the MVC framework down for you. Peter will give us a quick tour of the framework, then peel back the layers and dive deeper into how it works. As part of that, he’ll spend time discussing the design and development practices that lead to the creation of the MVC framework. ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application des Speaker:
Peter Laudati, Microsoft
Peter Laudati is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft. In his current role, Peter works with the developer community in New York and New Jersey to support area user groups, code camps, and other events. Previously, he worked as a consultant in Microsoft’s services division. As a consultant, he worked on several application development projects and provided architectural guidance for large customers throughout the NY & NJ metro area. He lives with his family in central New Jersey and loves kayaking and biking at the Jersey Shore. Visit peter's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/peterlau Date:
Thursday, August 21, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
User Group Speaker Idol
We had our first (annual?) speaker idol contest at our user group this week and it went great. I was a judge in a few of the Tech*Ed speaker idols in the past so I knew the ropes and just followed what the pros did at our user group. I did not realize, but that experience really made a difference since ours went off with out any major problems. Mark Feedman who runs a few (awesome) User Groups up in Stamford, CT was at our meeting and took great notes since he wants to do it at his groups. He came up with a valuable resource for User Groups (and Speakers) wanting to do this event. Read it here.
Friday, July 18, 2008
NYC .NET Developers Users Group->Special Meeting 7/31
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Special Meeting:
.NET Framework Team Presents VS'08/.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130081 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
***There is a limit of 100 attendees so register now!***
This is a special treat! The .NET Framework team, in town to brief the press on the impending release of SP1, will pay a visit to us and brief us as well.
Key topics to be presented include improvements for building Web 2.0 apps, specifically focusing on ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and additions to ASP.NET AJAX (which now provides support for managing browser history), and ADO.NET Data Services. Also discussed will be The Entity Framework/Entity Data Model and improvements to WPF.
Please note: this meeting will be held in the "Radio City" conference room and not our usual location of the Central Park multi-purpose room. Speaker:
Shanku Niyogi, Microsoft
Shanku Niyogi is Product Unit Manager for the .NET Framework at Microsoft. Shanku is a direct report of Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division. Date:
Thursday, July 31, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Monday, July 14, 2008
NYC .NET Developers Users Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, July 17, 2008
"Speaker Idol" Competition Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129952 to be admitted to the building
Five technical presentations, with a panel of judges including Mary Jo Foley
1. Zino Lee: Introduction to F#
We will see what F# is and what features/differences there are between F# and "imperative" languages like C#
2. James Curran: Castle Monorail
MonoRail is a MVC framework for Web Development inspired by ActionPack. It is part of the large Castle Project which includes the Windsor IoC container and the ActiveRecord data mapper.
3. John Carnevale: Upgrading Legacy Code
Learn how to read the code and determine a path of action to be taken with the code upgrade. See how to evaluate what could be upgraded, what to rewrite and when to start all over from scratch.
4. Bill Fugina: Arithmetic in Generic Classes
Bill will show some examples of the benefits of doing arithmetic in generic classes and some utility classes and interfaces that make it extremely easy to do so
5. Gerardo Arevalo: Casual and More Hard-Core WCF
In his demonstration, Gerard is going to quickly build a pair of WCF client applications to demonstrate the use of the MVP design pattern to guarantee a contract with the clients and facilitate unit testing Speaker:
Zino Lee has been working on wall street investment banks for the past 12 years, and doing .NET for 4 years. Currently the VP and manage a group that takes care of all GUI work for a trading desk. In graduate school at NYU James did some OCaml work when F# project started.
James M. Curran is a Senior Developer at BarnesAndNoble.com and as a hobby, the Owner/Operator of NJTheater.com which is being converted into a MonoRail based site (under-development version viewable at www.njtheater.org). Previously, he was a Microsoft MVP for VisualC++.
John Carnevale is working at Purvis systems stationed at the FDNY converting legacy code to .NET for the Starfire system.
