 Monday, September 20, 2010
| WHAT: |
October PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 10/06/2010 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill |
| WHERE: |
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium
2501 NW 229th Avenue
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6 years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. |
| TOPIC: |
Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency
As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second. Does all this information take a toll on your psyche or sharpen the saw? Is it a matter of finding the right tools to capture what you need, or do you need to unplug? |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
| WHAT: | PADNUG Meeting - GeekRoadTrip | | WHEN: | Tuesday 07/29/2010 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Z-Tech Staffing)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Steve Andrews' GeekRoadTrip
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 management, and retail systems. Steve is also a MCTS, ICSOO, and community fanatic. | | TOPIC: | Testing ASP.NET MVC Apps with VS 2010 Ultimate
Testing web applications has always been a manual and tedious process. With Performance Tests in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, automated web testing is now a reality. In this session, we'll look at created Web Tests and configuring parameters and database driven testing. We'll also look at performance testing your web applications to find and squash performance issues. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
And, our appreciation goes out to Z-Tech Staffing for providing pizza for this additional meeeing: Z-Tech Staffing - http://z-techstaffing.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
| WHAT: | Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch | | WHEN: | Thursday 06/17/2010 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by PADNUG)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. After Words at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse - Imbrie Hall | | WHERE: | Fiserv Cafe
3400 NW John Olsen Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 | | TOPIC: | Portland Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch
Join us for a special Portland Area .NET User Group (PADNUG) program for the launch of Visual Studio 2010. Microsoft Regional Director Stuart Celarier and Microsoft Developer Evangelist Mithun Dhar will present highlights on what’s new in Visual Studio 2010, C# 4.0, .NET 4, as well as other products and technologies that make up the 2010 launch. This program will help you figure out what new features to dig into first, as well as make you a more effective developer. This event is free and open to the public, however registration is required as seating is limited: http://tinyurl.com/register-padnug-2010-launch. The first 200 registered people in the door will receive free, preauthorized access for Microsoft® WebsiteSpark™ which includes Visual Studio 2010 Professional and other valuable developer resources! Get excited, get the goods, and get started with Visual Studio 2010! | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, March 29, 2010
| WHAT: | April PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 04/06/2010 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Jason Mauer
Jason Mauer is Owner and Chief Architect of Mighty Code, a development shop based in Portland, Oregon focusing on software consulting, training, and development. He has over fifteen years of experience in software development, including a stint with Microsoft from 2001 to 2009 as an application development consultant and developer evangelist. Jason is active in the developer community and frequently presents on technical topics at user groups, Code Camps, and conferences such as DevConnections and OSCON. Jason’s free time is spent making music with his band No Good Jones, cycling all over the place, and enjoying life with his son Zachary. He can be found online at http://jasonmauer.com/ or on Twitter as @jasonmauer. | | TOPIC: | Post MIX10
MIX10 last month had a plethora of amazing announcements for the .NET world, including Windows Phone 7 development with Silverlight and XNA, Internet Explorer 9 with support for HTML5, the Open Data Protocol (OData), new developments with Windows Azure, and more. Come check out the latest and greatest with plenty of demos! | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Scott Hanselman, a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, will be speaking on .NET and other technology topics.
Many of you know Scott or have heard him speak. He is always both informative and entertaining. If you don't already subscribe to his blog, you should.
WebMD is hosting this event and will be providing lunch. It would really help our planning if you could send a quick e-mail to Rob Garrison if you plan to attend. This will help us plan for lunch.
The meeting will be in the large ballroom on the first floor. Parking is available on the west side of the building. Carpooling is encouraged.
This event is being held on Tuesday, April 13 at:
Montgomery Park
2701 NW Vaughn Street
Portland Oregon 97210
General Schedule:
9:00 - start
10:00 - break
10:15 - restart
11:15 - end talk, open for questions
11:45 - break for lunch
1:00 - done and out
Monday, November 30, 2009
| WHAT: |
December PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 12/08/2009 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse Imbrie Hall |
| WHERE: |
Fiserv Cafe
3400 NW John Olsen Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Scott Stanfield
Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for eCommerce Solutions. Scott is a proud member of the MSDN Regional Director community, covering Silicon Valley, and participates in the Microsoft .NET Partner Architect Council. His company built the Windows DNA "Rosetta Stone" sample application Fitch & Mather Stocks 2000, the ASP.NET Starter Kits and IBuySpy, the Nile and Petshop benchmarks and many others. He is a frequent speaker and has delivered keynotes at Microsoft events including TechEd, PDC, DevDays and VBITs. |
| TOPIC: |
Portland Silverlight User Group Kickoff - Silverlight in Action
Interested in how Silverlight is used in some of today’s best applications (Think Olympics, Sunday Night Football, Hard Rock Cafe)? Scott’s group made them. It’s going to be a great chance to see Silverlight in action. It’s also a great night to invite designers and manager types. I think Scott’s talk is going to be a good way of introducing people Silverlight. |
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Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, November 2, 2009 Monday, October 5, 2009
Jeff Paries, author of Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation will be sharing some great insights with us this month. | WHAT: | October PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 10/06/2009 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Jeff Paries
Jeff Paries is a Sr. Experience Developer for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide near Portland, Oregon. He's written a few books and a good number of magazine articles on 3D animation, and is the author of the book Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation. | | TOPIC: | Principles of Silverlight Animation
Come and learn the fundamentals of Silverlight animation. We’ll start at the beginning with a review of storyboards and keyframes, and then break free from storyboards and explore procedural animations. This is where the rubber meets the road and your objects come to life – vectors, frame-based animations, collisions, particle systems, and VR objects. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea Corporation - http://www.aivea.com/
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Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/Pages/main.aspx
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
Rober Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
It must be Summer! That means Rick is in town and ready to present some of his great content! When Rick presented on jQuery to us last year, we were still about a month away from Microsoft's announcement that they would ship it with Visual Studio. Let's catch up and expand on that presentation! Check out his post, too. | WHAT: | September PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 09/01/2009 (vCal Link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Rick Strahl
Rick Strahl is president of West Wind Technologies on Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application development, training and tools with focus on ASP.NET and .NET in general. Rick is author of West Wind Web Connection, a powerful and widely used Web application framework, West Wind HTML Help Builder and West Wind Web Store and Business Framework for .NET and Visual FoxPro. He also collaborates with Kevin McNeish on the Mere Mortals Framework for .NET. Rick is a Microsoft C# MVP, a frequent contributor to magazines and books and speaks frequently at professional developer conferences all over the world. He is co-publisher and co-editor of CoDe magazine.
