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Past Meetings
Date:
03/08/10
Speaker:
Chris Bowen & Jim O'Neil
(Microsoft New England )
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Chris's Blog
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
An Evening in the Cloud
Join your friendly neighborhood Microsoft Developer Evangelists, Chris and Jim, for an open evening delving into Windows Azure, data, cloud computing… and your questions! They have plenty of content and demos at the ready, but they’re happy to drive toward any specific areas that you’d like. From an introduction to the how’s, why’s, and when’s of Windows Azure, to data options including SQL Azure, and productivity with WCF RIA Services, it’s going to be an information-packed meeting!
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
Resources:
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Date:
02/08/10
Speaker:
Rick Martin
(PAR Spring-Miller Systems )
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Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
WPF and the MVVM Design Pattern
This talk covers some cool techniques used to build scalable apps with WPF and Silverlight. We'll introduce the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern and learn how to leverage WPF's resource and command systems, covering a few tips and tricks along the way
Speaker Bio:
Rick Martin has been developing software for over 25 years and is currently a senior software developer for PAR Springer-Miller Systems. As part of the Advanced Product Technologies group Rick evaluates current software technologies, helps establish software design and development techniques, and assists with the future technological direction of the company. PAR Springer-Miller Systems specializes in software solutions for resorts, casinos, and boutique hotels.
Resources:
Presentation materials can be found here: http://home.comcast.net/~r_mart/Presentations/VTDotNet_MVVM_2010-02-09.zip
Here are related links:
wpf.codeplex.com (WPF Toolkit WPF Futures (WPF MVVM Toolkit))
joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com: Josh Smith’s blog (MVVM guru)
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx: Excellent tutorial and introduction to MVVM written by Josh Smith
blog.lab49.com/archives/2650: Another wonderful introduction to MVVM in video form by Jason Dolinger (about 1.5 hours long)
wpfonyx.codeplex.com:Sometimes it is necessary to tightly couple a view to a viewmodel to overcome some issues in WPF and especially Silverlight. Microsofts hope is that with this MVVM framework there will no longer be a need for this tight coupling. Be forewarned this is a very heavy and complicated framework.
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Date:
01/11/10
Speaker:
Rob Hale
(MyWebGrocer.com )
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Rob's Blog
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
PDC 2009 Wrap Up
Rob attended Microsoft Professional Developer Conference in November and learned all kinds of cool stuff that Microsoft is working on for us developers. He'll share what he learned and maybe even let us touch his shiny new Acer laptop that every PDC attendee received!
Speaker Bio:
Rob Hale has spent 15 years in the software industry doing everything from support through design and programming. He has worked on systems used in a variety of industries including health and human services and on-line retail. Rob is currently a Senior Software Engineer with MyWebGrocer in Colchester, VT. His blog is found at bigpigvt.blogspot.com
Resources:
Blog Post: Links from my VT.NET User Group talk
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Date:
12/07/09
Speaker:
VTdotNET Holiday Party
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Location:
[tbd]
Topic:
Nerd Dinner at Asian Bistro in Winooski
In lieu of our monthly meeting, we'll have a purely social geeky gathering of nerdliness and break bread, or chinese noodles as it were, together. Asian Bistro, Winooski (not Williston!)
Please register at http://nerddinner.com/1377
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Date:
11/16/09
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Agile Development with Entity Framework 4
Entity Framework v1 made Agile .NET developers very unhappy because it did not support Persistence Ignorance or the ability to create true POCO objects. But the next version has been created with a lot of input from ALT.NET and Domain Driven gurus. If you want to design a model and wire it up to your objects or forget the model completely and have EF infer all that it needs from your objects, you’re covered. Unit Testing? Repositories? You're still covered. Come see how you can develop your apps in an agile way with the new and improved Entity Framework.
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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Date:
11/10/09
Speaker:
Bob & Chris & Jim MSDN Roadshow
(Microsoft New England )
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Location:
Hilton Burlington
Topic:
MSDN Northeast Road Show: Don't Fear the Coder
Free event, running 9:30 to 3:30, featuring five sessions for developers and architects. Topics include Expression/Silverlight MVVM, ASP.NET Webforms/AJAX, LINQ, finding developer help, and WCF. The full agenda (in all of its themed glory) is at Chris Bowen's blog:Northeast MSDN Road Show: Don't Fear the Coder You *must* register. See the registration link in Chris blog.
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
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Date:
10/26/09
Speaker:
Vermont 3.0!
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Vermont 3.0 Web Site
Location:
Sheraton Burlington
Topic:
2009 Innovation Jam
Check out the Tech Showcase:
The most innovative Vermont companies will exhibit and demonstrate their products in a tech showcase like no other! Drop in on your favorite shop, discover what they’re working on and who they like to hire. Hear from six successful founder CEOs in a series of talks that examines the uniqueness of Vermont’s entrepreneur-founded creative technology companies.
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
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Date:
10/19/09
Speaker:
Jeff Hall & Greg Howe
(Bangore Maine Developers Group Co-Leaders )
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Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Dueling BAND Joes "On The Road" - jQuery and SQL XML
Jeff Hall and Greg Howe are two regular guys who develop software for a living, and together lead the Bangor Area .NET Developers (BAND) user group in Bangor, ME. Jeff is somewhat conservative and well thought out in his approach, while Greg tends to "wing it" and doesn't enjoy having to write test plans and documentation. However, instead of their differences making it impossible for them to work together, they see how they provide ideas and tools to each other. They are excited to bring their minds together on the road and show how differences can work in your favor for really neat solutions.
This session has Jeff showing how you can work with XML natively in SQL Server, Greg showing you how to integrate jQuery into your web apps, and then both Joes will show how you can make a neat data-centric solution using the two technologies together.
Speaker Bio:
Jeff Hall is a software developer for Occupational Health Research in Skowhegan, with experience including ASP.NET, WinForms, unit testing and deployment. Jeff is co-leader of the BAND and can be reached at jeff@bangordevelopers.com
Greg Howe - Greg is co-leader of the BAND with Jeff Hall, and is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer. He's been programming applications since he was 13, maxxing out a Commodore 64. He currently builds web sites by day and night, working as a web software developer for EMHS in Brewer and doing side jobs where he can. He loves doing web work and enjoys it when someone says "That can't be done". Greg can be reached at greg@bangordevelopers.com
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Date:
10/17/09
Speaker:
New England Code Camp (Waltham MA)
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Location:
[tbd]
Topic:
New England Code Camp, Waltham MA
All Day at Microsoft Offices. 45 sessions! Free!
More Info at
http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2009/10/12/code-camp-12-the-schedule.aspx
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Date:
09/12/09
Speaker:
Code Camp!
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Location:
UVM School of Business Admin
Topic:
The 1st Vermont Code Camp
Join Vermont Geeks for a full day of presentations on .NET, PHP and more on Saturday, Sept 12th. We invite local (and out of town) developers to present at the code camp. Submit abstracts by August 15th. Register for this event and submit abstract at thedevcommunity.org.
More Vermont Code Camp info...
Speaker Bio:
Developers and professional speakers all come to present at Code Camps!
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Date:
08/10/09
Speaker:
Zac Morris
(WattMetrics )
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Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Don't Fear the XAML: How Silverlight and WPF development can make you a better developer
Once upon a time a group of really smart, very experienced UI developers got together and asked the question: “WinForms is a really great framework but how can we do better?” XAML is the answer. This talk will explore how Silverlight/WPF can not only help you build better applications more quickly but also how “thinking in XAML” can actually help you become a better developer.
Speaker Bio:
Zac Morris has worked as a developer for the last 10 years and has specialized in .NET development for the past 6. He has built systems for LOB and scientific data management/analysis, environmental sensor data acquisition and tele-operation of large robotic vehicles. Zac is now CTO for WattMetrics, a technology startup specializing in web-based environmental data monitoring systems. He thinks “It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia” is probably the greatest show ever put on television.
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Date:
07/29/09
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
SQL Server Integration Services 2008 Overview
Wednesday July 29th - 6pm to 8pm at Competitive Computing.
354 Mountain View Drive
Colchester, VT 05446
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
Resources:
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Date:
07/20/09
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
[tbd]
Topic:
What's New in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0
We'll take a look at some of the new features in the IDE and in .NET 4.0.
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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Date:
06/10/09
Speaker:
Bob & Chris & Jim MSDN Roadshow
(Microsoft New England )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
MSDN Road Show
The Roadshow returns for tour #9 in June! The full agenda is below, but in summary, these are free, full-day events for developers and architects, covering Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance.
Details at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2009/04/30/announcing-the-summer-2009-northeast-msdn-roadshow.aspx
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
Resources:
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Date:
06/08/09
Speaker:
Rob Hale
(MyWebGrocer.com )
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Rob's Blog
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Creational Design Patterns: Singleton and Factory
Did you know there are different categories of design patterns? Rob will review a couple of design patterns that fall within the Creational patterns category.
You've probably seen the Singleton pattern used along the way, but are you familiar with some of the pitfalls of a poorly implemented Singleton? Not pretty. We'll discuss them.
Additionally, we'll review two flavors of the Factory pattern: the Simple Factory and the Abstract Factory. How they differ and when each is appropriate will be covered.
RSVP via vtdotnet200906.eventbrite.com
Speaker Bio:
Rob Hale has spent 15 years in the software industry doing everything from support through design and programming. He has worked on systems used in a variety of industries including health and human services and on-line retail. Rob is currently a Senior Software Engineer with MyWebGrocer in Colchester, VT. His blog is found at bigpigvt.blogspot.com
Resources:
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Date:
05/18/09
Speaker:
Rick Martin
(PAR Spring-Miller Systems )
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Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
What’s LINQ For, Anyway?
This talk starts with a brief introduction to LINQ and lambda expressions then dives into forming queries and showing the capabilities of LINQ to objects, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to XML. Additionally we’ll cover some cool uses of lambda expressions outside of LINQ
Speaker Bio:
Rick Martin has been developing software for over 25 years and is currently a senior software developer for PAR Springer-Miller Systems. As part of the Advanced Product Technologies group Rick evaluates current software technologies, helps establish software design and development techniques, and assists with the future technological direction of the company. PAR Springer-Miller Systems specializes in software solutions for resorts, casinos, and boutique hotels.
Resources:
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Date:
04/20/09
Speaker:
Eric De Carufel
(Orkestra )
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Eric's blog
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
A glimpse into the parallel universe
There is no more free lunch! The Moore's law is over. If we want more power we need to cross the processor barrier and do work in parallel. In June 2008, Microsoft released its second CTP of Parallel Extensions library. Come with me to see how easy it will be to make that leap of faith into the world of parallel processing. We will see how Task, concurrent collections, lazy initialization, parallel Linq and other tools can help us in this endeavour.
Speaker Bio:
Eric De Carufel is a .NET solution architect for Orckestra in Montreal. He is a specialist in application development with Microsoft .NET Framework. He has more than fifteen years of experience in software design in various domains as transportation, food stores, insurance, engineering, finance and electronic business. Eric is a member of Groupe d'usagers Visual Studio .NET de Montreal at which he gave some presentation. Eric is a Microsoft certified developer (Microsoft Certified Application Developer - MCAD)
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Date:
03/10/09
Speaker:
Bob & Chris & Jim MSDN Roadshow
(Microsoft New England )
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Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
The March 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow
This is a full day of presentations by Chris, Bob and Jim. The event is free and lunch is included. Join us as we cover Windows Azure, .NET Debugging, Programming with F#, Game Development with XNA, SQL Server for Developers, and Effective .NET Practices. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
Resources:
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Date:
03/09/09
Speaker:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar & Jim O'Neil
(Microsoft New England )
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Chris's Blog
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
.NET Q&A with Microsoft's Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neil
Chris, Bob and Jim are here for the MSDN Roadshow all day on Tuesday and will head up our Monday night meeting with a Stump the Chumps style Q&A. Stay tuned for more details and to see if they are serious about doing this all over a plate of Bove's spaghetti! More info at Chris blog
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Date:
02/09/09
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
You Can Do *that* with Entity Framework?
Most intro sessions to EF will show you a little drag & drop databinding. But that doesn’t begin to scratch the surface of the Entity Framework’s capabilities. In this session, you’ll get a look at a variety of EF’s features used while building a layered application. You’ll learn a variety of ways to query, some of the possible customizations of the Entity Data Model, scenarios where Entity SQL totally rocks, how to add business logic to Entity Classes , how to create reusable, Generic code for Entities and more. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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Date:
01/12/09
Speaker:
Mario Cardinal
(Mario Cardinal Inc. )
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Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Best practices to design a modular architecture
This presentation explains how to design using modular abstractions such as “Layer” or “Service”. We will discuss how to apply “top-down” as well as “test-driven” design techniques to implement a modular architecture. You will learn why testability at the module level is the most important attributes of a module. We will discuss how to plan to throw one away to efficiently design the dynamic behavior of an interface and how to manage dependencies to reduce coupling between modules. At the end of this workshop you will understand why software architects needs a unit of modularity that goes beyond object. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mario Cardinal is an independent senior consultant specializing in software architecture. He has almost 20 years of experience in designing large-scale information systems. He speaks regularly at international conferences, including TechEd, Agile2008, DevTeach, and others. He leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. Since 2004, he has hosted the Visual Studio Talk Show, a podcast about software development. For the fourth year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. He also holds the titles of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Team Foundation Server), and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.
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Date:
12/01/08
Speaker:
Klaus Aschenbrenner
(ANECON Software Design & Beratung )
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Klaus' blog
Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
Joint Meeting with Vermont SQL User Group (topic tba)
Speaker Bio:
Klaus Aschenbrenner works as an Software Architect for ANECON (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Data Management Solutions/ISV) in Vienna - Austria. Klaus works with the .NET Framework and especially with the SQL Server 2005 from the very beginnings. In the years 2004 - 2005 Klaus was entitled with the MVP award from Microsoft for his tremendous support in the .NET Community.
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Date:
11/17/08
Speaker:
Carl Lorentson
(Renaissance Information Systems )
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Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Taking Charge of WinForms' RichTextBox Control
Speaker Bio:
At Renaissance Information Systems, Inc. Carl is the leader of a professional staff of programmers dedicated to using the latest technology to meet the growing needs of our clients. Since founding the company in 1994 he as worked with, or overseen projects for, over 75 clients from multinational firms to local non-profits to single-person entrepreneurs. Prior to founding RIS, Carl spent 15 years developing custom applications for multiple industries including healthcare, banking, and agriculture. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from SUNY at Albany in 1979. In his spare time Carl enjoys long-distance bicycling and spending time outdoors with his wife and two sons.
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Date:
10/20/08
Speaker:
Rod Paddock
(Dashpoint Software )
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Code Magazine Editor
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
Silverlight for Business Developers
Isolated Storage, data templates, data grids, calling Web and WCF Services… All unsexy but essential topics when it comes to developing Silverlight 2.0 applications. This talk will demonstrate the various techniques for dealing with moving, consuming and manipulating data in the Silverlight 2.0 environment. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Rod Paddock is the editor of CoDe Magazine. He has been a software developer for more than 12 years and has worked with numerous tools including Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Delphi, and numerous others.Rod is president of Dash Point Software, Inc. Dash Point is an award-winning software development firm that specializes in developing applications for small to large businesses. Dash Point has delivered applications for several corporations including: Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Intel, Microsoft, and the US Coast Guard.Rod is also VP of Development for SQL Server tools maker, Red Matrix Technologies. (www.redmatrix.com)
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Date:
09/15/08
Speaker:
Mark Merchant
(Microsoft/Virtual Earth Business Unit )
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Microsoft Technology Specialist
Location:
GE Healthcare, So. Burlington
Topic:
See where your data impacts your business with Microsoft Virtual Earth
Microsoft Virtual Earth is an integrated set of Web-based services that enable developers to provide unique views of data and develop dynamic online experiences through maps and rich geospatial imagery. Come see how you can use Virtual Earth's controls easily in your web apps along with the web services provided by Virtual Earth. We'll also see how to take location based data from SQL 2008 and put it on the map. Spatially indexing your data allows you to do unique queries like finding locations along a route, or line segment. The session will also offer a preview of the next generation of Virtual Earth Web Services, be the first to see it in action!
More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mark Merchant is a Technology Specialist in the Virtual Earth business unit at Microsoft corporation. He has been with Microsoft for 6 years and held various responsibilities in the mapping technology groups. Currently he is tasked with supporting sales efforts throughout the east coast regions, working with developers and architects who are evaluating, or implementing Microsoft’s Virtual Earth .
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Date:
08/11/08
Speaker:
Nick Petterssen
(Electric Rain )
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Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Designing .NET Apps with Style – A StandOut Case Study
Join Nicholas Petterssen, Director of Product Design for Electric Rain, for a look into how design can differentiate your .NET apps with the new developer/designer workflow Microsoft is touting in .NET 3.0 and beyond. Learn what WPF, Expression Blend and a good interactive designer can do for your projects in the “Sexy App” department and experience how the rich media, animation and 3D capabilities of WPF were utilized by Electric Rain in their next-generation presentation software, StandOut. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Nick Petterssen is the Director of Product Design for Electric Rain, a multimedia software company serving business and design professionals. In this role, Nick researches and leads the development of game-changing products and technologies, including Electric Rain’s StandOut Presentation Solution, a new rich media application that changes the way presentations are created and delivered. Nick’s extensive research on presentations, public speaking and visual communication has transformed him into a thought leader in this space, with a particular expertise in applying software and technology to facilitate more effective communication.
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Date:
07/14/08
Speaker:
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Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
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Date:
06/09/08
Speaker:
VTdotNET Members
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Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
.NET Tips & Tricks from VTdotNETters
Presentations by Carl Lorentson, Nick Fessel and Chris Seiler.
Carl will be present ideas and solutions on the IDE “Designer Error” message, calling shared methods from a generic class, using reflection to call a method via the class, and a solution for showing an object’s value in a combobox when it is not in the combobox’s list.
Nick is going to show us the ins and outs of working with System.IO.SerialPort. (Did you get the pun, there?)
Chris has spent a lot of time with xml/xsl in his work with OpenXML and is going to share what hes learned. More info at Chris blog
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Date:
05/22/08
Speaker:
Bob & Chris & Jim MSDN Roadshow
(Microsoft New England )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
All things .NET from 9am - 4pm
*9:00-10:25 AM - The Strongest LINQ - The Sequel (SQL and Entities)
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10:35 AM -12:00 PM - Leveraging .NET in the Office
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12:45-2:10 PM - The Architecture of RIA - The Silverlight 2.0 Story
*2:20-3:45 PM - ASP.NET's Model View Controller (MVC) - What's All the Fuss About?
Details and Registration More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
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Date:
05/12/08
Speaker:
David Yack
(Colorado Technology Consultants )
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David's blog
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Microsoft Office for the Visual Studio Developer
Building applications that integrate with Microsoft Office or produce Microsoft Office documents doesn’t have to be magic. In this session, we will look at using Visual Studio to build Office Add-ins and Document Templates. Previously, this required a lot of complex code but is simplified by Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). In addition, Microsoft Office now has a new XML File Format we will explore how it can be leveraged server side to produce Microsoft Office documents on the fly.
More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
David Yack is the CTO of Colorado Technology Consultants, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Colorado. As a senior hands’ on technology and business consultant with over 18 years of industry experience, David enjoys developing applications for the Microsoft platforms, specializing in large system architecture , design and integration. David embraced .NET during the final beta days of version 1.0 and has been helping clients migrate and build new applications on the technology, as well as helping to mentor and train their staffs.
David is a Microsoft Regional Director and is also a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. David is a frequent speaker at user group and industry events and is co-author of two NET 2.0 related books. David founded and is on the leadership team for the South Colorado .NET User Group and lives in Colorado Springs with his wife and two kids.
You can always track David down via his blog at blog.davidyack.com where he writes about his .NET adventures or visit his website http://www.davidyack.com.
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Date:
04/30/08
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
SQL Server 2008 Launch Event
Presented by Laura Blood and Roman Rehak
Note this is a Wednesday! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
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Date:
04/14/08
Speaker:
VTdotNET VS2008 Community Champions
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
VTdotNET's Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event
VS2008 officially releases on Feb 28th. VTdotNET's meeting will celebrate the launch with a look at various new features in Visual Studio and lots of great giveaways!
More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
VTdotNET members Mike Soulia and Tom Cooley will be our guides.
Mike Soulia is an independent consultant. He owns Apple Mountain and Kiss the Cook with his wife, Marie. Mike has a degree in engineering and attended graduate school for computer science. Mike has developed software applications for over 20 years. Applications range from embedded control systems to ERP systems for small business. Mike is a Microsoft MCP. He is also an adjunct professor for Vermont Technical College where he teaches computer science. Mike is a member of the Vermont Technical College Advisory Board and enthusiastic supporter of the Vermont DotNet User Group.
Tom Cooley is a Software Engineer at CONIX Systems, Inc., a leader in the development of payments processing solutions for large financial institutions. Tom has been designing and developing applications for more than 15 years, with an emphasis on database development and object-oriented middleware for highly scalable enterprise applications. Tom is a member of and occasional speaker at the Vermont .NET User Group and the Vermont SQL Server User Group.
Resources:
Tom Cooley's Presentation and Demos
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Date:
04/05/08
Speaker:
Code Camp!
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Location:
Microsoft Waltham Office
Topic:
Code Camp NINE! Sat-Sun April 5-6
More info coming soon More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Developers and professional speakers all come to present at Code Camps!
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Date:
03/10/08
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Data Access Options in .NET 3.5
With .NET 3.5, developers now have to choose between “classic” ADO.NET, LINQ to SQL and a number of options using the soon-to-be-released Entity Framework. This session will compare and contrast DataSets & DataReaders, Object Services and Entity Client, Entity SQL, LINQ to Entities and LINQ to SQL providing guidance as to which methods are appropriate in particular scenarios. We will also examine this functionality with respect to both creating new solutions and plugging the Entity Framework into existing applications. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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Date:
02/11/08
Speaker:
Sarah Cameron
(InCycle Software )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2008
VS2008 Pro now includes the Unit Testing features that were previously only available in the VSTS sku. Sarah Cameron, a Visual Studio Team System expert from InCycle Software (www.incyclesoftware.com), will demonstrate how to use and really benefit from Unit Testing in VS2008 using this built in tool.. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Sarah Cameron is a consultant specializing in Visual Studio Team System, with experience on projects from inception to delivery following well-defined software processes. Sarah has been working as a consultant for Incycle Software (www.incyclesoftware.com) a Montreal based firm specializing in Team System consulting services. She has been assisting ISVs and larger corporations successfully plan and deploy Visual Studio Team System. She may be contacted at sarah.cameron@incyclesoftware.com
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Date:
01/14/08
Speaker:
Jeff McWherter
(A.J. Boggs and Company )
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Jeffs Blog
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
ASP.Net Performance and Optimization
So, you’ve created a slick ASP.NET web application, but the performance isn’t what you were expecting. In this session I will demonstrate tools to help find the bottlenecks and offer advice on resolving them. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Jeff McWherter is the Director of Software Development at A.J. Boggs and Company in Okemos, MI. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science, and has twelve years of professional experience in software development. He is a founding member and current Program Director for the Greater Lansing Users for .NET (GLUG.net). He enjoys profiling code, applying design patterns, finding obscure namespaces, and long walks in the park. His lifelong interest in programming began with a Home Computing Magazine in 1983, which included an article about writing a game called Boa Alley in BASIC.
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Date:
01/09/08
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
SQL Server 2005 Worst Practices (Roman Rehak)
Time and again, you will hear people speak about "best practices" and "preferred practices" in SQL Server 2005 and 2008, but nobody ever warns you about the things you shouldn't be doing. Learn how to make your SQL server prone to SQL Injection, how to use the CLR for all data access, how to use cursors instead of DML, and so on. Come and learn from the masters of worst practices! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
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Date:
12/06/07
Speaker:
VTdotNET Holiday Party
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
VTdotNET Holiday Party & VS2008 InstallFest! 4:15 - 6pm
Following the MSDN Roadshow, Chris Bowen and Bob Familiar will stick around to make our Holiday Party extra special this year, with a Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest. Bring your laptops or heck, even your desktops, and we will install the VS2008 Pro Trial bits. Then you'll get FULL LICENSES for VS2008 Pro in the mail. The number of licenses is limited, so those will be made available first to InstallFest attendees who were registered attendees of the Roadshow and then on a first come/first serve basis to others who show up for the InstallFest. We will also have lots of books and training CD's to raffle off. And lastly, since this will also be our Holiday party, it's a potluck, so bring some food or drink (since it's at the college, this is non-alcoholic) to share with your fellow geeks! More info on the installfest at: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/11/30/visual-studio-2008-installfests-in-the-northeast.aspx. More info at Chris blog
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Date:
12/06/07
Speaker:
Bob & Chris & Jim MSDN Roadshow
(Microsoft New England )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow December Edition
Full Day of Free Training!
1) Visual Studio 2008: The Accelerated AP/Honors Class
2) The Multi-Tenant Data Architecture
3) "You Are the Strongest LINQ!": Effective Language Integrated Query
4) Expression Studio for the Designer-Wannabe
More info and registration links at: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/11/16/bob-and-chris-msdn-roadshow-december-edition.aspx
More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
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Date:
11/12/07
Speaker:
Russ Fustino
(Microsoft )
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MSDN Presenter
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Russ' Toolshed Returns!! 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 as he brings you demos and discussion about his favorite developer tools. Attend this session and see tools including but not limited to: Fiddler, 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”! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Russ wisely shelved dreams of rock 'n 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 experience and reportedly passed all three MCAD exams in a 28-hour period – an experience he doesn't recommend to anyone. 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 50,000 developers at 1,300 events. Russ also has expertise in developing Visual Basic and Web-based solutions using Microsoft tools. Before joining Microsoft seven years ago, Russ worked as a VB instructor, headed up a development department, and created several client/server applications and system software products. He’s MCP certified and his specialties include development with VB.NET, XML Web services, ASP.NET, 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.
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Date:
10/08/07
Speaker:
VTdotNET PubClub
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Location:
RiRa's
Topic:
VTdotNET PubClub at RiRa's: Group Discussions on AJAX, Unit Testing and Build Automation
The format of this event is discussion (with or without your laptops as visual aides.)
Topic #1 led by Laura Blood: ASP.Net AJAX: More efficient and interactive web pages, free control toolkit. What's not to love? No really, let's talk. Who's using Ajax for what? Who's just thinking about it? We’ll share pro’s, con’s and questions.
Topic #2 led by Rob Hale: Let's talk build automation. Why you are doing it (or might want to)? Which tools are available (MSBuild, NAnt, CruiseControl.NET)? Share your experiences and benefit from the experience of others.
Topic #3 led by Tom Cooley: Unit testing - do you or don't you? Test first or test later (if there's time)? What constitutes a good unit test? How to design for testability? Let's discuss these and more issues surrounding the pros and cons of this aspect of software development. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
VTdotNET PubClub is a somewhat less than formal meeting with no powerpoints, no projector and no screen. There will be a focused topic planned for discussion. Feel free to bring your laptops. Just try not to spill beer on them. Order food & drinks right off the menu. (Sorry, we won't be covering your tab.)
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Date:
10/02/07
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
What's New in SQL Server 2008
Rob Walters from Microsoft is coming to give us the inside scoop on SQL Server 2008.
SQL Server 2008 is the next release within the third generation of SQL Server products from Microsoft. Grab on to your seat as this presentation will be a fly through of new features and capabiities of SQL Server 2008 (Demos included!). Topics to be discussed include the new Declarative Management Framework, Resource Governor, new Date and Time data types and spatial support within the SQL engine. Come to just listen or bring your list of questions, issues or concerns about SQL Server. It will be a very productive and enjoyable evening! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
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Date:
09/17/07
Speaker:
Mark Mullin
(Vibrant 3D )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Dynamic SOA Services in WCF
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is specifically designed to ease the development of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). One goal of SOA well supported by WCF is the concept of contracts between services and their customers, represented in WCF by DataContracts. DataContracts represent clear and unequivocal definitions of the exact messages exchanged, where the definitions are specific and can easily be constructed, parsed, and validated on either end of the communication channel.
Loose coupling is another basic goal of most SOA architectures, where the goal is to change or update services in a running system, in essence completely detaching the service framework from the services that it offers. In this way, a system can stay in continuous operation, even when the mix of services it provides change over time.
The combination of these two seemingly conflicting goals is possible, even relatively easy in the WCF framework. By combining these goals, individual services can present strong contracts for communication with external entities, yet these contracts are completely separate from the communication framework and system infrastructure. This means that individual services can be strongly typed through their contracts, yet loosely coupled to the environment that hosts them.
This presentation will focus on the concrete details of a mechanism that allow any number of services to be exposed through a common endpoint, using DataContracts to define the organization of the exchanged data. The necessary code to load these services dynamically, and to ensure there is no coupling between the operating framework and the actual services will be presented. At the conclusion of this talk, participants will have enough information to know exactly how to dynamically attach any number of dynamically loaded services to a common endpoint, and how these services can be changed at any point during the operation of the system. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mark Mullin is a consulting architect with a background in both applications and systems software. He was one of the original creators of the TurboTax engine as well as a long time associate at Taligent, the operating system company that almost could. He’s also run R&D for game companies and worked on a number of state of the art applications for the U.S. government. He’s worked with Windows since 1.03, with a half decade spent in Macintosh land. He also wrote two books on C++, Smalltalk, and object oriented programming in the early ‘90s.
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Date:
09/10/07
Speaker:
Bob & Chris & Jim MSDN Roadshow
(Microsoft New England )
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Location:
Sheraton Burlington
Topic:
Dynamic Languages, Silverlight, VS Productivity and Software as a Service
They're back. Bob & Chris are coming to Burlington for another full day of free training. See http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/09/09/the-september-roadshow-is-underway.aspx for more details and to register. They will have MSPress books on LINQ and free passes to REMIX07 Boston! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Chris Bowen, Bob Familiar and Jim O'Neill are Developer Evangelists for Microsoft New England.
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Date:
08/13/07
Speaker:
Richard Hale Shaw
(The Richard Hale Shaw Group )
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Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Moving Up to C# 3.0 and LINQ: What's In It For Me?
LINQ *appears* to be a great technology for searching XML documents (XLINQ) or databases (DLINQ) -- is it worth the bother for middle-tier developers? And what's all the noise about C#3.0? Should you really care about lambda expressions, extension methods and deferred execution of custom iterators? And how does it all work under-the-hood, anyway?
Come to this talk and be prepared to judge for yourself; after all, just because Microsoft says it's good, doesn't make it so: look at the mess made by COM-based technologies in the 90s.
In this talk, Richard will show you how C#3.0 and LINQ really work, and how they're drawn from C# 2.0 features that you already have in front of you today. (If you're a VB.NET developer: most of the key concepts will apply to VB9.0 as well.) He'll show you how -- and when -- to leverage lambda expressions and extension methods, and how you can use these even when in writing middle-tier or front-end code. You'll even learn how to use LINQ features in under .NET2.0 (yes, even though it's actually a .NET3.5 technology -- but don't try this at home). Finally, he'll show you how so much of LINQ is based on IEnumerable -- and how you can leverage this design approach in your libraries today to better prepare for LINQ next year. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Richard Hale Shaw is the founder and CEO of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, which has provided consulting and training services to software developers since 1993, and presently specializes in the .NET Framework, C#, VB.NET, XML, and UML. Richard Hale Shaw has been a visible force in the Windows developer community since 1988: he was a Contributing Editor to both PC Magazine and Microsoft Systems Journal (now MSDN magazine) from 1988-1996, he was Windows and COM Track Chair for the Software Development Conference from 1990-2000 and is presently .NET Track Chair for that conference, he created the Visual C++ Conference and the DevWeek Conference (in the UK), he’s been the C# Live! Track Chair since for the VSLive! since Fall 2002, and occasionally speaks at other developer conferences (such as VSConnections) as well. Richard is an articulate writer and speaker on topics dear to the hearts of software developers and an outspoken critic of broken devtools. You can reach him via www.RichardHaleShawGroup.com.
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Date:
07/09/07
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
ADO.NET Entity Framework Overview
The Entity Framework is the core of Microsoft's evolving data platform and has many layers of abstraction to give developers access to data, client-side views and schemas, as well as mapping of data to objects. This session will give you an understanding of what the Entity Framework is all about. We will inspect it's most important moving parts and learn basics of querying with Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities. You will also learn how to easily access it's highest level of abstraction in common databinding scenarios. Lastly the session will tempt you with the potential of more complex scenarios and ways in which Microsoft is building services on top of the Entity Framework. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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Date:
06/18/07
Speaker:
Keith Pleas
(Guided Design )
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INETA Speaker
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Designing for Operations
Understanding an application's system performance and overall health in the field is key to a successful deployment. We will take a look at how to model the best approaches to system management using a domain specific modeling language (i.e. unique to system deployment) which will allow us to see the entire picture of an applications deployment and how to tackle keeping tabs on its health. In addition to the models we will also look at how to make an applications health status visible to management tools. This will including looking at the exciting and new event logging features as well as how Windows Management and Instrumentation and Performance Counters play a role. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Keith is one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and is the Editorial Chair for VSLive 2003. He is also a Contributing Editor to "Visual Studio Magazine", has developed Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith also serves as an advisor to the INETA board and is the liaison for the INETA Speakers Bureau.
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Date:
05/14/07
Speaker:
Mike Soulia
(VTTech College )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Windows Presentation Foundation and Expression
More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mike Soulia is an independent consultant. He owns Apple Mountain and Kiss the Cook with his wife, Marie. Mike has a degree in engineering and attended graduate school for computer science. Mike has developed software applications for over 20 years. Applications range from embedded control systems to ERP systems for small business. Mike is a Microsoft MCP. He is also an adjunct professor for Vermont Technical College where he teaches computer science. Mike is a member of the Vermont Technical College Advisory Board and enthusiastic supporter of the Vermont DotNet User Group.
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Date:
05/14/07
Speaker:
Laura Blood
(Blue Note Computing )
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INETA Community Launch Team Member
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Windows Services
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Date:
04/16/07
Speaker:
Griffith Townsend
(6N Systems )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Introduction to 2D & 3D Game Development Using the XNA Framework
Shall we play a game? How about we make one instead?
Game development, traditionally, has been a tricky field to get involved in, and even more so for .Net developers. While a .Net developer could download the DirectX SDK and get to work on Windows games right away, a separate (and expensive) SDK was needed to build games for the XBox 360. To make matters worse, large portions of code written for one environment would not be reusable in another environment, extending development time.
Fortunately, someone at Microsoft was listening to developer complaints. Last November, Microsoft released the 1.0 version of the XNA Game Development Express Kit, which provides a development environment designed to make it easier to develop games for Windows and the XBox 360. XNA makes game development more accessible, and has spawned a new gaming community full of resources for the beginning game developer.
Join Griff Townsend as he introduces us to the XNA Framework in the context of 2D game development. You will learn about the Game Engine, Drawing and manipulating actors (including using controllers), Collision detection, and adding audio. C# Source code and presentation materials will be available. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Griff Townsend is a Senior Software Engineer for 6N Systems in Wilton, NY; an adjunct instructor for ITT Tech; the Vice President of the Tech Valley .Net Users Group; and a Gamer. In addition to over ten years of web- and windows- development experience, he has also taught Software Development for Syracuse University. He is a Certified Microsoft Developer in .Net, as well as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
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Date:
03/12/07
Speaker:
Community Launch Team: Mike Soulia and Rob Rohr
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Community Launch 07: Vista and .NET 3.0
This session will be in two parts. First, Mike takes a look at the new Vista OS and .NET 3.0. Although the subject is broad, the main features will be illustrated using a Soduko demo. This demo shows the major components of .NET 3.0 in action – WF, WCF, WPF, and Microsoft Blend. New Vista features will be highlighted throughout the demo.
Rob will focus on security in your applications that will run on Vista such as various aspects of making existing apps Vista compatible (shimming, etc.), how to keep your apps from unnecessarily triggering UAC requests, new security scenarios that are now possible using CardSpace, RealID, etc. and more cool security tidbits. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mike Soulia is an independent consultant. He owns Apple Mountain and Kiss the Cook with his wife, Marie. Mike has a degree in engineering and attended graduate school for computer science. Mike has developed software applications for over 20 years. Applications range from embedded control systems to ERP systems for small business. Mike is a Microsoft MCP. He is also an adjunct professor for Vermont Technical College where he teaches computer science. Mike is a member of the Vermont Technical College Advisory Board and enthusiastic supporter of the Vermont DotNet User Group.
Rob Rohr is a developer for the UVM School of Business Administration. He came to UVM from the telecommunications industry where he worked for five years as a regional network administrator for TDS Telecom and its subsidiary, American Communications Consultants, Inc. Robs education has been focused in the area of electrical engineering and computer hardware design. This education has instilled in him a fascination surrounding all manner of high and low tech toys. His office is a veritable playpen (although some say pigpen). His responsibilities include ensuring the health and well being of the BSAD Server Farm, and the continued niftiness of the Business School Web site.
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Date:
02/12/07
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Data Driven Websites with Linq to SQL
Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a set of features coming in the Orcas release of Visual Studio that enable compilers to understand and implement query logic over in-memory collections of objects. LINQ to SQL is an implementation of LINQ that allows you to map .NET objects to your database and then query against the object using the common LINQ syntax which gets translated to TSQL automatically. This session provides a developer overview of leveraging LINQ to SQL to build data-driven web applications including a look at the design tools that are being created. This talk takes an in-depth look at LINQ to SQL support with ASP.NET Web Forms, building an Object-Relational Mapping layer and using the ASP.NET data Controls to leverage LINQ to SQL functionality. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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- May CTP : Lots of documentation and the 101+ Samples Microsoft
- Microsofts “The LINQ Project” website
- ADO.NET on MSDN
- ADO.NET Team Blog
- Orcas Forums (ADO.Net & LINQ sub-forums)
- Blogs: Scott Guthrie, Roger Jennings, Fabrice Marquerie, Frans Bouma, Sahil Malik, David Hayden, Bill Wagner, many more
- Feb CTP will be coming out by early March 2007
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Date:
01/08/07
Speaker:
VTdotNET Members
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Our Favorite Dev Tools
Vermont.NET members share their favorite tools for development. Contact info@vtdotnet.org if you would like to show off a utility that you can't live without! More info at Chris blog
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Date:
12/11/06
Speaker:
VTdotNET Holiday Party
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Location:
Julie's House in Huntington
Topic:
VTdotNET Fifth Annual Holiday Party
Happy Holidays. We'll gather this year at Julie's house in Huntington. This is a potluck, so bring food and/or drink. Please RSVP for and request directions. More info at Chris blog
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Date:
11/13/06
Speaker:
Joe Stagner
(Microsoft )
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MSDN Program Manger
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Microsoft AJAX:What's it all about?
Everyone is talking about AJAX, but do we understand what its really all about? In this session Joe will provide an overview of Microsofts AJAX products and strategies, discuss how AJAX changes the way we design web applications and dig under the covers of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas) to show some of the most interesting features. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Joe didn't leave us! He just got a new job with Microsoft. Joe Stagner is a Program Manager in Microsoft Corporation’s Developer Tools and Platform Group and has been with Microsoft since 2001 focusing on highly scalable and performant web application architectures, multiplatform interoperability and software security. Joe brings 30 years technical and business strategy experience to Microsoft which affords him a unique experiential perspective.
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Date:
11/07/06
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
Speaker:Susan Wisowaty, Microsoft; message from Roman Rehak: I would highly encourage you to consider attending our meeting on Thursday. I've seen a couple of presentations on VSTE for Database Professionals at the PASS conference in November and in my opinion it is the most useful (and needed) SQL Server tool coming out this year. There are many features in the product to make life of a development DBA much easier, including script generation (written from scratch and much better than the one used in Enterprise manager and SQL Server Management. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
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Date:
10/21/06
Speaker:
Code Camp!
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Location:
Microsoft Waltham Office
Topic:
Code Camp 6!!!
Register and/or Submit Sessoins at www.thedevcommunity.org! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Developers and professional speakers all come to present at Code Camps!
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Date:
10/02/06
Speaker:
Christopher DeGuise
(Pragmatic Technologies, Inc. )
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Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
MS Build and PowerShell
What do make files and batch files have to do with development? Everything. Most developers shutter at the thought of gluing their build system together with tools that are extremely different then the development environment that is in use daily. This talk will expose you to MsBuild and PowerShell. MsBuild is the new "nmake" in the Microsoft development tool chain but goes one step further. Its part of the .NET 2.0 framework. While not in RTM PowerShell is the new shell that uses the .NET framework for its scripting environment. This is the evolution from the text based shell. This talk will expose you to the basics of this powerful new environment. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Christopher DeGuise is the co-founder of Pragmatic Technologies, Inc specializing in the development of custom information systems. He is passionate about technology and more importantly what problems can be solved with it. He enjoys teaching about technology as much as using it. He currently serves on the Champlain College's advisory board for the Software Engineering program, and teaches several software engineering courses including the .NET series. Before co-founding Pragmatic Technologies, Christopher was a principal software engineer with IDX Systems in Burlington, VT. Chris received his B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology from Vermont Technical College.
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Date:
09/26/06
Speaker:
MSDN EVENTS
(Microsoft )
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Location:
Wyndham Hotel, Burlington
Topic:
MSDN Event:Get Connected with the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 (and Beyond)
These days, it seems like everything's talking. Smart Client applications are sending emails and uploading and downloading files from the Internet. Browsers are talking to Web servers asynchronously. And enterprise systems are using a myriad of Web Services, .NET Remoting, and other technologies to get the job done. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Conjure up some new coding magic with MSDN Events. You'll get the inside scoop on the latest tools and technologies from the best developers in the business. Brush up your skills and compare notes with your peers. Don't miss these free, live events in your local area.
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Date:
09/11/06
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Asynchronous Programming with ASP.NET 2.0
Asynchronous programming makes so much sense for web applications but is often tough to acheive. With .NET 2.0, there are a number of new methods to simplify asynchronous development. These can be found in web pages, in ADO.NET, in Web Services and the component model base classes. This session will examine these various ways to leverage asynchronous programming in your web development and make suggestions for which methods are appropriate for particular scenarios. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
Resources:
Raffle 
Syncfusion Essential Studio
Powerpoints and Demo code Julie Lerman session: Asynchronous ASP.NET 2.0 Powerpoint & Demos (download link coming soon) Tom Cooley, CONIX Systems
Decorator Pattern Session Powerpoint and Demos
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Date:
08/14/06
Speaker:
Paul Litwin
(Deep Training )
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INETA Speaker
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
ASP.NET 2.0 Data Control Tips and Tricks
We've all seen the basic drag and drop demos of the 2.0 Data Controls, but you don't build solutions using demo code. In this session, you'll dig deeper into the Data Controls and the Data Source Controls. During this session, you'll learn such things as how to add drop-down and check-box fields, how to set a default field value for inserts, how to update database fields that don't appear in a FormView or DetailsView, how to create GridView controls that can be bound to different DataSets on the fly, and how to deal with Identity columns during inserts. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, SQL Server, and related technologies. Paul is a programming manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer owned training company specializing in .NET developer training (www.deeptraining.com). Paul has authored a number of books including ASP.NET for Developers (SAMS) and Access 2002 Enterprise Developer’s Handbook (SYBEX) and has written articles in a variety of magazines, including MSDN Magazine and PC World. Paul is the conference chair of Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau.
Resources:
You can find the slides and demos from Paul's session on ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls Tips & Tricks on his website at www.deeptraining.com/litwin.
R A F F L E S !!! 
Spreadsheet for ASP.NET
val. $899
www.fpoint.com | 
Object Relational Management Tool for VS2005
val. $350
www.genom-e.com | Both of these licenses came in the INETA Swag Mailing.
So thanks to INETA as well as FarPoint and Genome. |
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Date:
07/17/06
Speaker:
Susan Wisowaty
(Microsoft Corp. )
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MSDN Developer Community Champion
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Introduction to Windows Presentation Founation (aka Avalon)
Windows Vista is poised to revolutionize desktops worldwide, so get set to build applications that take advantage of this brave new user experience. Youll see the new approach to building highly visual, interactive and exciting applications in this first look at the Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named Avalon). Youll also get the lowdown on all the new players, including Visual Studio 2005, WinFX and Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer. Well explore how XAML can represent even the most complex user interface in a declarative fashion, eliminating the need for custom controls, 'owner draw' code, or other developer-centric techniques that were typically required to customize appearance in Windows Forms and Win32. Finally, youll learn how WPFs styling and template mechanisms enable both developers and designers to collaborate without stepping on each others toes. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Susan Wisowaty is a Developer Community Champion on Microsoft's MSDN Events team. She has trained thousands of people in Microsoft technologies at CTECs and colleges, and holds Microsoft certifications as a Database Administrator, Solutions Developer and Trainer (MCDBA, MCSD, MCT). Before joining the Microsoft team, Susan spent most of her career working as an independent consultant, specializing in identifying core business needs and translating them into workable technical solutions. Her most exciting project? Developing an election system for a local TV station that enabled live coverage on election night. Susan lives with her husband in Burlington, Vermont, and spends her downtime skiing, mountain biking, motocross racing, and taming her three sons.
Resources:
The Infragistics NetAdvantage family of products is a multi-platform, comprehensive set of presentation layer components for building commercial class user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Tablet PC, JavaServer™ Faces and Windows Presentation Foundation applications. Our advanced user interface controls help you provide the familiar look and feel your users expect. |
NET Advantage
$1,000 value!
Thanks to Infragistics and INETA
for this generous raffle item! | | ...and Courtesy of Susan and MSDN: A Pocket PC! |
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Date:
06/19/06
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
Susan Wisowaty, MSDN DCC:What's new in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005
Susan has been doing a 6-part webcast serices on MSDN. This is one of the sessions. We get it LIVE! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
Resources:
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Date:
06/12/06
Speaker:
The Portal Guys
()
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Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Portal Night: Community Server, Sharepoint and DotNetNuke
Come get a look at some the most popular .NET portals. Dave Burke shows off Telligent's Community Server. Paul Swider will give us a lap around Sharepoint. Jon Limmer will talk about the Green Mt Beverage website that is based on DotNetNuke! More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Dave Burke [Telligent], Paul Swider [OnClickSolutions], Jon Limmer [Green Mountain Beverage]
Resources:
...and....NET Newbie Session: GE Healthcare's Rob Hale presents on "Event Driven Development and the Observer Pattern"
Dundas Gauge for .NET helps you to instantly view and analyze your Key Performance Indicators and other data in real-time. Featuring a wide range of customizations and abilities, it is perfect for creating sophisticated Digital Dashboards and other Data Visualization solutions for Web or WinForms applications. |
Our last 4 copies of this book. The updated edition
for ASP.NET 2.0 RTM is due out SOON from A-W. | |
| *Raffle Winners will be asked to review software on the VTdotNET software evals page |
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Date:
05/11/06
Speaker:
Yair Alan Griver (aka "YAG")
(Microsoft Corp. )
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Microsoft Group Manager
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Standardizing access to data with LINQ (note THURSDAY nght)
[Note that Alan is coming to Vermont after giving this talk as the keynote at DevTeach in Montreal. (www.DevTeach.com)] This session will give us a glimpse of an upcoming version of Visual Studio and .NET as it applies to Language INtegrated Query (LINQ). We'll cover how LINQ can be used to query objects, databases and XML and talk about how the project was started and has progressed and where it might be heading. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produce the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Alan is focusing on making Microsoft’s products the best data environments for developers. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into VB.NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was CIO at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecomm (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company. Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and VB, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.
Resources:
Develop faster. Scan your projects for hidden bugs, unused code, performance issues and more. Learn how to build reliable .NET applications the right way.
currently for VS2002 & VS2003 | 
One dozen copies of this indispensable book! |
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Date:
05/04/06
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
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Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
(NOTE: THURSDAY event) Roman Rehak on "Native XML Web Services in SQL Server 2005"
NULL More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Our "sister" group, the Vermont SQL Server Special Interest Group was founded in April 2003 by a group of professional developers and DBAs to create a community for learning and sharing knowledge. VTSQL usually meets the third Monday of the month, in the Burlington area and is a special interest group affiliated with the Vermont Dot Net User Group.
Resources:
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Date:
04/10/06
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
5 Supposedly Scary things about .NET that Don't Have to Be
.NET finally enables Visual Basic developers with some functionality and concepts that have no equivalent match in Visual Basic 6.0. Among these are topics that many developers (VB and C#) typically tend to avoid when learning .NET but they really dont need to be so intimidating. This session will delve into five of these daunting challenges - delegates, reflection, threading, Code Access Security (CAS) and declarative programming. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
Resources:
Powerpoint
,
Demo Code
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Date:
03/13/06
Speaker:
Stephen Forte (INETA Speaker)
(Corzen, Inc. )
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INETA Speaker
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
XML in SQL Server 2005 and VS2005
Blogs, Web Services and general interoperability has proliferated the use of XML in recent years. With all of that XML out there, there needs to be an easy way to query and manipulate it. SQL Server 2005 supports XML technologies fully with its XML Data Type. SQL Server XML allows validation and schema support in an XML column so you can create full end to end XML solutions with SQL Server. The latest spec from the W3C for XML Query or XQuery allows you to query XML data in a structured SQL like format. XQuery makes it very easy to retrieve and manipulate XML in and outside the database. This session will look at how to use this new datatype and XQuery in your ASP .NET, WebServices and Windows Forms applications as well as using XQuery to browse, host, search and manipulate XML. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Stephen Forte has many years of experience as a developer, entrepreneur, consultant and executive. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, CTTM, and Advisor DevCon and others conferences around the world. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region. He has written several books on database development and is technical editor of VB/SQL Advisor Magazine, where he also writes a monthly column. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. stevef@corzen.com
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Date:
02/13/06
Speaker:
Laura Blood & Roman Rehak
(Blue Note Computing/Competitive Computing )
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PASS & INETA Community Launch Team event
Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
SQL Server 2005 Launch Party and Presentations
What's new in SQL Server 2005 for the .NET Developer More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
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Date:
02/13/06
Speaker:
Laura Blood
(Blue Note Computing )
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INETA Community Launch Team Member
Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
SQL Server 2005 Launch Party
What's new in SQL Server 2005 for the .NET Developer More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
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Date:
01/09/06
Speaker:
Laura Blood
(Blue Note Computing )
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INETA Community Launch Team Member
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Special VS2005 Launch Presentation
As part of the INETA Community Launch Team, Laura is being given special training on VS2005 and SQL Server 2005 for the launch of these products. She will present to us the things that she has found the most useful and interesting in these packages during her training. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
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Date:
12/19/05
Speaker:
VTdotNET Holiday Party
()
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Location:
[tbd]
Topic:
VTdotNET 4th Annual Holiday Party!!
Our Annual Holiday party. This year we did somethng quite different than ou past potlucks. Paul Swider arranged for a party held at Parima Thai, with great appetizrs and even a wonderful local band providing music. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
Thanks to sponsorship from KnowledgeWave,
Bluehouse Group,
PKC and
Timberline Interactive to
make this happen.
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Date:
11/17/05
Speaker:
Rob Howard (note THURSDAY!)
(Telligent Systems )
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ASP.NET Rock Star
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
ASP.NET 2.0 Tips & Tricks
ASP.NET 2.0 is filled with all sorts of new features. While this is not an introductory session and will assume some basic familiarity of ASP.NET 2.0 it does provide a nice tour of a wide set of ASP.NET capabilities. We will look at Cross Page Posts, Site Navigation, Wizard Control, Url rewriting, as well as learn how to build a web based RSS reader with "zero" code! (If there is time: CodeSmith 3.0 Tips & Tricks
CodeSmith is an advanced, template-driven code generation tool that helps software developers be more productive. In this session we will explore some of great tips and tricks that show off some of the awesome capabilities of this tool. The format will be fast paced and cover everything from custom templates, showing off news feature of CodeSmith 3.0, and using some of the awesome built-in templates) More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Rob Howard, formerly a senior member of the Microsoft .NET Framework design team, founded Telligent Systems, Inc. in 2004. As part of the original Microsoft .NET Framework team, Rob contributed to ASP.NET where he helped design many of the core features that millions of software developers use daily. In addition to Rob, our team’s foundation consists of thought leaders in the Microsoft developer space.
Resources:
download:
Rob's Powerpoint
download:
Rob's Demos
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Date:
10/17/05
Speaker:
Tim Ewald
(Mindreef )
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Web Services Legend
Location:
VT Tech, Williston Campus
Topic:
Top Ten Hands-On Tips and Tricks for Implementing ASP.NET Web Services
With any software, there's the theory and the practice. ASP.NET Web services have been around for almost five years now and a lot of lessons have been learned about how to use them effectively. This session presents concrete tips for building applications that expose services and the clients that consume them. Topics include how to handle complex data types, including results from database queries, the share types across multiple services, how to control the details of your service contract from code without writing WSDL, how to stream data in and out of a service, and more. This is a must-attend session for anyone struggling with tough ASMX issues. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Tim Ewald helped shape technical requirements for the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) basic profile as part of the original WS-I basic profile working group. He is now a senior member of MindReef's technical staff, focused on best practices for designing and developing Web services and SOA. Before joining MindReef, Tim was a Program manager Lead at Microsoft, where he was co-creator of the MSDN XML Web Services Developer Center. Mr. Ewald was also the primary architect of MSDN2, an XML-based publishing Infrastructure in use at Microsoft.com. Tim is an internationally known speaker and educator, as well as the author of Transactional COM+: Building Scalable Applications and Effective COM: 50 Ways to Improve Your COM and MTS-based Applications—as well as articles for several leading trade publications and Web sites including MSDN magazine and XML.com.
Resources:
Powerpoint
for this presentation
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Date:
09/19/05
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Topic:
Network Awareness and Mobile PC: Using Windows XP Network Aware APIs
PDC 05 is happening in L.A. Sept 12 - 16. This is Microsoft's premiere developer event where Microsoft shows off all of their upcoming software. This will be a very informal presentation of some of what Julie has seen while at PDC 05. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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Date:
08/08/05
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Whats New in ADO.NET 2.0
ADO is here to stay and Microsoft just keeps making it better. ADO.NET has been fine tuned to increase ease of coding, flexibility, and performance, as well as adding better integration with SQL Server. From the provider, independent data access to asynchronous SQL Commands, to batch processing, to the beauty of the DataTable class now implementing iXMLSerializable, this session will run through the many wonderful enhancements that make ADO.NET 2.0 Evolutionary not Revolutionary. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
Resources:
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PowerPoint
- Demos
_____.NET
NEWBIE SESSION_____
Mike Soulia from
Kiss the Cook and
Apple Mountain
ADO.NET
(in .NET 1.1) Introduction
Download Presentation and Demo Code
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Date:
07/11/05
Speaker:
Kathleen Dollard
(GenDotNet )
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Code Gen Maven
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Tracing in VS2003 and VS2005
Tracing is the EKG of your application. Its a window that lets you watch your application as it runs, along with configuration knobs and switches to control the output when youre outputting a trace. .NET 2003 introduced a solid tracing mechanism under the hood. Unfortunately, programmer access to this mechanism is so poor that almost no one uses tracing today. While its been almost entirely ignored by the press, 2005 offers a new programmatic interface for tracing, along with new configuration support. This new interface makes the most fundamental change possible to tracing it changes tracing from a technology you feel guilty for not using to one youll actually use. This talk uses the 2003 fundamentals as a basis for understanding the 2005 programmatic changes. Introducing the 2005 enhancements spotlights why the 2003 version of tracing is only marginally usable. So well return to 2003 with an example class mimicking the 2005 approach. This lets you do adequate tracing now, and prepare your code for a More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. She’s worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She’s published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. She’s also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group
Resources:
_____.NET
NEWBIE SESSION_____
Rob Hale from IDX
More OOP: Inheritance and Polymorphism in .NET
Download Presentation and Demo Code
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Date:
06/13/05
Speaker:
Sam Gentile
(Adesso Systems )
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www.samgentile.com
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
SOA and Indigo
There have been a lot of arguments in Blogs and elsewhere lately about SOA and two themes seem to emerge from some: SOA is bogus because there is a lot of hype around it and SOA is bogus because its nothing new. We will dispose of both of those arguments early in showing that SOA is a real and excellent way to build loosely coupled, distributed systems despite being over hyped beyond belief There are parts that are not new but what is different is clear focus on services as DISTINCT from objects. After looking at what SOA and SO are, we will looking at how to implement services using WSE3 and .NET 2.0 on the Microsoft platform. The culmination of this approach of course is Indigo and now that Indigo is public we will take a deep dive into Indigo. All throughout, we will focus on a practical approach with simple code demos to reinforce the concepts. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Sam Gentile has been working with .NET since the earliest pre-Beta 1 period. During his two and ½ year timeframe with .NET, he has managed to ship three .NET based products, one of which, the Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET, recently won a JOLT award. As a .NET Consultant, Sam has worked with Microsoft, 3Leaf Consulting, Pacific MindWorks, and Groove to solve difficult .NET problems and help deliver products. During the Beta 1 timeframe, Sam was a member of the .NET Early Adopter Program (EAP) while architecting and implementing a .NET N-Tier product for NaviSite. Sam is internationally recognized for his overall .NET knowledge, with his .NET Blog http://dotnetweblogs.com/sgentile/ being viewed “as the pulse of the .NET community” as well as speaking at conferences such as Win-Dev on advanced .NET topics. He is the co-author of Wroxs Visual C++ .NET: A Primer, as well as articles published by MSDN (with Chris Sells), OReilly, and .NET Developers Journal. Sam has been a software engineer since 1985, after graduating with a BSEE in Computer Engineering.
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Date:
05/09/05
Speaker:
Thom Robbins
(Microsoft New England )
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Developer Evangelist
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Visual Studio.NET 2005 Overview
NULL More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Thom Robbins is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft in New England. He is a frequent speaker at a variety of events including VS Live. Thom is also a regular contributor to various magazines including Visual Studio.Net, .NET Magazine and XML Web Services. He spends his time working with developers in New England. When not writing code he spends his time with wife Denise at their home in New Hampshire. Thom can be reached at trobbins@microsoft.com
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Date:
04/11/05
Speaker:
Robert Hurlbut
(Hurlbut Consulting )
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Microsoft C# MVP
Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Test Driven Development, Unit Testing and NUnit
This session will introduce Test Driven Development (TDD) and unit testing, and will give lots of demos of NUnit and TestDriven.NET. At the end of the session, some examples of the new Visual Studio Team System's native unit testing features will also be demonstrated. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Robert Hurlbut is an independent software architect/developer and consultant and owner of Hurlbut Consulting, Inc. Robert is also a recent Microsoft MVP for Visual C#. Robert specializes in application security, distributed architectures, and database architecture and development. Robert is the leader of the Boston Code Brew Group, an extension of the existing Boston INETA Groups. He also speaks at industry conferences, including WIN-DEV, Code Camp, and Heartland Developers Conference and has a .NET blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/rhurlbut
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Date:
03/14/05
Speaker:
Rod Paddock
(Dashpoint Software )
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Code Magazine Editor
Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Creating SQL 2005 Custom Data Types and Aggregates using VS NET 2005
SQL Server 2005 now has the ability to create custom data types and aggregates using CLR languages like VB.NET and C#. This session will demonstrate how to create, install and use these custom data types in your SQL Server 2005 applications. Discussion of debugging, performance and maintainability will be discussed. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Rod Paddock is the editor of CoDe Magazine. He has been a software developer for more than 12 years and has worked with numerous tools including Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Delphi, and numerous others.Rod is president of Dash Point Software, Inc. Dash Point is an award-winning software development firm that specializes in developing applications for small to large businesses. Dash Point has delivered applications for several corporations including: Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Intel, Microsoft, and the US Coast Guard.Rod is also VP of Development for SQL Server tools maker, Red Matrix Technologies. (www.redmatrix.com)
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Date:
02/21/05
Speaker:
Rob Howard (note THURSDAY!)
(Telligent Systems )
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ASP.NET Rock Star
Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Blackbelt ASP.NET Tips & Tricks
In this tips & tricks session (lots of demos) well cover all kinds of great tips and tricks that will help you write better ASP.NET applications. Learn how to build wait pages to prevent people from inadvertently pressing refresh, setting focus on a form, per-request caching techniques, background threading techniques, and many other great tips. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Rob Howard, formerly a senior member of the Microsoft .NET Framework design team, founded Telligent Systems, Inc. in 2004. As part of the original Microsoft .NET Framework team, Rob contributed to ASP.NET where he helped design many of the core features that millions of software developers use daily. In addition to Rob, our team’s foundation consists of thought leaders in the Microsoft developer space.
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Date:
01/10/05
Speaker:
Mario Cardinal
(Mario Cardinal Inc. )
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Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Introduction to Microsoft Enterprise Library and Application Blocks
Application Blocks are Microsofts implementation of reusable code (and documentation) that provide proven solutions for commonly recurring problems. Enterprise Library, to be released to the general public in early 2005, is the next generation of the Microsofts Application Blocks. The first release will deliver 6 Application Blocks into a single integrated package. This reusable code is a ready-to-use solution to solve problems that you often waste time solving over and over again in enterprise programming. This presentation provides a short introduction to the Microsoft Enterprise Library and shows what each block might be good for. The idea is to present the types of problems Enterprise Library try to solve and where to apply it in your own solutions. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mario Cardinal is an independent senior consultant specializing in software architecture. He has almost 20 years of experience in designing large-scale information systems. He speaks regularly at international conferences, including TechEd, Agile2008, DevTeach, and others. He leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. Since 2004, he has hosted the Visual Studio Talk Show, a podcast about software development. For the fourth year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. He also holds the titles of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Team Foundation Server), and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.
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Date:
11/15/04
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Web Service Security for Humans with WSE 2.0
If you believe that you shouldnt have to read a 20-page white paper four times in order to secure your Web services, then the new version of Web Service Enhancements has been designed with you in mind. Although WSE2 has a lot of new tools for plumbers, it is possible to do a lot of very cool and necessary stuff without having to comprehend and code all of the nasty details. However, there are still a lot of concepts you should have a solid understanding of before diving in to WSE2. This session is designed to explain the key parts of WSE that can and should be part of the basic functionality of any Web service dependent application that you are writing in your corporate environment. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
Resources:
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Date:
10/11/04
Speaker:
Rocky Lhotka
(Magenic Technologies )
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INETA Speaker
Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Creation of Distributed Object-Oriented Applications in .NET
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides extensive support for creating highly scaleable distributed applications. Rocky's CSLA .NET framework builds on the capabilities of .NET to simplify the creation of Windows and Web-based applications based on distributed business objects, achieving high levels of reuse, scalability, long-term maintainability and other benefits. You will also learn how Web Services, Remoting, object serialization, Enterprise Services, autodeployment and other .NET technologies come together to create these applications. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nations premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Rockford is an author for several Wrox Press titles, including ‘Fast Track Visual Basic .NET’, ‘Professional Visual Basic Interoperability – COM and VB6 to .NET’ and ‘Visual Basic 6 Distributed Objects’ and is a columnist for MSDN Online and contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine. He regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections. He has over 15 years experience in software development and has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration and project management. TOPIC AREAS: Distributed objects and distributed systems, object-oriented and component-oriented design and programming, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET, COM interop
Resources:
Rocky's Blog:
www.lhotka.net/weblog
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Date:
09/20/04
Speaker:
Michele Leroux Bustamente
(IDesign )
--
INETA Speaker, MSDN RD
Location:
Gardener's Supply
Topic:
Extending ASP.NET with HTTP Modules, Handlers and SOAP Extensions
ASP.NET provides an extensible framework for intercepting raw HTTP requests as they arrive at your Web servers door, so that you can alter how requested resources are handled or redirect traffic. This presentation demonstrates how to employ HTTP modules, HTTP handlers and handler factories, and SOAP extensions for Web services, to "butt-into" the round-trip and provide a rich, reusable set of components for your Web applications and services. You will learn how each component fits into the pipeline and see examples that put each type of component to good use. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Michele has more that 10 years of experience developing enterprise software on cutting edge technology platforms. Her hands-on technical expertise ranges from Internet technologies such as ActiveX/COM, XML, SOAP, and HTTP communications. Her development experience spans Visual Basic, C++, Java, and C#. Michele has held senior executive positions and has several years of experience in business development as a technology executive, and in management, training, speaking, and writing. She has assembled and organized software development teams from the ground up, implemented related processes for all departments within an organization, facilitated requirements gathering, and coordinated several successful large-scale enterprise applications. As a respected technology executive Michele has also participated in capital raising, and led in sales and business development efforts. In 1994, Michele founded the Visual Basic and Visual C++ Certificate program at University of California, San Diego Extension, which then fostered a complete suite of courses and certificates relating to .NET. As Program Advisor for VB, Visual C++, and .NET programming courses, Michele oversees and contributes to all course development, in addition to teaching classes regularly. Michele published in several technical journals, and speaks at technology and software development conferences. When graphics were still "as hot" as the Internet, Michele authored the book Instant Visual Basic Animation published by Wrox Press in 1996. Michele has also created a newsletter for .NET development, called the .NET Dashboard.
Resources:
Read Michele's blog post about how much she enjoyed coming to VTdotNET! www.dotnetdashboard.net/sessions/handlers.aspx www.dotnetdashboard.net/sessions/soapext.aspx Thanks to
for donating SOAPSCOPE 4.0 to raffle off! Lucky Winner was Rick Fitzsimmons of Timberline Software in Middlebury.
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Date:
08/09/04
Speaker:
Ali Aghareza
(Green Mountain Power )
--
Sr. Systems Developer
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Writing Multi-Threaded Code in .NET
Writing multithreaded code can dramatically improve the performance of your applications by doing work while waiting for I/O. This talk will cover some .net fundamentals (e.g. delegates, events), and threading primitives that are provided to you by the .Net framework. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Ali Aghareza is a Senior Systems Developer at Green Mountain Power Corp. His main technology focuses include the .net framework and the oracle database. Ali has been developing .net applications for the past three years. (Ed. note: Ali is a hard-core .NET plumber who understands how .NET works under the covers and finds great joy in explaining these things to other developers!)
Resources:
Download Power Point deck of this presentation
read about this meeting on Julie's Weblog
Ali's Weblog
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Date:
07/12/04
Speaker:
Don Kiely
(read his SQL Blog )
--
Fresh from the Alaskan tundra...
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Security Through Least Privilege
ASP.NET apps are server apps, and that means that you need admin privileges to develop them, right? No! In fact, developing apps on a machine where you have admin privileges can lead to some nasty security holes in your app!. Least Privilege is one of the first principles of developing secure applications. But what does it mean? How do you do it? Why is it so critical? This session will explore how to develop apps that give the absolute minimum permissions to every user and login and still meet application and user requirement, as well as exploregasp!why developing without admin privileges on your development machine leads to much stronger and secure apps. Least privilege is not easy to use or implement, but in this day and age it is the only way you and your users have reasonable confidence in the security of an application. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Don Kiely, MVP, MCSD, MSDE, is a senior technology consultant specializing in developing secure desktop and Web applications that integrate databases, Microsoft Office, and related technologies, using tools including SQL Server, Visual Basic, ASP.NET and XML. Don has authored and co-authored several programming books, including Visual Basic Visual Basic 6 Client/Server How-To and Visual Basic Programmers Guide to the Windows Registry. He writes regularly for many industry journals, including InformationWeek, IEEE Computer magazine, Visual Studio .NET (VBPJ), and many other magazines. Don trains developers and speaks regularly at industry conferences, including TechEd, VSLive!, DevConnections, and others. He earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Colorado, but fortunately learned the error of his establishment ways. In his spare time he roams the Alaska wilderness by foot, dog sled, skis, and kayak, with his dogs Mardy (Irish Shedder) and Izzi (Karelian bear dog), while vehemently opposing the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the devastation of oil exploration and production. Contact him at donkiely@computer.org.
Resources:
PowerPoint Deck (2.4 MB)Don's Recommended Links Chapter 3. Security Strategies How to develop code as a non-admin (Keith Brown) I Am a Lowly User of My Machine (Anil John) Implementing Least Privilege at your Enterprise (Jeff Langford) Least Privilege and More (Fred B. Schneider) Least Privilege in Longhorn Local Administrator/Power User Hall of Shame
(Great source for offending programs that require elevated privileges) Principal of least privilege and code access security (James Saull) Principle of Least Privilege (Anil John) Secure Coding Practices: Running with Least Privileges in Windows (Dana Epp) Secure Programmer: Minimizing Privileges (David A. Wheeler) Security in Longhorn: Focus on Least Privilege (Keith Brown) The Challenge of Least Privilege (Michael Howard) The Importance of Least Privilege (G. Andrew Duthie) What is a non privileged user? (Keith Brown) What is the principle of least privilege? (Keith Brown) Why You Shouldn't Run as Admin (Aaron Margosis blog)
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Date:
06/14/04
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
--
VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Whats New in the Base Class Libraries of .NET 2.0
The changes to the .NET Class Libraries in the next version of .NET (code named Whidbey) have been made to enhance the developer experience. Microsoft has not taken anything away from .NET. Instead, they have added many new features that make coding faster, easier and more efficient. It all starts in the Base Class Library (BCL), which contains the fundamental building blocks for developing .NET applications. Come look at some of the additions made to the Base Class Library that will be of interest to the application developer so that you can start preparing to leverage these changes when Whidbey is released next year. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
Resources:
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Date:
05/10/04
Speaker:
Tim Huckaby
(InterKnowlogy )
--
INETA Speaker
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Architecting and Building Smart Client Applications in .NET – The Future of Software Development
This presentation will define what a smart client is and delve into the implications and opportunities for smart client application development. Browser-based application development will be contrasted to smart client application development. This session will heavily demo focused on Windows Forms, Compact Framework, InfoPath, and Managed Code Extensions for Office 2003 application development. It will delve into the tips and tricks, positives and negatives when designing smart client applications. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Tim Huckaby is CEO of InterKnowlogy, a software, infrastructure and network engineering firm dedicated to Enterprise consulting, application software design and development and network engineering. Tim has over 20 years of industry experience, including many Fortune 500 companies. Tim worked on the SiteServer product team at Microsoft and has written in numerous books. Tim also writes for the Windows and .NET Magazine family of publications including a bi-weekly email and web editorial for Windows Web Solutions. Tim has won multiple awards for the highest rated Keynote presentations of all the Microsoft Developer Days held around the world in 1998 through 2000. He has also done technology presentations at Microsoft events like Microsoft Tech Ed, Dev Days, and the PDC and consistently received rankings in the top 10%. Tim sits on the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council, the MSDN Content Council and won “Microsoft Regional Director of the Year” for his work in the Developer Community.
Resources:
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Date:
04/12/04
Speaker:
Trace Galloway
(Altova )
--
Publishers of XMLSPY
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Overview of XMLSpy
Julie has invited Trace to come demonstrate the use of XMLSpy because it is one of the most comprehensive and widely used tools for designing, editing and debugging XML (including WSDL and XSLT). As .NET becomes more and more intertwined with XML these tools will become that much more important to .NET Developers. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Mr. Trace L. Galloway is a Technical Director at Altova, Inc, the XMLSPY Company, creators of the award-winning and industry leading tool-suite for XML. Prior to joining Altova, Trace served as the Chief Evangelist for Infoteria Corporation, a global technology company specializing in the development of B2B-centric XML-based servers and components. He has presented at numerous industry conferences including XML Europe, Web Services Edge, ASP.NET & XML Web Services Solutions, Brainstorm, and is the frequent guest speaker at various industry camp User Groups. He co-authored of a chapter entitled “Lead Tracking by Web and Email” that appeared in the XML Handbook – Third Edition. Mr. Galloway earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration from St. Michaels College and holds an MCSE + Internet certification from Microsoft. He is currently serving on the W3C XSL Working Group.
Resources:
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Date:
04/12/04
Speaker:
Joe Stagner
(Microsoft )
--
MSDN Program Manger
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Securing Your XML
XML Web Services has become a most popular choice for business logic federation, especially over the internet. Unfortunately, the more we do business over the web, the more hackers and other malfeasants will use technology to attack our business. In this session youll learn about the vulnerabilities in using XML & XML Web Services and how to defend you applications from attack. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Joe didn't leave us! He just got a new job with Microsoft. Joe Stagner is a Program Manager in Microsoft Corporation’s Developer Tools and Platform Group and has been with Microsoft since 2001 focusing on highly scalable and performant web application architectures, multiplatform interoperability and software security. Joe brings 30 years technical and business strategy experience to Microsoft which affords him a unique experiential perspective.
