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 AJAX Control Toolkit. Web Forms developers can build AJAX-enabled websites by dragging-and-dropping server controls from the Visual Studio Toolbox. Both Web Forms and MVC developers can create AJAX Control Toolkit controls in client code using jQuery. The ASP.NET AJAX Library enables you to build database-driven web applications that run entirely in the web browser. Build database-driven web applications by taking advantage of ASP.NET AJAX client data access, client templates, and client data-binding.

Stephen Walther is a member of the ASP.NET AJAX Team. He is the author of several books including ASP.NET Unleashed and ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed. His blog is located at http://StephenWalther.com.

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 – Claudio Lassala – WPF demos
08:55pm – News, announcements, Q&A, raffles, networking, etc.

Mitchel Sellers – A Developers Introduction to DotNetNuke

Mitchel will introduce developers to the DotNetNuke application framework and shows the steps necessary to create a development environment and to get a custom module built and packaged for deployment. Important discussions will include why DotNetNuke can be helpful to reduce time to implementation and development effort.

Mitchel Sellers, Microsoft C# MVP, Microsoft Certified Professional, is the CEO of IowaComputerGurus Inc. He has many years of experience in the software development industry and specializes in development using Microsoft technologies. He is the author of "Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming" which was published by Wrox Press in 2009. Mitchel is also an active participant in the .NET and DotNetNuke development communities, has been added as a DotNetNuke Core Team member.

Jeff Certain – An Introduction to Azure

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering, offers developers the ability to run services and store data in the cloud, with an emphasis on high availability and scalability. This talk will cover the basics of the Azure platform – Azure services, local storage and SQL Azure. By the end of this talk, developers will understand the value proposition of cloud computing, as well as being familiar with the concepts and development tools for Azure.

Jeff Certain is a software architect at Colorado CustomWare, a mid-sized ISV specializing in solutions for state and county governments. He is heavily involved in the technical community, and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2007.

Adam Cogan – Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) for Successful Project Management

Visual Studio Ultimate (formerly Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are the cornerstones of development on the Microsoft .NET platform. These are the best tools for a project manager to have successful projects and for the developers to have a focused and smooth software development process. Visual Studio Ultimate is designed to help address many of these traditional problems faced by project managers. It does so by providing a set of integrated tools to help teams improve their software development activities and to help project managers better support the software development processes. During this talk, Adam will review the lifecycle of creating work items and tracking of releases using Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server.

Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner specializing in custom .NET, SharePoint and CRM solutions (with a splash of Business Intelligence). At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, engineering, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Worley Parsons and Aurecon.

David McCarter – Back-2-Basics: .NET Coding Standards For The Real World

This session will guide any level of programmer to greater productivity by providing the information needed to write consistent, maintainable code. Learn about assembly layout, code style, defensive programming and much, much more. We will even go over some real in production code and see what the programmer did wrong in "What’s Wrong With this Code?". Code tips are included to help you write better, error free applications. Lots of code examples in C# and VB.NET.

David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP and a principal software engineer/architect in San Diego. He is the editor-in-chief of dotNetTips.com… a web site dedicated to helping programmers in all aspects of programming. David has written for magazines like the VB Programmers Journal and has published three books (the latest is "David McCarter’s .NET Coding Standards" available at: http://codingstandards.notlong.com). He is one of the founders and directors of the 15 year old San Diego .NET Developers Group (www.sddotnetdg.org). In 2008 David won the INETA Community Excellence Award for his involvement in the .NET community. David is also an inventor of a software printing system that was approved by the US Patient Office in May 2008.

Claudio Lassala – WPF in Business Apps

Claudio will present demos of how EPS Software is using WPF in some their business projects.

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, Europe 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), and an INETA speaker. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor. Claudio can be followed on http://twitter.com/ClaudioLassala.

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

•    Although the expectation of users are continually increasing, we can no longer rely on computers to get faster in order to make our programs faster or allow us to do more work. In order to do more work in less time, we have to break up our programs to in parallel. In this presentation, we will explore some design patterns related to parallel programming, and explain how they are used in .NET today, as well as how the new Task Parallel Library and Parallel LINQ coming in .NET 4 simplify the programming of parallel algorithms. We’ll discuss Data Parallelism, Task Parallelism, and the Asynchronous Programming patterns, and how to apply them effectively.

