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  May Meeting Is Wednesday - the 14th The DFW Connected Systems Group will hold its May meeting on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.  Robby Powell with FarPoint Technologies will have a presentation about "Spread for BizTalk 2006", FarPoint's first SOA Solution. Presentation: Spread for BizTalk 2006 - FarPoint Technologies  Spread for BizTalk is a spreadsheet pipeline disassembler and pipeline assembler component.  Recently, Robby and his team released the beta of Spread for SharePoint, which is a fully-integrated SharePoint spreadsheet that provides SharePoint professionals with a feature-rich, robust spreadsheet for managing SharePoint List data.    Robbie Powell Robby Powell comes to us from North Carolina.  He has 20 years of experience in the software industry, and has been a member of the FarPoint development team since joining the company in 1995.  He has been involved in the development of many of FarPoint’s products as the company has shown consistent leadership in supporting application developers using Microsoft technologies (DLL, VBX, OCX, ActiveX, .NET Windows Forms, and ASP.NET).   In 2005, Robby became the Project Manger of Spread SOA Components to lead the company’s SOA initiaive. There will be food, drink and door prizes... so RSVP - then attend the meeting.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday May 14th.   [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com ] Looking forward to seeing you there. The sponsor of our May meeting is Sogeti, the provider of top IT expertise and technical assistance.     05-08-2008, 7:39 AM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements

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  April Meeting is This Wednesday - the 9th The DFW Connected Systems Group (formerly DFW BizTalk User Group) will hold its April meeting on Wednesday, April 9, 2008.  Rob Vettor, a Microsoft .NET Architect/Senior Solution Developer, will have an exciting presentation about LINQ and Integrated Querying.  An Introduction LINQ and Integrated Querying While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not.  Today, binding these two platforms together results in a significant amount of lost productivity as well as a less than optimal solution. Take a detailed look at the "LINQ Project" to see what Microsoft is doing to help bridge the mismatch between OO and data.  Rob will discuss the following: How LINQ manifests a move from an imperative to a declarative style of programming. Adding language and framework extensions to provide a single, unified approach to querying data. Examples of querying data from multiple data domains. A look at the upcoming Entity Framework. How LINQ fits into a multi-tiered application. There will be food, drink and door prizes... so RSVP - then attend the meeting.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday April 9th.   [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com and double your chance to win a great door prize] Looking forward to seeing you there. 04-07-2008, 9:52 AM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements

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  March Meeting Cancelled Our March meeting has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. 03-12-2008, 2:01 PM by admin to News & Announcements

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  February 2008 Meeting - DFW Connected Systems Group The DFW Connected Systems Group (formerly DFW BizTalk User Group) will hold its February meeting on Wednesday, February 13, 2008.  Tim Rayburn, Principal Consultant with Sogeti, will have an exciting presentation.  A special surprise guest may also present the second part of the evening. There will be food, drink and door prizes... so RSVP - then attend the meeting.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday February 13th.   [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com and double your chance to win a great door prize] Looking forward to seeing you there. 02-12-2008, 3:02 PM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements

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  January 2008 Meeting - Get FREE Software!!! [Wednesday - January 9th]  Don Tian with DonWare will present this month's subject.  BizTest 3.0, a new tool for creating and executing automated tests against your integration application.  A new version will be presented that adds support for data driven testing, Excel files and WCF.  All members in attendence will receive a free license to BizTest, valued at $499.00. Don has been a Microsoft technologist for almost ten years.  The last fours year were spent developing C# and BizTalk Server solutions for Countrywide Financial and for EMSI.  In 2006 Don founded Donware, LLC with the public release of BizTest.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday January 9th.   [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com and double your chance to win a great door prize]   November Meeting Wrap-up      We have a new name!! The membership voted to change the name of our user group to reflect Microsoft's focus on Connected Systems.  The new name for our group is DFW Connected Systems Group.     Todd Stone is the new Vice-President for Meetings.  So, extend your congratulations to Todd. 01-06-2008, 3:22 PM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements