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JANUARY 2008 MEETING Presented by: Clint Edmonson, Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Architects! Architects! Architects! It’s all about the architects! Although educated as a Mechanical Engineer, Clint has spent his entire 15 year career in software development preparing for his role as an Architect Evangelist. His experiences span many industries including utilities, education, call centers, construction, and beer brewing. When not delivering in depth discourses on software layering, he enjoys studying game design and 3d game engine architecture.
If you are looking to build
your web applications using a MVC approach, We think you'll find this new
ASP.NET MVC Framework option very clean and easy to use. It will enable you
to easily maintain separation of concerns in your applications, as well as
facilitate clean testing and TDD. Come learn about it!!!
Doug has served as the Chief Technology Officer for the last two years and as Programming Manager for the last five years, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Based on his unique blend of strategic and implementation level experience, Doug has unique insight into the I.T. challenges faced in both the boardroom and developer arenas. An executive with strong development skills, he has the ability to act as liaison between the business decision makers and technical decision makers, as well as being the key implementer and designer in the organization.
Jeff Julian is a Managing Partner with AJISoftware Inc, a Kansas City-based Microsoft partner and software consulting firm. His ability to solve business challenges and passion for the software community was evident when Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award in the area of XML for four years in a row and most recently SharePoint 2007. Jeff is also the founder of the largest blogging site of Microsoft professionals named Geekswithblogs.net. Recently, Jeff was an author on the upcoming Wrox title, SharePoint 20007 Development. You may contact Jeff by email at jeff@ajisoftware.com.
Consultant, Author, and Coach John Alexander is a Managing Partner with AJISoftware Inc, a Kansas City-based Microsoft partner and software consulting firm. He is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), has served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the last ten years and is an Microsoft MVP for Team System. Experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable, and open enterprise-level .NET Web applications, John is an industry recognized trainer, consultant, speaker and writer on the Microsoft .NET vision and implementation at both the technical and business decision maker level. He has also coached several teams of developers, including one that was directly responsible for placing that organization on CIO Magazine's Agile 100 List. You can reach john at john@ajisoftware.com.
Join us after the Microsoft Launch Event of Visual Studio 2008 as we discuss more topics about the product and answer questions that may have come up during the event.
Jeff Julian is a Managing Partner with AJI Software Inc, a Kansas City-based Microsoft partner and software consulting firm. His ability to solve business challenges and passion for the software community was evident when Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award in the area of Office SharePoint Server. Jeff is also the founder of the largest blogging site of Microsoft professionals named Geekswithblogs.net. Recently, Jeff was an author on the Wrox title, SharePoint 20007 Development. You may contact Jeff by email at jeff@ajisoftware.com.
Doug has served as the Chief Technology Officer for the last two years and as Programming Manager for the last five years, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Based on his unique blend of strategic and implementation level experience, Doug has unique insight into the I.T. challenges faced in both the boardroom and developer arenas. An executive with strong development skills, he has the ability to act as liaison between the business decision makers and technical decision makers, as well as being the key implementer and designer in the organization.
Sponsor: Modis, http://www.modisit.com/
Presented by: the Coders 4 Charities Team
Test-Driven development is a methodology that can help developers write solid, well-designed code. Very few developers practice it because very few understand how it works and how to make it work for them. We will discuss what TDD is, why developers would want to use it, and the basics of how to actually do it using Visual Studio 2008, MS Test and C# 3.0. Come find out what Red, Green, Refactor is all about and why you should care.
Presented by: Lee Brandt
All you have left to do is fill in the business rules, presentation logic and UI. .netTiers uses the provider model, making it easier to swap out data sources. Its flexibility and power make it an easy way to get your application written quickly with solid reliable code. While CodeSmith Tools requires a purchase, .netTiers is free, and has a great community of developers who are continually adding to its functionality. Presented by: Kendall Bingham Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a .NET Framework version 3.0 (formerly WinFX) namespace, an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio 2005. Windows Workflow Foundation is available for both client and server versions of Windows. Windows Workflow Foundation includes support for both system workflow and human workflow across a wide range of scenarios including: workflow within line of business applications, user interface page-flow, document-centric workflow, human workflow, composite workflow for service oriented applications, business rule driven workflow and workflow for systems management. Presented by: John Alexander Consultant, Author, and Coach John Alexander is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), and has served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the last seven years. Experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable, and open enterprise-level .NET Web applications, John is an industry recognized trainer, consultant, speaker and writer on the Microsoft .NET vision and implementation at both the technical and business decision maker level. He has also coached several teams of developers, including one that was directly responsible for placing that organization on CIO Magazine's Agile 100 List. You can reach john at john@alexanderjulian.net.