Bill Fugina works as a software developer for Coleman Insights, a music industry market research company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He visits the office three or four days each month and otherwise telecommutes from his home office in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
Gerardo Arevalo is relatively new to the New York (Tri-State) area. He is from El Salvador, lived in North Florida, then packed up for the North East to be closer to the techno Date:
Thursday, July 17, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
NYC .NET Developers User Group Meeting this Thursday
Thursday, May 15, 2008
WPF Beyond the Basics: Playing Tricks with the Visual Tree Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=126267 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
The Visual tree is one of the core concepts of the WPF framework. All things visible in a WPF application are objects from the Visual tree. In this talk I'll give a quick overview of the Visual Tree and then get into interesting ways of manipulating it. We will also look into the styling and templating aspects of visuals. The ideas presented here should be immediately useful to custom-control developers and application developers in general. The session will be very hands-on with cool demos and live coding! The techniques discussed here were used in my blog posts on ElementFlow, GlassWindow, Drag 'n' Drop with attached properties, Genie Effect, etc. Speaker:
Pavan Podila
Pavan Podila has worked on a wide variety of UI technologies with current focus on WPF/Silverlight, Flash/Flex and DHTML. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science with specialization in Graphics and Image Processing. He has been working with .Net since 2004 and WPF since 2005. In the past he has worked with Java Swing, Eclipse plugins, AJAX UI frameworks and Trolltech Qt. His primary interests are in 2D/3D Graphics, Data Visualization, UI architecture and computational art. He blogs actively on http://blog.pixelingene.com. Date:
Thursday, May 15, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
This Thursday-> New York City .NET Developer User Group Launch Event
Thursday, April 17, 2008
2008 Community Launch: Show Me The Data Subject: You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=126827 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
With the release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 comes a dizzying array of facilities for storing, querying and presenting data. Between new features in ADO.NET’s core; LINQ; The Entity Framework; new ASP.NET Data source and data bound controls; and the new data binding models in WPF and Silverlight 2, there are now so many new data features, that it presents a bit of a crisis. How are you supposed to learn all of these new technologies, much less continue to use the older ones with mastery? The answer is to understand each of these data access and data binding technologies in the context of the others. Many common concepts exist between these models and many of them can be combined. If you learn the generalities, you'll be able to master the specifics that interest you.
With that in mind, this session will start with a quick look at ADO.NET, typed datasets, Windows Forms and ASP.NET (including ASP.NET AJAX) data binding, and the enhancements to them in Visual Studio 2008. We'll then look at LINQ to DataSets, LINQ To SQL, The Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities and see how to use them with the old binding models. We'll finish with a look at WPF, its rich data binding model and how well it translates to Silverlight 2.0. Speaker: Andrew J. Brust
Andrew J. Brust is Chief, New Technology at twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in New York City. Andrew is lead author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Microsoft Press), serves as Microsoft Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, is a Visual Basic MVP and a member of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Partner Advisory Council. Andrew is a Vice-Chairman of the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA), a member of INETA’s Speaker Bureau and is a highly rated speaker at conferences throughout the U.S. and internationally. Often quoted in the technology industry press, Andrew has 20 years' experience programming and consulting in the Financial, Public, Small Business and Not-For-Profit sectors. He can be reached at andrew.brust@26ny.com. Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 Time: Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:30 PM Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave. Swag List: - · 5 NFR Launch Kits, including:
- o NFR, legal copy of Windows Server Enterprise 2008 (64-bit and 32-bit)
- o NFR copy VS 2008 Standard Edition
- o SQL 2008 CTP (64-bit and 32-bit)
- o Voucher for eval-only SQL 2008 Standard, redeemable when SQL 2008 is Generally Available
- · 2 NFR copies Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 with Windows Live Services, including 90-day trial of Windows OneCare
- · 3 vouchers for a free 1 yr subscription to TechNet Plus Direct
- · 1 Windows Server 2008 Application Readiness Resource Kit
- · 1 SQL Server 2008 Technical Readiness Kit
- · 1 .NET Framework 3.5 Developer Resource Kit
- · 2 Copies, Virtualization For Dummies
- · MS learning Solutions 40% off Exam Vouchers
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
NYC .NET User Group Meeting Thursday
Thursday, March 20, 2008 WPF Meets the iPhone User Interface You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=126266 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear in recent memory, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. How can you deliver a similar experience with your .NET WPF applications? In this session you will see how to implement these features in.NET as you watch the iPhone interface recreated (and running on a Windows laptop) using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology with both Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft’s Expression Blend. You will also learn when it’s best to use VS 2008 or Expression Blend for different WPF tasks.
