November 2009 Meeting

sswienton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:49:00 GMT

Our October 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 6pm at Justin Brands.

Please join us as a special out of town guest and INETA Speaker Bureau Member, Rachel Appel, presents on one of the following THREE topics:

Web Forms vs MVC
jQuery
ASP.NET/Developer Security

We're going to try out this format again that worked with Cory Smith's presentation in September. Rachel has 3 active presentations she can give - the members that attend this months meeting wil pick which presentation they want to hear.

We are giving away some great prizes this month including 2 copies of Windows Vista Ultimate and 1 copy of VS.NET 2008 Standard Edition!

Meeting Sponsor
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Speaker Bio
Rachel has been working as a mentor, instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for nearly 20 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies.

Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences.

Rachel’s expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server. She is also an ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications.

She is also a member of the INETA speakers bureau.

In 2008 Rachel has joined the team at Wintellect as a hired gun.

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September 2009 Meeting

sswienton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:52:00 GMT

Our September 2009 meeting will be held on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 6pm at Justin Brands.

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

LINQ - An Average Joe's Guide (or "It's not all about SQL")
ClickOnce - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Comparing WinForms to WPF

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.

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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Meetings : WinForms

November 2009 Meeting

September 2009 Meeting