Charlottesville .Net User Group

Daniel Bewley: Silverlight 2.0 Practical Business Applications - March 19th

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Thank you Daniel for presenting to our user group. Several attendees asked for the slides and source code. Here they are.

DotNET Users Group Presentation.zip

Next Meeting : Wednesday 10/22

AlTenhundfeld — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:58:00 GMT

Topic: ASP.NET MVC

Speaker: Justin Etheredge, Dominion Digital, Inc

Wednesday October 22, 2008 6:30- 8:30pm

Location: SNL Financial

One SNL Plaza
Charlottesville VA 22902
United States
(Map)

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00: Sign In, meet & greet

7:00 - 8:00: Presentation

8:00 - 8:30: Informal discussion, socializing

Description:

ASP.NET MVC is a new framework from Microsoft that allows powerful, flexible, and testable web applications to be built quickly and easily. It represents a completely different paradigm than Web Forms for building web applications.

We are going to discuss the Model View Controller pattern, and show you what it is and why it makes sense to develop web applications using this model. We will then delve into ASP.NET MVC using Scott Guthrie's MVC demo application and give you a high level overview of its structure and workings.

About the speaker:Justin Etheredge is an obsessed software developer living and working in Richmond, VA. He is a Senior Consultant for Dominion Digital and since 2000 he has been creating software applications for a wide range of industries from insurance to healthcare to e-commerce. He is passionate about all things software related, and occasionally speaking and writing about his opinions at his blog "codethinked.com". He believes that creating software should be fun, and not just something you do for a paycheck.

There is no charge for this event and everyone is invited. Food and beverages will be provided.

Thank You Vivus Software for providing the food & beverages.
Thank You SNL for providing the meeting space.

September 18th Meeting: Controlling AJAX when you're out of control

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:21:00 GMT

Topic: Controlling AJAX when you're out of control

Speaker:G. Andrew Duthie, Microsoft Corp.

Thursday September 18, 2008 6:30- 8:30pm

Location: SNL Financial

One SNL Plaza
Charlottesville VA 22902
United States
(Map)

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Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00: Sign In, meet & greet

7:00 - 8:00: Presentation

8:00 - 8:30: Informal discussion, socializing

Description:

While implementing and troubleshooting AJAX functionality in an application is rarely easy, it gets even harder when you don't have complete control over the site where you have to implement it. Shared hosting environments, blog accounts on large blog sites, etc. are situations where you may have only limited control over where and when your javascript gets loaded and executed. In this talk, Microsoft developer evangelist G. Andrew Duthie will walk you through some examples of how you can overcome limitations on such sites, and how to troubleshoot some of the inevitable issues you may run into. Some basic understanding of javascript and AJAX is assumed. Examples will span from simple mouseover image manipulation to implementing controls such as Microsoft's Virtual Earth and Vertigo's Slideshow Silverlight photo gallery.

There is no charge for this event and everyone is invited. Food and beverages will be provided.

July 17th Meeting: Accessing Web Services from Silverlight

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:22:00 GMT

Topic: Accessing Web Services from Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Speaker: Kevin Hazzard

Thursday July 17, 2008 6:30- 8:30pm

Location: SNL Financial (Conference Center)

One SNL Plaza
Charlottesville VA 22902
United States
(Map)

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00: Sign In, meet & greet

7:00 - 8:00: Presentation

8:00 - 8:30: Informal discussion, socializing

Description:

Silverlight is a client-side technology. So it’s not really a part of your SOA strategy, right? You may want to think twice about that. SOAP and WSDL support are coming to the web desktop via Silverlight. And Silverlight has good client support for REST+ JSON/POX and RSS/ATOM-based web services, too. During this discussion, we’ll dive into data serialization, security and cross-domain access policy capabilities inside Silverlight 2 Beta 2. We also talk about the nuances and pitfalls of provisioning your web services for an Internet audience. This presentation will be heavy on coding, demonstration and interactive discussion.

There is no charge for this event and everyone is invited. Food and beverages will be provided.

About Kevin Hazzard:

Kevin is currently the Software Architect for SnagAJob.com in Richmond, Virginia. He has served on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as an advisor to Virginia’s Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS). While serving as a Senior Engineer in the Intel Architecture Lab, Kevin successfully authored patents and designed ciphers, protocols and peer-to-peer networking components used by millions of users worldwide. Kevin has been writing software for 25 years and loves the art and science of his job as much today as he did in the very beginning. Kevin is a father to five, a husband to one and a servant to many others. He speaks a bit of Portuguese and enjoys doing missionary work in South America. He also enjoys motorcycling, welding, hiking, etymology, bird-watching and friendly discussions about world politics and history.

Logo Contest

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:54:00 GMT

As you can see, the user group site currently uses the default Community Server logo. It's the green person in tree logo at the upper left of every page. Oh it's a damn fine logo, but it's the default one, meaning lots of other Community Server installations have this logo. Our own logo would be prefered. A design that reflects the Charlottesville area and .NET would be ideal. But really, we're not picky.

Upload an original design to the photo gallery. I'm not sure about the other rules. Perhaps we'll have some sort of poll to determine the winner. Maybe we'll vote on it during a meeting. Of course this assumes we'll have more than one entry.

Thank You

Charlottesville .NET User Group - Your Thoughts

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:03:00 GMT

My employer, OpenSource Connections, has a very generous BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) policy that allows me to spend up to three months per year pursuing a technology related project of my own choosing. So my first BHAG was helping Eric Meier with the Charlottesville .NET User Group (chodotnug).

Here's my thoughts about the user group:

Meet once every two months, perhaps once a month if members want to meet more often and meetings are well attended.
Each meeting should include an interesting .NET topic, as well as time for socializing. Food and drink will help with the latter. Also make the meeting easy to find and attend.
Presentations should include both INETA speakers and local members.
I've thought that meetings should be at a regular location, which should be a convinient location. Obviously this makes it easier to find and remember the meeting location. Or perhaps local companies could become location sponsors. Would meetings be more interesting if held a company locations around Charlottesville?
Every meeting should include an opportunity for members to say what topics/speakers they would enjoy hearing.

Your Thoughts?

May 15th 6:30 - 8:30PM Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (Downtown Mall)

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:45:00 GMT

Geoff Snowman, Microsoft Corporation: Windows Workflow Foundation
Thursday May 15, 2008 6:30 8:30pm

Charlottesville Business Innovation Council

501 East Main St. (Downtown Mall, below the Market Str. Parking Garage)
Charlottesville VA 22902
United States

Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00: Sign In, meet & greet

7:00 - 8:00: Geoff Snowman: Windows Workflow Foundation

8:00 - 8:30: Informal discussion, socializing

The Charlottesville .NET User Group returns this spring with a presentation by Geoff Snowman of Microsoft Corp. Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of .NET classes, an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio. Windows Workflow Foundation includes support for both system workflow and human workflow across a wide range of scenarios including: workflow within line of business applications, user interface page-flow, document-centric workflow, human workflow, composite workflow for service oriented applications, business rule driven workflow and workflow for systems management.

There is no charge for this event and everyone is invited. Be prepared to let us know what topics/speakers are of interest. Possible future topics include Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008, LINQ, Silverlight 2, Community Server, what else?

Food and beverages will be provided.