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Past Meetings
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!
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.
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.
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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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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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
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.
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..
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.
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!
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.
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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
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”!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Resources:
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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.
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:
- 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
| R A F F L E S !!! | .gif) SnagIt
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Camtasia Studio is the complete solution for recording and editing high-quality training videos, presentations, and screencasts to share on the Web, CD-ROM and portable media devices, including iPod.. | | | *Raffle Winners will be asked to review software on the VTdotNET software evals page |
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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!
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
PowerPoint with links for all of the apps shown
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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.
Speaker Bio:
Resources:
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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.
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:
11/07/06
Speaker:
VTSQL Meeting
(www.vtsql.org )
--
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.
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:
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!
Speaker Bio:
Developers and professional speakers all come to present at Code Camps!
Resources:
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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.
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.
Resources:
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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.
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.
Resources:
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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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 )
--
Location:
Competitive Computing
Topic:
(NOTE: THURSDAY event) Roman Rehak on "Native XML Web Services in SQL Server 2005"
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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 )
--
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.
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.
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
Resources:
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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
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
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.
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.
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)
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 )
--
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.
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 )
--
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.
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:
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.
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
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:
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NEWBIE SESSION_____
Rob Hale from IDX
More OOP: Inheritance and Polymorphism in .NET
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Date:
06/13/05
Speaker:
Sam Gentile |
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