July 26 2005: Visual Studio 2005 Team Server
Drew Robbins presented many features of Visual Studio 2005.

June 28 2005: Shifting Gears With C# & TSQL
Joseph Poirier presented an application he wrote for a local company that touched on areas of SQLCE 2, .NET Compact Framework, and C#.

April 26 2005: .NET Pub Club Meeting
We met at Mr. Beefy's after the MSDN event. The group had a great opportunity to meet members from the MSDN, and were able to discuss .NET technology while enjoying food and drinks.

March 28th 2005: Microsoft Reporting Services
Cem Demircioglu presented on Reporting Services (RS), a new business intelligence tool designed by Microsoft to author, manage and deliver interactive Web-based reports. RS enabled the Hirzel Canning Company to transform valuable enterprise data into shared information for insightful, timely decisions. After integrating it with a statistical forecasting engine, RS became their central business intelligence portal with over-the-Web, real-time, and interactive forecasting capabilities. At the last stage of the project, Hirzel moved the archival data from relational databases to multidimensional OLAP databases and utilized SQL Server Analysis Services. This presentation covered challenges, real world solutions, and a demonstration of the technologies. 

slides-2005-03-28.zip (1.64 MB)

Update (10/24/2005): Cem now works for Microsoft with Reporting Services technologies!

February 22 2005: Agile Software Development & ASP.NET Code Generator
Ken Kutz presented on Agile Software Development and also demonstrated an automated ASP.NET code generator. Ken explained how Agile methodologies reduce cost and risk while improving customer satisfaction and maximimizing return on investment. The presentation emphasized the "People and Process" aspects of software development. Ken also demonstrated a web-based ASP.NET code generator he has created (with some help) that generates T-SQL stored procedures, data access classes, edit pages, feature-rich data grids, dynamic data-driven email lists, statistics, Flash-based graphs, Excel and PDF output, web services, and dynamically generated clickable flowcharts that work with SQL Server databases.

January 25 2005: Windows XP Media Center Edition
Greg Huber (President of NWNUG, Microsoft MVP) presented "Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005" (MCE 2005). MCE 2005 helps bring the power of the PC to your living room and developers can easily take advantage of its API to develop applications. Greg demonstrated how a web service could be consumed by a web application, all integrated into the MCE framework. This presentation was a nice survey of MCE's feature set, limitations, and competition.

Oct 26 2004: MSMQ
Greg Huber (.NET MVP, President NWNUG) presented on How to Leverage MSMQ in .NET Applications. Have you ever developed a Web application that requires extensive processing? Ever had long running Web pages that often time out in the browser? Performing asynchronous processing through MSMQ messaging might be the answer. The following components were covered: MSMQ, .NET Service, writing to a MSMQ from an ASP.NET web page.

Sept 28 2004: .NET 2.0
Alex Lowe presented on ADO.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.

August 31 2004: Web Site Security
Paul Litwin presented on Hacked: Understanding and Preventing Web Site Attacks
Let's face it-there are a lot of unruly types trying to, at best, make you look foolish, and, at worst, steal from you, your company, or your customers. In this session, you'll see how easy it is for hackers to launch cross site scripting, SQL injection, eavesdropping, input tampering, and related attacks against your ASP.NET Web sites. More importantly, you'll learn how to use validation controls, stored procedures, HtmlEncode, and other measures to lock down your sites and sleep better at night.

July 27 2004: Web Service Extensions (WSE)
Greg Huber presented on securing your web services with WSE 2.0 (Web Service Extensions). The first half of the presentation covered web service techniques and best practices, as well as a code walkthrough. In the second half, Greg presented on how to add Web Service Extensions 2.0 to your .NET project, the importance of adding security to web services, and how to add security.

June 29 2004: DotNetNuke
Patrick J Santry of wwwcoder.com and MVP presented on DotNetNuke, an open source portal (built on the original IBuySpy portal). DotNetNuke provides automated content management capabilities and tools to maintain a dynamic and 100% interactive data-driven web site. The free, portal framework provides several tools for managing your Website, for example, site logging, role security, vendor and banner management, file management, and more. NWNUG will be migrating to DotNetNuke in the near future as well!

April 27 2004: Development Best Practices
John Mason from Microsoft Great Plains (Findlay) covered best practices for developers, .Net performance optimization, and best practices in general for software development.
John is a seasoned presenter and has covered past topics such as .Net Security, C# Design Patterns, hard-core debugging (using WinDBG and CDB). He has delivered a number of workshops and related content, and has also worked with many large customers of Microsoft who have had development-project meltdown(s). John also gave the DevDays 2002 .Net Security Speech and demo in both Atlanta (GA) and Charlotte (NC). Before leaving GA last year, John has also presented a technical speech covering .Net at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

March 30 2004: Whidbey
Drew Robbins (Columbus .NET UG leader & consultant) came up and presented in detail about ASP.NET Whidbey.

Feb 24 2004: MS-SQL Reporting Services
A new member of the NWNUG board, Aaron Weiker, gave a Fly-By presentation on Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. We also discussed upcoming changes to the website and meetings. Look for new community development projects in the near future to get involved in and expand on your growing skills in .NET!

Jan 27 2004: Unit Testing
Jonathan Cogley of Thycotic Software Ltd presented on unit testing, how it fits in .NET, how you can start using it today and tackle some of the common hurdles you may encounter (GUI testing, testing database code, untestable objects, etc).

Tuesday, Dec 2 2003
At our combined Nov/Dec meeting, Alex Lowe (Microsoft Great Lakes) presented on the upcoming version of .NET- Whidbey. We learned a great deal about many of the new features coming out in the framework and Visual Studio .NET. The second half of the meeting emphasized ASP.NET and some of the new exciting concepts/changes coming.

Tuesday, Oct 28 2003
Greg Huber (President of NWNUG) and Rajiv Menon (Vice President) MC'd a challenging round of Quizzard! Many prizes were given out. After the game, Greg Huber presented on an upcoming feature in quizzard- MSMQ. Emilie Paddock also presented a .NET FlyBy which included information on implementing best practices in Windows and ASP.NET applications.