John is a Managing Partner with Alexander & Julian Inc (based in Kansas City) , a Microsoft Partner specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and custom .Net development. Known for excellence in software delivery, Alexander & Julian prides itself on solving business challenges with innovative solutions.
APRIL 2007 MEETING Topic: Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's unified framework for building secure, reliable, transacted, and interoperable distributed applications. In this session we will begin with a high-level overview of the WCF architecture and its key concepts. Then we will learn how to build and consume simple WCF services. After attending this session you will be able to start creating your own WCF enabled applications. Presented by: Jeff Julian Jeff is a Principal Consultant with Alexander & Julian Inc, a Kansas City-based Microsoft partner and software consulting firm. His ability to solve business challenges and passion for the software community was evident when Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award in the area of XML for four years in a row. Jeff is also the founder of the largest blogging site of Microsoft professionals named Geekswithblogs.net. Recently, Jeff was an author on the upcoming Wrox title, SharePoint 20007 Development. You may contact Jeff by email at jeff@alexanderjulian.net
Have you been enjoying the benefits of TDD, but haven't found a way to bring that feeling to UI testing? Well if you are working on the web there is a solution. Web Application Testing in .Net. We will be reviewing unit testing in general, but will quickly dive into using WatiN to drive a browser, in order to test the UI of our web site. Presented by: Dru Sellers Dru is the lead
developer for chinaleads.net. He loves cornflakes and improving code
with inversion of control containers. While playing (er...working)
at China Leads, He has learned alot about programming and enjoys
helping people write better software as a tribute to all the people
that have helped him.
JUNE
2007 MEETING
Panelists: Jeff Julian, AJI
Software
Presented by: John Alexander and Jeff Julian, AJI Software Consultant, Author, and Coach John Alexander is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), and has served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the last nine years. Experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable, and open enterprise-level .NET Web applications, John is an industry recognized trainer, consultant, speaker and writer on the Microsoft .NET vision and implementation at both the technical and business decision maker level. He has also coached several teams of developers, including one that was directly responsible for placing that organization on CIO Magazine's Agile 100 List. You can reach john at john@ajisoftware.com. Jeff Julian is an accomplished software consultant focused on Microsoft® technologies. His ability to solve business challenges and passion for the software community was evident when Microsoft awarded him the Most Valuable Professional award in the area of XML for four years in a row. Jeff is also the founder of the largest blogging site of Microsoft professionals named Geekswithblogs.net. Recently, Jeff was an author on the recently released Wrox title, Professional SharePoint 20007 Development. You may contact Jeff by email at jeff@ajisoftware.com. AJI Software (based in Kansas City) is a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Visual Studio Team System, and custom .Net development. Known for excellence in software delivery, AJI Software prides itself on solving business challenges with innovative solutions.
Topic: .NET
Testing Dr. McCaffrey is a leading proponent of the use of Lightweight Software Test Automation harnesses and a critic of the use of commercial software test automation frameworks. McCaffrey argues that in most software development scenarios, lightweight automation is more flexible, less costly, and produces higher quality results than commercial test frameworks. The use of lightweight automation is often criticized by proponents of Open Source frameworks. McCaffrey is the author of .NET Test Automation Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Presented by: Dr. James McCaffrey
Dr. James McCaffrey works for Volt Information Sciences, Inc., where he manages technical training for software engineers working at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus. He has worked on several Microsoft products including Internet Explorer, Exchange Server, and MSN Search. James has a doctorate from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Information Systems from Hawaii Pacific University, a B.A. in Mathematics from California State University at Fullerton, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Irvine. James is a Contributing Editor for Microsoft MSDN Magazine and is the author of ".NET Test Automation Recipes" (Apress, 2006). He can be reached at jmccaffrey@volt.com or v-jammc@microsoft.com.
