.NET User Group Helping the .NET developers

Topic: Refactoring to a S.O.L.I.D. Foundation

In this session we take a small, functional but tightly-coupled, software solution and improve its design using each of Robert C. Martin's S.O.L.I.D. principles as follows:

SRP: Single Responsibility Principle

OCP: Open-Close Principle

LSP: Liskov Substitution Principle

ISP: Interface Segregation Principle

DIP: Dependency Inversion Principle

Each principle will be applied in sequence to the existing solution.

Speaker: Steve Bohlen

Bio

Currently a Senior Software Engineer for SpringSource where he is the Technical Lead and Community Evangelist for the Spring.NET Framework, Stephen brings his varied 18-year-plus experience in software and technology to the design and delivery of Software Engineering Solutions and Frameworks for other Software Engineers. In addition to his work on Spring.NET, Stephen is also an active contributor to several other .NET Open-Source Software projects including NHibernate, NDbUnit, and others.Stephen is also a current and past Microsoft MVP award recipient and presently holds the office of the Vice President for INETA, North America.

Active in the software development community, Stephen speaks publicly, blogs (semi-)regularly, and is the author of several popular screencast series focused on Agile and ALT.NET concepts and technologies including the widely-praised 15-part Summer of NHibernate video series introducing viewers to the popular open-source O/RM tool. Stephen is also a founding/organizing member of the NYC ALT.NET user group which meets monthly to discuss Agile-focused techniques and technologies in the world of Microsoft software development and beyond.

We will be having a social to celebrate the holiday. There will be cookies along with the usual pizza.

Some members will be speaking about some of the things they are working on. If you would like to speak please email mshaw@hhogdev.com.

I hope to see everyone there, the last User Group of the year!

Hedgehog Development's Charles Turano will be giving a detailed introduction to Visual Studio's Project Files.

The Introduction will include

• contents and function of Project Files
• The basics of MSBuild 
• how MSbuild is used to implement project files in Visual Studio

This will be a very interesting and useful talk so don't miss out!

Presenter: Charles Turano

Hedgehog Development Senior Architect

Presenting Kentico CMS. Ideal for developers who need to get more done in less time!

Kentico CMS provides a unique development model that makes developers more productive without reducing flexibility:

• quickly create new sites using browser-based interface or Visual Studio
• reuse 250+ built-in web parts
• choose from dozens of modules instead of starting from scratch

This is a full featured CMS that will satisfy your most picky business users. Join us for a live demo and learn why it is growing so rapidly.

Presented by mindSHIFT Technologies, a Kentico Certified Partner and .NET Web development experts.

Scaling Apps in the Cloud

When people talk about migrating their applications to the cloud, one of the primary topics discussed is scale.  But scale doesn’t come for free.  How can you achieve it?  It turns out that storage has a lot to do with it.  The Windows Azure platform offers different storage options, including SQL Azure for relational data.  As you’ll see in tonight’s talk, it’s pretty easy to get data from SQL Server up into SQL Azure.  The tools and concepts are virtually the same.  Our brains are sometimes hard-wired to assume a relational database is how and where we’ll store data when designing an application.  But in the cloud, that might not always be optimal for achieving scale and optimal management of costs.  We’ll also explore some of the non-relational storage services provided by Azure, including blobs, tables, and queues.

Peter Laudati,  Developer Evangelist - Microsoft

Peter Laudati, the "JrzyShr Dev Guy," is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in the New York/New Jersey area. One of his roles is supporting and educating developers working Microsoft technologies. Peter supports the developer community in the NY Metro area by speaking at user group events, Code Camps, and various tech conferences. Peter is also the co-host of the “Connected Show” (www.connectedshow.com), a podcast focused on the cloud and connecting Microsoft technology with non-Microsoft technology. His blog can be found at http://www.peterlaudati.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @Jrzyshr.

Topic: Generate Your Code!

Description:

Code generation is a powerful practice that allows you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. This helps remove the mundane and repetitive parts of programming, allowing developers to focus their efforts on more important tasks, and saving companies time and money. Code generation enables you to efficiently: Reduce repetitive coding, generate code in less time with fewer bugs, and produce consistent code that adheres to your standards.

Speaker: Tom DuPont, Vice President of CodeSmith Tools

Bio:

Tom DuPont lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is the Vice President of CodeSmith Tools, LLC. But don’t let the title fool you, Tom is a total code monkey! He specializes in .NET development with C#, ASP.NET MVC, and even that crazy JavaScript stuff. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. In his spare time Tom enjoys long rides across the country on his motorcycle.