Speaker:
Kevin McNeish, President and Chief Software Architect, Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc
Kevin McNeish is a Microsoft .NET MVP, a well-know INETA speaker and trainer throughout North America and Europe including VSLive!, DevTeach, SDC Netherlands, and Advisor DevCon. He is co-author of the book "Professional UML with Visual Studio .NET", author of the book ".NET for Visual FoxPro Developers", authors articles for CoDe magazine and has been interviewed on the .NET Rocks! Internet Radio Show. He is the Chief Software Architect of the MM .NET Framework and spends about half his time on the road training and mentoring companies to build well-designed, high-performance .NET applications. Date:
Thursday, March 20, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Silverlight 1.0 Firestarter Coming to NYC January 26th
Microsoft will be hosting a Silverlight 1.0 Firestarter event in New York City this month on Saturday, January 26th! If you missed the Firestarter event Microsoft hosted in the Philly area last month, this is your chance to make up for it. This day long event is free to anyone who wants to learn about designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight 1.0.
![clip_image002[6]](http://smallandmighty.net/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/366ae01d4e54_10903/clip_image002%5B6%5D_thumb.gif) Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 is a cross platform browser plug-in that enables for easy development of media rich web sites. For more information, visit http://silverlight.net. Mark your calendars now for January 26th. Registration is now open! REGISTER HERE Here is the agenda: 8:30 am – 9:00 am - Breakfast 9:00 am - 10:45 am - Keynote 10:45 am – 11:45 am - Microsoft Expression Design Tools 11:45 am – 12:45 pm - XAML Essentials for Silverlight 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm - Lunch 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm - Developer Tools for Silverlight 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm - Media, Markers and More 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm - Break 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm - Silverlight and AJAX 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm - Giveaways
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, January 17, 2008
An introduction to Spring.NET Subject:
You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=122047 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
Spring.NET is an open source application framework that can help you more easily implement and design loosely coupled application architectures. Loosely coupled architectures bring to the table important advantages such as resiliency to changing requirements, ease in following agile practices such as test driven development, as well as lowering of maintenance costs. The central artifact in Spring.NET that delivers these benefits is the lightweight container – an object factory responsible for the creation, configuration, decoration and assembly of your application components. Building on this base, Spring.NET also provides solutions for other common infrastructure requirements to help increase productivity as well as promote loose coupling. These include support for Aspect Oriented Programming, ASP.NET development, ADO.NET data access, declarative transaction management, portable service abstractions, and integration testing.
The origins of Spring.NET come from the Java world where the Spring Framework has become the de facto standard for enterprise application development. The core concepts in the Spring Framework extend beyond the Java platform and are applicable to .NET. Inasmuch, Spring.NET combines the Spring Framework’s proven arc Speaker:
Mark Pollack, Interface21
Dr. Mark Pollack has worked extensively in the financial sector as an architect and developer on various front office trading systems that involved a mixture of Microsoft and Java technologies. Prior to joining Interface21, he was a founding partner at CodeStreet, LLC, an independent software vendor in the financial services industry. In 1991, Mark received a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Stony Brook University before continuing on to earn a Ph.D. in Experimental High-Energy Nuclear Physics from the same university in 1997. Date:
Thursday, January 17, 2008 Time:
Reception 6:15 PM , Program 6:30 PM Location:
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor Directions:
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Monday, December 17, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, December 20, 2007
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You must register at https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=122285 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
One of the most popular Agile project management and development methods, Scrum is starting to be adopted at major corporations and on very large projects. After an introduction to the basics of Scrum like: the Scrum Master, team, product owner, and burn down, and of course the daily Scrum, Stephen shows many real world applications of the methodology drawn from his own experience as a Scrum Master. Negotiating with the business, estimation, and team dynamics are all discussed as well as how to use Scrum in small organizations, large enterprise environments, and consulting environments. Stephen will also discuss using Scrum with virtual teams and even an offshoring environment. The session will finish with a large Q&A on best practices.
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Stephen Forte, Corzen, Inc.
Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Corzen was recently acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN). Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on database development including co-authoring Programming SQL Server 2005 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
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Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
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Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Silverlight 101: What, Where and How |
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You must register at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=120984 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
This session will include an overview of Silverlight – What is it? Where did it come from? and how do I develop for it. Topics will include the current state of Web Development (customer expectations, developer view, designer view), Coding with Silverlight (XAML, C#, JavaScript), Silverlight Development Tools (Expression Product Suites/Visual Studio) as well as some live demos/ and hands on coding. Both versions of Silverlight(1.0 & 1.1) will be covered.
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David Isbitski, Industry Platform Team, Microsoft
David is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft working on the Industry Platform Team covering both Financial Services and Health/Life Sciences Industries. He has over 12 years total IT experience and has been creating enterprise solutions with Microsoft Products since Visual Basic 5. He enjoys talking about technology and has taught full day courses on various Microsoft topics as well as being a presenter at numerous Microsoft Events including MSDN RoadShows, Code Camps and Remix.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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| Time: |
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave. |
Sunday, October 14, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Using Blend and Visual Studio 2005 to Build Distributed WPF Applications |
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This session will provide an overview of the .NET 3.0 framework with special focus paid to Windows Presentation Foundation. The demos will show the new IDE, user controls, and data binding with tiered architecture to demonstrate WPF as a rich user interface technology for developers using Visual Studio or Blend.
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Asli Bilgin, Microsoft Platform Strategy team
Asli Bilgin is an industry recognized speaker on the latest advancements with Microsoft technologies. She currently serves on Microsoft’s Platform Strategy team for Financial Services. In this role, she advises the leading banking and capital market companies on the best practices for technology strategies. Asli is a well-respected speaker at international technology conferences, and serves as a contributing editor to various technical publications. She recently worked with CNET to host the video series: “At The Whiteboard” – an overview into Microsoft’s latest developer tools including Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team System, and Internet Information Server 7.0. She’s also created and hosted DVD box sets for training series sets covering Visual Studio and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX with Total Training. Her book “Mastering Database Programming With Visual Basic.NET," (Sybex) has been translated into six languages and serves as the curriculum for college and post-graduate institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, and India.
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| Date: |
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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| Time: |
Reception 6:15 PM , Program 6:30 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group-> Next Meeting
Thursday, August 16, 2007
WPF - The Beauty of the Beast |
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You must register at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=120204 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the user interface subsystem of the .NET 3.0 Framework. Its architecture requires you to rethink how to design and develop in the presentation layer. In this presentation we will explore the exciting new UI framework, learn what capabilities it has, and examine some tools used in WPF development.
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Josh Smith, New York Times (TimesReader Team)
Josh Smith has been developing desktop applications in C# since the .NET Framework was first released. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP and CodeProject MVP titles in 2007 for his work in the WPF community. Josh has been a WPF fanatic since it was in pre-beta, and has helped share his enthusiasm for WPF with others via CodeProject articles and blog posts. He worked for a couple of years at Infragistics, as a developer in their Windows Forms Development Lab. During that time he became deeply interested in user interface technologies and design. After that he had a brief stint as a software consultant in the financial services industry, but found that it did not tickle his fancy. He did, however, have the rare opportunity to create a WPF application for the Elite Model Management agency, which was shown in a video at the Microsoft Windows Vista launch events. Josh is currently working for the New York Times on their fantastic Times Reader application, which uses WPF for the presentation layer. You can visit his WPF blog at http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com
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| Date: |
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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| Time: |
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group Meeting-> Thursday
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Distributed Caching: Essential Lessons |
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In this presentation, we will cover application development considerations for maximum scalable performance and reliability in clustered .NET environments. This presentation focuses on improving scalability and scalable performance of applications through the use of clustered caching and data grids to reliably share live data among clustered application nodes, providing transparent fail-over as a key element of uninterrupted operation and reduced load on the database tier as a key element of scalability. We will also discuss how you can simply improve performance and scalability of the existing ASP.NET applications by storing session state in a data grid.
