Wednesday, May 14, 2008
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Learn about 10 of the
top open source .NET tools and how you can use them to write better code, hit
your deadlines, and lose that last 10lbs that you just can't seem to drop with
normal diet and exercise.
About the Speaker
James Avery
James Avery is the
founder and owner of Infozerk Inc. which runs The Lounge advertising network
and provides .NET and Ruby consulting. James has been working with .NET since
2001 and has been a web developer since 1996. He has written books for
Microsoft Press, Wrox, and O'Reilly Press. James has written articles for MSDN
Magazine and Dr. Dobbs, most recently doing a three month stint writing the
Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and
has spoken at a number of user groups and conferences.'
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: ECPI
Come hear about the exciting future technologies for web development on .NET. Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for the .NET Framework at Microsoft will discuss and demo new web development technology his team is working on. In particular, you will walk away understand the ASP.NET MVC framework, why it was created and what it is good for. We will also drill into the new innovations in Silverlight 2 that will be announced at Mix ’08 in Vegas.
About the Speaker
Brad Abrams
Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both clients and web based applications as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, parts of Silverlight, and Windows Forms.
Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad has been deeply involved with the .NET Framework and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning
Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines.
Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science. Find recent musings from Brad on his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/ '
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
, 5:30 PM - 7:30 AM
Many teams spend a lot of time piecing together disparate parts of their system. This process, known as integration, is essential for deploying solid software. Wouldn't it be nice if integration became a nonevent? Welcome to the world of Continuous Integration.
We will cover Continuous Integration using CruiseControl.Net and MSBuild. We will do a walkthrough on setting up a continuous integration server using freely available tools. By the end of the presentation, attendees should have the knowledge necessary to make their project's integration task a nonevent
About the Speaker
Chris Eargle
Chris Eargle is an independent consultant in the Columbia, SC metro area. He is currently a software architect working on the South Carolina Integrated Tax System. Chris is the president of the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in ASP.NET. '
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
, 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: ECPI
The third CodeCampRDU, a free .NET community sponsored event, will be held on Saturday February 16th, 2008! Our previous event was a huge success with attendees including 4 tracks of .Net content. This year’s event will be even bigger and better!
Registration will be opening on Thursday, January 31st
Proposed Schedule (May Change)
7:30 - Registration / Breakfast
8:00 - Keynote Opening Session
8:45 - Sessions 1.2
11:30 - Lunch
12:30 - Sessions 3,4,5 4:45 - Closing / Prize Drawings
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Regional Directors
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MVPs
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Others
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
We’ve all seen the demos. Now the production bits are available. What will it take to deploy LINQ for production use? LINQ has the power to revolutionize the way we write data-intensive applications, but you’ll quickly realize that learning a new query syntax is only a small first step. We’ll look at LINQ to SQL issues including transaction management, performance, concurrency, caching, heterogeneous joins (joining objects with relational tables), stored procedures, object-relational mapping, and LINQ’s place in n-tiered architecture and design
About the Speaker
Diane Wilson
Diane has worked in development, testing, and deployment of commercial, ecommerce, and enterprise applications for nearly 30 years, in environments that span from mainframes to telephone switching systems to healthcare systems to the web. Her interest in user experience led to positions as webmaster and then conference chair for the Usability Professionals’ Association. She was an early adopter of object-oriented technology, and has made conference presentations on topics as diverse as virtual machine performance tuning, remote usability testing, and the application of carnival theory to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her programming background includes 370 Assembler, PL/I, SAS, C, Protel 2 (Nortel’s proprietary language for telephony and networking), Perl, PHP, MySQL, and (of course) .NET and SQL Server. She has a MCSD .NET certification.'
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
, 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
In this presentation I cover types of database tests and an introduction to testing using Visual Studio Team System Database Edition. Highlights include a custom test condition and an overview of ETL testing.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
, 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
YOU MAY STILL REGISTER TO BE PLACED ON A WAITING LIST.
To celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2008, we're going to host an "InstallFest" party in conjunction with Microsoft for our December meeting.
This will be an opportunity for you to install Visual Studio 2008 right after it RTMs.
More details will be provided shortly.
All attendees will receive an FREE copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional (Eval) and a license to unlock it will be sent by Microsoft.
Due to space limitations (and awesome coolness) registration is required for this event.
** Please keep an eye on the location for this event as it may change!
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
, 5:00 AM - 8:00 AM
When Microsoft released the .NET Framework, they really energized and radically expanded the toolset available to developers. The .NET 3.0 Framework is no exception to this trend.
In this presentation we will explore the steps required to build and consume lookless WPF Custom Controls that expose Dependency Properties and Routed Events. The sample code includes a WPF CheckListBox and HyperLink control (that is not dependent on the FlowDocument, Page or TextBlock controls) along with a WPF application demonstrating their use.
About the Speaker
Karl Shifflett
Karl Shifflett has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF and Microsoft Expression fanatics & evangelists.
A Microsoft .NET MCAD, currently the .NET Architect on emGovPower’s new full featured City Government and Utility Billing WPF product. On the weekends he is developing a cool multi-player WPF game for release 1st quarter 2008.
Karl is a senior Information Technology Professional with proven expertise in computer software design, programming and project management. He is well known to fellow Charlotte Developers Guild members for technical excellence, strategic thinking, creative solutions, strong analytical skills and sound business logic. Excellent at soliciting requirements form stakeholders and users alike. He has extensive experience with multi-platform heterogeneous environments (UNIX, VMS, MAC, DOS, Windows workstations, NT Servers, W2K Servers, W2003 Servers, and Vista). '
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The latest information on what will be available for Team System in Visual Studio "Orcas" and "Rosario". We'll look at what is coming, why it's coming, and how it can be useful within your organization. This presentation will emphasize solving problems and using the tools for that purpose, not just showing off cool features. Demonstrations will be done using the latest stable public builds.
