• Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000
• Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition
• "Heroes Hapen {here}" Launch Kit:
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
• Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition
• SQL Server 2008 CTP5 (includes NFR voucher for SQL Server 2008 Standard)

• Web Forms vs MVC
• jQuery
• ASP.NET/Developer Security

Please join us as Shannon Davidson & Tom Dupont from CodeSmith will lead a code-heavy discussion around the PLINQO project - focused on "supercharging" LINQ to SQL.

Everyone in attendance will receive a fully-licensed copy of CodeSmith Professional 5.0!

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PLINQO - Supercharged LINQ to SQL
In the time that LINQ to SQL has been available, we have been identifying ways to make LINQ to SQL better. We have compiled all of those cool tips and tricks including new features into a set of CodeSmith templates. PLINQO opens the LINQ TO SQL black box giving you the ability to control your source code while adding many new features and enhancements. It's still LINQ to SQL, but better!

For more information, please check out the following:

• The PLINQO Website
• CodeSmith Professional
• Microsoft's LINQ to SQL Documentation

Tom DuPont lives in the Dallas, Texas, where he is a Software Development Engineer at CodeSmith Tools, LLC. Tom is a .Net developer, specializing in C# and ASP.Net MVC; he is also well versed in Javascript and the ExtJS framework. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. While Tom doesn't mind long walks on the beach, he much prefers long rides across the country on his motorcycle. Please visit the following post which contains more information on our RSVP procedures.

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Please join us as our very own FWDNUG Vice President, Cory Smith, presents on one of the following THREE Topics:

We're going to try something different with this months topic.  Since Cory has 3 active presentations he can give - we're going to let the members, that attend this months meeting, pick which presentation they want to hear.

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TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s top IT staffing firm, we’ve become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what we do best—blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage IT and communications talent, resulting in successful technology executions. Our offerings address a wide array of applications, infrastructure, and communications needs including technology deployment services, enterprise software support services, and asset management services. Our commitment to customer service has also led to the development of market specializations as a further way to put our expertise to work efficiently and creatively. To find out more, visit http://www.teksystems.com/

LINQ - An Average Joe's Guide (or "It's not all about SQL")
Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) offers developers a new way to query data using strongly-typed queries and strongly-typed results, common across a number of disparate data types including relational databases, .NET objects, and XML. By using strongly-typed queries and results, LINQ improves developer productivity with the benefits of IntelliSense and compile-time error checking. In this discussion, Cory will demonstrate the basics of LINQ and how it provides much more than just the ability to query a SQL Server database.

ClickOnce - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Now that you’ve built that perfect WPF and/or Windows Forms application, you need to get it on every computer in the world. ClickOnce might just be the answer. This will be a discussion that first introduces ClickOnce and continue into an open q/a session regarding leveraging ClickOnce in the real world.

Comparing WinForms to WPF

Speaker Bio
Cory Smith maintains a .NET related blog at AddressOf.com and is very active in the .NET community.   His community involvement includes: President of the Dallas/Fort Worth DNUX group, Vice President of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, VBInsider Member, Microsoft MVP, member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau.   A veteran developer (professionally writing software for almost 20 years) working on projects ranging anywhere from major e-commerce sites such as RadioShack.com and InterstateBatteries.com to applications that are at the heart and soul of over 4600 radio stations around the world.  His work history includes working for Tandy/RadioShack, Rare Medium, Inc., Electric Works Corp., Scott Studios Corp. and Shiny Stone Digital.

In his spare time, Cory is also owns and operates a combative martial arts academy, coaches a MMA fight team, is an avid motorcycle enthusiast and attempts to watch every action movie ever released.

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Please join us as David Penton presents: Deep Dive Into Microsoft Velocity

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TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s top IT staffing firm, we’ve become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what we do best—blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage IT and communications talent, resulting in successful technology executions. Our offerings address a wide array of applications, infrastructure, and communications needs including technology deployment services, enterprise software support services, and asset management services. Our commitment to customer service has also led to the development of market specializations as a further way to put our expertise to work efficiently and creatively. To find out more, visit http://www.teksystems.com/

Deep Dive Into Microsoft Velocity
There are several external caching engines that are available. Now Microsoft is busy developing their own caching engine called "Velocity". This promises to provide the ability for application developers to horizontally scale their applications across numerous servers by providing unified cache across all application instances.

This presentation will give an overview of "Velocity", the basics of requirements & installation, and an explanation of the basic areas of interest within "Velocity" such as Named Caches, Regions and Cache Items. The samples in this demonstration include code for accessing cache, and how this can integrate with the ASP.NET cache.

Speaker Bio
David L. Penton lives in the Dallas, Texas area and has a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA. He currently is a Lead Software Development Engineer / Performance Lead at Telligent Systems, Inc. Before that, he was a technical lead for the International Systems Group and then in Merchandising Systems at JCPenney, Inc., in Plano, TX. Before that, he was a senior business and analysis analyst for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie, TX. During that time he has worked on various technologies. He currently spends most of his time with C# and SQL Server. Database platforms he has dealt with (development and admin) include but not limited to SQL Server, Oracle, DB2.  David is a member of the ASPInsiders and was formerly a SQL Server MVP for several years and is now an ASP.NET MVP.

