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Group meets monthly on the first Thursday of the month to discuss Visual Basic.Net and related technologies
such as SQL Server, Access, Mobile Development, Object Oriented
programming, Web Services, and XML. A little classic VB comes up
every once in a while.
Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month from 6:15 to 8:30
at Microsoft's Waltham office at 201 Jones Rd (directions).
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August 2010 |
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Oct 7th 2010 |
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Meeting include raffle prizes from Microsoft, free magazines, and great stuff from these organizations:
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Telerik is a leading
vendor of User Interface components for ASP.NET and Windows
Forms. Building on our expertise in interface development
and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build
applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and
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Recent Meetings:
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July 1 2010 |
Ben Day Plus Visual Studio 2010 Launch
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What's New in Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) In the Microsoft world, there are small releases and big releases. When TFS first came out in 2005, it was a big release. TFS2008 a small release that gave you some new automated build functionality but mostly just smoothed over some rough edges. Team Foundation Server 2010 is another big release -- a huge release, actually. There are major improvements made in Source Control, Work Item management, and Build systems and, on top of that, there's a whole new product for software testing and virtual machine lab management. In this session, Ben's going to try to cover 10 days worth of content in 2 hours. Think he can do it? Come find out and come see what's new in TFS2010. Bio: Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft's development tools, Team Foundation Server, and Scrum. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Team System and a member of the Visual Studio Team System Customer Advisory Council at Microsoft. Recently, Ben became one of the first certified trainers for the new Professional Scrum Developer course from Scrum.org. When not developing software, Ben likes to hang out with his wife and cats, play jazz piano, and geek out on all things food. He can be contacted via http://www.benday.com and http://blog.benday.com. |
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May 6 2010 |
Ross Wozniak
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Building a real-world application in Silverlight 4
We’ll take a look at the latest developments in today’s hottest web application technology, Microsoft’s Silverlight. Ross will demonstrate how he utilized this technology in the development of a web-based task management application called Task-It. Ross blogs at http://blogs.telerik.com/rosswozniak/posts.aspx |
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April 1 2010 |
Get Started with the Windows Azure SDK In this session, we will cover what a .Net developer needs to know to get started with the Windows Azure SDK. We will spend some time digging into the samples provided by Microsoft and discuss some ways to help you “get up to speed” with Azure quickly. Speaker: Jason Haley Jason is a local Independent consultant who specializes in Microsoft technologies and lately has been spending a lot of time getting to know Windows Azure |
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March 4 2010 |
Andy Novick
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Introduction to SQL Server Integration Service If you work with data you really ought to get to know SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) the successor to SQL Server's DTS tool for importing and exporting data. It's not just a reworking of the old DTS, instead it's a complete high performance ETL tool that competes with the best of breed ETL products but comes packaged with the SQL Server and embedded in Visual Studio. While it can be intimidating at first, once you get to know your way around it's not so difficult.
Andrew Novick is a SQL Server MVP and Consultant who builds business applications with the Microsoft Tools. He is author of Transact-SQL User Defined Functions and SQL Server 2000: XML Distilled and a frequent speaker on SQL Server topics. Read more at his web site: http://www.NovickSoftware.com Example file, slides, and sample code for Intro to SSIS are here |
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Feb 4th 2010 |
Jim Wooley
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Building dynamic data driven applications with the Entity Framework A number of technologies have been released in recent years which make building data driven applications easier. Starting with the declarative data models in LINQ and the Entity Framework, we are now able to build more dynamic applications quicker and easier than ever before. Building on top of LINQ, we now have the ability to present data dynamically through services (using ADO.Net Data Services) and web applications (using ASP.Net Dynamic Data). In both of these, we can consume our data models the way we need to rather than by needing constantly modify our external contracts (in terms of Stored Procedures or service contracts). The capabilities we have available to us are not limited to the base scaffolding, but allows for significant customization as necessary for our particular business needs. In addition, we can reuse our underlying models to enforce business requirements while retaining these dynamic capabilities.
