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User Group News
* Please distribute this notice throughout your
development community!
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We have some great meetings lined up for the next few
months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the
web site.
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| November 24 |
7th Anniversary
Party Featuring "15 Minutes of Fame" |
Monday
Malvern, PA
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Our monthly meeting
will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office in Malvern,
PA on Monday, November 24 from 5:30-8:30. We have a special
format planned. There will be 10 presenters each doing a 15
minute session covering one of their favorite .NET topics.
We will close with a panel discussion with all presenters.
There will be no break this night, but food and drink will
be available throughout the evening. Refreshments are
provided courtesy of
Apex Systems. Please register on our
web site. Detailed directions are on the Microsoft
Greater PA
web site. |
| 5:30 |
Bill Wolff, Unisys Corporation
Silverlight Toolkit November 2008 Overview |
5:45 |
Mark Magliocco, Consultant
Twitter the little blue bird changing the world |
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Silverlight 2.0 is officially
released and the rich internet application game is on.
Microsoft released a series of custom controls and themes at
PDC. See how these are used. |
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Twitter is sweeping the nation
changing the way people interact. Everything is affected
including politics ( Obama has 125k followers). One of the
best ways to watch the debates was to search twitter and see
realtime comments. All the major News networks are on board
Cnn, NYT etc. Of course one of the major trends is using
twitter to organize our social lives and priorities. We will
quickly review the basics of Web and mobile Clients and
review the api. With the integration of GPS, Twitter has
enormous application potential. We will write a short Tweet(
Status update) Via the api. You can follow me @markmag come
join the revolution. |
| 6:00 |
Edwin Ames How to Write
a Self-Testing Codebase |
6:15 |
Steve Andrews Intro to
jQuery |
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In 15 minutes you'll see how to create a codebase which
is easy to change: "Red, Green, Refactor". A new tool for
talking to stakeholders. It's basically a fast overview of
Test-Driven and Behavior-Driven development.
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A quick look at jQuery for
ASP.NET developers. |
| 6:30 |
Travis LaBorde, TelerX
SVN |
6:45 |
Jeffrey Fritz Asp.Net
Session Management Improvements and Insights |
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SVN is a free source control
repository (like VSS but "better"). Using it is pretty
different from using VSS even though a lot of the concepts
are the same. 15 minutes should be enough to demonstrate
getting it installed, and how to use the basic features. |
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Every Asp.Net developer has run
into this problem... You're storing information in session,
and after some time, you have NO idea what exactly is going
on in there, and how to configure it to scale up as your
organization needs to. We'll take a quick look at the
Asp.Net session provider object and show how you can re-use
some of your session data to provide dashboard information
about the current status of your web site. |
| 7:00 |
Danilo Diaz, Microsoft
On Cloud 9 |
7:15 |
JP Toto ALT.NET
Foundation Series |
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Are you trying to understand
cloud computing? Are sure about Azure? In this talk we will
discuss why cloud computing is needed and why developers
should care. We will also talk about Windows Azure,
Microsoft’s entry into this space; and analyze the
differences between Windows Azure and Azure Services. |
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Beginning in 2009 Philly
ALT.NET will be kicking off a new series of talks focused on
software craftsmanship, best practices, and design patterns.
The talks will NOT be focused on tools but rather will be
concentrating on building better developers. Topics will
cover object oriented principles and best practices,
continuous integration, test driven development, and a focus
on fundamental skills that help build the best possible
software artists. Go beyond drag and drop! Take your skills
to the next level! |
| 7:30 |
Andy Schwam, Consultant
Compiled Queries with LINQ to SQL |
7:45 |
Marc Ziss, ZConsulting
The new ASP.NET ListView and what it can do for you |
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LINQ to SQL is a great addition
to your development toolkit. It can take a lot of the pain
out of data access. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be
concerned with performance. Using LINQ to SQL compiled
queries is one way to make your applications faster and, in
addition, they are easy to work with! |
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In the most recent version of
ASP.NET Microsoft introduced a new data control that allows
for a great deal of flexibility and power. Because of the
vast number of improvements and new features in .NET 3.5 the
introduction of this new control has not garnered much
attention; however in this quick session we will do a quick
run through of some of the unique features of the ListView
control. |
| 8:00 |
Panel discussion
with all presenters |
| 8:30 Closing & Raffle! |
Books, software,
and other goodies! |
