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Abstract:
Pluralsight On-Demand! .NET Training is providing BizTalk 2010 Messaging Architecture and Pipelines presented by Matt Milner.
Messaging Architecture - Message fundamentals
- Message Box
- Message processing basics
- Message context
- System-defined message properties
- User-defined message properties
- Defining message properties in schema
- Promoting properties
- Understanding publish and subscribe
- Subscribers
- Understanding ports
- Publish and subscribe
- Adapter framework
- Transport properties
- Pipelines
- Pipeline designer
- Maps
- Creating a send pipeline
Pipelines - Pipeline fundamentals
- Pipelines components
- Default pipelines
- Pipeline configuration
- Creating and configuring pipelines
- Custom pipeline components
- Working with messages in pipelines
- Creating a custom pipeline component
Meeting Details
- Meeting: BizTalk 2010 Messaging Architecture and Pipelines
- Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- JustCode and JustMock - Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day.
As true craftsmen, we don't believe in compromises and our goal is to only release tools that we can be proud of.
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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Abstract:
We'll be looking at nested EDI Files (whether XML, X12, or EDIFACT) and the possibilities inherent in Document Databases (specifically RavenDB).
Speaker Bio:
Allen Goodner is a Consultant with Sogeti USA, a Capgemini company. He specializes in BizTalk and connected systems development. He is also the Vice President of Meetings for the Dallas/Fort Worth Connected Systems User Group. His blog can be found at edi-fication.blogspot.com.
Meeting Details
- Meeting: EDI Processing and Document (NoSQL) Databases
- Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- JustCode and JustMock - Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day.
As true craftsmen, we don't believe in compromises and our goal is to only release tools that we can be proud of.
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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All, I apologize for the late notice, but we need to cancel the user group meeting tonight. We will be back next month! Thanks, Todd
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All, I apologize for the late notice, but we need to cancel the user group meeting tonight. We will be back next month! Thanks, Todd
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Devices such as your home appliances, thermostats, rain gauges, temperature sensors, etc. are rapidly becoming connected over the Internet. Todd Stone will discuss differences in the .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) vs the full .NET Framework and hardware requirements. We'll walk through several demo applications where we have a WCF service running on a NETMF device and where we have a WCF client on a NETMF device. If you know how to program in C#, then you can quickly become an embedded programmer using NETMF.
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Abstract:
In our ongoing series with the layered application “ExpenseReporter” we will continue by looking at the required business objects which do not map well to the database. While the latest CTP version of EntityFramework allows for the use of Enums, the layered and cross-platform nature of this application requires we handle them in a slightly different way. We'll continue building on ExpenseReporter at future meetings using connected systems technologies (WCF, WF4, Azure, etc).
Please install SQL Server 2008 (any version) before the meeting. Here is a link for SQL Server Express 2008, which is free (http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/). We'll also be using Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Here is a link for Visual C# Express 2010, which is also free (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-csharp-express)
Bring your notebook, roll up your sleeves and get ready to code!
Speaker Bio:
Allen Goodner is a Consultant with Sogeti USA, a Capgemini company. He specializes in BizTalk and connected systems development. He is also the Vice President of Meetings for the Dallas/Fort Worth Connected Systems User Group. His blog can be found at edi-fication.blogspot.com.
Meeting Details
- Meeting: ExpenseReporter: Part II - Business Objects
- Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- JustCode and JustMock - Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day.
As true craftsmen, we don't believe in compromises and our goal is to only release tools that we can be proud of.
- Red Gate SmartAssembly a better way to deal with bugs.
Ignoring bugs in your software won’t make them go away. SmartAssembly’s Automated Error Reporting lets your users tell you about a problem, with all the details you need to fix it, in one click. Find out more. (Value: $799)
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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Abstract:
At this meeting, we’ll build an application, step-by-step, that implements the new Entity Framework Code-First release. Along the way, we’ll examine the moving parts of this framework, constructing an object model from plain “entity classes,” that enables querying, updating and inserting. This application will be used for our database and data layer for an expense report application that we have named ExpenseReporter. We'll continue building on ExpenseReporter at future meetings using connected systems technologies (WCF, WF4, Azure, etc).