In the summer months, Rick spends his time in beautiful Hood River, Oregon to play on the river, forests and mountains. Find more about Rick at http://west-wind.com/webblog/. | | TOPIC: | Using jQuery with ASP.NET
jQuery is a compact and powerful JavaScript library that greatly simplifies JavaScript and HTML DOM manipulation. jQuery's appeal lies in its compact implementation and flexible and elegant use of selectors to select document elements and manipulate them using jQuery's flexible and intuitive functions in a browser independent way. From AJAX functionality, to easy DOM manipulation, to simplified event handling, to simple effects, this compact library provides many ways to make client scripting much easier and… actually fun.
Additionally a vast community of add-in authors have added hundreds of extremely useful, easy to use and free plug-ins that provide many common useful features to common client side tasks.
In this session I'll show a quick review of jQuery's core client side features, but the main focus of this session will be on integration of ASP.NET server side functionality for AJAX callbacks. We'll look at various ways to interface with ASP.NET with jQuery via manual implementations in WebForms and MVC applications as well as using ASMX/WCF to handle callbacks. We'll also look at several examples that demonstrate how to effectively manage client side and server side operations in a maintainable way to minimize code and layout duplication by using client side templates and wrapping jQuery functionality via server side components. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea Corporation - http://www.aivea.com/
Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/Pages/main.aspx
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
Rober Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, August 3, 2009 Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Just in time for the weather to cool back down, we're having a PADNUG meeting!
We have the good fortune to have Nick Muhonen visit us again to discuss some of the new bits that are coming from Microsoft for C#.Next. There are some compelling changes, but some things to watch out for, too.
| WHAT: |
July PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 07/07/2009
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Nick Muhonen
Nick Muhonen, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding. |
| TOPIC: |
C# 4.0 - Microsoft's Brand New Language Lovechild
Nick Muhonen discusses the new language features of C# 4.0 and of course, demos for the faithful! |
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Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/Pages/main.aspx
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
Rober Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Taking Team System to the Next Level
A VSTS 2008 Training Event
EVENT ABSTRACT
Please join Northwest Cadence for this half-day training event on Visual Studio Team System 2008.
Successful Adoption of VSTS
Are your legacy tools no longer meeting your needs? Is VSS too small for your development team or not well suited to your geographically dispersed team? Have you already moved to TFS to scale up from VSS or another legacy version control tool, but feel like there are features that you're missing? Feel like it should do more? This session will show you have to use Team system to improve the quality of your code and better manage/monitor software development and ease communication between project stakeholders.
Regulatory Compliance: End-to-End Traceability
Some form of traceability or regulatory compliance is commonplace, as is the ever-increasing challenge of managing adherence to regulatory standards. While compliance stretches across many parts of an organization, one of the key points is the software development process. Whether it is SOX, HIPPA, or PCI compliance, regulatory standards require your software development process to provide a secure development environment with traceability from one end through the other.
Metrics for Real Process Improvement
Process improvement without good metrics is like shooting in the dark – it is impossible to aim and difficult to know if you hit your goal. This session will be framed around using a process improvement effort (either formal or informal) to ensure that your Team System implementation is helping you achieve real improvements.
Using Team System to Drive Agile Adoption
Are you struggling to adopt agile? Is there still a fundamental disconnect behind the desires of the dev team to be agile, and the business who wants "business as usual"? This session will focus on using Team System to act as a change agent for adopting agile. We'll cover the features of Team System that support agile, how to handle iterations effectively, and how to use the results of prior iterations to effectively scope future iterations. Finally, we'll specifically address the use of Scrum with Team System, and will share results from an actual implementation to show the gotchas and successes of adoption Agile.
Sneak Peek at VSTS 2010
We'll wrap up our morning with a sneak peek into VSTS 2010 to see what all of the excitement is about!
DATE
Portland, OR – July 16, 2009
TIME
8:30 AM: Registration and Welcome
9:00 AM – noon: Event
LOCATION
Microsoft Corporation
10260 SW Greenburg Rd
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223
REGISTER
Register online – http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=138856
Register via email – please email: Sue.Ferguson@nwcadence.com
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Yes, Virginia, there is a PADNUG meeting! I know last weekend's Code Camp still has many heads spinning, but we are now settling back in to the groove. Obviously, mine is!