Jim Wooley is a frequent speaker, member of the INETA Speaker Bureau, MVP, and author of "LINQ in Action". He is always striving to stay at the forefront of technology and enjoys the thrill of a new challenge. He has been active evangelizing LINQ since it's announcement in 2005. In addition, he attempts to pass on the insights he has gained by being active in the community, including organizing the Atlanta Code Camp, leading the Microsoft MS Pros and Atlanta VB Study Group and serving as INETA Membership Manager for the Georgia region. Jim has actively helped to guide Microsoft through Software Design Reviews with product teams and is an active Microsoft Data Programmer Insider and Visual Basic Insider. In addition to speaking at numerous user groups and code camps in 7 states, Jim has presented at product launch events, MSDN conferences, and TechEd. |
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Jan 7 2010 |
Gary Chin |
Silverlight 3 - SketchFlow
SketchFlow is a dynamic prototyping feature found in Expression Studio 3 and it revolutionizes the speed and efficiency of prototyping the vision for an application. Rapidly demonstrate and iterate on ideas, application flows, screen layouts, and the functionality of an application. |
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Dec 3rd 2009 |
James Pansarasa GMO |
Parallel Programming PLINQ and other .Net Technologies Sponsored by GMO |
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Nov 5th 2009 |
Talbott Crowell |
Introducing F# I've asked him for a talk about what F# is and why we might use it. You can get a preview on his blog: http://talbottc.spaces.live.com/ Bio:Talbott is a Solution Architect at ThirdM who designs and builds enterprise applications with a focus on Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and the .NET framework, Talbott and his company deliver solutions and services to large and small companies including Fortune 500. Talbott also assists companies with the development process by using a blend of Agile and traditional methodologies, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System, Scrum, Test Driven Development, performance testing, and other proven tools and practices. |
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Oct 1st 2009 |
Bob Familiar Microsoft |
Windows 7 - Sexy, Sensitive and Heading Your Way
This session will dive into the Windows 7 Sensor and Location API
demonstrating how you can leverage this new OS feature to add real
world interactivity to your application using the .NET Framework.
Learn how your application can react to ambient light,
accelerometers, touch pads and GPS Locators and how these features
can be used to enhance the end user experience.
Bob Familiar is an Architect Evangelist and has been
with Microsoft for 14 years and working in the Software Industry for
25. Bob specializes in service oriented solutions, user experience
and application architecture patterns. Bob holds a Masters in
Computer Science from Northeastern University and a patent in Object
Relational Mapping.
blogs.msdn.com/bobfamiliar
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Sept 3rd 2009 |
Patrick Hynds Critical Sites |
Passwords and Password Security Everything you want to know
about passwords.
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August 6 2009 |
John Garland Burntsand |
Silverlight Application Development
Although much attention has been given to Silverlight's rich presentation and multimedia capabilities, one of the factors that sets it aside form other RIA technologies is how well it fits in as a tool for designing real business applications. This talk skips the more traditional Silverlight coverage and instead focuses primarily on using both Silverlight 2 and the soon-to-be-released Silverlight 3 to obtain, present, and control access to distributed business data, as well as to interact with other existing HTML LOB assets. Bio: John is a Senior Consultant with Burntsand. He has spent much of his career working on Microsoft solutions, including high-performance video and statistical analysis tools for premier sports teams, with an emphasis on the NFL, the NBA, and Division 1 NCAA Football and Basketball. You can find his Blog at http://blog.dotnetgator.com |
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June 4 2009 |
Walt Crosby Abe Rosner Rosner Technologies |
Visual Studio Report Control An introduction to Test Driven Development Abe Rosner is an active member of the Boston .Net user community, leader of the Boston .NET Certification User Group, and Principal of Rosner Technologies for over 15 years. |
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May 7 2009 |
Claudio Lassala
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Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP You've been learning about the core concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) for quite some time now: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. When you thought you knew it all, all of a sudden the cool kids are talking about all these principles such as "Single Responsibility Principle", "Open/Closed Principle", "Dependency Inversion Principle", as well as Inversion of Control containers, etc. This session presents those concepts so the attendees can understand what they are and start using right away. Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC Brazil and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award since 2001 (for Visual FoxPro in 2001-2002, and for C# every since), an INETA speaker, and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor.