The presentation will focus on:
Caching Topologies: the limitations, trade-offs and benefits
Cache aside, read/write through and write behind architectures, where and when to use
Use cases and a topology quiz
Scaling ASP.NET web applications
The 12 essential lessons
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Aleksandar Seovic, Managing Director, Solutions for Human Capital, Inc.
Aleksandar Seovic is a Managing Director at Solutions for Human Capital, Inc. – a software development company specializing in enterprise document and content management. He has lead development effort on a number of engagements for Fortune 500 corporations, mostly in pharmaceutical and financial services industries, and has worked in the architect role on both .NET and J2EE projects. Most recently, Aleks took part in the design and implementation of Oracle Coherence for .NET, a client library that allows applications written in any .NET language to access data and services provided by Oracle Coherence data grid. Aleks is also a co-lead for Spring.NET, an open source framework for enterprise application development, and a lead developer for Web, AOP and Services modules of the framework. Aleks can be reached at aleks@s4hc.com.
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| Date: |
Thursday, July 19, 2007
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| Time: |
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group Meeting-> Thursday
Office 2007 Open XML Format |
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You must register at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=118567 in order to be admitted to the building and attend.
Open XML is the default document format for the upcoming Office 2007 system. This presentation explores the motivation and design consideration of the new format. It also analyzes the architecture and the conceptual framework of Open XML. This new format opens doors to a huge number of opportunities for developers regardless the development tool or targeted platform. Package API from the new .NET Framework 3.0 is used as an example to demonstrate how to programmatically read/write Open XML documents without resorting to Microsoft Office COM API.
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Dr. Hai Ning, Senior Software Architect, Tallán Inc
Hai Ning has over 10 years of software development experience, with MCST(BizTalk & SQL2005), MCSD.NET, MCDBA and SCJP certifications. Dr. Ning graduated from MIT with a PhD in Information Technology. His blog can be found at http://www.hyperbina.com/blog. Hai's firm, Tallán (http://www.tallan.com), is a Hartford-based Microsoft Certified Gold Partner.
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| Date: |
Thursday, May 17, 2007
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| Time: |
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group Meeting-> Next Thursday
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Interfacing External Hardware Using Managed Code and Microsoft Robotics Studio |
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While developers write code to build software every day, not often are they exposed to code that drives and interfaces hardware. This session will attempt to bridge that gap and show how .NET can be used to effectively interface several hardware devices, including an RFID reader and tags, Phidget control boards with a variety of sensors, and a servo controller. Additionally, Microsoft Robotics Studio will be introduced along with a demonstration showing how one can control some of the hardware previously listed in an environment where concurrency and performance are key.
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Brian Peek , ASPSoft
Brian Peek is a recognized .NET expert with over 6 years experience developing .NET solutions, and over 9 years of professional experience architecting and developing solutions using Microsoft technologies and platforms. Along with .NET and its associated languages, Brian is particularly skilled in the languages of C, C++ and assembly language for a variety of CPUs. He is also an expert in a variety of technologies including web development (ASP.NET, ASP, Javascript, HTML, XML, etc.), document imaging, GIS, graphics, game development, and hardware interfacing. Brian has a strong background in developing applications for the health-care industry, as well as developing solutions for portable devices, such as tablet PCs and PDAs. Along with Jonathan Goodyear, he co-authored the book "Debugging ASP.NET" published by New Riders. He is also a member of MSDN's Coding4Fun writing team, contributing articles on a monthly basis.
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| Date: |
Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| Time: |
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM |
| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave. |
Thursday, February 22, 2007
SharePoint CodeCamp->This Saturday
Please join Robert Holmes and select other presenters at an all day event on Saturday, February 24th, from 8:30 to 6:00 PM presenting all aspects of the new SharePoint products, WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The main focus will be on the new aspects of the product line, however we will start with an introduction to Team Services (WSS), and work up from there, and our goal is for anyone present for the whole day will leave with the knowledge of what is possible with the product, and the ability to sit down and get started on a new implementation of a SharePoint solution, or extend an existing one. You can review the schedule to see what specific areas are of interest to you, or else spend the whole day and learn all there is to learn. You can find the code and slides here: http://www.sharepointguy.com/SharePointCodeCamp07/default.aspx. You can see the content only site, no registration, at: http://www.sharepointguy.com/SharePointCodeCamp07/default.aspx.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Register for NYC Code Camp 2007
CodeCamp is here!