Join us this evening for a great presentation on debugging ASP.NET applications. I know the majority of us work in ASP.NET, so this should be very useful.
| WHAT: |
June PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 06/02/2009
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Prashant Sinha
Prashant Sinha has over more than 11 years of work experience including software development in finite element analysis, telecommunication, investment banking, Check Imaging, Remote Deposit Capture and enterprise services. He has led, consulted and trained developers in software development, performance analysis and production debugging on Microsoft technologies. He has also prepared coursewares on Advanced .NET debugging to conduct debugging workshop. His debugging blog is http://www.debuggingblog.com/
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| TOPIC: |
ASP.NET Debugging
A production environment is likely different than the developer's machine. This means that the system's load pattern and timings will be different and it makes reproduction of bugs in test difficult or impossible.
Too often, bugs end up in the, "It works on my machine," unreproducable pile.
The goal of this presentation is to introduce the audience to tools and techniques to determine the root cause of common production debugging issues. The techniques and tools shown in the demos are based on real production issues. We will discuss the issues and debugging steps required for ASP.NET applications hosted on IIS 6/7. We'll also discuss debugging Silverlight applications on a customer machine when no development environment or source code is available.
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Rober Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Friday, May 1, 2009
We’ve combined this month’s meeting with Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)! Many of you may already be attending the Team System Big Event on Tuesday and we are just going to continue the party for our meeting. Rose City SPIN is a monthly forum for networking, mutual support, and promotion of effective software practices. We exchange practical experiences, ideas, knowledge, wisdom, and war stories about the technical, business, and human facets of software process improvement. The Rose City SPIN serves the software development community of the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Whether you work for a large company or a small one, corporate or self-employed, industrial or academic setting, you are welcome at the Rose City SPIN. | WHAT: | May PADNUG and Rose City SPIN Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 05/05/2009
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium and Pacific NW Software Quality Conf. PNSQC)
7:00 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Steven Borg
Steven Borg, co-founder of Northwest Cadence, is the Visual Studio Team System Practice Lead at Northwest Cadence. In addition to being a Visual Studio Team System MVP, Steve holds several other credentials including MCP, MCSD, MCT and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Steven has helped hundreds of organizations, both large and small, adopt Team System successfully, improving their software development process, reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates.
Steven Borg is the Visual Studio Team System Practice Lead at Northwest Cadence, a Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Inner Circle partner focused on helping organizations improve their software development process. He has helped several organizations improve their development process, reducing costs, increasing quality and speeding delivery dates. In addition, he assists the Team System community as a Team System MVP, an author, and a speaker. Visit his blog at NWCadence.com to learn more about process improvement and Team System. | | TOPIC: | Metrics for Real Process Improvement
Process improvement without adequate metrics is shooting in the dark - you might hit your target, but it's impossible to aim and difficult to determine how close you were to hitting your goal. In this talk we'll look at several candidate metrics that many real world organizations have used to achieve real improvements and get an excellent return on investment in process improvement initiatives. We'll also look at how to collect the right data, including the right steps to identify process changes to collect the right data. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea Corporation - http://www.aivea.com/
Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, April 6, 2009
It’s been about a year and a half since Wayne last joined us to teach more about developing with Scrum management. He’s continuing to refine the Agile processes his team is using and will share some of that experience with us.
| WHAT: |
April PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 04/07/2009
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Stuart Celarier
Stuart Celarier is Chief Software Architect of Aivea, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems. His career spans more than two decades of development, architecture, writing, and training, with a focus on new and emerging technologies. His professional interests include the current and next generations of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), “Oslo” modeling platform, “Dublin” application server extensions, “Geneva” claims framework, .NET Framework 4.0, and Windows Azure. Stuart is co-founder of Portland Code Camp and frequently speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community events. He is a member of the Software Association of Oregon’s Development SIG committee. Stuart is an INETA Speaker and has volunteered with INETA since 2003, including co-chairing the community-led Birds-of-a-Feather track at Tech•Ed 2005–2009 and PDC 2005. |
| TOPIC: |
WCF Best Practices with Unit Testing
Stuart will present a simple, effective strategy for unit testing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services — as services rather than as objects — and then use unit tests as a means for exploring several best practices programming with WCF and service-orientation. Topics include understanding the relationship of services and objects, test-driven development (TDD) for services, contract-first service development, consuming services defensively, how exceptions and faults work (or don’t), and more. If you have been using WCF to work with services, this session will help you identify areas where you might improve your practices. And if you are just getting started with WCF, this session will help jumpstart your effort. |
While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
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Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/
ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, March 2, 2009 Sunday, January 4, 2009 Thursday, December 4, 2008 Thursday, November 6, 2008
Sponsored by
WHAT: November PDXUX.Net Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday 11/11/2008
6:30 p.m. Pizza Dinner (by Microsoft)
7:00 p.m. Presentation
WHERE: North (Map)
1515 NW 19th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
 For this month's PDXUX meeting we are celebrating the recent release of Silverlight 2 with a launch party hosted by the folks at North.
Our featured presenter is Tim Heuer, who is a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Silverlight. He helps build the worldwide Silverlight community and is very passionate about the platform and technology in general. Having over 13 years of experience with Microsoft web technologies, Tim is excited about the opportunities that Silverlight brings for developers and designers and wants to ensure that everyone has the best information and tools available to them for success. Tim can be found online at http://timheuer.com/blog.
Along with Tim's presentation, we'll have several demo stations featuring Silverlight locals Erik Mork, Kelly White, and Jason Mauer. Learn more about Silverlight 2 features and how you can utilize them in your own web applications.