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April 2 2009 |
Sam Berg Jim Mcabee ESRI
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Geographic Information Systems in .Net This session will give an introduction to GIS (geographic information systems), the problems they can solve, and how you can implement them in your own projects. We’ll get into the concepts of GIS, how spatial data can be stored, how you might leverage spatially aware RDBMS, and get into some coding to solve some spatial problems using ESRI’s GIS tools. |
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March 5 2009 |
Igor Moochnick
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ASP.Net Data Services (Astoria) ADO.Net Data Services (formerly known as project Astoria) helps you web-enable your data and to create a flexible data services that are organically integrated with the web, using URIs as identifiers of pieces of data and simple, well-known formats to expose that data, such as JSON and plain XML. It becomes very important nowadays to learn how to make your application an ADO.Net Data Services client because it instantly makes your application capable of consuming Microsoft cloud data services (Windows Azure tables, SQL Data Services, etc.) and working offline (via Microsoft Sync Framework) with virtually no code change. We'll discuss all the mentioned above technologies as well as the core principals of ADO.Net Data Services and see how this technology organically finds it ways into all the major products. During the talk we'll create a real Data Service and will see how the modern ORMs (such as Entity Framework) help you to augment and shape the exposed data.
A specialist in cloud computing technologies like Amazon AWS and Azure, he is passionate about helping development teams improve development processes and produce better quality software. He speaks at community events, Code Camps, conferences and user groups. |
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Feb 5th 2009 |
Joe Hill Novell
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Cross Platform Development with Mono,
VB.Net, Moonlight, Boo... Mono is an open-source, cross-platform implementation of the .NET framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure. With Mono, users can run applications written and compiled in Visual Studio.NET on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Most recently, the Mono project has found additional notoriety for Moonlight, it's open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux. This session will provide an introduction to cross-platform development and deployment with Mono, and then will take a tour through some of the unique aspects of Mono's language support, including open source Visual Basic and C# implementations, as well as support for less mainstream languages, including Boo, IronPython, F#, and more. Joseph Hill has been an active participant in the Mono community since 2003, and has also been an active contributor to several open source ASP.NET applications. As a professional developer, he has done significant work in design and implementation of .NET applications for a number of customers including Fortune 50 companies in areas such as messaging solutions, SCM, and others. In January 2008, Joseph joined Novell to serve as the Product Manager for Mono. |
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Dec 4 2008 |
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SQL Server Energy Event What's New in SQL Server 2008
Reporting Services 2008: Authoring compelling reports - Sunil
In this session we will focus on how to author reports using the
Report Designer of Reporting Services 2008.We will create compelling
reports using authoring features such as multiple display and
parameter options, interactivity, rich text formatting, and a broad
variety of charting capabilities. We will look at how to use various
data regions to display data: List, Table, Matrix, Chart and (new to
SQL 2008) Tablix.
