Microsoft is launching three exciting products this year (Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008). To celebrate, there are launch events scheduled across the nation as part of the "Heroes Happen {here}" campaign.
One such event is taking place on March 18 in Detroit. It's free to attend, but you must register before the event becomes fully booked:
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/events/Detroit/default.mspx
Take a test drive
Come to an event and test drive Windows Server® 2008 operating system, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008, and Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008.
Meet the experts
Enjoy hands-on labs, face-to-face Q&A sessions with software experts, and other opportunities to interact with development team members.
Bring the products home
Want more? To say thanks for taking part of this exciting launch, you’ll take home a promotional kit with versions of all three products.
When: Saturday, October 20, 2007
Where: Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI
Who: You! .NET Developers and Architects, and anyone else interested
Cost: FREE
Details and registration: http://www.dayofdotnet.org
Note: The registration cap has been met. If you have registered and cannot attend, please cancel your registration so that others may take your spot.
See you there!
(Since NWNUG is not having a July meeting, perhaps you might be interested in driving 45 minutes to the Findlay meeting this month??!?)
Think SharePoint will put developers out of a job? Fear not. There are many ways developers can interact with and enhance SharePoint. In this presentation, we'll look at the role developers play in customizing SharePoint to meet value-added business needs. During this talk, we'll see how we, as developers, can spend less time re-inventing the wheel and more time using SharePoint as a foundation for software solutions.
For more information about location and time, visit the FANUG website: http://www.fanug.org/
Jeremy Sublett is a software architect and senior partner with Composable Systems, Inc., specializing in SharePoint-based business solutions. Prior to making the leap to SharePoint, Jeremy was focused on using the latest Microsoft technology to implement service-oriented applications. Jeremy has worked professionally with Microsoft development technology since 1994 and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for .NET as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Jeremy contributes regularly to the Microsoft development community by speaking on topics such as ASP.NET, WSE 3.0 and SharePoint 2007.
NWNUG is proud to be one of the three area .NET user groups who are together organizing the second annual Day of .NET in Ann Arbor conference. This FREE one day event takes place on Saturday, May 5th at the Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor.
Further details, along with a link the the registration site, are available at:
http://www.dayofdotnet.org
Hope to see you there!
The second annual Cincinnati-Dayton Code Camp will take place on Saturday, March 24.
Details and registration link: http://cinnug.org/codecamp/default.aspx
Several area speakers will be presenting at the event, including NWNUG's Jason Follas and Dustin Campbell.
The Ann Arbor .NET Developer Group will be hosting NWNUG's own Dustin Campbell at their Wednesday, March 14th meeting in Ann Arbor, MI.
Dustin will be revealing a new talk entitled "Delegates and Events -- The Inside Story". This in-depth session takes a look beneath the hood to see exactly how .NET delegates and events work. Armed with this knowledge, he will examine ways to use delegates which might not be immediately obvious. Topics covered include: asynchronous delegates, custom-firing of events, weak delegates, anonymous delegates and lambda expressions. Throughout the session, potential performance and memory issues with delegates will be highlighted.
The Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group (AADND) will be hosting Matt Winkler, Technical Evangelist for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), at their meeting on January 10 (second Wednesday of the month).
If you haven't heard, WF is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications. WF radically enhances a developer’s ability to model and support business processes.
Sound interesting? Make sure you don't miss AADND on January 10th starting at 6:00 pm at the Ann Arbor IT Zone Spark Central located at 330 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
Matt Winkler is the Technical Evangelist for Windows Workflow. He was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, home of Budweiser and toasted ravioli. After college at Denison University, he returned to work for a consulting firm and a software development firm. For the last few years he has been focused on integration and workflow technologies, so he's very excited about Windows Workflow, and looking forward to finding many different cool uses for it.
Perhaps the most exciting event to be held in our area is taking place on January 18-19, 2007 in Sandusky. This conference is being organized entirely by volunteers from the developer community (NWNUG leadership included). It promises to be an event that you do not want to miss!
Conference registration is a mere $99, with a hotel room rate of $88/night if you register before 12/18/2006! For the record, this is a fantastic price not only for a conference of this calibur, but also for the Kalahari resort (which also includes admission to the indoor waterpark)!
The official CodeMash Invitation:
We’d like to officially invite you and your user group to attend CodeMash at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio on January 18 & 19. Registration is now open at http://www.codemash.org. The registration cost is very low for the world-class keynoters we’ve secured and the quality of the content and venue.
We are offering your user group the opportunity to be listed on our website and have a presence at the conference via a booth/table dedicated to user groups with the same technology focus in our area. This will give the opportunity for attendees to learn about user groups in their area and sign up to be on your membership list.
Because our conference is being organized by the regional developer community, we need your help in spreading the word. The more people we drive to the event, the more excitement we can generate and impact the regional developer community, including your user group. Would you please send the below event description to your membership via your newsletter and/or mention the event at your next user group meeting?
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CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.
You’ll have the opportunity to hear from our best internationally recognized speakers including the following fabulous keynoters:
• Bruce Eckel – Internationally Recognized Speaker and Author of "Thinking in Java"
• Neal Ford – Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Recognized Speaker on Languages and Compilers.
• Scott Guthrie – General Manager, Microsoft Developer Division.
• Scott Ambler – Internationally Recognized Speaker and Author on Agile Development and Database Refactoring.
Space is limited! The Early Bird price for this conference is only $99. After December 18th, the price will go up to $149. Register today at http://www.codemash.org.
Upcoming Webcast: November 6, 2006 at Noon EST
Heartland User Group Webcasts
Functional Programming and LINQ - Shifting your object paradigm.