We'll also be talking about BizSpark, Microsoft's brand new program for supporting startups, and how you can get involved.
Food, drinks, prizes and more -- don't miss out!
Register now for this event.
Monday, November 3, 2008
*** Notice: We are meeting on Thursday this week to avoid election conflicts! *** No typo this time  . This is a presentation I’ve been looking forward to for quite some time. F# is a fascinating demonstration of what can be built on top of the .NET platform and has now left the Microsoft Research labs to join the mainstream world of .NET programming languages. | WHAT: | November PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Thursday 11/06/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Nick Muhonan
Nick Muhonen, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding. | | TOPIC: | F# - Functional Fun for Everyone!
"A succinct, type-inferred, expressive, efficient functional and object-oriented language for the .NET platform." Nick Muhonen discusses Microsoft’s CAML based language F# including its language and its interactive environment. And of course- demos for the faithful! | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
Online Business Systems - http://www.obsglobal.com/Pages/main.aspx
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, October 6, 2008
 We finally got Andrew to come speak to us! Of course, it helps when you ask nicely  . | WHAT: | October PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 10/07/2008 (vCal)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Andrew Hay
Andrew Hay is a developer, speaker and author with 15 years of industry experience. Andrew started his career programming in Assembly language on a IBM OS/360 Mainframe computer in Chicago and leapt into the online experience in the late 90’s. Over the past five years at Pop Art, Inc, Andrew has been a champion of adding visibility into complex business processes. As Director of Software Development, he specializes in ASP.Net and its adjacent technologies including AJAX and Silverlight. Andrew earned a B.S. in Computer Science from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. | | TOPIC: | Dynamic Data
ASP.Net Dynamic Data is a new feature in the Microsoft .Net 3.5 SP1 release. Dynamic Data extends the data models expressed through LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework into a template-based website in seconds.
In this presentation, I'll start at File, New Project and cruise into how the System.Web.Routing namespace works. The Routing stack has crossed the boundary of the .Net MVC Framework and is finding niches in other technologies like Dynamic Data. From there, I'll tour the data driven site using standard display and edit controls for a variety of data types. Finally, I'll show how to implement specific behaviors, business logic and 3rd party controls that adhere to DRY principle. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
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SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
It's back-to-school time! Or, as kids nowadays say "bk2skl" (is that right? I'm such a fuddy-duddy). This works as a perfect time to have Nick come teach us more about PLINQ and how it can help us build applications better served by our multi-core processors.
| WHAT: |
September PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 09/02/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Nick Muhonan
Nick Muhonen, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding. |
| TOPIC: |
Asynchronous fun with PLINQ
This presentation will discuss the growing importance of the asynchronous programming, particularly focusing on Microsoft’s PLINQ Technology - and of course, demos for the faithful. |
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* SoftSource Consulting - http://www.sftsrc.com/ * New Sponsor
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Friday, August 1, 2008
I was worried that we wouldn’t get to hear from Rick this year since he was not spending his regular, lengthy summer here in the Portland area. Fortunately, the Universe cares about us much more than that and timed his visit perfectly for the August meeting! | WHAT: | August PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 08/05/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Rick Strahl | | TOPIC: | Using jQuery with ASP.NET
jQuery is a compact and powerful JavaScript library that is quickly becoming one of the most popular client-side libraries. jQuery’s appeal lies in its compact implementation and flexible and elegant use of selectors to pick up document elements that can then be manipulated using jQuery’s flexible set of useful functions in a browser-independent way. From AJAX functionality, to easy browser independent DOM manipulation, to simple effects, this compact library provides many ways to make client scripting much easier. Additionally, a vast community of add-in authors have added hundreds of extremely useful and easy to use plug-ins that provide many useful features to common client-side tasks. In this session, I’ll demonstrate a host of features of jQuery as well as demonstrate how you can integrate this powerful client-side library with ASP.NET on the server. We’ll look at how to provide JSON services through ASP.NET in a couple of ways as well as looking into ways that you can integrate existing components and plug-ins as ASP.NET server controls with a little bit of work to provide ASP.NET-style interaction with jQuery. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea - http://www.aivea.com/
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Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, July 14, 2008
Posted by Kelly White: WHAT: July PDXUX.Net Meeting WHEN: Tuesday 07/15/2008
6:30 p.m. Pizza
7:00 p.m. Presentation WHERE: Robert Half Technology
KOIN Center (Map)
222 SW Columbia Street
Portland, OR 97201 
WHO: Erik Mork
Erik Mork is a speaker, consultant and Silverlight enthusiast in the Portland area. He specializes in Smart Client/RIA application development with Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and other technologies. He's focused on making the web V.Next, and his consulting company can be found at http://www.silverbaylabs.org/. TOPIC: What's new in Silverlight 2 - Beta 2
What's the big deal with Silverlight 2? What's the story with the latest beta release? Is it ready for primetime? Erik tackles these questions by reviewing what Silverlight 2 is and where it's going. If you're new to Silverlight, this is an opportunity to understand it, and if you've already played with Silverlight, it's a chance to further learn about the platform. Applications will be presented for 1) fighting corporate greed and 2) mindhacking with Silverlight. Erik will have the mindhacking source code available for all attendees.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
I know you are all probably thinking about the upcoming weekend; I know I am. But with these crazy temperatures lately, what a great time to hide in the air conditioned spaces of the Tigard Microsoft office?
| WHAT: |
July PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 07/01/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. After Words at Gustav's |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Stuart Celarier
Stuart is a Microsoft MVP on Connected Systems (WCF, WF, and CardSpace) and a software architect at Fiserv. He is active in the professional software community including volunteering with the Software Association of Oregon and INETA. Stuart blogs at http://visualstuart.net. |
| TOPIC: |
WF - Why, What, and How?