The sample files are here: http://www.infotrove.com/events.html |
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Nov 6th 2008 |
Joe Stagner Microsoft
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Stupid Hacker Tricks - and How to
Defend Against Them Good guys don't think like bad guys - come "Hack Think" with Joe as he examines how the bad guys do what they do and what we can do about it. Joe Stagner joined Microsoft in 2001 as a Technical Evangelist and is now a Program Manager in the Developer Tools & Platform Group at Microsoft Corporation. His development experiences have afforded him the opportunity to create commercial software applications across a wide diversity of technical platforms from Mainframes, through UNIX and Linux, to Microsoft Technologies on the Intel and Mobile computing platforms. In recent years, Joe has been focused on Highly-Performant, Geoscalable web application architectures, multi-platform interoperability, developer security, and open source interoperability. You can read Joe’s blog and contact him at http://www.misfitgeek.com/ |
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Oct 2 2008 |
Kathleen Dollard
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Literals in Visual Basic 9.0 – XML and Text Processing Visual Basic 9.0 offers revolutionary new features in working with XML and doing text processing. The XML features take separate approaches to querying and outputting XML. XML queries provide Intellisense based on the schema, shortcuts, and XML rules for handling missing values. Dozens of lines of protective code can be safely reduced to one with this technique. XML literals allow you to create output with syntax that looks like XML, while providing a robust system for embedding values and performing logical operations such as looping. This technique can easily be extended to non-XML text processing, allowing a nearly complete replacement for XSLT. In addition to escaping XSLT’s arcane syntax and rules, VB literal text processing provides the full power of the .NET framework and allows you to build any appropriate supporting OOP based structure – pushing VB literals far ahead of XSLT in power, flexibility and maintainability. Come to this talk even if you’re a C# coder because you’ll learn enough to decide whether your project will benefit by crossing over to VB in separate assemblies when you’re working with XML or text processing. Kathleen Dollard is a consultant, author, trainer, and speaker. She’s been a Microsoft MVP for over ten years and has spoken about .NET in 28 states and 5 countries. She’s written dozens of articles including the “Ask Kathleen” column in Visual Studio Magazine. She also wrote “Code Generation in Microsoft .NET” (Apress). Her passion is helping programmers be smarter in how they develop by learning to better use .NET languages, libraries and platforms. She works with WPF, WF, as well as core technologies including System.AddIn. She’s currently creating template infrastructure for code generation using VB XML literals. After working on the problem of capturing business intent in metadata and test definitions for years, she’s working with industry improvements in these areas. She’s also working on full life cycle improvements, such as unit testing, better debugging and static analysis (FxCop). When not working, she enjoys woodworking, snowshoeing, and kayaking depending on the outdoor temperature. |
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Sept 25 2008 |
Chris Hammond Engage Software
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Come Build the NEVB Site with DotNetNuke Chris Hammond is the Product Manager for Internet Solutions and Training Lead with Engage Software (www.engagesoftware.com) in St. Louis, Missouri. Having worked with DotNetNuke (DNN) since its inception and having been a DNN Core Team member for the past four years, Chris has solidified his role within the DNN community as an leading expert and evangelist on the platform, presenting at conferences and user groups across the United States over the past five years. He also travels frequently to provide onsite DNN training throughout the world. You can read more about Chris on his personal blog at www.chrishammond.com.
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Sept 4 2008 |
Jim O'Neil Microsoft |
ASP.Net Dynamic Data ASP.NET Dynamic Data is one of the exciting new features of the upcoming .NET 3.5 SP 1 release. ASP.NET Dynamic Data provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a functional and customizable data-driven application based on a LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data model. Full CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations are supported, and the resulting site includes automatic filtering by foreign keys (converted to user-friendly names) and Boolean fields. Smart validation – based on database schema constraints such as nullability and data type - is automatically available and there are numerous extensibility points to provide additional business logic validation on the model itself. Out-of-the-box Dynamic Data supports ASP.NET Web Forms and is Ajax enabled, and many third party vendors including Telerik and Infragistics are working on Dynamic Data-aware versions of their custom controls. |
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June 5 2008 |
Pat Tormey Phil Denoncourt |
DataCubes
Pat Tormey will present DataCubes the easy way.. What are they? What can they do? And How do I deploy them. We'll walk the data into a cube, then into Excel as a pivot table, then into SharePoint to securely deploy it. Landmines will be pointed out along the way and you'll learn to toss around new buzzwords...like Star and SnowFlake. Prepare to be amazed! Overview of the AJAX control toolkit: No AJAX Experience Required! AJAX is a way to make websites more interactive and responsive. It's powerful and easy to use. The AJAX control toolkit is a set of controls that use AJAX and wrap common UI scenarios. Cascading dropdowns, Auto completing textboxes, in-page popups, hovering menus and dynamically populated textboxes are some of the controls we'll go over.
