This meeting will be held at EMC formerly Configuresoft. This meeting will follow our summer schedule and be held from 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM - see here for more location and time details.

Joe Mayo – New Features of C# 4.0

Come learn the new features of C# 4.0 and VS 2010 that can make you more productive in getting your job done. C# 4.0 introduces new features such as Dynamic Types, Optional Parameters, better COM-Interop, and Co-Variance/Contra-Variance support. This presentation will explain each of these features and how they can make your programming tasks easier. You'll also learn about new features of VS 2010 that support the C# code-focused development paradigm.

Joe Mayo is an author of muliple books, including C# 3.0 Unleashed/Sams and LINQ Programming/McGraw-Hill. He operates Mayo Software, where he writes custom software for customers using Microsoft .NET technology. Joe is also a Microsoft Visual C# MVP.

On Twitter: http://twitter.com/JoeMayo

This meeting will be held at Configuresoft. This meeting will follow our summer schedule and be held from 11:30 AM - 1:15 PM - see here for more location and time details.

Adam Roderick – jQuery makes JavaScript Fun and Easy

Most of us have a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. It can do some great things, but it is usually painfully difficult to work with. Forget about all the time lost fighting with JavaScript and discover the goodness of the JavaScript library called jQuery. Learn about selectors, events, and plugins—and go home with enough knowledge to start using jQuery immediately!

Adam Roderick has worked in IT and software development for nearly 10 years, in roles such as tech support, auditor, project manager, and developer. The Microsoft suite of tools has made him ten times as productive as before, and he hasn’t looked back since attending his first .NET user group. Currently, he is a Solutions Manager at Qortex, a local consulting firm. His certifications include Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCPD in ASP.NET, and MCTS in SharePoint and BizTalk.

The following are details on a few upcoming MSDN events in Denver and Colorado Springs this month. 

What’s New in Silverlight 3?

Are you interested in building business-focused Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)? Would you like to take advantage of 3D in the browser, but assume it is too hard? Have you wanted to take a Silverlight application offline? Then this session is for you. We will explore and illustrate the new features of Silverlight 3, including the following:

· Support for perspective 3D

· Offline Support

· .NET RIA Services which simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure

This session will begin with a brief overview of Azure and discuss some of the announcements made at MIX. We will then illustrate through demo how to build a Windows Azure application from the ground up. We will illustrate how to consume Azure Table Storage, how to host services, web pages and Silverlight components, as well as how to deploy your solution to the cloud.

MVC 1.0 vs ASP.Net Webforms

Have you heard about the new ASP.NET MVC framework from Microsoft and wondered what it was all about? Are you curious whether this replaces ASP.Net WebForms? Well in this session you will learn how to use the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern to take advantage of your favorite .NET Framework language for writing business logic in a way that is de-coupled from the views of the data. In addition, we will talk about the pros and cons of both MVC and Web Forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific project, various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications vs. Web Forms applications, and the implications for using each approach.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Microsoft Denver Office
7595 Technology Way #400
Denver, CO 80237

Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413165&Culture=en-US

OR1-877-673-8368, reference Event ID 1032413165

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Microsoft Denver Office
7595 Technology Way #400
Denver, CO 80237

Time: 8:00 am –12:00 pm

Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413166&Culture=en-US

OR 1-877-673-8368, reference Event ID 1032413166

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Configuresoft, Inc.
7450 Campus Drive
Colorado Springs Colorado 80920

Time: 1:00 pm –5:00 pm

Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413167&Culture=en-US

OR 1-877-673-8368, reference Event ID 1032413167

Thanks to everyone who attend this month's meeting.  As always it was a great event and we appreciate all of you that take the time and get involved in the community.  Here are a couple notes from the meeting:

Thanks to Paul Sheriff for coming out and speaking for us.  It was a great!  I also want to thank INETA for getting us connected with Paul.  It was a pleasure having him.  At the end of Paul's talk he left us with some information regarding where he was going place the demos as well as a code to a discounted membership to his www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com web site.  Here is that information:

Demos and Slides are at www.pdsa.com\event\SouthColorado

www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com user code for the discount is SOCOL0509.  Code is valid until 5/15/09

Also be sure to check out www.pdsa.com for information regarding Paul's framework and extensions for .NET

Finally, I also mentioned the MSDN Unleashed Best of MIX 09 event coming at the end of this month.  The link to register for that event is http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413167&Culture=en-US

Other than that we will be in touch once we get closer to next months meeting.  As always please email us at info@southcolorado.net if you have any questions or comments regarding the group or other groups in the area.

This meeting will be held at Configuresoft. This meeting will be held from 5:30 PM -8:15 PM- see here for more location and time details.

INETA Speaker Paul Sheriff – ASP.NET Best Practices and LINQ to XML 

Putting together an ASP.NET Application so that it is easy to maintain, easy to change the look and feel of, and is flexible can be a real challenge these days. In this seminar you will learn how to take advantage of Master Pages, Themes, Skins and CSS for building the front end UI. In addition, you will be exposed to other concepts like the use of Providers for maximum flexibility in dealing with exceptions and configuration management. You will also see an example of using N-Tier LINQ to SQL classes.

LINQ technology in .NET 3.5 has some great hooks into XML that make using XML documents a breeze. This seminar will explore how you will put this technology to work in your applications. Many XPath queries can be greatly simplified using LINQ. Besides the obvious advantages of using LINQ to iterate over XML data you can also use it to create and process XML documents. One great way you can use XML is in prototyping, another is to merge XML data with Word 2007 documents. In this seminar you will learn to use LINQ to XML for real world applications.

Paul Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).