You’ve probably read about Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) somewhere and thought, “Why would I want one of those?” WF represents very powerful concepts in the way we put software together and run it. You probably already deal with workflow concepts all the time, and haven’t separated that part out. WF allows you to organize software that has complex interactions, like compensations, and may execute for a long time, perhaps days or months. Microsoft continues to invest in WF -- this is a key technology to understand and track as the .NET platform evolves. Come wrap your head around what WF really does, and how it does it. |
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Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Friday, June 20, 2008
From George Clingerman:
We've had our third meeting of PAXNAUG and it went really well. We had an interesting discussion on sprite movement and the presentation and demonstration went swimmingly. We had quite a lot of snacks and refreshments as well. We had the room reserved, the signs posted and even put up reminders on the PAXNAUG site.
We did have one slight issue though. Small turnout.
It's ok. We know you were busy. But we did miss you just a little.
We want to start bringing in speakers from great faraway lands. Other XNA MVPS, book writers and community evangelists. Maybe even some of the legendary XNA team themselves! But we want to have just a few more people consistently coming to give them a decently sized audience.
It's our fault I know. We're pretty new at running a user group. We're getting better though. We swear! And we're making an even greater effort this time to spread the word about the next meeting. We're planning on contacting some of the local college campuses, getting in touch with the .NET user group and there's also a local game development group that we can get in touch with.
If you're reading this, help us out a little and spread the word yourself.
Here's the details.
| WHAT: |
XNA MVP George Clingerman (that's me!) will be speaking on "An introductory look at creating games for the Zune" |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday June 25, 2008
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
| WHERE: |
River East Center (next to OMSI) in Portland Oregon |
| WHO: |
Portland XNA User Group (PAXNAUG) |
Hope to see you there!
Friday, June 13, 2008
The Code Trip is near its end at the MVP summit. Join us Thursday at the Corillian Cafe to cheer the team on through the final leg of their journey.
| WHAT: |
June PADNUG SQL SIG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 06/17/2008
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. After Words at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse? |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe, now part of CheckFree, now a part of FiServ
3400 NW John Olsen Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
William R. Vaughn
Bill retired from Microsoft (in 2000) after 14 years to focus on mentoring, speaking, and writing. His specialty is data access application design especially when connecting to SQL Server. Bill has worked in the computer industry since 1972. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Mary Hardin-Baylor and a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas. He's also been awarded an Honorary PhD. from the University of Advancing Computer Technology in Tempe Arizona. Bill spent his early years working in the mainframe data processing industry and transitioned to the personal computer side in the late 70s. Along the way, he worked for the Texas DPS Narcotics Service, EDS (where he was recruited by and worked for Ross Perot), at Mostek/United Technologies, Challenge Systems, Digital Research, and CPT Corporation. After having surfed the PC industry for many years, he began his Microsoft years in 1986 working for the Windows developer liaison team at Microsoft in 1986. For the next 14 years, he worked in various divisions at Microsoft including Microsoft University, the Visual Basic documentation and Visual Studio marketing and Internal Technical Education teams before retiring in 2000 to form his own company, Beta V Corporation.
Bill has written seven editions of the popular Hitchhiker's Guide (the 4th, 5th and 6th published by Microsoft Press) and books for APress, including the bestseller ADO and ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices. Peter Blackburn and Bill also coauthored the Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services (Addison- Wesley). His latest work is Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server Everywhere-his first e-Book. He writes lead articles for SQL Server Magazine where he is a contributing editor, MSDN, and others. Bill also writes a bi-weekly editorial for Processor.COM magazine. Bill is a top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide, including keynotes and sessions at TechEd, DevWeek, Dev Connections, SQL Connections, VBUG, and many others - where his wit and no-holds-barred technical insights win him rave reviews. Bill is a Microsoft MVP. |
| TOPIC: |
Visual Studio Reporting
The inside scoop on how to get the most out of the new ReportViewer control and how it's evolved in Visual Studio 2008. This discusses how to leverage your Reporting Services skills and RDL reports to create application-based reports and how to manage the myriad of issues that come up when trying to emulate Reporting Services functionality like parameters, connections, pick-list population and much more. This session previews the SQL Server Reporting Services technology coming with SQL Server 2008. |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Sunday, May 18, 2008
Nick Muhonen, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) was released in November of 2006, yet very few developers that I talk to are using it. Learning WPF can be a daunting task, and really who wants to subject themselves to learning this when it is unclear what the reasons and benefits are for moving to this platform.
This presentation will briefly explain the Whys and then show how you can start learning and developing for what has become the new standard for Windows Client Development.
| WHAT: |
May PDXUX.NET Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 05/20/2008
6:30 p.m. Pizza (by White Horse)
7:00 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Robert Half Technology
KOIN Center
222 SW Columbia Street
Portland, OR 97201 |
| WHO: |
Nick Muhonen
Nick, a Portland area resident, has been working in and teaching Microsoft .Net technologies for the past 8 years. He currently works for his company, Useable Concepts, as a freelance certified trainer and software architect, helping others reach technical goals and new levels of understanding. |
| TOPIC: |
Using WPF Now - the Why and the How
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) was released in November of 2006, yet very few developers that I talk to are using it. Learning WPF can be a daunting task, and really who wants to subject themselves to learning this when it is unclear what the reasons and benefits are for moving to this platform.
