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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

 What’s New in Visual Studio 2010

Come take a look at the new features available in Visual Studio 2010 that will help make you a more productive developer. In this session we’ll see new features such as the new appearance and behavior of the IDE, code navigation features including the new easier-to-read code editor, search-as-you-type and call hierarchy.  We’ll also take a lap around some of the new web development and deployment features.     

Speaker: Rachel Appel, Microsoft

Rachel is a developer evangelist for Microsoft based in the NYC Metro area.  

Previous to joining Microsoft, Rachel has been working as a speaker, 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'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 a former ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider, however Rachel still holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications and is an alumni of the INETA Speakers Bureau.  

You can visit her website at http://rachelappel.com  

Carl and Richard are loading up the DotNetMobile (a 30 foot RV) and driving across America again to show off the latest and greatest in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0!

And to make the night even more fun, they’re going to bring a mystery rock star from the Visual Studio world to the event and interview them for a special .NET Rocks Road Trip show series.

Along the way they’ll be giving away some great prizes, showing off some awesome technology and having a ton of laughs.

And one lucky person at the event will win “Ride Along with Carl and Richard” and get to board the RV and ride with the boys to the next town on the tour (don’t worry, they’ll get you home again!). Registration will be required for this -- and will be up at http://www.dotnetrocks.com/roadtrip.aspx.

So come out to the most fun you can have in a geeky evening – and find out what’s new and cool in Visual Studio 2010!

Speaker: Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell, hosts, .NET Rocks!

RSVP - http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=147472

Topic: The Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) for the .NET framework.  The application blocks are designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges (such as logging, validation, data access, exception handling, and many others.)
 
Speakers: 
Jason Kanaris, Stony Brook University
Christopher Lock, Northrop Grumman

Please register at http://www.usergroupsupportservices.com/UGEventView.ugss?EventID=9426

The System.Diagnostics namespace provides classes that allow you to interact with system processes, event logs, and performance counters.

Speaker: Charlie Turano, Hedgehog Development

Please register at http://www.usergroupsupportservices.com/UGEventView.ugss?EventID=8903

Inversion of Control is a most fundamental yet least understood concept of software development. In this presentation, we’ll walk through several real-life examples of how an IoC container makes code more expressive, testable and maintainable.

There are several excellent IoC containers for .NET. We will look into Spring.NET which injects dependencies into stubborn ASP.NET applications, HttpModules, HttpHandlers, WCF services, and more.

Milan is an independent consultant and founder of AspNetResources.com---a blog dedicated to ASP.NET, web standards, and usability. Being an ASP.NET junkie, he takes a radically contrarian stance toward Microsoft’s approaches of building web applications.

Milan is a frequent speaker at user groups and Code Camps. He shuns wholesale conferences due to their high level of noise, marketing hype, and excessive boozing.

Please register at http://www.usergroupsupportservices.com/UGEventView.ugss?EventID=8573

Speaker: Andrew Brust, Chief, New Technology, twentysix New York

Andrew Brust is Chief, New Technology at twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in New York City. Andrew was co-chair at Tech*Ed Developer conference 2008 and was recently named Microsoft Regional Director of the Year for 2008. He is co-author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Microsoft Press), serves as Microsoft Regional Director for New York and New Jersey, is a Visual Basic MVP and a member of Microsoft's Business Intelligence Partner Advisory Council. Often quoted in the technology industry press, and himself a columnist for Redmond Developer News, Andrew has 20 years' experience programming and consulting in the Financial, Public, Small Business and Not-For-Profit sectors. He can be reached at andrew.brust@26ny.com.  

Ever wonder why there’s no “light” version of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)?  Find yourself wishing that SSAS offered an in-memory operation model akin to some of its competitors?  And why are OLAP cubes nearly impossible for end-users to build while comparable capabilities have existed for relational databases for at least 15 years?  Enter Microsoft’s product code-named “Gemini,” a component of the upcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 release, that joins together SSAS, Excel and SharePoint to make end-user analytics feasible, fun, publishable and discoverable by IT.  We’ll show you how it all works in this not-to-miss session.

We continually get requests to have our member share what real world .NET work is happening here on LI.  For this meeting we will have 2 of our member presenting projects that they are working on.

Robert Lancer, President of Lanxer, will be presenting a project he is working on called 4D sheets, which is meant to augment excel. 

Jesus A. Riano will be presenting A .NET implementation on Performance Management

Using Visual Web Developer 2008, SQL Server 2008 Express, and a few relatively new Server based technologies, the presenter will give the audience a tour over a beta version of a Web SaaS kind based solution directed to the financial industry.

With concepts extracted from Business Administration fields such as Performance Management & Human Synergy, the beta solution will show a practical approach to 'Best Business Practices' in today production environments in financial organizations. The web application will cover the designing/programming of pages that satisfy standardized processes, and the platform that align all under a comprehensive all-in-one mobile friendly Software As Service product.

Presenter will show some of the critical design decisions made toward the final version, and the .ASP tools employed. Rutines will include Ajax, the new Ms. Chat for .NET 3.5, and especial formatting setings used for the iPhone version. The presentation will touch frequently important business minded concepts that should be consider by all I.T. Software professionals.  

About the Presenter
Jesus A. Riano, MBA, is a Software Engineer with a Masters Degree in Business Administration, who has extensive experience in local and foreign business markets, and has been involved in the building of solutions for the financial industry for the las 8 years where has been awarded with premium recognitions... more in LinkedIN.