Everyone in attendance will receive a free copy of CodeSmith Generator Professional! 

Contact to RSVP

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1867520805/eorg

 Topic: Getting to know ViewState

Description:

ViewState is that part of ASP.Net we all have a love/hate relationship with, but it's not as bad as many think once you get to know it. In this presentation Tech Software's Walden Leverich will take a detailed look at ViewState, what it is and why (and when) we need it. We will look at the two component parts of ViewState, control state and true viewstate, when it's created and processed in the page lifecycle and why it's there at all. We will look at what goes into viewstate (and what doesn't), options for minimizing it, and best practices for its usage both pre and post ASP.Net 4.0. Options for decoding viewstate to see what's inside will be presented as well as settings you can use to prevent tampering and even decoding along with their implications. We will also look at Tech's ViewState in SQL product, what it does, why you'd want to use it, and most importantly, how it does what it does; we'll look at the code that makes it tick.

Speaker: Walden Leverich

Bio:

Walden Leverich is the President and CEO of Tech Software, a software development and consulting company based in Melville, NY. He spends most of his (non-management) time working with customers to help them bring the data assets locked in their legacy systems to the Web. He is a member of the Microsoft IT Advisory Council, member of the Long Island .NET user group, Co-Chair of the LISTnet Cloud and SaaS SIG, and past president of the Long Island System Users Group. He is also a regular speaker at local and national user groups and conferences.

Walden is an escapee from Clarkson University where, other than things academic, he learned that NCAA Division 1 hockey is better enjoyed from the stands, water freezes at a temperature that isn't all that cold after all, and you can meet your wife in college. When not doing geeky computer things, Walden enjoys getting mud on his Jeep, photography and watching Manchester United kick butt. The proud father of two girls and one boy, he’s extremely happy he has an office to escape to each morning.

Walden welcomes comments and questions, blogs at blog.waldenl.com, and can be reached at WaldenL@techsoftinc.com or @WaldenL on Twitter.

IEEE Long Island Section has a lecture next week that may be interesting you. It is directed to anybody that builds an application with web interface or a simple web site.

Read more about the session : IEEE_5_2011Sergey

JQuery is now a part of Visual Studio 2010 and is the single most powerful

cross-browser tool for client-side scripting for SharePoint 2010 applications.

With the decline of the document object model (DOM) in SharePoint 2010, this

discussion will provide invaluable insight as of how to incorporate JQuery into

SharePoint 2010 to increase dynamic content display and add interface

enhancements as well as new functionality without access to the server. This

session will show client-side script development improvements over MOSS 2007,

using JQuery and the new ECMA scripting on SharePoint 2010. This session is

targeted to SharePoint developers who seek to increase their skill set in the

least amount of time.

 

 Speaker Bio: Fernando Leitzelar is a senior SharePoint architect and consultant with mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., where he regularly interfaces with clients and development teams to design SharePoint-based solutions. Fernando also delivers SharePoint developer, administrator and end-user training. He has been working with SharePoint 2010 since its release, having worked extensively on designing and architecting sophisticated MOSS 2007 and 2003 applications. He maintains expertise in MOSS 2007/2010, JPoint, SharePoint Designer, ASP.NET, C#.NET, and SQL 2005/2008 reporting and business intelligence tools.

Failures within and between applications cost money, lost productivity, and even loss of morale within and outside IT. What happens following a failure determines if the impact is relativity minor or a disaster costing significant dollars and possibly loss of jobs, contracts, and future opportunities.

What happens next is what this talk is about. In an ideal scenario, the right people are notified by the exception event with all the information relative to the error (who, what, when, where, and why). In the worst case, the most highly skilled (and compensated) programmers are called upon to find the cause of an exception armed with little more than “something broke”. Maybe the notification is an hour later, a day later, or maybe when a quarterly report reflects numbers that “can’t possibly be right”. Maybe the error is easily reproducible – maybe it’s not.

Whether you’re an ISV, a consultant, or an IT staffer, there are simple, cost-effective steps we can take during and after the development process to minimize the impact of failure, free us to focus more on new development, and improve the bottom line by reducing the cost of ownership.Matt Fritz and Tom Demola will be facilitating the meeting with samples of what has worked for them and some mini case studies of when not doing these things causes companies problems.  Please bring ideas to share on what works for you and let’s compare notes!  INVITE YOUR BOSS!