This presentation will briefly explain the Whys and then show how you can start learning and developing for what has become the new standard for Windows Client Development. |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Friday, May 2, 2008 Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Monday, March 17, 2008
Next week Adam Kinney will be coming down from Microsoft to present an "Overview of Silverlight 2" and answer questions about other content presented at this year's MIX conference. This is a meeting you'll want to be sure to attend. Details are included below and can also be found at http://pdxux.net/.
| WHAT: |
March PDXUX Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 03/18/2008
6:30 p.m. Pizza (by White Horse)
7:00 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. Drinks and continued discussion |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe, now part of CheckFree
3400 NW John Olsen Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Adam Kinney
Adam works for Microsoft as "a guy who loves UI platforms like
Silverlight, WPF and Microsoft Surface." He often talks about these
technologies from a developer and designer prespective. |
| TOPIC: |
Overview of Silverlight 2
Adam will be presenting an overview of Silverlight 2 and answering
questions about other stuff from MIX. I'm not one to speak for Adam,
but I'm betting you'll be seeing Deep Zoom related content, and maybe
even something about what the Olympics are doing with Silverlight. |
Be sure to join us afterwards at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse for drinks and continued discussion.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Tuesday, January 29, 2008
When I heard Matt on Hanselminutes, I knew we had to get him to come speak at PADNUG. It had been long enough since I'd seen him, I didn't realize that he was still right here in the Portland Metro area - Perfect! Matt and Earth Class Mail are definitely ahead of the curve on using the .NET 3.5 Framework. Not only that, but they came to the platform from LAMP. | WHAT: | February PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 02/05/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Matt Davis | | TOPIC: | WCF and LINQ in the Wild
Come out and here first hand war stories and tips & tricks on .NET 3.5 from Matt Davis, Architect at Earth Class Mail. ECM recently converted their bread and butter application to .NET from PHP on Linux, and went live on .NET 3.5 Beta2. Matt will share real world stories and demos about what works and what doesn't, using WCF 3.5's new Web Programming model, LINQ, Compact Framework 3.5, and others recent Microsoft technologies. | While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea - http://www.aivea.com/
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Monday, January 7, 2008
The answer, according to Scott, is:
No, it's pretty harmless. If you look in the Object Browser in Visual Studio you'll see that one assembly you already have has had some additions and its version rev'ed....
I wouldn't go slapping it on a production machine unless you're living on the razor's edge, but it should be fine on a development machine if you know how to pay attention to what versions your projects reference.
So, for those who got their appetite whetted with Scott's introductory presentation at the InstallFest or for those of you that haven't seen what the new extensions are all about, this will be a great chance to find out more.
|
WHAT: |
January PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 01/08/2008
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Scott Hanselman |
| TOPIC: |
Should I Fear MVC for ASP.NET?
ASP.NET MVC provides model-view-controller (MVC) support to the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime, which enables developers to more easily take advantage of this design pattern. Benefits include the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns, as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD). The ASP.NET MVC Toolkit provides HTML rendering helpers and dynamic data support for MVC.
If you would like to get a jump on things, download the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions from <here>. |
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Monday, November 26, 2007
We're having a PARTY!!!
Microsoft is running an InstallFest for Visual Studio 2008 and you are invited! Everyone that attends will have a chance to get a licensed copy of Visual Studio 2008 Pro for their very own.
We're meeting at Corillian for this one since they have more space. Also, note that we are starting the fun a bit early; this will give you a chance to install the trial copy of VS2008 and ask some questions before we begin.
Note that you must sign up for this event. The sign-up page is at
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032361177&Culture=en-US
| WHAT: |
December PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 12/04/2007
5:00 p.m. Food (by Microsoft)
6:00 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe
3400 NW John Olson Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Jason Mauer, et al |
| TOPIC: |
Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest
ATTENTION DEVELOPERS! Are you ready to be one of the first to get their hands on Visual Studio 2008? Join Microsoft and the Portland Area .NET Users Group (PADNUG) for a Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest and Holiday Party on December 4th, 2007 at Corillian in Hillsboro.
Visual Studio 2008 is HERE and this event is your opportunity to get your hands on the released version before anyone else. Every person that installs Visual Studio 2008 on their computer at the event will receive a FREE fully licensed copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional in the mail shortly after public release. Don’t miss out on a great evening of food, fun, and your very own copy of Visual Studio 2008 Professional!
Space is limited so register today. |
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Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sunday, November 4, 2007 Monday, October 1, 2007
To Everything, There is a Season It's now the season for which the Strahl migrates back to the islands. But, before he leaves the northwest, he will come to visit us at our 'September' PADNUG meeting. Note once again: we are meeting a week 'late' compared to what we would traditionally. As I mentioned last month, with the release of Halo 3 last week, it seemed appropriate to postpone our meeting to allow the most avid fans time to perfect their game. Availability will do the same for us next month, too. We are also looking to move our meetings to Tuesday or Thursday. Obviously, for the remaining meetings, we are planning on doing Tuesday. I'd be happy to hear some feedback for when we want to schedule our meetings next year. Since Wednesday's will not be available, it's our chance to shake things up again. | WHAT: | September PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Tuesday 10/02/2007
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Rick Strahl | | TOPIC: | LINQ to SQL in a Business Layer
LINQ to SQL is one of Microsoft’s new OR mapping tools that aims to bring a more object oriented mechanism to accessing data. This talk introduces LINQ to SQL and some of its features and shows how it works and what you can do with it . The focus of this discussion is on using LINQ to SQL in the middle tier for proper data abstraction which requires some additional considerations to be made beyond the ‘quick demo’ usually shown for LINQ to SQL. I’ll share my impressions and thoughts as well as the beginnings of a small light weight business framework built around LINQ to SQL that simplifies data access, provides a few additional required DAL operations and facilitates the process of creating an abstracted data layer. | And while you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Aivea - http://www.aivea.com/
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O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/ Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
No folks, I didn't make a typo this time. In order to accommodate various schedule conflicts, our August meeting has moved to the first week of September. I suppose with the extra meetings and all this year, it won't be that big of a change.