Bill Wagner – Ann Arbor .NET Developers
Join us for technical presentations by experts from around our the user groups in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. In this webcast, Bill Wagner will demonstrate the new language extensions in C# and VB.NET called LINQ.
The language features added for the Orcas release of C# and VB.NET start moving those languages out of their Object Oriented roots into the realm of functional programming. It’s a different way of programming. Rather than designing classes with behaviors and data, you create functions that take data as inputs and produce different data as outputs. That radical shift can lead to much simpler ways to express your designs.
In this session, you’ll see the new syntax in these languages, and how you can leverage those additions to create more concise programs in less time.
Registration: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=1032314537&Culture=en-US
Event ID: 1032314537
Upcoming Topics:
11/20 – Intro to Workflow. What’s all the Noise About? – Brian Prince, Central Ohio .NET Developers Group
1/8 – Web Services Software Factory – Mike Wood, Cincinnati .NET Users Group
The MSDN team will be in Toledo at the Wyndham hotel (downtown) for a MSDN Event from 1PM - 5PM. Registration is required, but costs nothing to attend.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032306651
Session 1:
Take Control of the Database Development Lifecycle with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
Session 2:
Windows Workflow Foundation Exposed
Session 3:
Create Cutting-Edge Web Designs with Expression Web
On October 18th, GANG is going to host a set of Grok Talks (10 talks in 100 minutes), based on the Regional Director Grok Talks at Tech Ed 2005 (http://www.groktalk.net/)
The idea behind a Grok Talk is to explain one tip, best practice, or technique in 10 minutes. A Grok Talk needs to be focused to make sure that listeners walk away with something they can use.
NWNUG's Jason Follas will be one of the 10 presenters.
Further details can be found on the GANG website: http://www.migang.org
On Wednesday, September 20 at 6:00 PM, GANG will host Brian Noyes (INETA speaker, Microsoft Regional Director, and Microsoft MVP) at the Southfield, MI Microsoft Office.
Brian Noyes presents "Real World ClickOnce"
Abstract: ClickOnce provides a lot of flexibility for getting your smart client applications into your users hands. Come learn how to conquer the challenges of employing ClickOnce in real world enterprise environments. This session will quickly review the process of deploying an application with ClickOnce, focusing on what is placed where and what security mechanisms and configuration is involved. It will cover how to move ClickOnce applications from development machines onto production servers including the server configuration required and the modifications needed to your manifest files. It will discuss versioning your ClickOnce applications to control who gets what version when, as well as how to tighten down security using trusted publishers and avoiding user prompting. Strategies for tracking application usage and restricting access to ClickOnce applications will also be discussed.
Findlay Area .Net User Group Meeting
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 @ 5:30
Marathon Petroleum Company
539 S. Main St.
Findlay, Ohio 45840
Julia Lerman - Five (Supposedly) Scary Things About .NET (That don't really have to be)
.NET finally enables Visual Basic developers with some functionality and concepts that have no equivalent match in Visual Basic 6.0. Among these are topics that Visual Basic developers typically tend to avoid when learning .NET but they really don't need to be so intimidating. This session will delve into five of these daunting challenges - delegates, reflection, threading, Code Access Security (CAS) and declarative programming - and explain them from the perspective of a Visual Basic developer.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032293153
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Welcome Time: 12:30 PM)
Hilton Toledo 
3100 Glendale Avenue
Toledo Ohio 43614
United States
Session #1: Make it Simple – Language Enhancements in the .NET Framework 2.0
Session #2: Make it Powerful – Exploring the Enterprise Library for the .NET Framework 2.0
Session #3: Make it Personal – Creating Customizable User Interfaces with Web Parts and ASP.NET 2.0
NWNUG (Toledo, OH), along with GANG (Southfield, MI) and AADND (Ann Arbor, MI), organized a Day of .NET in Ann Arbor, MI on Saturday, May 13, 2006 from 9:00 AM to 5:15 PM.
A Day of .NET is a one day conference on all things .NET organized by developers for developers.
This was a totally FREE, no strings attached event. The feedback collected stated that this event was an overwhelming success!
Event details are available at: http://dayofdotnet.org
On May 10 (Wednesday), NWNUG's own Dustin Campbell will be presenting to the Ann Arbor .NET Developers (AADND) on the "Top Ten Tools Every .NET Developer Needs."
AADND meets on the second Wednesday of each month at:
S.P.A.R.K Center
(Ann Arbor I.T. Zone)
330 E Liberty St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Leading up to the Day of .NET in Ann Arbor event, the Ann Arbor Computer Society (AACS) is hosting an evening of GrokTalks as part of their regular meeting on May 3, 2006 featuring a lot of the same speakers that will be presenting at DoDN.
What's a GrokTalk, you ask? It's a short (~10 minute) presentation on a single topic ("All Stuff and No Fluff" is the format). The Regional Directors gave a series of GrokTalks at last year's TechEd (http://www.groktalk.com/).
The May 3 evening will feature 8 or 9 talks in 90 minutes. At this time, speakers include Aydin Akcasu, Jason Follas, Darrell Hawley, Jim Holmes, Josh Holmes, John Hopkins, Martin Shoemaker, Bill Wagner, and a very special disembodied guest presenter: Carl Franklin (.NET Wonk, MVP for Visual Basic, Regional Director, Hunter/Gatherer... oh yeah, and host of a little podcast called .NET Rocks! ).
(The final list of confirmed speakers will be posted to the AACS site prior to the event).
AACS meetings are free and open to the public. Supporting membership is $20 per year.
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Spark Central. 330 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor MI
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