Topic: Intro to PowerShell Windows PowerShell is Microsoft's next generation shell environment and scripting language. You can think of PowerShell as a dramatic upgrade to the old cmd.exe command shell and .BAT files. This talk will get you up to speed with PowerShell by giving you an overview of when and why you'd want to use PowerShell, showing you how to use PowerShell in interactive mode, explaining how to write and execute PowerShell scripts, and demonstrating how PowerShell works with the .NET Framework. Presented by: Russell Bail, the Caffeinated Coder (http://geekswithblogs.net/coredump/Default.aspx)
Topic: WPF and You… What is the Windows Presentation Foundation and why should you care? The Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation provides the foundation for building applications and high fidelity experiences in Windows Vista, blending together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer. See an application that takes advantage of the new graphics capabilities of WPF while harnessing the power of the provider model. The provider pattern or model can be used to facilitate easier testing and ease of switching out resources as needed. Come see a walkthrough of this as an added bonus! Presented by: Doug Butscher Doug has served as the Chief Technology Officer for the last two years and as Programming Manager for the last five years, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Based on his unique blend of strategic and implementation level experience, Doug has unique insight into the I.T. challenges faced in both the boardroom and developer arenas. An executive with strong development skills, he has the ability to act as liaison between the business decision makers and technical decision makers, as well as being the key implementer and designer in the organization.
JANUARY 2006 MEETING
Generic classes and methods combine reusability,
type safety and efficiency in a way that their non-generic counterparts
cannot. Generics are most commonly used with collections and the methods
that operate on them. Version 2.0 of the .NET Framework class library
provides a new namespace, System.Collections.Generic, which contains several
new generic-based collection classes. It is recommended that all
applications that target Version 2.0 use the new generic collection classes
instead of the older non-generic counterparts such as ArrayList. Given
that, join us for an exploration into this exciting new functionality and
learn how you can take advantage of it for happier coding...
Presented by: John Alexander and Jeff Julian
John Alexander Some of John's recent written efforts include (Co-Author), OOP: Building Reusable Components with Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft Press, October 2002 and (Author), Web Application Development with Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET, John Wiley & Sons, April 2002. In addition, John has been nominated and chosen
by Microsoft for the fifth straight year as a Microsoft Regional Director.
Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers,
architects, trainers, and other professionals who provide a vital link between
Microsoft and the developer community.
FEBRUARY 2006 MEETING
Topic:
Build
Automation and Continuous Integration
MARCH 2006 MEETING This “mostly demo” talk walks through code examples drawn from his latest book, Bill guides you through the maze of issues you’ll face as you connect to, manage and monitor SQL Server instances—including the new SQL Express instance. He’ll show the new utilities and code used to configure SQL Server 2005 including demonstrations of code used to create the new SqlConnectionStringBuilder, how to discover data source instances as well as start, stop, pause and continue these instances as well as how to configure, manage and monitor the connection pool using new 2.0 Framework classes. Bill will also show you how to capture and display real-time operational statistics including data from the new performance counters. Presented by: INETA speaker: Bill Vaughn William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written six editions of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server” (working on the 7th edition) and two editions of “ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers”. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed “Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services”. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Developer/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi-weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at user group meetings in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and at his speaking venues all over the world. Bill was added to the INETA speaker’s list this fall. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See www.betav.com or www.betav.com\blog\billva.
Date: Tuesday,
April 25, 2006, 6:00 PM -
7:30 PM Download
the session materials
Presented by: Jeff Julian, Alexander & Julian, Inc. Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Topic: Introduction to AJAX.Net
Abstract: This discussion will be about AJAX.net and Google Maps (if time) AJAX.net allows developers to communicate between client side JavaScript and server side ASP.net with out a page refresh. This "mostly demo" talk will show how to set up an AJAX site from scratch, how to enable existing applications to use AJAX and how to pass .net business objects between ASP and JavaScript. If there is time, we will dig into the Google Maps API and show how to create a point on the map, how to populate the InfoWindow and how to call a SQL Server database in ASP.net, pass the data via AJAX and display the points on the map...all with out a page refresh.
Presented
by: Tim Hibbard Tim is a Software Architect for EnGraph out of Lawrence, KS. Tim is best know for his Where's Tim site (http://followtim.com). He has been programming professionally for 5 years and spends most of his time in VB.net, ASP.net, AJAX.net, ClickOnce, Google Maps and SQL Server. Tim has never spoken in front of his peers, so be gentle.
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Date: Tuesday,
June 27, 2006, 6:00 PM -
8:00 PM Topic: Hack or Be Hacked: Coding Shoot-Out
Presented
by: InnerWorkings and Microsoft
‘Snake’, a cool web hacker with nothing on his hands but time, his mom’s VISA ™ card and the cold leather of his mouse pad, will attempt to hack into what could easily be your own company’s website, and rustle away with something more precious than gold: your customer database!
