This meeting will be held at our new home the Team USA Swimming building at the Olympic Training Center. Summer meetings are over so this meeting is at our normal meeting time of 5:30 PM - CLICK here TO GET THE NEW LOCATION AND TIME DETAILS.

Ben Hoelting – Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Level 2 – Intro To Design Patterns

At last month’s meeting Erik Lane did a back to basics talk regarding Object-Oriented Programming.  His examples were well thought out and got his points across, but they were not a complete solution.  They were not intended to be.

 
Join us this month and we will build on the foundation from last months meeting to build an end to end solution.  If you did not make it last month, don’t fret we will start with a review and build from there.  After that quick review we will get into Design Patterns and how they use OOP to solve some common software application problems.  We will start with some backend Design Patterns like the singleton, strategy, factory and provider patterns.  Then we will transition into the common Design Patterns for the frontend.  We will discuss MVP, MVC and MVVM.  The demos will incorporate OOP and Design Patterns to provide an end to end solution.  We hope to see you there.

Ben Hoelting : C# MVP and Senior Software Developer at Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. 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. Worked for the Gates Corporation (formally the Gates Rubber Company) from 2000 – 2005. He left Gates to pursue a consulting career. Currently he works for Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. in Colorado Springs. His most recent projects include a Silverlight line of business application that uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to access the backend data store. He also still supports and adds features to a Windows forms Smart Client that requires offline support, an ASP.NET tracking system for the floral industry and a Microsoft CRM customization using ASP.NET.  Ben is also a MCP, certified in both CRM Customizations and .NET Framework Application Development. Finally, Ben is very involved in the local .NET community and is the leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group.  His blog is at http://www.benhblog.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/benhnet.