Four Proposals

• Activity Logging
• Smarter Notification
• Message Queuing
• Locking down data manipulation between systems (Excel)

ViewState is that part of ASP.Net we all have a love/hate relationship with, but it's not as bad as many think once you get to know it. In this presentation Tech Software's Walden Leverich will take a detailed look at ViewState, what it is and why (and when) we need it. We will look at the two component parts of ViewState, control state and true viewstate, when it's created and processed in the page lifecycle and why it's there at all. We will look at what goes into viewstate (and what doesn't), options for minimizing it, and best practices for its usage both pre and post ASP.Net 4.0. Options for decoding viewstate to see what's inside will be presented as well as settings you can use to prevent tampering and even decoding along with their implications. We will also look at Tech's ViewState in SQL product, what it does, why you'd want to use it, and most importantly, how it does what it does; we'll look at the code that makes it tick.

Speaker: Walden Leverich

Bio:

Walden Leverich is the President and CEO of Tech Software, a software development and consulting company based in Melville, NY. He spends most of his (non-management) time working with customers to help them bring the data assets locked in their legacy systems to the Web. He is a member of the Microsoft IT Advisory Council, member of the Long Island .NET user group, Co-Chair of the LISTnet Cloud and SaaS SIG, and past president of the Long Island System Users Group. He is also a regular speaker at local and national user groups and conferences.

Walden is an escapee from Clarkson University where, other than things academic, he learned that NCAA Division 1 hockey is better enjoyed from the stands, water freezes at a temperature that isn't all that cold after all, and you can meet your wife in college. When not doing geeky computer things, Walden enjoys getting mud on his Jeep, photography and watching Manchester United kick butt. The proud father of two girls and one boy, he’s extremely happy he has an office to escape to each morning.

Walden welcomes comments and questions, blogs at blog.waldenl.com, and can be reached at WaldenL@techsoftinc.com or @WaldenL on Twitter.

Description:

With the advent of multi-core CPUs, the software community got caught with its pants down. For twenty+ years it has been churning out programming languages suitable for single-core chips, but had almost nothing to offer for building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, massively concurrent applications.

Right from the start, Erlang--a concise functional language---was designed to solve the above problems. It has been used to design systems which run for many years with virtually no downtime.

Erlang happens to work nicely on multi-core CPUs, which is one of the reasons it has gained popularity in recent years. Originally developed at Ericsson in mid-1980s, Erlang has found wide use well beyond the telecom industry, e.g. in web development, messaging, NoSQL databases.

Speaker: Milan Negovan

Bio:

Milan is a .NET veteran (a title he assigned to himself arbitrarily) who finds writing bios in third person downright creepy. He is a frequent speaker at User Groups and Code Camps.

Two Topic Meeting

January 6th, 2011

6:30 – 7:00 Pizza and networking

7:00 – 7:45 Presentation - Under the covers of LINQ

8:00 –        Presentation - Getting Started with the .NET Micro Framework

Topic 1: Under the covers of LINQ

An In-depth look at how LINQ works it’s magic.

Speaker: Charlie Turano – Hedgehog Development

Topic 2: Getting Started with the .NET Micro Framework

The .NET Micro Framework is a tiny CLR that runs .NET byte code running on embedded hardware with little more than 60KB RAM.  Don’t be afraid if you aren’t an electrical engineer or don’t know anything about resistors, volts, and amps.  This intro into the .NET Micro Framework and embedded hardware will provide information to help get you started.  There will also be some cool demos of embedded hardware and the .NET Micro Framework in action!

Speaker: Jason Kanaris

Contact to RSVP

Location: Chyron Corporation

December 2nd, 2010

6:30 – 7:00 Pizza and networking

7:00 – 8:30 Presentation 

You find a really cool website.  It has great interaction capabilities, and you think "How the heck did they do that?"  This session will prove that there isn't a wizard behind the curtain, and you are not somewhere over the rainbow.  We will cover the best of JQueryUI and show you how to dress up your website in very simple steps.

Phil Japikse has been working with .Net since the first betas, and developing software for over 20 years. Phil is a Microsoft MVP and also holds MCSD, MCDBA, CSM, and CSP certifications. Phil is an international speaker and a passionate member of the developer community, speaking at Code Camps and Days of .NET all across the country as well as serving as the Lead Director for the Cincinnati .Net User’s Group.