Speaker 1: Reed Copsey, Jr

•    Reed Copsey, Jr. is the Chief Technical Officer of C Tech Development Corporation. He has spent the last 8 years leading a development team for a small independent software vendor which creates software for scientific analysis and 3D visualization of geology and groundwater contamination data. He is also very active in multiple online communities such as StackOverflow, and has also been involved in multiple open source projects.
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Topic 2: What’s New in Workflow 4

•    Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a programming model, an engine and tools for building workflow into your applications. And it’s been revamped in the .NET Framework 4.0. Workflows definitions are now XAML with no code behind. It is simpler to pass data to and get data from a workflow. There are a number of new activities and it is easier to create activities. Flowchart workflows make it easy to create workflows that go backwards and forwards. In this talk, we’ll take a high level tour of Workflow 4.

Speaker 2: Robert Green

•    Robert Green is a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Tools for Office. Robert has written or co-authored AppDev’s Visual Studio, LINQ, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation courseware, and appears in the video training for these courses, as well. Robert is a member of the INETA Speaker Bureau and has been a frequent speaker at technology conferences. Before joining MCW, Robert worked at Microsoft for 8 years, as a Program Manager on the Visual Basic product team and as a Product Manager for Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Visual Studio Tools for Office and Visual FoxPro.
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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.

Topic: Approaching the Speed of Light with CodeRush

•    Do you wish you could write new code more quickly, or refactor legacy code without fear of breaking the build? Come learn how to code and refactor in the blink of an eye using the latest version of DevExpress’s CodeRush and Refactor, an enormously powerful add-in for Visual Studio, from one of its original creators. Warning: wormholes might spring open, time and space could bend, and reality as you know might very well be changed forever – you won’t want to miss it!

Speaker: Dustin Campbell

•    Dustin Campbell is a program manager in the Visual Studio Managed Languages group at Microsoft where he works on the Visual Basic IDE experience. Before joining Microsoft, he developed much of the low-level plumbing of the award-winning CodeRush and Refactor! products at Developer Express. A regular speaker, Dustin is a noted authority in many advanced areas of the Microsoft .NET Framework and dives deep “under the hood” of any technology that he works with. Dustin is a programming language nut. His favorite color is blue.
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  Topic: Cool demos of using MSBuild in Visual Studio

  • Cool demos showing the benefits of using MSBuild in Visual Studio.
    MSBuild Basics
    - Visual Studio Integration (The Shipping Targets)
    - MSBuild the Language (Properties, Items, Targets, Tasks)
    - Order of Evaluation
    - Batching
    For additional MSBuild info, podcast: CodeCast Episode 64: MSBuild with Chuck England

    Note from Chuck: When I first got to Microsoft, I did not even know MSBuild existed. Boy, I sure wish I had. As a developer, I really could have leveraged its power to help me in my daily development tasks. My mission now is to make sure all the developers out there are aware of and know how to use MSBuild.

  Speaker: Chuck England

  •    Chuck England is a program manager in the Visual Studio platform team at Microsoft responsible for MSBuild. I have been a Software Developer/Architect working in almost every imaginable since the late 70’s. I have learned over 30 languages across the years and many different OSs as well. (My favorite languages are C++, C#, LISP, and MSBuild.) Visual Studio has been a part of my life since it first came out. So, it is a dream come true to be on the Visual Studio team. I started at Microsoft a little over a year and a half ago, and have been on the MSBuild team since then.

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 release of Visual Studio. Take advantage of multi-monitor support, zoom, and rich extensibility in the newly designed IDE. Understand, navigate, and test code more easily than ever with the latest code-focused tools. Code faster with C# named and optional parameters, VB implicit line continuation, and a suite of other language features targeted at interoperability with dynamic languages, and improvements for Office development. Explore new capabilities like the parallel extensions, WPF drag and drop data-binding, IntelliTrace debugging, and DGML graphs. In this demo-packed session, we’ll show how to use all of these new features to boost your development experience with Visual Studio 2010!

Speaker: Lisa Feigenbaum

•    Lisa Feigenbaum is a Community Program Manager for the Visual Studio Managed Languages team, which includes Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual F#, IronRuby, and IronPython. She manages the Community program, including gathering customer feedback to drive product planning, as well as generating content such as videos, blogs, websites, and conference presentations. Lisa has been a member of the Visual Studio team since 2004. Before her current role, she was a Feature Program Manager for the Visual Basic Editor and Debugger. You can find Lisa on twitter at http://twitter.com/lisafeig and read her blog posts at http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa. Before joining Microsoft, Lisa earned an M.Sc. and B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. 

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NETDA meeting 12-14-09 Agenda:

06:00pm – Doors open

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Tonight’s meeting with have 3 speakers combined with a holiday party with extra food and a fun white elephant gift exchange party.

- Arrive to the meeting early to join Sam Gazitt on a special developer community round table

- Free pizza will arrive about 6:45pm.

- Attendees encouraged to bring extra food for the holiday party (cookies, desserts, etc.).

