Heroes Happen Here - Part 2

Powershell - From Windows Server 2008

If you have used Windows' command line even once, you have probably torn out most of your hair in frustration (just look at Steve Ballmer!) Windows PowerShell finally introduces simple yet powerful windows CLI and scripting language, where "for" is not a curse word, parsing text output is a thing of the past, and DOS and unix commands coexist in blissful harmony. You'll love it so much, you'll tear out the rest of your hair (just look at Steve Ballmer)! 

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Heroes Happen Here
Part 1 - Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event

LINQ-to-SQL
WPF Styling and more
New ASP.Net development features
New features of Visual Studio 2008
Office Development

Mike Hennessy's WPF Presentation

Andy Novick's LINQ-To-SQL is in the VB Language presentation.

Visual Basic 2008 - New Language Features

This presentation will take a look at new features in Visual Basic.Net version 9 / Visual Studio 2008

 - Extenstion Methods
 - Nullable types
 - IF operator
 - Anonymous Types (Var)
 - Implicit Typing
 - Object and Array Initializors
 - XML support
 - LINQ

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Understanding Software + Services

The move to service-orientation is well underway, both inside enterprises and on the Internet. What role does traditional software play in a world of on-line services? In particular, how is Microsoft approaching the combination of software plus services? This presentation provides an overview of this area, giving an introduction to and a perspective on this emerging combination.

Enterprise Software

Andy Piper is the author of Enterprise Readiness 101 and founder of Enterprise Readiness Inc.  He will be introducing you to enterprise readiness and how is applies to your everyday job and how it is a tool that can build your career regardless of the technologies you use.  The second half of the presentation specifically discusses scalability.  This course seminar will change how you interpret requirements and enable you to present your functionality in ways that make it more appealing to IT departments and customers

Enterprise-Readinness.com is picking up the tab for pizza!

How do you do this in Flash?

WPF Means Business (Round 2)

WPF brings advances to the User Interface on an order similar to the CUI to GUI transition over a decade ago.  WPF applications draw the UI quickly by utilizing an inexpensive graphics card – nearly CUI performance with GUI capability.  Improvements in data binding and other areas reduce code.  In many ways, WPF is more for less. 

Networkers, Inc.

WPF Means Business

WPF brings advances to the User Interface on an order similar to the CUI to GUI transition over a decade ago.  WPF applications draw the UI quickly by utilizing an inexpensive graphics card – nearly CUI performance with GUI capability.  Improvements in data binding and other areas reduce code.  In many ways, WPF is more for less. 

Being able to do intelligent search of object in .NET has been a laudable goal for many projects. Microsoft’s new LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) allows you to do just that. In this session, Shawn Wildermuth will give you an overview of LINQ (not just LINQ for SQL).

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET, MCT and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering architecture, mentoring and software solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area.  He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and has appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. 

Shawn is also the author of several books including the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, and is also the co-author of four Microsoft Certification Training Kits for MS Press, as well as the upcoming book, “Prescriptive Data Architectures”. 

 He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel’s Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years. He can be reached at his website at  http://www.wildermuthconsulting.com

Come see the latest in Microsoft's Collaboration Vision and learn how developers can benefit from this technology.  Grove is the latest collaboration solution to join the Microsoft Office System.  Similar to Windows SharePoint Services, Grove allows virtual information worker teams....

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Workflow Foundation (WF), a component of .NET Framework 3.0, enables you to quickly and reliably implement workflows and business rules in your applications. WF provides a framework for constructing sequential and state-machine based workflows for any .NET application or service and includes tools to effectively manage and modify those workflows. In this session, we'll introduce the major concepts and purpose of WF, demonstrate the creation and maintenance of workflows with Visual Studio 2005, and show the potential uses of workflows within your applications.

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Many programmers use ADO.Net 2.0 to write the SQL for their database operations. This presentation shows how to understand the SQL that get's written and optimize the SQL for performance.

One of the extreme optimizations that can be used for insert and update operations is a switch to SQL BulkCopy operations from standard INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. The difference in improvement in performance can be dramatic.

Meeting Sponsored by JetBrains Maker of Resharper: With VB.Net support

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Steve Coombes
on
HTA Applications

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What's possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in (imagine computers programmatically calling people to perform tasks), as well as introduce a concept known as "Web Scale Computing". The presentation will also provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, and feature a code demonstration showing how .NET developers are able to easily build managed clients for these services

More importantly, it's an opportunity for an interactive discussion about what the future, shaped by Web services and Web Scale Computing, looks like.

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. 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 eleven services with open API's 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 joined Amazon Web Services after almost eight years in evangelism at Microsoft, where he saw .NET move from a provocative idea to the preeminent development platform for serious development. During that time, Mike managed a team of evangelists in Microsoft's Developer Division (and later in Developer and Platform Evangelism) that were responsible for a number of high-profile implementations of .NET, ranging from innovative Compact Framework applications for devices to complex mission-critical applications such as the City of London's Traffic Congestion Project.

As an Amazon Evangelist, Mike works in the Developer Relations Group of Amazon Web Services. In that capacity he once again helps developers take advantage of cutting-edge technologies that are going to change the way we think about computer applications.

Rick: Windows Workflow
Phil: The Class Designer
Andy: An Outlook 2007 Add-in

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Joe Stagner
Microsoft

Join us as we develop the site for the NEVB Group Live.  We'll delve into the ASP.Net 2.0 Membership controls, a membership database, Master Pages, and as many other features as we have time for.

Julia Lerman

Note this meeting is on a special night. Wednesday instead of our usual Thursday.
                      
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie's blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.

Meeting Sponsored by DotNet Jobs

2006

ADO.NET Enhancements for SQL Server 2005
The new versions of ADO.NET and SQL Server can more seamlessly interact than any previous combination of DBMS and data access framework. The combination of the two allows for much easier development of a wide variety of database-centric applications. In this session you'll learn to use such features as Query Notifications, MARS, asynchronous commands, and bulk copy. These features provide a powerful new foundation for creating heavily data-driven applications.

Slides and Demo Code:
http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/amachanic/archive/2006/03/02/18382.aspx

Pat Tormey

Dot Net Nuke

AJAX - What is it?  Why would you use it?

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Pat Tormey

Cool, New, Fun Features in the Framework 2.0 Base Class Libraries

With the release of the .NET Framework 2.0 in November, a wealth of new features will be available to VB.NET, C# and other Managed Code developers. In the form of nearly 80% more public classes, and over twice as many public methods, nearly every sub-framework (Windows Forms, ASP.NET and ADO.NET) has been extended and enhanced, not to mention Generics or new features found in the VS2005 IDE. In this talk, we'll examine new features that have been added to the Base Class Libraries, uncovering capabilities that have been largely overlooked elsewhere.
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Cryptography in VB.Net    Download here

Ciphers have been used since before the dawn of computers to keep messages secret.  In this age of information where secrets are constantly zipping along the Internet Information Super Highway cryptography plays a key role in keeping those secrets safe.  In this talk you will see how easy it is to work with all of the latest algorithms in VB.Net.  We will also focus on the strengths and weaknesses of each to give you a good understanding of how they can help you keep sensitive information safe from prying eyes

Link to the sample code:
http://www.bostonpocketpc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=44

Aug  5
2004

July 1
2004

The Knowledge Base Alert site mentioned at the meeting.