Please install SQL Server 2008 (any version) before the meeting. Here is a link for SQL Server Express 2008, which is free (http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/). We'll also be using Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Here is a link for Visual C# Express 2010, which is also free (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-csharp-express)
Bring your notebook, roll up your sleeves and get ready to code!
Speaker Bio:
Rob Vettor is a C# MVP, INETA Regional Speaker and senior .NET
Technologist for Oz Systems. Rob has built systems for a number of
corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon, American Express and Jack
Henry and Associates. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons
and three dogs, and is the founder of Hands-On-Coding
(http://www.hands-on-coding.net/), a user group in which attendees bring
their laptops and learn .NET coding by doing. You can contact Rob at
robvettor@hotmail.com
Meeting Details
- Meeting: Entity Framework 4.1: Code First
- Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- JustCode and JustMock - Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day.
As true craftsmen, we don't believe in compromises and our goal is to only release tools that we can be proud of.
- Red Gate SmartAssembly a better way to deal with bugs.
Ignoring bugs in your software won’t make them go away. SmartAssembly’s Automated Error Reporting lets your users tell you about a problem, with all the details you need to fix it, in one click. Find out more. (Value: $799)
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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Abstract:
Smartphones and Tablets are flying off the shelves. In this meeting I'll get you up to speed on developing apps that target these platforms using your existing data via WCF 4 RESTful services. The service we'll build will output mobile data plan efficient JSON data which we'll consume in a web app using jQuery Mobile. jQuery
Mobile is a touch-optimized web framework for smartphones &
tablets. It will allow you to design a single web application that will
work on all popular smartphone and tablet platforms. This will be a Hands-On meeting, so please bring your notebook if you can.
We'll have officer elections at the start of the meeting. I encourage you to run for a position and get involved in the user group.
Speaker Bio:
Todd
Stone is a senior software developer at HBS Systems in Dallas, TX,
where he has been building web apps for smartphones and tablets. He also
works with communicating and converting data from a variety of
different platforms including Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and the IBM iSeries
(AS/400). He's active in the local .NET community as President of the DFW
Connected Systems User Group, member of the South Central District
Developer Guidance Council, and as a speaker at local user groups and
regional events.
Meeting Details
- Meeting: WCF 4 RESTful Service with jQuery Mobile Client
- Date: Wednesday, June 08, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET
- RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, RadControls
for WPF, RadControls for Silverlight, Telerik Reporting and more.
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for
application development, automated testing, agile project management,
reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development
platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable
enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible
productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under
budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around
the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies,
academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations.
(Value: $1,999)
- Red Gate SmartAssembly a better way to deal with bugs.
Ignoring bugs in your software won’t make them go away. SmartAssembly’s Automated Error Reporting lets your users tell you about a problem, with all the details you need to fix it, in one click. Find out more. (Value: $799)
- Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies with its powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption and decompiler & disassembler protection. You can find more info at http://www.ssware.com/cryptoobfuscator/obfuscator-net.htm. (Value: $399)
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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Abstract:
In the time that LINQ to SQL has been available, we have been identifying ways to make LINQ to SQL better. We have compiled all of those cool tips and tricks including new features into a set of CodeSmith templates. PLINQO opens the LINQ TO SQL black box giving you the ability to control your source code while adding many new features and enhancements. This includes the key feature of automatically generating and setting up WCF for you! It's still LINQ to SQL, but better! (www.plinqo.com)
Speaker Bio:
Tom DuPont lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is the Vice President of CodeSmith Tools, LLC. But don’t let the title fool you, Tom is a total code monkey! He specializes in .NET development with C#, ASP.NET MVC, and even that crazy JavaScript stuff. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. In his spare time Tom enjoys long rides across the country on his motorcycle.
Meeting Details
- Meeting: PLINQO: Advanced LINQ to SQL
- Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET
- RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, RadControls
for WPF, RadControls for Silverlight, Telerik Reporting and more.
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for
application development, automated testing, agile project management,
reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development
platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable
enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible
productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under
budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around
the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies,
academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations.
(Value: $1,999)
- Red Gate SmartAssembly a better way to deal with bugs.
Ignoring bugs in your software won’t make them go away. SmartAssembly’s Automated Error Reporting lets your users tell you about a problem, with all the details you need to fix it, in one click. Find out more. (Value: $799)
- Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies with its powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption and decompiler & disassembler protection. You can find more info at http://www.ssware.com/cryptoobfuscator/obfuscator-net.htm. (Value: $399)
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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Abstract:
Windows Server AppFabric is a collection of tools for hosting and caching of WCF and WF services. In this presentation, we'll cover the hosting part of AppFabric and the caching part will be covered at a future meeting. We'll start out with an introduction of hosting WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric. Then we'll move into managing and monitoring of Windows Server AppFabric from within IIS and from PowerShell with tips and demos along the way.
Speaker Bio:
Todd Stone is a software developer at HBS Systems in Dallas, TX, where
he has been building web apps for smartphones and tablets. He also works
with communicating and converting data from a variety of different
platforms including Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and the IBM iSeries (AS/400).
He's
active in the local .NET community as President of the DFW Connected
Systems User Group, member of the South Central District Developer
Guidance Council, and as a speaker at local user groups and regional
events.
Meeting Details
- Meeting: Windows Server AppFabric Hosting
- Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated promotional items that will vary from meeting to meeting.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle two certificates for one month free (Value: $29 each). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET
- RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, RadControls
for WPF, RadControls for Silverlight, Telerik Reporting and more.
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for
application development, automated testing, agile project management,
reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development
platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable
enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible
productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under
budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around
the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies,
academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations.
(Value: $1,999)
- Red Gate SmartAssembly a better way to deal with bugs.
Ignoring bugs in your software won’t make them go away. SmartAssembly’s Automated Error Reporting lets your users tell you about a problem, with all the details you need to fix it, in one click. Find out more. (Value: $799)
- Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies with its powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption and decompiler & disassembler protection. You can find more info at http://www.ssware.com/cryptoobfuscator/obfuscator-net.htm. (Value: $399)
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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Windows Phone 7 Launch Event
Abstract:
OData and The Communication Stack in Windows Phone 7
Speaker Bio:
Chris Koenig is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in
Dallas, TX. Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the
developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana while
specializing in Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight development.
Meeting Details
- Meeting: OData and The Communication Stack in Window Phone 7
- Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (One Hanover Park, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001)
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via the Eventbrite meeting announcement.
IMPROVING'S OFFICES HAVE MOVED AND SO HAS OUR MEETING LOCATION!!!
The Improving's meeting rooms are located on the first floor North-West side. Please park in any unmarked spots behind the building that surround the garage. Entrance doors to the building lock at 6:00 PM and a security guard will let you in. The main entry doors from the atrium to Improving's meeting rooms will also get locked around 6:30 PM, so try not to be late.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM. Be sure to thank our sponsor, Improving Enterprises, a premier,
Dallas-based training and consulting firm and please keep them in mind
for your company’s training and consulting needs.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated a keyboard, some books and Windows Phone 7 promotional items.
- Pluralsight On-Demand!
.NET Training - Pluralsight is a premier Microsoft .NET training provider.
Pluralsight delivers classroom and On-Demand! training around the world.
The reputation of the Pluralsight technical team, the in-depth course
content, along with the variety of training delivery methods, guarantees
you access to the highest quality learning experience that makes the
most sense for you and your business. Pluralsight is
offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. We will also raffle a certificate for one month free (Value: $29). All other members can
receive a free trial into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- Telerik Ultimate Collection for .NET
- RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, RadControls for WinForms, RadControls
for WPF, RadControls for Silverlight, Telerik Reporting and more.