Now, as to the subject, Tom gave a similar presentation to PADNUG about four years ago and it was one of the most well regarded presentations we ever had. This is a presentation you definitely want to see.
We will be meeting at the usual time and place... just a week late :).
| WHAT: |
August PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 09/05/2007
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Tom Howe |
| TOPIC: |
The Business Side of Software Development
Technical knowledge and skills are essential, but your business and financial success may equally depend on your business savvy. In this information-packed session, you'll find out how you and your software development business efforts can be more successful. Learn about sales and marketing of software products and services, setting your fee, negotiation strategies, handling customer objections, getting paid and other business issues. 100 business and legal documents will be provided with the session materials.
Tom Howe is a principal in two companies, Control Center Computing, Inc. and the Legal Technology Group. Both companies offer products and services to law firms, corporate legal departments and state attorney offices throughout the United States. He specializes in application development using ASP.NET and SQL Server. He is a regular speaker at Developer Conferences around the world.
Tom also co-authored "Access 2000 and 2002 Development Unleashed" by SAMS Publishing and “Electronic Discovery Technologies and is the technical editor of the Advisor Media .NET journal. He is also been a practicing attorney for 20 years. |
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Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Thursday, August 2, 2007
 For those of us that were there, John's PADNUG presentation last week was really good and, I'm sure for many, inspirational. Have you downloaded the bits yet? For those of you who were not able to make it or if you would just enjoy reviewing the presentation, Scott has been kind enough to take the video he shot that evening and provide it via Silverlight. For some details on how Scott made the video, visit his post.
Monday, July 23, 2007
We've got O'Reilly's Open Source Convention visiting here in town this week and it gave us the opportunity to invite John Lam to come speak to us regarding his work on RubyCLR and IronRuby.
A couple of notes this month: First, appologies for the late notice. We had some logistics issues to work through and, obviously, wanted to work around the OSCON schedule.
Second, note that we are meeting at Corillian this month and I anticipate that we will start a tad later than usual as we will be rushing John from the Oregon Convention Center after his engagement there.
| WHAT: |
July PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Thursday 07/26/2007
6:00 p.m. Socializing (Pizza)
6:45 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe
3400 NW John Olson Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
John Lam
John is the Program Manager on the Common Language Runtime team at Microsoft. John spends his days thinking about how dynamic languages can help improve the lives of developers everywhere. In his previous role, John was a partner at ObjectSharp helping customers write better software using the .NET platform. |
| TOPIC: |
Open Source and Dynamic Languages on .NET
John, the creator of RubyCLR, will discuss IronRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the .NET platform that will be released under the MS-PL licence (BSD-style license). We will look at the implementation of IronRuby on top of the recently announced Dynamic Language Runtime to better understand how the DLR deferred compilation model can be used to obtain excellent performance and cross-language interoperability. We will also look at different scenarios where IronRuby can be used, including the recently announced Silverlight platform. |
Look forward to seeing everyone there!
Thursday, June 21, 2007
It's summer time here in the Portland Metropolitan area and of course that means that Rick is back with us! | WHAT: | June PADNUG Meeting | | WHEN: | Wednesday 06/27/2007
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation | | WHERE: | Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 | | WHO: | Rick Strahl | | TOPIC: | A Data-Driven Approach to Localization
This session provides an introduction to localization with ASP.NET as well as demonstrating extending ASP.NET with a custom data driven ResourceProvider. The focus in this session is on localization from a developer perspective and getting an application set up and ready to be localized. The session covers the basics of cultures, utilizing resource providers and setting up ResX resources and dealing with the complexities of locale mapping in your applications. In the second half of the session we'll dig deeper and explore how to extend ASP.NET with a custom ResourceProvider that can use a database to provide more dynamic access to resources for editing and more control of resource generation. The session demonstrates and provides a fully data-driven resource provider along with an online Web Resource Editor that can be used to edit resources in real time in your running applications. | Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wow... it's time to cap off some of our busiest times for conferences and presentations by visiting with Stuart Celarier about Microsoft's CardSpace.
| WHAT: |
May PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 05/30/2007 (Click for vCal link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Microsoft Portland Office located in Lincoln Tower
10260 SW Greenburg Road
Suite 600
Portland, OR 97223 |
| WHO: |
Stuart Celarier
Stuart is a staff software engineer at the Corillian Corporation, a leader in online banking software located in Hillsboro, Oregon. Stuart has 25 years of professional software development experience. He received the Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) award for Connected System Developer in 2006. He is a director of the Portland Code Camp v3.0, and has served on the SAO Development SIG committee since 2005. He has been a speaker at user groups and Code Camps throughout the Pacific Northwest. Stuart is co-chair of the Birds-of-a-Feather track at TechEd 2007, and has co-chaired this community-led track at three previous national conferences. |
| TOPIC: |
Protecting Users and Websites using CardSpace
The dramatic increase in online fraud threatens to drive business and other high-value information exchange off the Internet. Microsoft, working with the software security industry, has created CardSpace, an identity system that encompasses current and future security systems, using open standards so that all vendors and platforms can participate. CardSpace allows a website to authenticate users in a highly secure manner, and prevents users’ information from being compromised by phishing sites or other malicious online attacks.