Code Camps are "grass roots" mini application platform developer conferences, free of charge to attendees and open to presenters of all stripes and experience.
Get ready for another Code Camp NYC, to be held at Microsoft's offices in Midtown Manhattan (1290 Avenue of the Americas between 51st/52nd Streets) on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 from 9am - 6pm. This is an all-day event with refreshments served, including a developer's "power lunch" (pizza and soda).
This event is being supported by Microsoft but driven by the community: user group activists, developer "influentials", and enthusiastic volunteers.
Register today.
Monday, February 12, 2007
NYC .NET Developers User Group Meeting-> Thursday
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Amazon Web Services Presentation: Web-Scale Computing |
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What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation by Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, including a Web Service named Mechanical Turk that allows computers to make requests of people, an online storage service, and more. You’ll also see a C# coding demo that enables you to understand what’s involved when you want to consume one of these services. Amazon spent ten years and over $2 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers every day. Most people think “Amazon.com" when they hear the word; however developers are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon's retail business. AWS has now launched ten services with open APIs for developers to build applications, with the result that over 200,000 developers have registered on Amazon's developer site to create applications based on these services.
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Mike Culver, Amazon Web Services
Mike Culver joined Amazon Web Services after many years at Microsoft, where he managed a team of developer evangelists who helped launch the .NET Framework. At Amazon, Mike is focused on developer-to-developer engagements and how Web services can be used in new and innovative ways. When not up to his eyeballs in code and technology, Mike can be found at the airport flying his 1947 Luscombe taildragger. In fact, he runs a flying website about General Aviation (www.PopularAviation.com).
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
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| Time: |
Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave. |
Monday, January 29, 2007
Code Camp! Code Camp!
The Call for Speakers for NYC Code Camp II (March 3rd) is here.
No registration up for about 2 more weeks. Stay tuned.
Monday, November 13, 2006
NJ Code Camp III Registration Now Open!
Registration for the upcoming NJ Code Camp III is now open! NJ Code Camp III is just about a week away on Saturday November 18, 2006. Scott Watermasyk has been compiling a great list of speakers and sessions via his blog. Scott should be posting the session topics early next week. We have a great line up featuring a track on Share Point 2007, open-source tools on .NET, and coverage of the just released .NET 3.0 framework!
NJCodeCamp.org is the official site for the code camp.
Looking forward to seeing many of you at NJ Code Camp III. Besides the great line-up of sessions, there will also be pizza at lunch, and we'll find some cool swag to give away too. Remember... code camps are always FREE! So you'll get to learn some cool new stuff without parting with your hard earned $$!
I know that we're a little late in getting the registation opened up. So, please help us spread the word and blog about NJ Code Camp III and let your friends and colleagues know that the registration is now open!
NJ Code Camp III will be held in the Microsoft Iselin, NJ office on 194 Wood Ave South. The office is on the 6th floor of the Prudential building. There should be plenty of parking out front.
Next NYC .NET User Group Meeting
Thursday, November 16, 2006
SQL Server Express for the .NET Developer
Subject: This presentation, recently presented at VSLive, will get you up and running with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, the latest free version of SQL Server available to use and redistribute with your database applications. Learn how you can leverage features available specifically in the Express edition. We’ll compare Express with the other SQL Server 2005 editions, and describe scenarios that Express is particularly well-suited for. Find out how to handle the configuration of new SQL Server 2005 features, such as CLR integration, in the context of new features available only in Express, such as user instances. Explore features such as dynamic database attachment, security, advanced services and more.
Speaker: Leonard Lobel, twentysix New York
Leonard Lobel is a Senior Consultant with twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in New York City. Programming since 1979, his experience spans a variety of business domains, including publishing and retail store management. Lenni has served as chief architect and senior developer for various organizations, ranging from small shops to high-profile clients. He is also a consultant and trainer, and has been a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine. Lenni is also the lead developer of six of Microsft's Starter Kits and Sample Applications for SQL Server Express Edition.
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
Time: Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor
Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
SQL Server 2005 XQuery-User Group Talk on Thursday
I will be speaking at the NY Metro SQL Server Users Group on Thursday at 6pm on XQuery in SQL Server. Hope to see you all there.
