This meeting will be held at the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center. This meeting is at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.

Ben Hoelting – Caching and Synchronizing Disconnected Data Using .NET

Caching is not new in .NET.  However, it has been expanded on in 4.0.  The first half of this session will focus on how to implement caching to improve performance on the server.  However, some applications need to work even when a network connection to the server is not available.  This is especially true when running a Silverlight application in out of browser mode.  With so many Wi-Fi hot spots and 3\4G networks these days that need is diminishing.  However, a new requirement is becoming more prevalent and that is the need to store data locally to increase performance.  The size of today’s data is beginning to clog up the network bandwidth and developers are turning to client side data storage to reduce the traffic and speed up their applications.  There are many different synchronization options to accomplish client side data storage, no matter what your reason for doing it.  One of which is the new Sync Framework from Microsoft.  At the end of this presentation we will explore this technology and compare it with other techniques for data synchronization and client side caching.

Ben Hoelting is a C# MVP and Software Developer at Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS). Graduated from Colorado State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Information Systems and a Minor in Computer Science. Ben joined the IT industry in 1996 as an intern and has worked with .NET since its inception back in 2002. Ben is also a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) for Web and Windows .NET 4.0. His blog is at http://www.benhblog.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/benhnet.

This meeting will be held at the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center. This meeting is at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.

Joe Mayo – Visual Studio 2010 Tools: An Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Focus

VS 2010 offers a plethora of new features for helping developers while coding, but there are also many features that are useful from an ALM perspective. This presentation focuses on these new features in the areas of design, testing, and deployment. You’ll learn about the new UML modeling support that Microsoft has added to VS 2010. Another killer feature in VS 2010 is configurable Web Deployment, where you’ll see how VS 2010 gives you full automated control over different application builds, such as Debug and Release. You’ll also see how Microsoft Test Manager and IntelliTrace work together to eliminate the dreaded “no repro” bug problem.

Joe Mayo :   Joe Mayo is an independent consultant, specializing in ASP.NET MVC application development. He has over 23 years of software development experience and has been working with .NET since July 2000, when it was first announced a pre-beta product. Joe is a published author of 6 books on .NET software development. His latest book is Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide/McGraw-Hill. For his community contributions, Microsoft has awarded Joe with several Most Valuable Professional (MVP) awards.

We have had some great meetings so far this year!  June was no exception.  We had good pizza provided by Modis.  Jeff’s presentation on Parallel/Concurrent programming was top notch.  We also had some great Swag to give away so almost everyone that was there went home with something.  Additionally, we got a great book offer from Wiley Publishing.  They are providing any of these titles for 40% off the cover price.

Contact Jeff Parker at jparker@wiley.com to explore this offer.  Use the promo code MGUG1.  Additionally, purchase 5 books and get the 6th one free.  If your library needs to be updated this is a great opportunity to do it!

Stay tuned for information regarding next months meeting featuring Joe mayo.

This meeting will be held at the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center. This meeting is at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.

Jeff Certain – Concurrent Programming in .NET 4.0

Writing concurrent code has traditionally been the purview of gurus with a great deal of knowledge.  Fortunately, Microsoft hired some of those gurus and encapsulated their knowledge in sophisticated libraries designed to make life easier for developers.  In this talk, we’ll look at the basics problems involved in writing concurrent code before moving on to show how new language features make writing concurrent code easier.  We’ll cover parallel LINQ and the task parallel library, as well as exciting new debugging tools and performance analyzers.  By the end of this talk, you’ll have a greater appreciation of how new features in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio have revolutionized concurrent programming.

Jeff Certain :   Jeff is a Microsoft MVP and a software architect at Colorado CustomWare.  He is particularly interested in improving performance – be that through the use of parallel programming for efficiency, highly optimized data structures, or team organization.

The launch last Thursday was a huge success!  Great meeting space provided by USA Swimming,  great BBQ from Red, Hot and Blue provided by Robert Half, great presentations provided by the speakers and great interaction from the attendees.  The only issue was the lack of time.  One comment from the evaluations said “So much good information, so little time”.  I could not agree more.  Be sure to keep watch for upcoming topics for the meetings this year.  Future meetings will dive deeper into some of the topics that were only touched on during the launch.  Also if there was something from the Launch that you want to hear more on or have questions about be sure to contact us at info@southcolorado.net.  Here is the contact info for the speakers from the launch:

David Yack : http://blog.davidyack.com/, http://twitter.com/davidyack.

Ely Lucas : http://www.elylucas.net/, http://twitter.com/elylucas.

Joe Wilson : http://volaresystems.com/blog/, http://twitter.com/joe_in_denver.

Erik Lane :  http://blog.eriklane.com, http://twitter.com/eriklane.

Ben Hoelting :  http://www.benhblog.com, http://twitter.com/benhnet.

Dave Milner : http://twitter.com/davemilner.

Thanks to everyone that made this launch a huge success!  See you next month.