Phil Denoncourt is a .NET consultant, who over the past 6 years has
developed a wide range of .NET applications and has over 20 years
experience writing software. He is the leader of the New England C#
User Group and has acquired the MCPD, MCTS, MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE, MCAD,
MCSA and MCP+SB certifications. When not coding, or spending time
with his wife and 5 children, Phil is an avid fan of the Boston Red
Sox and New England Patriots.
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May 1 2008 |
Yev Bronshteyn
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 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)! Download the slides here |
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Michael Hennessy Phil Czapla Andrew Novick
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Heroes Happen Here Mike Hennessy's WPF Presentation Andy Novick's LINQ-To-SQL is in the VB Language presentation. |
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March 6 2008 |
Andrew Novick Novick Software |
Visual Basic 2008 - New Language FeaturesThis presentation will take a look at new features in Visual Basic.Net version 9 / Visual Studio 2008 - Extenstion Methods |
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Jan 31 2008 |
David Chappell
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Understanding Software + ServicesThe 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. |
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Jan 3rd 2008 |
Andy Piper Enterprise-Readiness.com
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Enterprise SoftwareAndy 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! |
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Dec. 6th 2007 |
David Maibor Michael Hennessy Networkers, Inc. |
How do you do this in Flash?A look at two web sites developed with Flash 8 Professional, One for a professional artist, the other for a professional photographer. We'll look briefly at how the Flash 8 IDE enables designers/programmers to quickly create the Rich-Internet-Application (RIA) experience.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. This presentation follows-up on last month and will take a practical walk around building a WPF business application using Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and Visual Basic 2008. |
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Nov 1st 2007 |
Michael Hennessy |
WPF Means BusinessWPF 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. This presentation will take a practical walk around building a WPF business application using Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and Visual Basic 2008. Download the Slides |
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Shawn Wildermuth
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LINQ 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 |
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Sept 6th 2007 |
William Aboujaoude Microsoft |
Office Groove 2007 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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August 2 2007 |
Chris Bowen Microsoft |
Windows Workflow (WF),
The 10,000 ft. View
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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July 5 2007 |
Andrew Novick Novick Software
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Understanding and Optimizing ADO.Net 2.0's SQL Get the Sample Download (Updated 7/6/07) 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.
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June 7 2007 |
Bob Familiar Microsoft
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Windows CardSpace
You'll find the content at: Windows CardSpace enables users to provide their digital identities in a familiar, secure and easy way. In the physical world we use business cards, credit cards and membership cards. Online with CardSpace we use a variety of virtual cards to identify ourselves, each retrieving data from an identity provider. Don't struggle with usernames and passwords, just choose an information card! This session will delve into the architecture and implementation of CardSpaces. Sponsored by
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April 5 2007 |
Mike Culver Amazon Also... Steve Coombes |
Using the Amazon Web Services API
download
PPTs and 2 ZIPs:
ImageGalleryVB.zip and
ImageGalleryVBS3.zip 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. |
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Mar 1 2007 |
Andy Novick Rick Spiewak Phil Czapla |
This will be our INETA .Net 3.0 Launch Event. Rick: Windows
Workflow Download Phil C's
PPTs |
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Feb 1 2007 |
Jim Rand |
Think Outside Of The Box For DataAdapters / DataSets
You've
seen them - the Visual Studio designers for crafting typed
datasets. They're glitzy and appear simple to use. But, are you
really happy with them. Or, do they get in the way?
Picture
a database table: CustomerID (int autoincrement), Company, Address,
..., TS (timestamp).
Does
the VS designer create the SQL statements the way you want them?
Does it understand casting timestamps as int? Can you have complex
joins in the SELECT statement without blowing up the UPDATE, INSERT
and DELETE statements?
Here's
an alternative that literally reduces days of work to minutes!
Jim Rand is an independent software developer providing clients with innovative solutions to real business problems. Starting in the industry in 1982, he has worked with DBase, FoxPro, Progress, Access, Visual Basic, Java, .NET, C#, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase.
