Eric Neff and Robert Zych will take you on a tour of the new development world of ASP.NET Model-View-Controller. In this presentation, Robert and Eric will use the latest MVC release to give you a hands-on end-to-end demonstration on how to develop an ASP.NET MVC Web Application. You will not only learn the fundamentals of the MVC framework, but also some of the reasons for adopting it.

Topics in the presentation include:
Models, Views, Controllers, Routing, Filters, Anti-Forgery Techniques, Data Annotations, Client Validation with jQuery, Html Helpers, MVC Unit Testing, and T4 Templates

Eric Neff is a .Net consultant in the Sacramento area. Eric has 13 years of experience with web applications for Digital Media Management, Demographics, Scheduling and Insurance Claims. Eric s current interests include LINQ, AJAX and ASP.Net MVC.

Eric is currently a Solutions Architect for Kiefer Consulting at the California Office of the Chief Information Officer where he helped design, implement and operate the California ARRA and Accountability Tool that is used to report the use of federal stimulus funds for the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Additionally Eric has been responsible for the submission of these reports to Federalreporting.gov.

Eric can be contacted through his web site at http://www.ericneff.com

Robert Zych is a .NET developer with 5 years of software development experience. His primary focus is web development with ASP.NET, but he has also been a key contributor in the development of enterprise integration applications using Microsoft's BizTalk. He has worked in diverse teams, including small and large organizations such as WebMD and TransCore. 

Robert has recently been involved in a high-profile web application for the State of California where he provided his unit testing expertise to help stabilize a critical web project intended for the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) program. He is currently working on-site at Intel's Folsom campus developing and maintaining Intel's enterprise build system which is responsible for producing the drivers and installers for their hardware products. 

Robert earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Southern California and also holds a MCPD in web development. He can be contacted through his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertzych

March 30 2010
Speaker: Nima Dilmaghani
Topic: 0 to 60 With .NET Regular Expressions in 75 minutes

Regular expressions are a set of extremely powerful tools for manipulating and analyzing text. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, the .NET framework, PHP, and MySQL. Web servers such as Apache and IIS7 use them for URL rewriting. You can find them in tools and technologies as diverse as grep and egrep to Visual Studio. This talk will get you up and running with the Microsoft .NET flavor of regular expressions.  However, since the .NET regular expressions like most regular expression libraries are Perl compatible, the syntax presented will generally work with a wide range of regular expression packages. The talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will be discussing Regular Expressions as a language and their syntax. The second will discuss the practical use of regular expressions in the .NET language using System.Text.RegularExpressions, testing, and other practical considerations.

April 27 2010
Speaker: Amin Emami
Topic: Object-Relational Mapping Tools and Techniques

Storing data in the database, accessing data from the application and using the tabular data is always a challenge in object-oriented application, especially when it comes to larger projects.
Object-relational mapping (ORM) tools and techniques help the developer deal with objects in the applications, instead of working with tabular data directly, using ADO.Net and SQL queries. With ORM tools, concepts such as inheritance, many-to-many relations and .Net data types versus database types become native in your applications.
In this presentation, we will be talking about the benefits of using ORM in .Net projects and experiencing ORM with examples.