Just by registering you will be entered into a drawing to win a $200 Amazon.com gift certificate at the event.
(You need not be present to win!) The ‘shoot-out’ will be followed by a FREE 1-hour hands-on lab covering several types of security hacks commonly used to deny service and steal data. You will be provided with the following free tasks each representing at least 20 minutes of coding time: Ø Input validation Ø SQL injection Ø Denial of service Ø Canonicalization Ø View state attacks Ø Cross site scripting
After the event you will be challenged to solve the tasks and score up to 3 points each or 18 total points. InnerWorkings will maintain a leader board for one week after the event and the winner will earn a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Professional courtesy of Microsoft.
Date:
Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 6:00 PM -
7:30 PM The development of custom web controls is a .NET technology that is still underused even though .NET has been around for over three years now. Many programmers use the built-in controls on a daily basis but have never explored the world of creating their own, and how it can bring a new level of object-oriented programming to the UI layer. It is an area of .NET development that has been dominated by 3rd party tool vendors while remaining untouched by a great deal of the general community. This presentation will give you an introduction to the world of custom control development for ASP.NET by explaining the theories and concepts behind them, then continue on by actually building a full-featured web server control. The target audience for this lecture is ASP.NET programmers with a decent understanding of ASP.NET’s architecture using the out-of-the-box web controls that Visual Studio ships with. This talk is targeted at ASP.NET 2.0 but most material applies to ASP.NET 1.1 as well.
Presented by INETA speaker: Miquel
Castro
Date:
Tuesday, August 22, 2006, 6:00 PM -
7:30 PM
Session Downloads This presentation will take you through the process of writing tests first, driving the design and implementation of your application code. You will learn to implement what is needed and avoid the overhead of writing unnecessary code. You will gain an understanding of how to identify and improve unclear and unclean code. In short, you will move beyond writing code “that works” to writing more maintainable code that works well.
Presented by: Jim Erwin Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Topic: Implementing Process - Visual Studio 2005 Team System Overview Software projects fail for a variety of
reasons. Most of the difficulties are not due to technology, but due to lack
of visibility and predictability. Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System
offers tools to help address these challenges and will impact how
applications are designed, developed, tested, and deployed. Visual Studio
2005 Team System offers advanced application lifecycle management tools and
processes that will assist organizations in delivering their solutions on
time and under budget. In this session, you will get an overview of these
new tools and gain an insight into Microsoft's approach to this market. Chris is a Development Process Consultant for
Notion Solutions, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in
software development process and Visual Studio Team System. He has been
working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since late 2004. Chris has
obtained a broad understanding of information technology by sharing best
practices with the client companies he has worked with over the past 10
years. As a consultant, he has served in many different roles in the
software development process. Chris has been a project manager, analyst,
architect, developer, and tester. This broad background has given him
insight into not only the technical challenges that face software projects,
but the procedural challenges as well. Chris has worked with a variety of
companies ranging in size from 50 employees up to Fortune 500 companies. He
has written white papers and articles on Team System for MSDN and MSDN
Magazine. Chris is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Microsoft Regional
Director and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. Topic: NHibernate Forget stored procedures, lets build an application today. Tired of maintaining mounds of SQL statements? Harness the power of NHibernate and say good bye to boiler plate SQL and hello to productivity. That is what we will accomplish, during my presentation we will build and develop a simple business model demonstrating the power of object relational mappers. Presented by: Dru Sellers Dru is a passionate student of software and its development. He has implemented multi-lingual systems, helped with the development of large open source projects, and has an intense interest in the development of open data applications. He loves using open source software when it can help and would love to hear about any projects you are working on.
JANUARY
2005 MEETING
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FEBRUARY 2005 MEETING
MARCH
2005 MEETING
Presented by: Bill Graziano
Presented by: Devin Rader
Presented by: Brian Muirhead
Presented by: Bill Graziano
Additional material covered will include adding security features to support user login services and creating an XML-Web Service interface to expose your application to external, non-Windows platforms. Presented by:
Mike Amundsen When he is not working, Mike spends time with his wife and three children at their home in Kentucky, USA.