For fun, he enjoys family, sailboat racing, skiing and learning how
to play the piano.
Jim can be reached at:
jimrand@ix.netcom.com or 207 883-9016
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Jan 4 2007 |
David Stampfli Microsoft |
Windows Communication Foundation The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly known as "Indigo," is Microsoft's unified framework for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable and transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. WCF combines and extends the capabilities of existing distributed systems technologies, including Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, .NET Remoting, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience spanning distance, topologies, hosting models, protocols, and security models. This presentation will provide an overview of WCF and demonstrate how WCF will radically simplify the development of distributed applications." David Stampfli has worked in the software field for over ten years working on a variety of applications in many different industries. He is currently a Principal Consultant working as an Architect in Microsoft's Department of Defense Industry Unit. Prior to that, he worked at the Microsoft Technology Center in Waltham, MA since he joined Microsoft in January of 2001. Mr. Stampfli works with some of Microsoft's largest customers to help design and architect enterprise solutions. His principal areas of focus are portals and integration. Mr. Stampfli has worked in the software field for over ten years working on a variety of applications in many different industries. Mr. Stampfli has also worked as a resident inspector for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission stationed at the Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York. Prior to the NRC, Mr. Stampfli served six years in the United States Navy as a submarine officer where he received his engineering and warfare qualifications. Mr. Stampfli graduated from Harvard University in 1985. He is married with two children lives in Mansfield, Massachusetts. |
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Dec. 7 2006
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Jim Miller Microsoft (Redmond) And Joe Stagner
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Microsoft .NET: What is
It and What’s Next
Joe
joined Microsoft in 2001 as a Technical Evangelist and is now a
Program Manager in the Developer Tools & Platform Group at Microsoft
Corporation. His development experiences have afforded him the
opportunity to create commercial software applications across a wide
diversity of technical platforms from Mainframes, through UNIX and
Linux, to Microsoft Technologies on the Intel and Mobile computing
platforms. In recent years, Joe has been focused on Highly-Performant,
Geoscalable web application architectures, multi-platform
interoperability, developer security, and open source
interoperability. |
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Nov. 2nd 2006 |
John Pelak |
Windows Presentation Foundation This is the visual component of .Net 3.0. |
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Oct. 5 2006 |
Rajib Bahar |
Applying Generics in Real Life As many of us know, that C# and VB.Net 2.0 come packaged with generics. Is it just another marketing gimmick? Come over and find out. This session is targeted toward interested audience to show benefits this feature enables. We will go over brief introduction to generics, cover some of the built-in generics classes that .NET 2.0 provides, and practical application showing performance gain against datasets (both generic and strongly typed) using crystal reports.
More NEVB.com Web
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Sept. 7 2006 |
Andy Novick |
Live development of
an ASP.Net 2.0 Web Site 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. |
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August 2 2006 Wednesday! |
Asynchronous Programming in ASP.NET 2.0 Note this meeting is on a special night. Wednesday
instead of our usual
Thursday. |
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July 6 2006 |
Tony Mann | SQL Server Reporting Services | ||||
| June 1 |
Rick Bob Avallone Andy Novick Bruce Holmes |
Ink Recognition Data Access Methods in Visual Studio 2005 PowerShell (f.k.a. Monad or The Microsoft Shell or MSH) Review of a Windows Forms Application Meeting Sponsored by DotNet Jobs |
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May 4 2006 |
Bob Familiar |
Visual Studio Team System and Team
Foundation Server
The new Microsoft Visual Studio Team System offers tightly integrated and extensible tools that enable software development teams to reduce the complexity of development and improve communication and collaboration throughout the development process. In this session we will discuss these new lifecycle tools for architects, developers and testers and review the new team oriented features for change management, release management, project management, team collaboration and reporting. Bob Familiar is an Architect in the Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism group working here in the Northeast. He has 21 years of industry experience as a developer, architect and speaker. Bob holds a patent in Object Relational Mapping, holds a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and has extensive experience architecting and developing distributed enterprise solutions on the Microsoft platform. |
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April 6 2006 |
Andrew Novick | SQLCLR
Programming with SQL Server 2005 Create User-Defined Functions, Stored Procedures and more in SQL Server 2005 using VB.Net and C#. Download Slides and Examples |
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March 2 2006 |
Adam Machanic |
ADO.NET Enhancements for SQL Server 2005
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Feb 2 2006 |
Ben Sabitini of AVICode |
Real-time monitoring of production
applications with AVICode Dot Net Nuke |
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Jan 5 2006 |
Jason Beres |
AJAX - What is it? Why would you use it?
