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Jan
27 2009 (Tuesday)
Speaker: Manoj P Keechilot
Topic: Building Mobile Applications with
.Net
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.Net has made it much easier to develop and deploy
feature-rich applications to mobile devices. This seminar
will introduce to the group, the basics of developing
and deploying .Net Compact Framework applications. In
addition to challenges, opportunities and tools, the presentation
will demonstrate developing a small but cool application
using Visual Studio 2008 and C#. It will also touch on
some advanced topics, like using the native APIs, with
code developed in C++.
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Manoj P Keechilot
is a practicing .Net specialist, focusing on B2B messaging
& logistics applications.
Manoj has been building mobile applications for the past
3 years as a hobby. In the past he has served in the Pod
Development Advisory Board of a mobile data and Internet
communications company in Southern California.
Manoj is a founder-director of Sacramento .Net User Group.
Please visit SacDotNet website for his detailed profile.
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| Feb
24 2009
Speaker: Alek Davis
Topic: Getting the best out of ASP.NET AJAX
and jQuery
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| ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery may not be the
best combination of technologies for every software project,
but it can offer a few advantages to developers of enterprise
applications. At this seminar, Alek will describe these
advantages and explain how to use the best features of
ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery for building line-of-business
(LOB) applications. You will learn how to get started
and overcome the most common problems you will encounter
when using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. The seminar is intended
for novices, but if you are more proficient in either
ASP.NET AJAX or jQuery, please come and share your knowledge.
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Alek is
a senior application developer at Intel Corporation.
He has been writing software for over 10 years focusing
on enterprise applications, security, and usability.
Alek graduated from California State University,
Sacramento with BS degree in Computer Science and
MS degree in Software Engineering. Alek wrote articles
for MSDN Magazine, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Visual Studio
Magazine, and other technical publications.
Alek is an executive director of Sacramento .Net
User Group.
You can find Alek's blog at
http://alekdavis.blogspot.com.
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| March
31 2009
Speaker: Stuart Celarier
Topic: Windows Workflow Foundation Essentials:
Why, What, and How?
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| Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) released
as part of .NET 3.0 in late 2006, and yet I frequently meet
people who haven’t used WF even when it seems to be
ideally suited to their task at hand. Often that is due
to not knowing the essence of workflow: why, what, and how?
These are the three essential things that everyone needs
to know about a technology before we can start making critical
decisions about when, where, or even if we should use it.
Why does it exist: what is the fundamental problem that
it solves? What does it do: what does the solved problem
look like? And how does it work: what is going on underneath
the hood to make it happen? And this is absolutely key to
success with WF, since WF is a radically different kind
of technology to most of us. This talk is a deep, solid
introduction to WF. I’ll examine the why and what
of WF so that we have a common context, and then explore
the mechanics using several small demos to illustrate just
how WF works. I’ll also take a look at what’s
coming down the road for WF in .NET 4.0. You’ll take
away an understanding of the core of WF so that you can
make informed decisions about using WF and you’ll
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Stuart
Celarier is Chief Software Architect of Aivea, a
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft
Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems.
His career spans more than two decades of development,
architecture, writing, and training, with a focus
on new and emerging technologies. His professional
interests include the current and next generations
of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows
Workflow Foundation (WF), “Oslo” modeling
platform, “Dublin” application server
extensions, “Geneva” claims framework,
.NET Framework 4.0, and Windows Azure.
Stuart is co-founder of Portland Code Camp and frequently
speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community
events. He is a member of the Software Association
of Oregon’s Development SIG committee. Stuart
is an INETA Speaker and has volunteered with INETA
since 2003, including co-chairing the community-led
Birds-of-a-Feather track at Tech•Ed 2005–2009
and PDC 2005. He blogs at http://visualstuart.net.
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