ClickOnce is a new Windows client application deployment technology in .NET 2.0 that allows seamless deployment and update of applications by end users in a trustworthy and low impact manner. You get the best of a rich client application combined with the ease of deployment and update of a web application. This talk discusses what ClickOnce is all about, what kinds of applications it is suited for, and how to use it. The initial publishing and deployment of applications will be demonstrated and explained, as well as the various update behaviors supported by ClickOnce. ClickOnce security mechanisms will also be explained and demonstrated, showing how ClickOnce tries to prevent any harm to the user’s desktop machine during deployment and execution of the application, without unnecessarily restricting what the application is capable of doing.
Presented by: Brian Noyes * Technical presentation based on Microsoft launch content
Some of John's recent written efforts include (Co-Author), OOP: Building Reusable Components with Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft Press, October 2002 and (Author), Web Application Development with Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET, John Wiley & Sons, April 2002. In addition, John has been nominated and chosen by Microsoft for the fifth straight year as a Microsoft Regional Director. Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers, architects, trainers, and other professionals who provide a vital link between Microsoft and the developer community.
DECEMBER
2004 MEETING
Topic:
SQL Server 2005 Steve is the Microsoft Developer Evangelist for
the MidAmerica District, traveling through the states of Missouri, Kansas and
Tennessee. He spends a great deal of his time supporting .NET User Groups,
answering questions about .NET and SQL Server Development, and in general opening the
developer community to the virtues of Microsoft as a development platform and
development tools. Topic: Hacked! How evil people attack
ASP.NET web sites--and what you can do about it. Topic:
Test-Driven Development and Unit Testing in
.NET. Presented by: John Alexander and
Jeff Julian John Alexander Some of John's recent written efforts include (Co-Author), OOP: Building Reusable Components with Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft Press, October 2002 and (Author), Web Application Development with Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET, John Wiley & Sons, April 2002. In addition, John has been nominated and chosen
by Microsoft for the fifth straight year as a Microsoft Regional Director.
Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers,
architects, trainers, and other professionals who provide a vital link between
Microsoft and the developer community. AUGUST
2004 MEETING Topic: Introduction to System.Xml and Web Services Presented by: Jeff Julian is an
Senior Consultant with Vision Data Solutions' .NET Practice. Jeff is a
Microsoft MVP in XML, an INETA volunteer and co-leader of the Kansas City .NET User Group. He has
written several articles for Dotnetjunkies, speaks at conferences and user
groups around the country and currently hosts Geekswithblogs.com. You can contact Jeff by
email at
jjulian@Visionpace.com. Topic: Taking advantage of the .NET DeUGn Time Framework Presented by: Chris Hock, Celeritas
Topic:
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services for the
Impatient Kent is a Senior Systems Analyst for HDR, Inc., an Engineering and Architecture firm. He is the co-author of several programming books on Data Access programming with Visual Basic and .NET Technologies and has been recognized by Microsoft as a Community Rock Star. You can visit Kent's blog at http://www.tegels.org
Topic:
What's coming in Whidbey, the next release of VS.NET. Steve is the Microsoft Developer Evangelist for
the MidAmerica District, traveling through the states of Missouri, Kansas and
Tennessee. He spends a great deal of his time supporting .NET User Groups,
answering questions about .NET Development, and in general opening the
developer community to the virtues of Microsoft as a development platform and
development tools. Topic: Service Oriented Architecture Presented by: Philip Rieck Philip is a senior technical consultant in Omaha, Nebraska with Client Resources Inc. He has been a software professional for over ten years, as a developer, architect, analyst, manager and consultant. Philip holds multiple MS certifications, and has taught formal classes in .NET, Java, COBOL and C++. Aside from working software development and management in many different industries, Philip has expertise in blending legacy applications and new development.
Topic:
Unit Testing with .NET. Presented by: John Alexander, .NET
Practice Manager for Vision Data Solutions -
www.Visionpace.com Some of John's recent written efforts include (Co-Author), OOP: Building Reusable Components with Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft Press, October 2002 and (Author), Web Application Development with Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET, John Wiley & Sons, April 2002. In addition, John has been nominated and chosen by Microsoft for the fifth straight year as a Microsoft Regional Director. Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers, architects, trainers, and other professionals who provide a vital link between Microsoft and the developer community.
Topic: Using
Encryption
within .NET. Presented by: John Alexander, .NET
Practice Manager for Vision Data Solutions -
www.Visionpace.com Some of John's recent written efforts include (Co-Author), OOP: Building Reusable Components with Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft Press, October 2002 and (Author), Web Application Development with Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET, John Wiley & Sons, April 2002. In addition, John has been nominated and chosen
by Microsoft for the fifth straight year as a Microsoft Regional Director.