Phil works as the Patterns and Practices Evangelist for Telerik (www.telerik.com), is a Firefighter/Paramedic, and a volunteer for the Ski Patrol. You can

follow Phil on twitter via www.twitter.com/skimedic and read his blog at www.skimedic.com/blog.

Kubisys Thin Capture allows enterprises to effectively clone their production environments and test proposed changes in a non-disruptive way before implementing them.   

The application can create a complete clone of an in-production multi-tiered application environment within 15 minutes, preserving identical production networking, application stack as well as entire data-set.  Come join us for a technical dive into how this works and how it can help organizations and teams develop and test applications that interface with production applications.

Speaker: Shinichi Urano, Ph.D., Chief Scientist

Prior to Kubisys, Dr. Urano worked for Syncsort, which he joined in 1997 in the technical services group of Syncsort’s enterprise backup product, Backup Express. He quickly absorbed expertise in IT, especially in networking and in the rapidly evolving field of storage. He distinguished himself as the principal problem solver, especially in those fields where expertise needed to be gained quickly. He traveled to provide on-site solutions at several large customer data centers including ADP France and ABB Zurich, where he demonstrated his ability to showcase the product in solving customers’ problems.

In 1999, Dr. Urano joined the development group of Backup Express, where he was Senior Software Engineer. He leveraged his analytical skills and created a proprietary language to interface the core infrastructure of the product, enabling other developers to easily extend it in new ways. Through numerous projects, his experience spans all phases of development, from requirement analysis and design, to the actual implementation. Additionally, he provided technical liaison services for their customers and corporate partners, directly helping the product’s expansion in the market place.

Dr. Urano received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Texas A&M University in 1996.

Umbraco (http://umbraco.org) has been turning heads in the .NET web community as an Open Source CMS.  With the ASP.NET site now officially choosing Umbraco as its content engine it's time to see what has folks so interested in this .NET web CMS.  Christopher Rushing, owner of Webangelo, LLC and East Coast Trainer for Umbraco will give an overview of Umbraco and will demonstrate how easy it is to use the API and event model to extend Umbraco and integrate your own functionality.

Christopher Rushing is owner and Senior Programmer at Webangelo, LLC (http://webangelo.net).  He has been developing for fun and profit for most of his adult life, with an emphasis on Web technologies.  He is also the East Coast Trainer for Umbraco Certification classes and will be offering a class in Long Island on Sept. 13-16, 2010.

Here is the link to the upcoming certification class here on LI:

http://umbraco-longisland.eventbrite.com

An introduction to Leucene.net

An open source, high performance full text index engine.

Charlie Turano – Hedgehog Development

There is going to be a SharePoint Saturday New York City on Saturday, July 31st from 8:00 am to 6 pm at the Microsoft Manhattan Office.  The just opened registration at http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny. 

They are also still looking for volunteers on Friday, July 30th afternoon to help carry items back and forth into the Microsoft Manhattan Office and set everything up for the sponsors.  Plus we are looking for a bunch of volunteers on that Saturday to help man registration, collect surveys at the end of the day, time the speakers, and help with clean up.  If you are interested in volunteering please email sharepointsaturdaynyc@gmail.com.  If anyone knows of a good charity that might want to collect leftover food after the event please let them know also.  They would like to donate all the leftover food to a local charity.

What's New in MVC2

We will start by briefly reviewing the basics of the Microsoft MVC Framework. Next, we will look at the new features introduced in the latest and greatest MVC2. Many new enhancements were introduced to both the MS MVC Framework and to VS2010 to improve developers' experience and reduce development time. We will be talking about new MVC2 features such as: Model Validation, Areas and Template Helpers. We will also discuss the new built-in MVC project templates that ship with VS2010.

About the Speaker

Sam Abraham is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS ASP.Net 3.5) He currently lives in South Florida where he leads the West Palm Beach .Net User Group (www.fladotnet.com) and actively participates in various local .Net Community events as organizer and/or technical speaker. Sam is also an active committee member on various initiatives at the South Florida Chapter of the Project Management Institute (www.southfloridapmi.org). Sam finds his passion in leveraging latest and greatest .Net Technologies along with proven Project Management practices and methodologies to produce high quality, cost-competitive software.  Sam can be contacted through his blog: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/wildturtle