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for
application development, automated testing, agile project management,
reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development
platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable
enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible
productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under
budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around
the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies,
academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations.
(Value: $1,999)
- Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies with its powerful techniques such as symbol renaming, control flow obfuscation, resource and assembly encryption and decompiler & disassembler protection. You can find more info at http://www.ssware.com/cryptoobfuscator/obfuscator-net.htm. (Value: $399)
- CodeSmith Generator is a software development tool to help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language. The Generator enables software developers to efficiently: reduce repetitive coding, generate your code in less time with fewer bugs, produce consistent code that adheres to your standards and create your own custom templates for any language. Learn more at www.codesmithtools.com. (Value: $299)
- JetBRAINS ReSharper
- The must-have productivity tool for Visual Studio, ReSharper provides
solution-wide error highlighting on the fly, advanced code completion,
superior unit testing tools, over 30 advanced code refactorings,
multiple handy navigation and search utilities, single-click code
formatting and cleanup, automatic code generation and templates, and a
lot more. (Value: $199)
- Linxter
- Your Cloud Messaging Platform. A .NET and Java software development
cloud tool, the Linxter SDK allows software engineers to quickly and
affordably connect distributed applications and integrate distributed
systems. Picking up from where REST-only APIs leave off, Linxter takes
care of dozens of coding complexities and provides sought after
features.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA.
INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
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I'd like to thank the folks at Pluralsight for providing an alternative to our normal monthly meeting that got canceled due to bad weather. The 5-day free pass to the Pluralsight On-Demand! .NET Training Courses for our members was very much appreciated. The training videos from Pluralsight are extremely top notch. They are made by professional software developers that have been recognized by Microsoft as MVPs. Recently Pluralsight reduced their pricing, you can get a monthly subscription for only $29. That's extremely affordable and a whole lot of bang for the buck! Get a subscription, increase your knowledge, and help support our sponsor. Visit Pluralsight's website at www.pluralsight.com.
Thanks,
Todd
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A Winter Weather Warning has been posted for tomorrow's meeting. This month's meeting has been canceled.
Next month, Chris Koenig, our local Developer Evangelist at Microsoft will present on Windows Phone 7. He'll talk about OData and focus on the communication stack in WP7 rather than the “normal” stuff around the Silverlight bits. With a lot of you staying home tomorrow, I contacted Pluralsight and they have stepped forward and offered all of our existing members a FREE 5-day full trial of their Pluralsight On-Demand! .NET Training Courses (see the full list below). I will be sending out a trial code via email to all of our members this evening. This trial code will only work through tomorrow night (it expires
Thursday morning). You will get 5 days, BUT you need to activate it by
Thursday morning. Also, please keep this trial code to yourself (do not post it online or share it) so we can can keep doing fun things like this in the future.
Pluralsight On-Demand! .NET Training Courses
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Pluralsight On-Demand! is a rich library of
full-length online training courses for .NET developers delivered by the best instructors
in the business. Each course contains 2-5 hrs of .NET training videos, equivalent to 1-2 days of
classroom training. Below you'll find the full-length courses available in the library today.
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All, I apologize for the late notice, but we need to cancel the user group meeting tonight. We will be back next month! Thanks, Todd
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There will be no December 2010 meeting. We'll pick up after the holidays. A list of the upcoming meetings will be posted soon. In the meantime we wish you and yours Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.
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We will be writing a Windows Phone 7 App for INETA Live on Wednesday, November 10th starting at 6:00 pm at Improving Enterprises. Bring your notebook if you can, if you don't have a notebook, you can pair up with someone who does for some pair programming.
This will be your chance to see and participate in a project that utilizes multiple Connected System technologies (WCF and OData) combined with mobile smart phone apps and Silverlight apps.
Meeting Details - Roundtable Meeting: Windows Phone 7 Data Connectivity and Persistance
- Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000# for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II. Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community. - Microsoft has donated some books and other items.