Regional Directors aren't Microsoft employees--they're independent developers,
architects, trainers, and other professionals who provide a vital link between
Microsoft and the developer community. 2003 DECEMBER
2003 MEETING NOVEMBER
2003 MEETING Topic: Creating
Wiki web sites with .NET Presented by: Hector Correa
Topic: ASP.NET
tips and Tricks Presented by: Devin Rader, President of
the St. Louis .NET User Group. SEPTEMBER
2003 MEETING Topic: Creating ASP.NET Server Controls Presented by: Jeff Julian is an
Application Developer for Physicians Reference Lab. Jeff is a INETA volunteer and co-leader of the Kansas City .NET User Group. He has
written several articles for the Dotnetjunkies and currently host
Geekswithblogs.com. Jeff attended DeVry Institute of Technology in Kansas City
and received a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. You can contact Jeff by
email at
jjulian2@mac.com. Topic: Best Performance with ASP.NET Caching Caching is vital to the building of a high-performance, scalable server application. Some items that are expensive to dynamically construct can be built once and then used for some amount of time before they are considered invalid. Caching should be considered for every page during the deUGn phase, whether the whole page will be cached, or even just a portion of it to improve overall performance. Presented by: Jeff Widgren, Vice-President of Software Outfitters, Inc., a Kansas City based software development company has been providing .Net specific solutions for their clients for just over a year. His team of developers continually strive to leverage new and innovative ways to maximize the advantages that the new .Net Framework offers. Jeff has trained 1,000s of people throughout
the U.S. and Canada over the past several years, been a technical editor for
Windows NT and SQL Magazine, and contributed to the writing of "CCNA Guide to
Cisco Networking Fundamentals". He's an MCSE, MCP+I, I-Net+, etc. but
ultimately he just loves the thrill that the Internet development world
offers. You can contact Jeff at
jeffw@softwareoutfitters.com Topic: RSS and XSLT: Transforming the community one node at a time. This presentation will cover the XML dialect RSS and show some different ways to transform these feeds with XSLT into different output types, including HTML. Then we will go over how RSS is used in the weblog community while demonstrating how I leveraged XSLT to build a weblog system. Many of the examples demonstrated in the presentation were created with C# and Visual Studio .NET 2003. Presented by: Jeff Julian is an
Application Developer for Fidelity National Information Solutions. Jeff is a
INETA volunteer and co-leader of the Kansas City .NET User Group. He has
written several articles for the Dotnetjunkies and currently host
Geekswithblogs.com. Jeff attended DeVry Institute of Technology in Kansas City
and received a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. You can contact Jeff by
email at
jjulian2@mac.com. JUNE 2003 MEETING Topic: The Creation of Distributed Object-Oriented Applications in .NET The Microsoft .NET Framework provides extensive support for creating highly scaleable distributed applications. You will learn how to deUGn Windows and Web-based applications based on distributed business objects, achieving high levels of reuse, scalability, long-term maintainability and other benefits. You will also learn how Web Services, Remoting, object serialization, Enterprise Services, autodeployment and other .NET technologies come together to create these applications. Presented by: Rockford (Rocky) Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Rockford is the author of several Wrox Press titles, including ‘Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects’, ‘Fast Track Visual Basic .NET’ and ‘Professional Visual Basic Interoperability – COM and VB6 to .NET’. He is a columnist for MSDN Online and contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and he regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections. Rockford has over 16 years experience in software development and has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, deUGn and development, network administration and project management.
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 Topic: Legacy Applications and .NET -- Can We Talk?, presented by Mike Babcock, Vice President Technical Services for ClientSoft. There
are over 9 million mainframe applications still in use today. The need to
reuse and repurpose these applications within the .NET framework is at an all
time high. This session will cover mainframe application integration,
specifically highlighting the differences and requirements for data,
transaction, and application level integration. In addition, Williams will
perform a live demonstration against a mainframe system using ClientSoft's
.NET tools to transform a closed, monolithic legacy application into .NET
components and web services APRIL 2003 MEETING Topic: .NET
Threading, presented by Jake Dubin of Ticket Solutions and Jeff
Julian of Fidelity National Information Solutions. MARCH 2003 MEETING Topic: Using Crystal Reports with
.NET, presented by Le Seaman of Vision Data Solutions. FEBRUARY 2003 MEETING Topic: Data
Binding with ASP.NET - Part 2 of 2, presented by Bob Baldwin of Versent Group.
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