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Using XQuery to Retrieve and Manipulate XML Data with SQL Server 2005 |
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Stephen Forte, Microsoft Regional Director |
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6:00 PM on October 26, 2006 |
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Microsoft Office in Manhattan |
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The Axa Financial Building |
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1290 6th Avenue, NY, NY |
Due to new security guidelines at the building, you will have an easier time getting in if you confirm your attendance via email to joelax@dbdirections.com. Otherwise you'll have to wait till someone comes downstairs to sign you in. Also remember to have a photo id with you.
Blogs, Web Services and general interoperability have proliferated the use of XML in recent years. With all of that XML out there, there needs to be an easy way to incorporate XML data with SQL Server relational data.
This session will look at how to use XQuery to retrieve and manipulate XML data inside the database. We'll start with a look at the new XML datatype in SQL Server 2005, then the ability to validate with XML Schema (XSD) and then creating XML indexes for use with XQuery statements. After a brief look at the W3C XQuery specification we quickly move to SQL Server’s implementation of XQuery 1.0. We'll incorporate XQuery in SELECT and WHERE clauses to retrieve information as well as see how to manipulate XML data with XQuery DML.
Pizza and refreshment will be served at the meeting, and there will be a drawing for several giveaways.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Next NYC .NET User Group Meeting
Our next meeting is Thursday. Because of security you now have to register for this free event! Register here.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
CAB and the Smart Client Software Factory |
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Microsoft Pattern & Practices Team’s Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF) ease the development of modular, extensible, and maintainable smart clients.
Starting with a general, theoretical overview of smart clients, we’ll quickly move into a deep examination of CAB centered on working code. We’ll dig into the anatomy of CAB/SCSF, uncovering some key design patterns used in the toolset: Model-View-Presenter, Publish-Subscribe, and Dependency Injection. Throughout the talk we’ll share best practices and consider design decisions for achieving modularity and extensibility in your own smart clients with the CAB/SCSF tools and guidance.
By the end of the tour, those new to CAB should find their learning curves greatly reduced. Intermediate-to-advanced CAB hackers will take away some hard fought tips-toward and tricks-to taking their composite smart clients and plug-in architectures to the next level.
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David Laribee, President, Xclaim Software
David Laribee is President of Xclaim Software, an ISV offering document, claim, and policy management software for the commercial property and casualty insurance industry. He has 10+ years experience designing, developing, and architecting enterprise applications with Microsoft technologies. David has worked with the .NET Framework since the zero-day in internal IT, product development, and rapid prototyping contexts across a wide variety of industries. He writes about agile practices, software architecture, and the business of software on his blog at http://laribee.com/.
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Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:30 PM
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| Location: |
Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor |
| Directions: |
B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Next NYC .NET User Group Meeting-Special VSLive Meeting
Client/Server, N-Tier and SOA: Today and Tomorrow
Join Rocky and Steve in a discussion about the present and future of Microsoft's client/server communication technologies, including Remoting and WCF. Learn whether client/server and n-tier will be replaced by SOA, or whether these architectures can co-exist. Find out how these technologies and concepts apply to you as you build web, Windows client/server and occasionally connected Windows smart client applications. You'll learn about today's options, tomorrow's options and how you can help position yourself to move forward over time.
Speaker: Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies & Steve Lasker, Microsoft Corporation
Rockford Lhotka is the author of the Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and Expert C# 2005 Business Objects books from Apress. He is a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and he speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.
Steve Lasker is a Program Manager for Visual Studio at Microsoft. He is responsible for many of the data design time features in Visual Studio. Steve’s team owns the Typed DataSet designer, Data Wizards and the new Data Sources window. His background in broadcast engineering, e-commerce startups, and consulting has taken him through the cycles of client, browser, CE; and with .NET, returned to client-based apps that leverage the Internet as the transport.
Date: Monday, September 11, 2006
Time: Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
Location: Brooklyn Marriott , 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn , Room/Floor TBD Directions: A/C/F to Jay Street/Borough Hall R to Lawrence Street/MetroTech 2/3/4/5 to Borough Hall
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