Resources:
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Date:
03/08/04
Speaker:
Jason Beres
(Infragistics )
--
INETA Speaker, Author
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Writing an n-Tier Windows Forms Application
*Sponsored by Infragistics*
This presentation will look at the Tracker reference application and eBook as a real world example using key Microsoft technologies:
Web Services Enhancements WS-Security, allowing secure authentication from the Windows Forms application to a web service for data access
Microsoft Data Access Application block
Microsoft Exception Management application block
Microsoft Application Updater application block
Multithreaded Windows Forms application for data access
Structure for implementing online and offline data access without using Datasets
XML Web Service data access or data access directly to SQL Server More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Jason is an INETA speaker and author of numerous works including Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days from Sams. He is also the co-author of the Visual Basic .NET Bible and the C# Bible from Wiley, as well as a contributor to SQL Server 2000: The Complete Reference from Osborne/McGraw-Hill and ASP.NET @ Work: 10 Enterprise Applications from Wiley. Jason has recently been scooped up by Infragistics and is the author of their Tracker Reference Application and E-Book
Resources:
Tracker Reference Application and
E-Book downloadable from
devcenter.infragistics.com
Code from Code Generation and Threading demos:
www.vtdotnet.org/docs/beres_ug_fun_stuff.zip
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Date:
02/09/04
Speaker:
Steven Smith
(ASPAlliance )
--
ASP.NET Star and INETA Speaker
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Caching Techniques in ASP.NET and Whidbey
One of the key components of ASP.NET is its caching engine, which provides an extremely powerful and flexible way to keep frequently used items in memory for rapid access. By using caching, dependencies on external data sources (databases, files, web services) can be dramatically reduced, increasing both performance and scalability of an application. In this session, you will learn some best practices for designing and implementing caching systems in ASP.NET, using the caching engine currently available in ASP.NET 1.x. You will also see the new features coming in the next release of ASP.NET, code-named Whidbey, and where these new features fit into applications in the Whidbey timeframe. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Steven A. Smith is president of ASPAlliance.com, the #1 ASP.NET Community for developers to find and share knowledge. He has been named a Microsoft MVP in the ASP.NET area for his work and community support of that technology. He is the author of ASP.NET By Example, a beginner to intermediate level book designed with ASP developers in mind. He has spoken at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections and has held MCSE+Internet and MCSD certifications. Steve has a B.S. in Computer Science Engineering from The Ohio State University
Resources:
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Date:
01/12/04
Speaker:
Patrick Hynds
(Critical Sites )
--
MSDN Regional Director, New England
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.NET Applications
This session will show you how to use authentication, authorization, threat modeling, configuration settings, and secure database access to create secure systems, and will discuss common coding techniques for storing secrets, error handling, data validation, and code access security. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Patrick Hynds, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCSA, MCP+Site Builder, MCT, is the Microsoft Regional Director for Boston and the CTO for CriticalSites. Named by Microsoft as the Regional Director for Boston, he has been recognized as a leader in the technology field. An expert on Microsoft technology (with at last count 55 Microsoft certifications) and experienced with other technologies as well (Websphere, Sybase, Perl, Java, Unix, Netware, C++, etc.), Patrick previously taught software development and Network Architecture. He has been a successful contractor who enjoyed mastering difficult development and troubleshooting assignments. A graduate of West Point and a Gulf War veteran, Patrick brings an uncommon level of dedication to his leadership role at CriticalSites. He has experience in addressing business challenges with blended IT solutions involving leading-edge database, web and hardware systems. In spite of the demands of his management role at CriticalSites, Patrick stays technical and in the trenches acting as Project Manager and/or developer/engineer on selected projects throughout the year.
Resources:
Patrick's PowerPoint Deck:
Best Practices and Techniques for Building Secure ASP.NET Apps
also check out anything related to the WebTrack
in
DevDays2004
and
www.DevDaysBloggers.com
Anil John's
SecureCoder Weblog
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Date:
11/10/03
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
--
VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Whidbey Preview!!!
Julie just returned from the big PDC event where she spent a week drooling over previews of Longhorn, Avalon, Indigo, Yukon and Whidbey. Whidbey is the next version of Visual Studio .NET with v1.2 of the framework. She has fresh bits that were distributed at the PDC to attendees only and will try to cram as much in to the few hours of the user group meeting as she can to share what she saw with you. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
Resources:
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Date:
10/20/03
Speaker:
Billy Hollis
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--
INETA Speaker
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Advanced Object Techniques in .NET
Traditional OO concepts are extremely useful, but sometimes real applications have to go beyond the academic basics of objects. Billy Hollis will discuss advanced, real-world techniques, such as dynamic loading of classes, sending object instances via message queues, using extender providers and other technologies to make helper objects easier to use in the IDE. This session assumes basic knowledge of .NET and object oriented concepts. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. At Microsoft’s request, Billy served as the co-instructor for all preparation sessions for Microsoft’s first .NET Developer Training Tour, thereby training over two hundred instructors who delivered this material world-wide. Billy writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Comdex, Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), and TechEd, and VSLive. Topics VB.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, architecture of .NET systems
Resources:
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Date:
09/08/03
Speaker:
Sam Gentile
(Adesso Systems )
--
www.samgentile.com
Location:
KnowledgeWave
Topic:
Overview of the .NET Common Language Runtime and Friends
Confused by all the terms like CLR, CTS, BCL, FCL, CLI and the like? Want to know what they mean and what they do? Want to understand the basics of using the .NET Framework? Come to this presentation and Sam, who has been working with .NET for nearly 2 and ½ years, will present the basics that are applicable to any .NET language that you choose to use. In addition to de-mystifying the acronyms, Sam will cover topics like assemblies, JIT compiling, Reference versus Value Types, and Garbage Collection. In addition, insights into how to best utilize the .NET Framework in various scenarios including Interop will be presented. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Sam Gentile has been working with .NET since the earliest pre-Beta 1 period. During his two and ½ year timeframe with .NET, he has managed to ship three .NET based products, one of which, the Groove Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET, recently won a JOLT award. As a .NET Consultant, Sam has worked with Microsoft, 3Leaf Consulting, Pacific MindWorks, and Groove to solve difficult .NET problems and help deliver products. During the Beta 1 timeframe, Sam was a member of the .NET Early Adopter Program (EAP) while architecting and implementing a .NET N-Tier product for NaviSite. Sam is internationally recognized for his overall .NET knowledge, with his .NET Blog http://dotnetweblogs.com/sgentile/ being viewed “as the pulse of the .NET community” as well as speaking at conferences such as Win-Dev on advanced .NET topics. He is the co-author of Wroxs Visual C++ .NET: A Primer, as well as articles published by MSDN (with Chris Sells), OReilly, and .NET Developers Journal. Sam has been a software engineer since 1985, after graduating with a BSEE in Computer Engineering.
Resources:
Power
Point Slides from Sam's presentation (1.4 MB)
Demo Code (128KB)
Also, if you want to check out some of the cool tools he talked about and
additional ones, see
Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools List
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Date:
08/11/03
Speaker:
Carl Franklin
(Franklins .NET )
--
.NET Rocks!
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
So You Think You Know What an Object Is?
You might think you know what an object is, but do you really? Things are not really as they seem in this interesting session which explores the effects of casting, shadowing, overriding, and other OOP mechanisms on objects, and how you can easily be tricked into thinking one plus one does not equal two. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.
Resources:
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(1 yr of .net web hosting)
Stuart Hunt |
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A free one week hands on VB.NET Master class. This was an incredible gift
from Carl. THANK YOU.
Karen Clarke
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Date:
07/14/03
Speaker:
Roman Rehak
(Competitive Computing )
--
Senior Developer
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
SQL Server Tips for Developers
This session will take a look at the most common issues, challenges and problems encountered when developing for, or administering SQL Server. We will examine best ways to modify, script and copy database objects, update production databases, set up DB maintenance plans, set up application security, etc. The following are some examples of frequently encountered issues the session will address - I restored an identical database from another server, how come the database users disappeared from the database?, How come a DTS package I developed runs fine when I run it interactively, yet it fails when it runs as a scheduled job?. The session will also cover some advanced features of SQL Server client tools and also introduce some custom tools and stored procedures written by the speaker for simplifying development/administration. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Roman Rehak is a senior developer at Competitive Computing in Burlington, VT. He specializes in SQL Server development, database performance tuning and writing DBMS utilities. He regularly contributes SQL Server related articles to Visual Studio Magazine and other technical publications. He is an active member of Professional Association for SQL Server, he was a speaker at the last PASS conference and this year he was selected to be the track leader for the Database and Application Development track for the upcoming 2003 PASS Community Summit conference in Seattle. Roman holds multiple Microsoft certification titles and is currently working on upgrading his certifications to .NET.
Resources:
Julie's Resource Talk:
SharpReader RSS Aggregator:
Free but feel free to donate through PayPal!
FxCop on
GotDotNet
Microsoft's .NET Application Blocks (go to link and then
you will see all app blocks in msdn library to the left)
ASP.Net
Starter Kits (Microsoft site)
www.windowsforms.com
(Microsoft site)
Microsoft Team WebLogs
CodeProject
.NET Weblogs
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Date:
06/10/03
Speaker:
Thom Robbins
(Microsoft New England )
--
Developer Evangelist
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Overview of Changes in VS.Net 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1
NULL More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Thom Robbins is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft in New England. He is a frequent speaker at a variety of events including VS Live. Thom is also a regular contributor to various magazines including Visual Studio.Net, .NET Magazine and XML Web Services. He spends his time working with developers in New England. When not writing code he spends his time with wife Denise at their home in New Hampshire. Thom can be reached at trobbins@microsoft.com
Resources:
48 people at this meeting! |
This was the 100th INETA Speaker Event |
Presentation Resources
Power Point Slides
from Keith's presentation (2MB)
Raffle
A VB MCAD Certification Study pack
Practice Tests donated by
www.Transcender.comMike
Gunderloy
The winner was Esmy Santos from the Vermont Department
of Health
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Date:
06/10/03
Speaker:
Keith Pleas
(Guided Design )
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INETA Speaker
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
Architecture and Design in .NET
Keith will be talking about technical architecture, design patterns, and the stuff coming from the Patterns and Practices group. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Keith is one of the founders of Guided Design and has worked for more than two years on the team developing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. Keith is an internationally known writer and speaker and is the Editorial Chair for VSLive 2003. He is also a Contributing Editor to "Visual Studio Magazine", has developed Microsoft Professional Certification Exams. Keith also serves as an advisor to the INETA board and is the liaison for the INETA Speakers Bureau.
Resources:
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Date:
05/05/03
Speaker:
Julia Lerman
(The Data Farm )
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VTdotNET User Group Leader
Location:
Champlain College
Topic:
.NET FileStreams Tips & Tricks
They System.IO.FileStream namespace in .NET has a lot of fantastic tools that can be used to solve a lot of problems. The relationships between the different types of streams seems very complicated on first approach. Not only can file streams be used to read and write files into your system, but they can be used to move large amounts of data around your .NET application without taxing your memory.This session will break down some of the key elements in the FileStream namespace to clarify their purpose and then demonstrate Tips and Tricks with file streams to solve some common programming problems. More info at Chris blog
Speaker Bio:
Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences in the U.S., Canada, and even some far reaches of the world and author of articles for MSDN Online, MSDN Magazine and other well-known technical publications. Julie presents on a wide variety of topics including ADO.NET, Web services, Tablet PC development, and other aspects of just getting your .NET applications to work the way you want them to. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance, and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board.You can read Julie’s blogs at www.thedatafarm.com/blog and blogs.ziffdavis.com.
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April 7, 2003
Speaker: Ken Getz, MCW Tech, MSDN Regional Director, Microsoft MVP
Topic: Taking Advantage of Inheritance
in Windows Forms
A Windows form is just a class, and as such, your forms can inherit from other
forms, and can be inherited from. What does this get you? Form-based inheritance
allows you to create base classes that can form the basis for other forms, and make
it incredibly easy to create new forms and controls. If you're creating applications
for Windows users, you owe it to yourself to master the skills involved in form-based
inheritance.
This sessions demonstrates what's going on with Windows forms, how to inherit and
be inherited, and how to use inheritance to create new controls and to extend the
functionality of existing controls.
Ken Getz is a developer, trainer, and writer and is a Senior Consultant
with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Solution Provider specializing in mentoring,
training, and development using Microsoft tools and products. Ken is also an instructor
and courseware author for AppDev (www.appdev.com), co-writing their VB.NET, ASP.NET,
VB, and Access courseware. He is also co-author of several best-selling development
books, including ASP.NET Jumpstart (from Addison-Wesley, with Paul D. Sheriff),
the Access Developer's Handbook series (from Sybex, with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy),
and VBA Developer's Handbook (from Sybex, with Mike Gilbert). You can find Ken's
articles on .NET in MSDN Magazine, VS.NET Magazine, asp.netPRO, and VB.NET Advisor
Journal. When not writing about technology, Ken speaks about it at many industry
conferences, including Microsoft's Tech-Ed and DevDays, VSLive, DevConnections,
Advisor DevCon, Informant's ODDC,
and more. Topics: NET Framework, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, WinForms
 Ken
was recently named MSDN Regional Director for Southern California!
