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

Topic: Professional Client-Side Development with Microsoft AJAX Library and jQuery

Description: Writing raw JavaScript is as fun as pulling teeth. Microsoft AJAX Library and jQuery---both free, powerful tools---alleviate a lot of the pain of building rich user interfaces.  This hand-in-glove combination takes client-side development to a whole new level.

In this session you'll learn how to use the Microsoft AJAX Library on its own or within ASP.NET; how it emulates concepts familiar to .NET developers: namespaces, classes, interfaces, inheritance; how to build script controls; and how to do serious debugging without alert('Hi!').

We will cover how jQuery complements the Microsoft AJAX Library by removing much of the mundane work of navigating and manipulating the DOM.

Speaker: Milan Negovan

Please RSVP: http://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=6223

MDSN Suburban Roadshow at Hofstra University.

Charge: None

Event URL: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032404849&Culture=en-US   

Event Title: MSDN Suburban Roadshow 

Start Date/Time: 05-Mar-2009 01:00 PM 

End Date/Time: 05-Mar-2009 09:00 PM 

Location: Hofstra University - Hempstead, NY

Full address:

Hofstra University

200 Student Center

Hempstead, NY 11549

Room: Student Center Theatre, 0151

Following the MSDN Event will be the LI .NET Users Group Meeting

IMPORTANT IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND:

Please register at http://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=5827 - this is important so that we have enough food and drinks!!!

SQL CLR for the .NET Programmer

SQL Server 2005/2008 provides .NET developers with the ability to embed their assemblies in stored procedures, functions, triggers, and user-defined types. The value of this model is that functionality can be brought to the SQL platform that is not natively supported by SQL Server or simply out performs the T-SQL way of achieving a task.

Implementing a .NET assembly in SQL Server is both powerful and surprisingly simple but this new tool is not the answer for everything. A little knowledge of when to use it, when NOT to use it, and a good working relationship with your DBA will go a long way towards making your efforts with SQL CLR successful.

This talk will address the nuts & bolts of writing, ʽregisteringʼ, and running your assemblies from within SQL Server as well as the essential role of the DBA in this collaborative effort.

Presented by Matt Fritz

Applications Manager/Developer, Empire Merchants, LLC

SQL Server Service Broker for the .NET Programmer

This will be a short discussion and overview of the SQL Server Service Broker (SSB) with an emphasis on what it can do and how to set it up.

With the ability to do asynchronous, reliable, in order delivery of messages up to 2GB in size within a single database or across multiple servers and databases, SSB provides much potential. To help take advantage of this potential all the required elements will be demonstrated with examples of their creation, usage and management.

Two usage scenarios will be explored:

·         An event logging service

·         An asynchronous cross-platform messaging service

Presented by Roger Coxon

Principal, Coxon Consulting, LLC

IMPORTANT IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND:

Please register at http://www.codezone.com/UGEventView.CodezoneCom?EventID=5827 - this is important so that we have enough food and drinks!!!

Please share this great learning opportunity with friends and coworkers.

We look forward to seeing you there!!