- For the special fun white elephant gift exchange, attendees are encouraged to bring one or more item (usually computer/geek related) that they no longer need to add to the gift pile. Examples of things to bring:

- Unused computer accessories, either useful or outdated like a 2400 baud modem!

- Unused computer books, from modern to collector’s like Using Visual Studio 97!

- Unused magazines, either recent CODE or MSDN magazine, to Byte or PC Magazine from 1984!

- Gifts brought can be wrapped or unwrapped, whatever you choose.

- During the holiday party, we will call out raffle numbers for people to come up and pick a gift, either one wrapped or unwrapped. The more stuff people bring, the more gift exchanges we have.

Join Sam Gazitt and the Visual Studio marketing team in a discussion of the new features in 2010.  The marketing team wants to hear what you have to say about Visual Studio (pain points, favorite features, etc) and will come armed with lots of SWAG to reward you for your time. All participants will receive 2010 key binding foldout posters and the first ten will get 2gb USB thumb drives.

  Topic: Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) in VS 2010

In this session, we will discuss building extensions using Visual Studio 2010, extending the IDE with WPF tool windows and menu commands, extending the Visual Studio Editor using MEF, and publishing and sharing those tools with the rest of the world.  We will demo building extensions, acquiring extensions through the new Extension Manager UI and discuss the new VSIX xcopy deployment model. Visual Studio team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio.

  Speaker: Quan To

Quan To is a program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team.  Quan is responsible for the Extension Manager and Visual Studio SDK.  Quan has been with Microsoft for over ten years and has also spent time working on the Tablet PC Team and the Visual Studio Deployment team.

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  Speaker: Weston Hutchins

Weston Hutchins started at Microsoft as an intern in 2005 and joined full-time in 2006 after receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.  For the past year, he’s been working as a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Shell team which is responsible for the core IDE services and extensibility architecture as well as the overall look and feel of Visual Studio.  He has worked extensively with the Ecosystem team during the Visual Studio 2010 product cycle to design the New Project Dialog and the Extension Manager.  Prior to that, he was the SKU manager for the Visual Studio Express products performing a variety of duties around Express feature development and release activities.
 

  Topic: Videos on msdn.com

Jeremy will demo and discuss the state and future of videos (How-Do-I videos, screencasts, etc) hosted on msdn.com developer centers and TechNet sites, how they relate to Channel 9 videos that also use Silverlight, various formats, and roadmap plans for 2010 with videos on msdn.com.

  Speaker: Jeremy Kelley

Jeremy Kelley is a Program Manager in the Server and Tools Online group in Microsoft working on the video experience for MSDN, TechNet and other Developer and IT Pro focused sites.  In his previous roles at Microsoft Jeremy has worked on Open Source Power Tools for Visual Studio, MSDN Forums, and http://blogs.msdn.com.

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

Walt Ritscher has trained thousands of corporate developers during the last fourteen years. An active speaker, his teaching schedule has taken him throughout the world providing developer training at corporations, universities, and software conferences. He has collaborated on several books and videos published for the developer market including early adopter .Net courses at Microsoft Press. Walt is currently consulting and teaching .NET, Silverlight, WPF and Microsoft Surface classes for Wintellect. Walt’s industry expertise has placed him on various national technology advisory boards. He is also deeply involved in the local developer community — founding the .NET Developers Association in Redmond, WA. Walt has accumulated plenty of experience as a developer —is currently a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the Silverlight/WPF Insiders and  the WPF Disciples. As a web programmer he has worked numerous projects including; EPA sites and the Microsoft Community Starter Kit. He is the author of the open source Shazzam (WPF Pixel Shader Utility) Shazzam-tool.com and the Shader Gallery add-in for Expression Blend.

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.
•    Use the Actions Pane in a Word template to make it easy for sales reps to create new quotes and reprint existing quotes.
•    Save quotes to PDF files or Word documents that can be sent to customers.
•    Save quotes to SharePoint.

Speaker: Robert Green

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: Charles Sterling
Community program manager for Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft.

 
Topic: Advanced Diagnostics, Historical Debugging and Test Automation with Habib Heydarian

As applications become more complex and pressures to decrease costs increase, we need tools to facilitate reducing the turn-around time for testers and developers to find and fix bugs. Microsoft Test and Lab Manager enables testers to collect more detailed diagnostic data during a test run leading to higher quality bugs that provide more insight to the developers on what actually went wrong when the bug occurred. With the addition of Test Strips, testers can generate automation as an artifact of their test runs helping to not only increase coverage of the application, but reducing the time it takes to manually test the application. Finally, we show how Test Impact Analysis helps developers test the right automated tests from within Visual Studio, while testers know what the right set of tests to prioritize and run are given recent changes introduced by the development organization. PDC session: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT16

Speaker: Habib Heydarian
Habib Heydarian is a Program Manager on the VSTS Team Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in the Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. While not at work, Habib spends his time writing code for robots (or anything else for that matter), reading books, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favorite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label “RUNTIME”. On his Microsoft Blog, Habib posts regularly about Visual Studio.
 