About the Speaker
Chris Menegay
Chris Menegay is a Principal Consultant for Notion Solutions. He has been helping clients develop business applications for over 10 years, most recently using Microsoft's .NET development platform. Chris places an emphasis on good design and architecture and has experience with both thick-client .NET applications as well as browser-based, ASP.NET applications. Recently, Chris has been working with Microsoft to develop training materials for Visual Studio Team System, and has been hired by Microsoft to teach Team System classes to customers around the world. He has written white papers and articles on Team System for MSDN and MSDN Magazine. Chris is also a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director.'
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: ECPI
It's All About The Tools – Episode 1 –Did you ever feel inundated with developer tools? Did you ever feel you are missing something that could make your life easier as a developer and as a power user? There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with. Tool familiarity continues to be one of the top developer challenges. This series of seminars is all about tools for developers, by developers. Join Microsoft Florida Developer Evangelist Russ Fustino he brings you demos and discussion about favorite developer tools. Attend this session and see tools including but not limited to: Fiddler, Web Stress tool, IE Developer Toolbar, Visual Studio IDE Tools, Live Services, and Community tool web sites. There's something here for everyone, from beginners to experts. Don’t miss this event. It’s where “It’s AATT”!
About the Speaker
Russ Fustino
Russ wisely shelved dreams of rock and roll stardom in order to share his vast knowledge with developers nationwide. Given that he can’t sing or play an instrument, we’re all very grateful. Russ has more than 25 years of software development. He’s the creator of the Russ' Tool Shed developer seminar series and has donned his trademark suspenders, hardhat and tool belt in presentations for over 60,000 developers at 1,500 events. Russ also has expertise in developing Visual Basic and Web-based solutions using Microsoft tools. Before joining Microsoft ten years ago, Russ worked as a VB instructor, headed up a development department, and created several client/server applications and system software products. His specialties include development with VB.NET, XML Web services, ASP.NET, XNA, Silverlight, Development Tools and debugging. But make no mistake – Russ is not all brains. His big heart led him to establish Take a Swing at Cancer, Inc., a non-profit organization that holds softball and golf-based fundraisers to battle cancer. You have to know the code to get in the shed. KNOW THE CODE! '
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
More details coming soon..
About the Speaker
Ken Spencer
Ken has been developing and managing application development with VB since the days of VB 1.0 Ken spends his time these days providing input into our clients' development projects as a senior architect, and working with various types of technology. He spends time with clients helping them design the architecture for new applications using Microsoft technology. He also specializes in migrating applications of various types to the .NET Framework. Ken also has experience with roughly 20 other languages on a variety of operating systems. He is a cofounder and Vice President of 2nd Genesis Software, a producer of software to migrate Access applications to .NET. He is also cofounder of 32X Corp, a provider of software development services. Ken has experience developing applications with Visual Basic, Visual InterDev, Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, and BizTalk Server. Ken was the team leader on producing the .NET Readiness training for Microsoft to roll out the .NET Framework. Ken served on the Software Development Roundtable for .NET and has thus been involved in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET for over 2 years. Ken has authored and co-authored numerous technical books and magazine articles. Ken also a column for MSDN Magazine from 1996 until mid 2004. Ken also worked with Microsoft in 2000 to create several guides for creating and hosting applications. These guides involved a wide range of Microsoft technology and resulted in a set of guides for both developers and hosting companies. Ken is also a frequent speaker. He has spoken at TechEd (US and Europe), Dev Days, PDC, Microsoft internal events, User Groups, VB Connections '
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
As programmers, we all know the importance of an application's user interface, but all too often the user interface gets the least amount of attention. Most programmers would rather work on the behind-the-scenes programming bits. To some extent this is understandable, as many developers equate user interface design with graphics design and the creation of pretty icons and images. When asked to justify their application's UI, they typically respond with, "but, I'm not good at graphics.". What's really scary are the UIs created by developers that do enjoy creating (or downloading) pretty icons and images!
The point of this session is to emphasize that user interface design is not the same as graphics design and more importantly needs the attention of all developers. Throughout this session a set of user interface guidelines will be presented that apply to virtually any type of application: desktop, web, mobile, etc. In addition, specific attention will be given to user interface design traps that developers often encounter, and how to avoid them.
About the Speaker
Ray Konopka
Ray Konopka founded Raize Software, Inc. in 1995. Today, he serves as Raize Software’s President as well as Chief Architect for the company’s award winning CodeSite and Raize Components products. Ray is also the author of the highly acclaimed Developing Custom Delphi Components books and has published numerous magazine articles on software development. Ray specializes in user interface design and custom VCL and Microsoft® .NET Framework component development, and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences in North America, Europe, and Australia.'
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: GSK
Rows and columns development is a very useful and tried
and true way of presenting data. But it's boring too. What could you
create if you could develop the UI at the cell level? See how you can
bring your data alive using the FarPoint Spread for Windows Forms and
Spread for Web Forms products from FarPoint Technologies. Developing
spreadsheet technologies for over 15 years, FarPoint Technologies is a
recognized leader in high-performance, fully-customizable spreadsheet component technology.
About the Speaker
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Scott Shorter
Scott Shorter, FarPoint Technical Evangelist, has been with FarPoint
for over 12 years and is the senior member of their much respected
customer service and technical support team. His daily customer contact
has contributed greatly to the past, present and future development
goals of FarPoint and their products.
Scott has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and a keen interest in
seemingly insolvable spread sheet issues.'
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