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Please join us as Chris Behrens presents: Entity Framework: Ready for Primetime?

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TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s top IT staffing firm, we’ve become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what we do best—blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage IT and communications talent, resulting in successful technology executions. Our offerings address a wide array of applications, infrastructure, and communications needs including technology deployment services, enterprise software support services, and asset management services. Our commitment to customer service has also led to the development of market specializations as a further way to put our expertise to work efficiently and creatively. To find out more, visit http://www.teksystems.com/

Entity Framework: Ready for Primetime?
Entity Framework hit the development community in the 3.5 Service Pack, to the delight of some and the disdain of others. Facing withering criticism and the inevitable comparison to other, more mature O/R Mappers like NHibernate, developers are faced with the perennial choice for middleware technologies: invest and learn, or ignore?

This session will investigate what Entity Framework is (and what an O/R mapper is in general), how it works, and address the criticism leveled against it by the developer community.

Speaker Bio
Chris Behrens is a software architect, writer and speaker on technology topics. He is the Chief Software Architect at PartnerComm in Arlington, TX and lives in Kennedale, TX with his wife and four children.

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Please join us as Rob Vettor presents: Developing Applications Using Data Services

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TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s top IT staffing firm, we’ve become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what we do best—blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage IT and communications talent, resulting in successful technology executions. Our offerings address a wide array of applications, infrastructure, and communications needs including technology deployment services, enterprise software support services, and asset management services. Our commitment to customer service has also led to the development of market specializations as a further way to put our expertise to work efficiently and creatively. To find out more, visit http://www.teksystems.com/

Developing Applications Using Data Services
Engage early in learning how to develop applications that blend custom code with online data-centric services.  Learn how to leverage recent advancements in Microsoft technology that enable seamless interaction with data services both locally and in the Cloud.

In this session, we’ll…

Speaker Bio
Rob Vettor is a Microsoft .NET Architect/Senior Solution Developer at Jack Henry and Associates. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob, an avid Toastmaster, founded the Dallas .NET Architecture study group (www.dotnetarch.com) and is a member of the Microsoft South Region Developer Guidance Council. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of NET computer books. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com.

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Our April 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 6pm at Justin Brands.

Our March 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 6pm at Justin Brands.

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TEKsystems® provides technology execution services, helping businesses deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise under a range of delivery options including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s top IT staffing firm, we’ve become a billion-dollar services company by continually building on what we do best—blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage IT and communications talent, resulting in successful technology executions. Our offerings address a wide array of applications, infrastructure, and communications needs including technology deployment services, enterprise software support services, and asset management services. Our commitment to customer service has also led to the development of market specializations as a further way to put our expertise to work efficiently and creatively. To find out more, visit http://www.teksystems.com/

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The FWDNUG will again be collecting money to donate to Toys-for-Tots www.toysfortots.org to make this a very special holiday season for children less fortunate than ourselves. I'm proud to say that we collected over $500 last year and we look to match or meet that goal again this year! The FWDNUG is pleased to match any contributions from our membership, dollar-to-dollar, up to $200! The FWDNUG will give you 1 prize ticket for every $10 you contribute that will go towards the following
special prizes:

• Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop Pro (keyboard and mouse)
• Scene IT? XBOX 360 Edition
• Halo 3 Legandary Edition (Includes a Life Size Master Chief Helmet)
• "Heroes Hapen {here}" Launch Kit:
  • Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
  • Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition
  • SQL Server 2008 CTP5 (includes NFR voucher for SQL Server 2008 Standard)

We will be accepting donations at Main Event (please bring exact change and/or make checks Payable to "Ft. Worth .NET Users Group"). We will provide you a receipt for your contribution and the FWDNUG is an official Non-Profit Organization. You do NOT have to be in attendance to win the special charity prizes.
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The event will start at 6pm and continue on until Main Event closes. We'll raffle off the prizes at 7:00. Directions for Main Event can be found here:
http://www.maineventusa.net/newsite/broadband/ftworth/index.html

*Monday night at Main Event is "Monday Night Madness" - from 4pm till closing all non-video games are free to play for a $20/person fee - this includes Bowling, Billards, and Laser Tag.  The entry fee also nets you a $10 Video Game Card.  The FWDNUG has a fixed budget and will subsidize as much of the $20 as possible and is dependant upon the number of people that RSVP for the event.  Based on last year's end of year party, the FWDNUG will most likely cover $10 of the $20 fee.  This will leave members responsible for any remaining balance (~$10).  You *MUST* RSVP by Monday at 3pm for the FWDNUG to subsidize a portion of your $20 fee.

Note: You do NOT have to participate in the "Monday Night Madness" offer to attend the party - everyone is welcome to attend and will still be eligible for the free food and prizes.  If you are coming to the party, but not participating in the gaming - please leave us a note during the RSVP process so we can budget accordingly.

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