NETDA meeting 03-08-10: New ASP.NET AJAX Library with Stephen Walther

Friday, March 5th, 2010

 

NETDA meeting 03-08-10:


06:30pm - Doors open
06:45pm - Free pizza
07:00pm - News and announcements
07:15pm - New ASP.NET AJAX Library with Stephen Walther
08:45pm - Raffles and socializing

 

 

New ASP.NET AJAX Library with Stephen Walther


Come learn about the new ASP.NET AJAX Library from a member of the ASP.NET AJAX Team. The ASP.NET AJAX Library is a free, open-source project which is fully supported by Microsoft. The new ASP.NET AJAX Library includes the entire… Read More

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NETDA meeting 02-15-10: MVP All-Star Presentations

Monday, February 8th, 2010

 

NETDA meeting 02-15-10: Special extended .NETDA meeting the evening before the start of the Microsoft MVP Summit 2010 conference, with a series of special guest speakers who are Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) who will be in town for the summit event. We will also have many additional MVPs and Microsoft employees attending this special event.


06:00pm - Doors open
06:15pm - Free pizza
06:30pm - Mitchel Sellers - DotNetNuke
07:00pm - Jeff Certain - Azure
07:30pm - Adam Cogan - TFS 2010
08:00pm - David McCarter - .NET Coding Standards
08:30pm… Read More

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NETDA meeting 02-08-10: Parallel Patterns in .NET, Workflow 4

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

 

NETDA meeting 01-25-10 Agenda:

  • 06:30pm - Doors open
  • 06:45pm - Pizza arrives
  • 07:00pm - News and announcements
  • 07:10pm - Implementing Parallel Patterns in .NET (Reed Copsey, Jr)
  • 08:15pm - What’s New in Workflow 4 (Robert Green)
  • 08:55pm - Q&A, raffles, networking, etc.


Topic 1: Implementing Parallel Patterns in .NET

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NETDA meeting 01-25-10: CodeRush and MSBuild

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

 

NETDA meeting 01-25-10 Agenda:

  • 06:30pm - Doors open
  • 06:45pm - Pizza arrives
  • 07:00pm - News and announcements
  • 07:10pm - Approaching the Speed of Light with CodeRush (Dustin Campbell)
  • 08:20pm - Cool demos of using MSBuild with Visual Studio (Chuck England)
  • 08:55pm - Q&A, raffles, networking, etc.
  • Raffles will include 2 free giveaways of CodeRush Pro from DevExpress.

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NETDA meeting 01-11-10: VS 2010 for C# and VB Developers with Lisa Feigenbaum

Monday, January 11th, 2010

 

NETDA meeting 01-11-10 Agenda:

  • 06:30pm - Doors open
  • 07:00pm  - News and announcements
  • 07:15pm – A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 for C# and Visual Basic Developers with Lisa Feigenbaum
  • 08:45pm – Q&A, raffles, networking, etc.


Topic: A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 for C# and Visual Basic Developers

  •    Come learn about what’s coming in the next… Read More

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NETDA meeting 12-14-09: Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX), Videos on msdn.com

Monday, December 7th, 2009

 

NETDA meeting 12-14-09 Agenda:

06:00pm - Doors open

06:15pm – Early special bonus event: Round table with Sam Gazitt (VS marketing)

07:00pm  - News and announcements

07:15pm – Visual studio Extensibility (VSX) in VS 2010 with Weston Hutchins and Quan To

08:15pm – Videos on msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley

08:45pm – Holiday party with extra food and white elephant gift exchange
   News: NETDA Email Newsletter subscription

If you aren’t already on the NETDA meeting announcement… Read More

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NETDA meeting 12-07-09: Expression Blend for Developers with Walt Ritscher

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

 

Topic: Expression Blend for Developers

 

Visual Studio is a remarkable tool for writing and debugging your .NET code. Attempting to design your WPF UI with Visual Studio however is like using a hammer to dig a ditch – the wrong tool for the job. Fortunately there is a better tool – Expression Blend. Developers need Blend too. You'll learn the strengths of Blend when compared to Visual Studio; discover which tools are indispensible and the secrets that will drastically reduce the amount of XAML you’ll need to write.

 

Speaker: Walt Ritscher

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NETDA meeting 11-16-09: Office Business Applications with Robert Green

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

 

Topic: Building an Office Business Application Based on Word 2007

 

Back in September, Robert showed an Outlook 2007 customer appointment management solution. This was the first part of a multi-part tutorial on using Visual Studio 2008 to build an Office Business Application for a fictitious automobile dealer. Tonight, he will show the next installment in the series. You will see how to use Visual Studio 2008 to add the following capabilities to Word:


•    Generate automobile quotes using content controls bound to SQL Server data.
•   … Read More

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NETDA meeting 11-02-09: Integration Visualization with Charles Sterling

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

 

Topic: Eliminating the No Repro problem with virtualization and integration virtualization into your development Process


A 300-level session on virtualized labs so that I can learn how to make a new build available to everyone on my development and test team every day. This talk will also cover Ops-Dev Integration so I can understand how to collect run-time data from production, automate bug submission from Ops and automatically deploy new apps into production in the future.

 

Speaker:… Read More

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NETDA meeting 10-26-09: VSTS 2008 Test-Driven Development with Steve Andrews

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

 

Topic: Practical Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio 2008 Team System
Test-Driven Development (TDD) has become a very popular topic in the developer sphere. There is still quite a bit of confusion about what TDD is, and how to best implement it. We will start by examining the principles of TDD. Next, we will implementing a practical approach to TDD using Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition for Software Developers. Along the way, we'll look at a few Visual Studio tips and tricks to make practicing TDD and general development easier.

 

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NETDA meeting 10-12-09: WPF In-Depth with Billy Hollis

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

 

Topic: WPF In-Depth: Walkthrough a Real World WPF App


The StaffLynx application, developed by a team led by Billy Hollis, has been acclaimed for using WPF technologies in a business-oriented software system. In this session, Billy will cover the basic architecture of this application, highlighting architectural differences from previous generations:  layered client design, service-based data access, and advanced UI capabilities. He will show how critical pieces are constructed, including novel coding concepts in WPF and XAML.… Read More

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NETDA meeting 09-28-09: Roadmap for group, open forum, demos

Monday, September 28th, 2009

 

Discussion on upcoming speakers, topics, and plans for meetings along with an open forum for feedback, suggestions, and ideas from attendee members. Ken Levy, new NETDA President, along with Brian Henderson (Secretary), and Robert Green (Speaker Coordinator), will discuss the NETDA roadmap our user group. Also included will be a demonstration for feedback of the new NETDA website at http://dotnetda.org and our existing Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/NETDA.

 

Two presenters to speak after the roadmap discussion and open forum:

Robert… Read More

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