- Pluralsight is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand! training for unemployed user group members. All other members can receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by requesting it directly from here.
- JetBrains has donated a ReSharper license.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win! The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign up for their newsletter.
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We will have a roundtable discussion on Connected Systems Technologies. Meeting Details - Roundtable Meeting: Roundtable Discussion on Connected Systems Technologies
- Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000# for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II. Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community. - Microsoft has donated some books and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
- Pluralsight is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand! training for unemployed user group members. All other members can receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by requesting it directly from here.
- JetBrains has donated a ReSharper license.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win! The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign up for their newsletter.
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We will be starting our Expense Report project on Wednesday, September 8th starting at 6:00 pm at Improving Enterprises. Bring your notebook if you can, if you don't have a notebook, you can pair up with someone who does for some pair programming.
This will be your chance to see and participate in a project (over several meetings) that utilizes multiple Connected System technologies (WCF, WF, BizTalk, AppFabric, Azure, OData) combined with mobile smart phone apps and Silverlight apps.
Meeting Details
- Roundtable Meeting: Building Mobile & Silverlight Apps That Utilize Connected Systems Technologies
- Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000# for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II.
Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community.
- Microsoft has donated some books and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
- Pluralsight is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand! training for unemployed user group members. All other members can receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by requesting it directly from here.
- JetBrains has donated a ReSharper license.
- LINQPad has donated a LINQPad autocompletion license.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!
The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign up for their newsletter.
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We are having a planning and architecture round table meeting this Wednesday, August 11th starting at 6:00 pm at Improving Enterprises on Building Mobile Apps and Silverlight apps that Utilize Connected Systems Technologies.This will be your chance to see and participate in a project (over several meetings) that utilizes multiple Connected System technologies combined with mobile smart phone apps and Silverlight apps.
Bring your ideas as we will select a project that can be completed within several meetings. Meeting Details - Roundtable Meeting: Building Mobile & Silverlight Apps That Utilize Connected Systems Technologies
- Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps: Bing, Google
- Cost: It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000# for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II. Sponsors
We will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community. - Microsoft has donated some books and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
- Pluralsight is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand! training for unemployed user group members. All other members can receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by requesting it directly from here.
- JetBrains has donated a ReSharper license.
Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win! The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member of INETA. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign up for their newsletter.
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Are you missing the old WF 3.0 State Machine in .NET 4? Good news! The team has released some new activity packs on Codeplex at wf.codeplex.com
In this episode Guang Yang will show us
WF State Machine Activity Pack CTP 1
WF ADO.NET Activity Pack CTP 1
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Stop starting new projects with ASMX Web Services or .NET Remoting. Now that we have your attention, let’s get serious. These two technologies are so 2002! You need to start learning Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) if you haven't already.
(Part 1 of 5): Keynote and Intro to SOA and WCF
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Please note that this months meeting will be on Monday, July 12, 2010, in order to accommodate our speaker Steve Andrews who will be stopping in Dallas while he is on the GeekRoadTrip. Next months meeting we'll return back to the second Wednesday of the month and will cover a connected systems topic.
See you
there!
Todd Stone, President Meeting Details - Presentation: Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks
- Date: Monday, July 12, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where:
Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps:
Bing,
Google
- Cost:
It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP:
rsvp@dfwcsug.com
or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006'
- see Join
Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting
location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000#
for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II. Sponsors
We
will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several
sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our
user group community. - Microsoft has donated some
books and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
- Pluralsight
is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. All other members can
receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- DevExpress has donated a CodeRush license.
- JetBrains
has donated a ReSharper
license.
Be sure to swing by this week for your
chance to win! The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member
of INETA. INETA
provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter. Abstract
Based on real life experience of 8+ hours a day developing with Visual Studio 2010, learn some sweet tips and tricks to tame the IDE. With something new for everyone, these techniques will give you valuable information to start using right away, increase your productivity, and make you wonder how you survived all this time without them.