More on Ken: www.mcwtech.com
Raffle: AppDev VB.NET Training Course ($1200 list!!): winner Dimi
Currey, Synergy Software
Our biggest meeting ever. 48 people attended Ken's presentation! Thanks
INETA for sending Ken to Vermont!!
March 10, 2003
 Speaker: Chris Kinsman, Vergent Software,
MSDN Regional Director
Topic:
ASP.NET Session State and Caching
It was a bad word to the ordinary ASP 3.0 developer. Come to this session to
find out about the changes that have made Session state a potentially valuable ally
for the ASP.NET developer. We will look at the various tradeoffs amongst the options.
Caching will round out the discussion as we examine ways to improve performance
several fold over your ASP 3.0 application using the new caching objects that have been
introduced in ASP.NET
ASPNetPro Magazine Raffle:
1 Yr Subscription
won by Ron Lewis of Computer Care
2002 Content CD won by Carl Lorentson of Renaissance Info Systems
February
10, 2003
Speaker: Julia Lerman,
Topic: Architecting Client Applications using web services
Also it was our FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING!
Cake by Laura Blood!!
Presentation:
This presentation is based on a live application that Julia recently deployed for
a client. They have a WinForms app in their NY State office as well as their Massachussets
office. The NY office goes to the webserver on their network to hit the webservice
which provides the data to the application. The Mass office dials up to the internet
and connects to the webserver via an ISA Server IP address to get at the same webservice
and the same data. There were a lot of lessons and problems to overcome on the way
to architecting this solution and we will walk through the basic architecture and
some coding to see how it all works together.
About the Speaker: Julia Lerman is the owner of Julia Lerman, Inc (dba
The Data Farm). and has been developing software applications and consulting to
businesses since 1984. Julia is the founder and leader of the Vermont .NET users
group as well as a member of the User Group Relations Committee for INETA (International
.Net Association) www.ineta.org. She is a contributor to Visual Studio Magazine
and DotNetJunkies.com and in her pre-Visual Basic days, FoxPro Advisor. Having spent
many years in this former life as a FoxPro developer, Julia is working very hard
to help bring the same community spirit to .Net that has been so unique to FoxPro.
The winner
of the Janus Controls Suite was Neil Wacek
www.janussys.com
Monday January
20, 2003
 Stephen
Forte (MSDN Regional Directory, Author
and more!) will be presenting at our 1/20/03 meeting. Another schedule switch, but
this is when he is available.
Topic: Using SQL
Server CE 2.0 and the SDE to build enterprise solutions
With the Smart Device Extensions
for Visual Studio.NET, Microsoft has made developing applications for the Pocket
PC as easy as developing WinForm orASP.NET. SQL Server CE 2.0 gives you full functionality
on the device with the ability to perform Merge Replication with a back end SQL
Server. This session will leverage your skills with WinForms & ASP .NET
and SQL Server to show
you how to build a mobile enterprise application
About the Speaker:
Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-fo under of
Corzen, Inc a Manhattan based provider
of online market research data. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director
for the NY/NJ Metro region. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed,
Advisor DevCon and others conferences around the world. He has written several books
on database development and is technical editor of VB/SQL Advisor Magazine, where
he also writes a monthly column, one he has written for over 6 years. Prior to Corzen,
Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder
and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group.
Email:
stephenforte@hotmail.com, Web site:
www.stephenforte.net
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Date: 12/10/2002
Location: Burton Snowboards
VTdotNET Potluck and User Group Members Strut their Stuff
The Potluck: Bring food! A pizza, some cookies, some soda, paper
plates, napkins, cups. Ok, it doesn't have to be junk food! But we'll just share
it all and call it "dinner"!
The Raffle: Infragistics NetAdvantage Suite 2.0! This is one sweet
suite with over 75 .Net and com tools built in. A street price of about $465 is
what you will be saving if you are the lucky winner! Don't forget to become a MEMBER
(for free) of VTdotNet if you want to be in the raffle. We will also be raffling
off some new .Net books from our library or from the pile that we have received
from MSPress!
www.infragistics.com
Cesare Bufano was the winner of the Infragistics NetAdvantage
Suite 2.0.
Thank you Infragistics!
Date: Monday 12/2/2002
Location: GUVSM, Montreal's .NET User Group Meeting
Julie Lerman and Jon Limmer from VTdotNet attended Jeff Prosise's ASP.Net Power
Tricks at the meeting of Montreal's .Net User Group. They met up with Guy McCausland,
who lives in Montreal, but is also a VTdotNet member. There were over 100 people
at this meeting. The presentation was in English and Jeff Prosise is a fantastic
trainer. He is from www.wintellect.com.
Here are Guy, Jon and Julie at the meeting (proof!! )
Speaker: Thom Robbins, Microsoft
Date: Monday 11/18/2002
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Burton Snowboards, Burlington, VT
About the Speaker: Thom Robbins
is a Senior Technology Specialist with Microsoft in New England. He is a frequent
speaker at a variety of events including VS Live. Thom is also a regular contributor
to various magazines including Visual Studio.Net, .NET Magazine and XML Web Services.
He spends his time working with developers in New England. When not writing code
he spends his time with wife Denise at their home in New Hampshire. Thom can be
reached at trobbins@microsoft.com
Topic: This session will introduce .NET Remoting. We’ll start with the difference
between .NET Remoting, XML Web Services, and DCOM and the performance tradeoffs
of each. Then we’ll move to the creation of Server Activated and Client Activated
Objects (SAOs and CAOs) as well as Singletons and Single Call objects that service
only one request. You’ll see how to configure your .NET Remoting applications via
configuration files so settings can be easily changed after deployment. We’ll look
at different Remoting channels and explore various options for hosting your Remoting
applications including within ASP.NET or running as a Windows Service.
The lucky winner of the FarPoint Input Pro for Winforms raffle was Lynn Mather.
We are looking forward to Lynn sharing with us his experiences with these tools!
Date:
Monday 10/7/2002
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Competitive Computing, Colchester, VT
Speaker: Chris Kinsman
Chris is one of the founders of Guided Design and formerly the VP of Technology
for DevX.com, a web site that provides information for developers. He has extensive
experience with ASP, Web Farms, Clustering, Data Access, and Scalability. Chris
co-authored “Visual Basic.NET Developer’s Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML” and
“C# Developer’s Guide to ASP.NET, ADO.NET and XML”. Chris has spoken at a variety
of conference including VSLive and Microsoft TechEd. Topics: ASP.NET Security, ASP.NET
State Management, Web Service Security, ASP to ASP.NET Migration, Building Server
Controls. Intro to Mobile Development, Intro to Web Services.
Topic:
Windows vs. Web: What started the massive migration away from rich client applications
onto the web? Are those reasons still
valid with the release of .NET? Did we give up too much in this migration? Come
to this session to debate this “hot” topic as well as to take a look at some ways
to use rich client techniques in Web Forms as well as thin client techniques in
Windows Forms.
Chris was "shipped" to us by INETA, the International .Net Association, which is aiding .Net User Groups in having more productive meetings
and existences. Thank you INETA!!
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*Chris' Company website : www.vergentsoftware.com
Check out his blog on this site. There are a LOT of great tidbits.
*Here is a VERY good
Cliff Notes version of Chris' talk written by Nate Strules.
*Anakrino Download De-compiles
CLR compiled files into C# and lets you step through the back-end of .NET based
Microsoft and other apps via a file explorer window
*
some more Stuart Hunt Notes!
A pearl from Chris' presentation is an undocumented trick to trace the events when
a WinForms control is loading in a web page: In your registry add
a key into: "hkey_local_machine\software\ microsoft\netframework". The key is DebugIEHost
and the value is 0 "debugidhost=0". This will create log files named IEHost.Log1,
IEHost.Log2, etc.
ALSO: See the section on Smart Clients on the
How-To's
Page on this site
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Date: Monday 9/9/2002 at 6:00 pm
Location: Burton Snowboards Worldwide Headquarters, So. Burlington
VT
Speaker: Andrew Knight, Burton Snowboards
Burton has just recently deployed their
first two all ASP.Net consumer websites.
www.anonoptics.com AND www.redprotection.com
Congrats to Andrew Knight from Burton, who will be sharing with us some ASP.Net
coding techniques that were used to create these sites.
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Andrew talked about the newsgroups that he lives on. You can get to them from
www.aspng.com. You can also go directly to the news
server lists via: ls.asplist.com.
but wait! there is more...coming soon
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Date: 8/11/2002
Speaker: Jim Murphy Jim is an Independent Consultant based in Amherst,
NH consulting to software development groups doing C++, XML, COM, .NET and Web Services.
He can be reached at his site Ironring Software. Jim also runs the NH .Net User
group
Topic: .NET Resource Management - GC and Dispose
For many .NET will be the first time they have developed in a garbage
collected environment. Even for seasoned developers issues like Non-Deterministic
Finalization (NDF)and the Dispose pattern are new concepts that help move memory
management book keeping from the mind of the developer to the runtime. But, how
do you use them and When? Also, a little behind the scenes look at how the CLR garbage
collecter works.
Date: 7/8/2002
Location: Champlain College
Speaker: Paul J. Swider, Corporate Technology Strategist.
Paul has an extensive background programming with many computer programming
languages. His area of focus includes medical informatics and wireless software
architecture. He has recently started a new venture that will market a wireless
medical software package that makes use of the .NET platform to the largest medical
institutions in the country.
Topic: Create an enterprise Web Service that supports transactions across multiple
databases. There will be NO “Hello World” web services. We will examine
real world considerations when working with Web Services
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*Web Services: Objects or XML Endpoints? From chatty versus chunky interfaces to
state and other pitfalls, Matthew McDonald offers valuable advice for every .NET
Web service programmer.
Matthew is a coauthor of O'Reilly's upcoming "Programming .NET Web Services".
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Date: 6/10/2002
Location: Champlain College
Speaker: Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn has been building data driven software for over sixteen years. He is an author
of several articles for MSN, MIND and Windows 2000 Magazines. In addition, he is
currently finishing up his treatese on ADO.NET. He can be reached at his website,
ADOGuy.com or swildermuth@adoguy.com
Topic: Why ADO.NET? You've probably heard, "In the .NET world,
if you need data access, just use ADO.NET". Hmmm...ADO.NET, just a maturation of
ADO? Hardly. ADO.NET is a completely different paradigm in data access and manipulation.
Whether you are new to database development or are an old ADO user, you will need
to understand why ADO.NET was written. This is not your father's ADO.
Show & Tell : Daniel Hall from Goodrich Corp will show us CodeCharge,
a .Net RAD tool from YES Software.
Date: 5/13/2002
Location: Champlain College (this was an impromptu presentation as
our scheduled presenter had to cancel at the last minute)
Speaker: Julie Lerman, VTdotNet Group Coordinator, Independent Software Developer
Topic: ASP.Net Getting Started
Julie will show the behind the scenes code for some of the ASP.Net apps
she has been developing.
Date: 4/8/02
Location: Symquest, So. Burlington
Speaker: Daniel Hall, E-Commerce Web Developer, Goodrich Corp.
Topic: Putting Out Your Firewall XML
is the foundation of .NET. Dan will discuss how to use XML, ADO, and SQL
Server to pump data back and forth through your firewall.
Show & Tell : Paul Swider of OnClick Solutions will do a demo
of emulator technology that is used for programming to mobile devices.
Date: 3/11/02
Location: Competitive Computing, Colchester
Speaker: Bill Heys, Microsoft
Topic: .Net overview
Show & Tell : David Burke:Sharing Session State information between ASP
and ASP.NET. The presentation also demonstrates using classes (similar
to IBuySpy), controls, and how to share parameters across multiple controls .
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"VS.Net Overview" (PowerPoint Presentation)
Get the source code
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*OUR FIRST MEETING!!*
Date: 2/11/02
Location: Champlain College
Speaker: Russ Fustino, Microsoft
Topic: ASP.Net Tips & Tricks
Presentation Resources:
"ASP.Net Tips & Tricks" (PowerPoint Presentation)
Get the source code
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