Speaker: Walden Leverich – Tech Software

A review of a custom ORM, less with an eye toward the ORM and more about the parts that made it work like reflection, runtime IL generation, attributes, etc.

On October 12-14, 2009 the in New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architect (IASA) will hold the biggest IT Architect Regional Conference (ITARC) ever held, perhaps the biggest IT Architecture conference ever held anywhere.  Although it is billed as a regional conference it will bring together most of the leading architects of our generation, people like Grady Booch, John Zachman, Eric Evans, Bill Inmon, Len Bass, etc.  This is the first time that all these industry though-leaders have ever assembled in one place.  In addition to hearing keynotes about the state of architecture today from these thought-leaders you will also hear from many other local and national architects as well in five parallel breakout tracks and have the option to attend a one day training pre-conference.

Please attend the conference. Furthermore, whether you can attend or, not please post the conference announcement prominently where you work and pass it on to all other senior developers, architects, CTOs, and CIOs in your company. Also please pass it on to your peers in other companies and post it on any social networks that you use like Twitter and LinkedIn.  We have a lot of great architects committed to attend and we need to make this a success.

In order to stimulate attendance we are offering a 10% discount off the listed registration fee to anyone who registers using the special user group registration code listed in the flyer.  Also, for every company that registers three attendees they will get a fourth attendee from that company in free.

For more details on the event please see the attached flyer or http://www.iasahome.org/web/itarc/2009/NYC.

Please help us make New York the Architecture capital of the world in October.

MsdnHofstra0909

Please RSVP: http://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=7328

The ASP.NET MVC Framework provides a powerful Model View Controller (MVC) approach to building web applications, and provides separation of concerns, increased testability, control over HTML output, and intuitive URLs. We will start by looking at building a model framework with LINQ to SQL, including validation and model binding. Then, we'll explore a custom generics-based repository and services implementation. Finally, we'll tie it all together with a look at Views and jQuery.

Steve Andrews

Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP and INETA speaker, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as trust accounting, medical information management, supply chain

Please RSVP: http://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=7078

This presentation will cover the key features of the Windows Azure operating system that make it possible to build applications leveraging the distributed computation and storage capabilities in the cloud. It will also cover higher-layer .NET Services such as the Service Bus, Federated Identity Management, and cloud-based Workflow as well as SQL Data Services, the cloud based database. We will demonstrate how to build applications that leverage the cloud using the familiar development environment of Visual Studio.      

Bill Zack is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft. He comes to this role after serving as a Solutions Architect in the Financial Services Group of Microsoft Consulting Services.  His experience includes developing, supporting and evangelizing software frameworks used to jump-start development projects. Prior to joining Microsoft he acted as a Consultant, Architect, Administrator, Developer, and System Integrator. He has also authored several computer books and white papers.  He is the Founder and President of the New York chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and a member of the IASA Board of Directors He is also Co-Moderator of the New York City .NET Developers Group, founder and past president of the New York Enterprise Windows User Group, and the founder and past president of several other computer user groups  

Pair programming is a fundamental XP practice that is (unfortunately) rarely adopted. Although it is an excellent tool to gain quality, teamwork, and long term velocity, it is difficult for developers and managers to embrace (understandably). Based on her experiences as a software developer and agile coach, Wendy Friedlander describes the principles of pair programming, how it works, problems it solves and why it should be a practice every team follows. Bring your questions, skepticism and desire to improve your team environment, quality and velocity.

Wendy Friedlander is a software developer who has been using and advocating agile methodologies for many years. She has introduced companies to user stories, iterative planning, test driven development, pair programming and other agile practices. She has worked on agile teams that embraced XP practices, including pair programming and distributed team members. Working in these environment greatly improved her mentoring, understanding of team dynamics and importance of XP best practices. In addition to her interest in agile team interaction, Wendy is an expert in test driven development, object oriented design and C#, including Threading, Remoting, WebServices, WinForms and WPF. She offers consulting and agile coaching through her company, Agile Solutions LLC. When she is not developing, writing or speaking about agile, she enjoys spending time with her family.

As our ASP.NET Web applications become more and more successful we switch our focus from adding features to performance, scale, and management. Richard has been in the lab studying the scaling habits of the average domestic ASP.NET solution and has emerged to discuss his findings. (No applications were actually harmed during the capture of this data.) Come and learn where ASP.NET stumbles and how to get it back on its feet. In this session you’ll learn about the web acceleration equation, identify common ASP.NET bottlenecks, explore solution alternatives, uncover the secret sauce, and determine a reasonable strategy for scaling ASP.NET applications.

Speaker Bio:

 Richard Campbell, who has 30 years of high-tech experience, is a Microsoft Regional Director for British Columbia and is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET development. An impressive list of North American organizations, including Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force, have benefited from Richard's consulting expertise. Richard’s PWOP Productions creates a variety of multimedia programs including ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers," a podcast produced twice a week for about 300,000 listeners. Richard has contributed nearly 300 Advisor columns to Microsoft Access Advisor, and is the author of courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series. Since 1995, Richard has been a regular speaker on the technical-conference circuit—“I’ve spoken on every continent except Antarctica,” he says—and, in 2006, was ranked the top speaker at Tech Ed Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The son of an electrical engineer, Richard was tinkering with microcomputers at age 10 and, by 16, had started his own business developing custom software.

Please RSVP: http://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=6011