Bio
 Steve Andrews is an independent consultant, INETA speaker, and Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM. He has been working in technology for over ten years focusing on custom application development and Application Lifecycle Management. Steve is also Microsoft and IBM certified and a community fanatic having led sessions at over 100 events across North America. When he's not developing software solutions or engaging with the community about software technology, Steve is a closet singer and songwriter and plays the guitar and keys. Occasionally, Steve even gets to sleep. Occasionally.
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There will be no June 9th meeting. We will have our officer elections next month in addition to our presentation. Next months topic is still to be determined. Thanks, Todd
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This month Jim Lavin will present on Securing Your Silverlight Apps with Windows Identity Foundation. The abstract for this presentation and Jim's bio are listed below.
See you
there!
Todd Stone, President Meeting Details - Presentation: Securing Your Silverlight Apps with Windows Identity Foundation
- Date:
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where:
Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps:
Bing,
Google
- Cost:
It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP:
rsvp@dfwcsug.com
or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006'
- see Join
Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting
location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000#
for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II. Sponsors
We
will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several
sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our
user group community. - Microsoft has donated some
books and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
- Pluralsight
is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. All other members can
receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- JetBrains
has donated a ReSharper
license.
- TechSmith
has donated a copy of SnagIt along with
some nice swag!
Be sure to swing by this week for your
chance to win! The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member
of INETA. INETA
provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter.
Abstract
This presentation covers the existing application security features provided by Silverlight RIA Services and how to enhance them with the Windows Identity Foundation.
Topics Covered:
- User Authentication
- User Roles
- Integrating Silverlight and RIA Services with WIF
- Using WIF to provide Claims Based Authentication and Authorization
Bio
Jim Lavin is a proven professional with over thirty years experience architecting, developing, supporting and managing customer solutions on Microsoft and Unix platforms. Jim brings a broad range of development experience from the financial, manufacturing, petroleum, pharmaceutical, retail, travel and transportation industries. Jim is a recognized subject matter expert in Airline Systems, Kiosk Applications, Hand-held Applications, Enterprise Services, Services Oriented Architecture and Software Factories.
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This month the D/FW Connected Systems User Group's meeting has been moved back a week and will be held on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Todd Stone will present on Implementing OData, the Open Data Protocol, on Windows using WCF Data Services in .NET 4. There will be a short overview of OData and how it works. Then we'll move into implementing OData producers and consumers with tips along the way.
See you there!
Todd Stone, President Meeting Details - Presentation: Implementing OData - The Open Data Protocol
- Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
- Time: 6:00PM
- Where:
Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500
Dallas, TX 75248)
- Parking Code: 5000#
- Maps:
Bing,
Google
- Cost:
It's free thanks to our sponsors!
- RSVP:
rsvp@dfwcsug.com
or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006'
- see Join
Us On Codezone for more info!)
The meeting
location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000#
for entry.
The Improving offices are located in building II. Sponsors
We
will have FREE food, drinks and a meeting room, courtesy of Improving Enterprises,
and let's not forget the drawing for door prizes for those who attend!
The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to
socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.
We have several
sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our
user group community. - Microsoft has donated some
books and a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
- Pluralsight
is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand!
training for unemployed user group members. All other members can
receive a free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! library by
requesting it directly from here.
- JetBrains
has donated a ReSharper
license.
- TechSmith
has donated a copy of SnagIt along with
some nice swag!
Be sure to swing by this week for your
chance to win! The D/FW Connected Systems user group is a member
of INETA. INETA
provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and
promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft®
.NET user groups. Visit their website for more information and to sign
up for their newsletter. Abstract
Come join us
as Todd Stone presents on Implementing OData - The Open Data Protocol
Bio
Todd Stone is a Senior
Software Developer for HBS Systems in Dallas, TX. He works with
communicating and converting data from a variety of different platforms
including Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and the IBM iSeries (AS/400). He's
active in the local .NET community as President of the DFW Connected
Systems User Group, member of Microsoft's South Central District
Community Guidance Council, and as a speaker at local user groups and
regional events.
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