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Dec 1 2005 |
Andrew Novick | INETA - Visual Studio 2005 Community Event
- Exploration of what's available in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server
2005 |
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Nov 3 2005 |
Richard Hale Shaw |
Cool, New, Fun Features in the Framework 2.0 Base Class Libraries
Item: NETFramework2.0-VBGroup.zip
Access Password: duadsstaphloins7
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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Oct 6th 2005 |
Andy Novick Phil Czapla Bob Avallone Pat Tormey |
VB Development Utilities Roundup:
NUnit, NDoc, CodeSmith, DevExpress, Whole Tomato, Developer's Assistant,
SourceSafe Remover and several more. Andy Novick's Slides Links to all the Developer Utilites Bob Avallone's Slides on INNO |
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Sept 1 2005 |
Bob German | SharePoint Portals and Coding Web Parts for
SharePoint. Download Slides |
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August 4 2005 |
Robert Hurlbut | VB.Net 2.0 Language Changes. What's
coming in the next version of Visual Basic. Slides and code at this
link: http://weblogs.asp.net/rhrlbut/archive/2005/08/11/422244.aspx |
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July 7 2005 |
Jim Lennox | Web Services Extensions / SOA Download Slides and Code The Web services trace tool: download | ||||
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May 5 2005 |
Carl Franklin | Object Oriented VB.Net Programming Carl's Dot Net Example Page: http://www.franklins.net/dotnet |
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April 7 2005 |
Phil Denoncourt John Strano Sybase |
.Net Code Access Security The DataWindow for .Net Download Slides |
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March 3 2005 |
Carl Provost Bob Avallone Michael Hennessy David Maibor |
Automatic Updating of
Applications Infragistics Ultra Web Grid: a Review and Demo Alternative Methods for Connecting to Oracle Example Tax Status Reporting Application using Web, Windows, and Web Services
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Feb 3 2005 |
Duane Laflotte Critical Sites |
Cryptography in VB.Net Download hereCiphers 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 |
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January 6 2005
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Carl Franklin |
CANCELED DUE TO SNOW. Rescheduled for April 7th. Object Oriented VB.Net Programming |
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Dec 2 2004 |
Don Sorcinelli |
Compact Framework Programming with
VB.Net Link to the sample code: |
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Nov 4 2004 |
Joe Stagner | VB.Net in Visual Studio 2005 | ||||
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Oct 7 2004 |
Andrew Novick |
Distributing the Smart Client
Application From XCOPY to Updater Application Block (UAB) |
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Sept. 2 2004 |
Marc Thevenin John Giudice |
Programming with .Net Interfaces Download the examples Interfaces and Trace Interfacing with Groove |
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Aug 5 |
Gary Chamberlain | Creating PDFs and additional topics Featuring ABCpdf .Net Component |
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July 1 |
Rick Spiewak Bob Tatersall Robert Holmes Maisy Wong Paul Sturgill Andrew Novick Marc Thevenin |
NUnit Reflection and Code Regular Expressions SQL Reporting Services No Touch Deployment Isolated Storage Tracing and Debugging Objects |
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| June 3 2004 |
Thom Robbins Microsoft |
ADO.Net best practices in VB.Net Download the presentation and Examples The Knowledge Base Alert site mentioned at the meeting. |
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| April 1 2004 |
Andrew Novick www.NovickSoftware.com |
Building on the .Net Framework Creating Professional WinForms Applications Some Links from the meeting discussion... |
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