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Sep
30 2008 (Tuesday)
Speaker: JD Conley
Topic: ASP.NET - It's not just for datagrids
after all
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ASP.NET is often pigeon-holed as a platform suitable
only for writing boring line of business applications
and web sites. Explore how this is absolutely not the
case with a walk through the development of a real-life
ASP.NET AJAX based game. We'll focus on topics relevant
to building internet scale Facebook applications such
as threading, asynchronous architectures, data models,
and Facebook API calls.
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JD is an entrepreneur
and consultant focused on building consumer facing desktop
and web software products. As a founder of two Sacramento
area technology companies, Coversant and ittybittysoft,
he has had the luxury of experimenting with bleeding edge
technology coming out of Redmond. These experiences are
documented in his blog: " Starin' at the Wall 2.0".
He was recently a technical reviewer for a new book titled
"C# in Depth". Prior to his entrepreneur days,
JD developed critical line of business software for Malibu
Boats, E & J Gallo Winery, and the Associated Press.
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| Oct
28 2008
Speaker: Alan Cobb
Topic: Silverlight Update: What is it good for
today? What's coming in the year ahead?
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Silverlight 2 was officially released on October 13,
2008. In this presentation we will review the basics of
Silverlight and evaluate its current status.
How does Silverlight compare to plain-HTML, AJAX, Flash/Flex
and WPF? What kind of applications is it suited for? Video?
Banner ads? Games? Line of business apps? We'll look at
some example Silverlight applications, including Microsoft's
"Patient
Journey" health services demo app. We'll walk
though development of a simple Silverlight app using Blend
and Visual Studio 2008.
Background: Silverlight is a browser plug-in similar
to Flash. It has a rich vector-based graphics system built
on top of a subset of the .NET runtime environment, running
inside the browser. The UI is specified with declarative
markup written in XAML, which has similarities to HTML.
Code-behind can be done in standard JIT-compiled .NET
languages like C# and VB.NET. It offers the opportunity
for existing .NET developers to write rich web applications
similar to Flash and Flex, but using familiar languages,
class libraries and development tools.
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Alan Cobb
is an independent consultant specializing in .NET
programming in C# for Silverlight and WPF. He has
been a consultant since 1985 in using Microsoft
systems and languages, doing contract work for clients
including Oracle and Microsoft.
Alan has an M.S. in Electronic Engineering, from
Calif. State Univ.
Sacramento and a B.S. in Business Administration
from U. C. Berkeley (Regent's Scholar, Phi Beta
Kappa)
Alan joined the SacDotNet team in 2007. He focuses
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| Nov
25 2008
Speaker: Doug Holland
Topic: Around Microsoft PDC 2008 in 2 Hours
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| Microsoft will be holding the Professional
Developers Conference 2008 the week of October 26th through
October 30th and in case you are unable to attend PDC the
Sacramento .NET Users Group will be having Doug Holland
speak about all the announcements from the conference and
demonstrating Visual Studio Team System 2010, the .NET Framework
4.0, and Windows “7”. Beyond these new releases
we’ll also discuss Microsoft’s vision for Cloud
Computing and how we will seamlessly bridge the gap between
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Doug Holland,
a Microsoft MVP for Visual C#, is presently working
as a software engineer at Intel Corporation in Folsom,
CA. He has been designing and implementing software
now for over 14 years.
Doug holds a masters degree in software engineering
from Oxford University. |
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