Date/Time: 11-02-09, 7:00pm-9:00pm (free pizza starting at 6:30pm).

Location: Meeting at Microsoft campus building 41 cafeteria, Steptoe room.

Directions: Refer to Meetings page.

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.

Speaker: Steve Andrews
Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP and INETA speaker, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain management, and retail systems. Steve is also a MCTS, ICSOO, and community fanatic.

Bonus: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 News

Topic: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 News
News and discussion around the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 download along with the changes for both Visual Studio Product SKUs and MSDN Subscription levels for next year.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: http://microsoft.com/visualstudio

Speakers: Doug Seven

Doug Seven is a senior product manager for Visual Studio Team System.

Raffle of MSDN Subscription: Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, retail value over $10,000.

Note: To participate in the raffle, you must be an active NETDA member. As of last month, annual dues are now only $20 (50% less than before).

Date/Time: 10-26-09, 7:00pm-9:00pm (free pizza starting at 6:30pm).

Location: Meeting at Microsoft campus building 41 cafeteria, Steptoe room.

Directions: Refer to Meetings page.

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. Then he’ll discuss the design and prototyping process, show various prototypes with analysis of their strengths and weaknesses, and cover lessons learned from that process.

Speaker: Billy Hollis
Billy Hollis is an author and software developer from Nashville, Tennessee. Billy is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic .NET, VB .NET Programming on the Public Beta. He has written many articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences. He is the Regional Director of Developer Relations in Nashville for Microsoft, and runs a consulting company focusing on Microsoft .NET.

Date/Time: 10-12-09, 7:00pm-9:00pm (free pizza starting at 6:30pm).

Location: Meeting at Microsoft campus building 41 cafeteria, Steptoe room.

Directions: Refer to Meetings page.

The Events page has been updated for some key upcoming regional events for October:

October 12, 2009: Windows 7 Launch in Seattle

Location: AMC Pacific Place 11, 07:30 AM – 11:35 AM

Price: FREE

Description:

These are the new innovations that can help you be part of the new efficiency. And at our free live events, you can learn, network, and get your copy of Windows 7.

Details, code, and online registration at Free copy of Windows 7

October 13, 2009: FREE NerdDinner on Microsoft Campus

Location: Microsoft Conference Center, Building 33, Kodiak Room, 06:00 PM

Price: FREE

Description:

Join us ON CAMPUS at Microsoft bldg 33, in the Kodiak room for FREE Pizza and Pop and to rub elbows with other geeks, nerds, Microsofties and Patterns & Practices Summit Attendees. Hosted by Scott Hanselman and open to the public. *Space is limited.*

RSVP and view attendee list at NerdDinner.com

October 19-20, 2009: VSX (Visual Studio Extensibility) Days

Location: Microsoft Building 33 Conference Center

Price: FREE, lunch included

Description:

All developers are invited to join us for two full days of sessions. Each day will have two session tracks presented by Microsoft product team members and industry influencers.

A broad range of Visual Studio extensibility topics will be presented including:

• Visual Studio extensibility overview

• Extending the new Editor in Visual Studio 2010

• Using the Visual Studio SDK

• Building applications based on the free Visual Studio Shell

• Programming language service integration

• Building custom Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools

• Team Foundation Server (TFS) extensibility

• Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) extensibility

• Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA)

• And many more Visual Studio extensibility topics!

 Details and online registration, click event banner link at: http://msdn.com/vsx

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 Green (MVP) with cool demos with .NET programming with Office.

Chuck Sterling (VSTS community program manager) to discuss upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Date/Time: 09-28-09, 7:00pm-9:00pm (free pizza starting at 6:30pm).

Location: Meeting at Microsoft campus building 41 cafeteria, Steptoe room.

Directions: Refer to Meetings page.

Notes from meeting:

• Group to switch to 2 meetings per month, usually 2nd and 4th Mondays, but may vary.
• Decrease annual membership dues from $40 to $20.
• Open and interactive discussion forum to start off each meeting.
• Generally 2 speakers per meeting, typically one primary and one secondary.
• Continue to add new and additional benefits to members for events and more.
• Robert Green to continue series on code walkthroughs of .NET programming with Office.
• Chuck Sterling to return in October to continue showing various new features in VSTS 2010.