Come learn how CardSpace works by examining how Corillian, a leader in online banking software, is using CardSpace in our software to protect banks and their customers who bank online. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Want to remind everyone of a few events that are coming up shortly:
| WHAT: |
BONUS May PADNUG Meeting and ADA Fund Raiser |
| WHEN: |
Thursday 05/10/2007
6:00 p.m. Socializing (Food?)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe
3400 NW John Olson Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Scott Hanselman |
| TOPIC: |
Silverlight - It's Here
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. |
| WHAT: |
Silverlight for Designers |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 05/15/2007
6:30 p.m. Mixer and Food
7:00 p.m. Housekeeping/Announcements
7:15 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Portland State University
Smith Memorial Center - Room 236
Portland, Oregon |
| WHO: |
Kelly White |
| TOPIC: |
Silverlight
Kelly will be opening up both Expression Blend and Expression Media, giving a couple demos, sharing what he learned from MIX and discussing the insights he got from talking to to the creators of Silverlight (e.g. Mike Harsh) about what advantages and disadvantages it has over other technologies like Flash. |
Friday, May 4, 2007
All the way from the building next door, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Scott Hanselman will be joining us for a very special BONUS PADNUG presentation.
(Didn't you love the familiar tone of that paragraph?)
Scott has stepped this one up a bit, too. In his effort to raise funds for the American Diabetes Association, this meeting will also be a chance for you to step up and contribute to the cause. Not only will you be helping, but there are several folks that have pledged to match donations during this time period!
Let me give you one more reason to attend tomorrow night's presentation and donate to the ADA with Scott: PADNUG will also be matching donations from the meeting! Thanks to the generous contributions of our sponsors and the participation of all of you, PADNUG will match up to $500 in donations from this meeting to the American Diabetes Association.
Further, don't miss the opening meeting for PDXUX on the 15th. It will be a great follow-on to Scott's presentation.
| WHAT: |
BONUS May PADNUG Meeting and ADA Fund Raiser |
| WHEN: |
Thursday 05/10/2007
6:00 p.m. Socializing (Food?)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe
3400 NW John Olson Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Scott Hanselman
Scott is Chief Architect at the Corillian Corporation, an eFinance enabler. He has over a decade of experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and currently VB.NET and C#. Scott is proud to have been appointed the MSDN Regional Director for Portland, OR for the last three years. He's spoken internationally on Microsoft technologies, and has co-authored two books from Wrox Press. In 2001, Scott spoke on a 15-city national tour with Microsoft, Compaq and Intel featuring Microsoft Technologies and evangelizing good design practices. |
| TOPIC: |
Silverlight - It's Here
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
Scott will be presenting a high-level overview of the technologies with a well-timed follow up presentation next week at the PDXUX group at PSU (http://www.pdxux.net). |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Okay folks, here we go. Unfortunately, the Microsoft office is not available this month, but since many of us will likely be downtown attending the InnoTech Conference, we've worked with the organizers (Thank You, Sean) to make room for us there.
As I sent out last week, the InnoTech Conference will be a great place to be even if we were still meeting on the west side. Feel free to run out to the site and register. Discount Code of "DEV999" will continue to be valid for a period of time... this will allow those that would like to attend the conference in conjunction with our meeting to do so at no cost.
Don't forget: the Max line goes right to the Convention Center, too. Don't get yourself caught in the Highway 26 traffic if you can help it!
| WHAT: |
April PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 04/25/2007 (Click for vCal link)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Oregon Convention Center
Room D137
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97232 |
| WHO: |
Phil Weber
With nearly 20 years of software development experience, Phil Weber's client list includes Intel, Kaiser Permanente and Wells Fargo Bank. He has worked with VB since 1993 and .NET since 2001. In addition to serving on the INETA Speaker Bureau, Phil is a Visual Basic MVP and has spoken at numerous conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He currently works as a technical instructor for Corillian Corporation, an e-finance enabler. |
| TOPIC: |
The Last Data Access Layer You’ll Ever Write
Stop writing data access code! One reason for Ruby on Rails' popularity is that it frees developers from the drudgery of hand-coding data access. Sure, Visual Studio's TableAdapter Wizard is nice, but it takes a lot of clicks to generate a complete data access layer, and you get to do it again each time the database schema changes. This session will introduce you to some open-source ActiveRecord implementations that give you the benefits of Ruby on Rails without requiring you to abandon the comfort of ASP.NET. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
 InnoTech, the region's most comprehensive business and technology event, offers two full days of conference sessions and one, focused day of exhibits (Thursday, April 26th only). This year's jam-packed agenda includes the return of the eMarketing Summit (now with two tracks!), the Oregon CIO Summit and IT Executives of the Year Awards, InnoTech's Happy Hour (a great networking opportunity!) on Thursday, April 26th, and, of course, the latest on Open Source, Agile, Security, and the latest, exciting innovations in business and technology. This year, InnoTech is offering a new, Developers Track. Because of the involvement that PADNUG has had with organizing this event, the conference has offered a limited number of complimentary passes to the general InnoTech Conference. The first 20 people to register using the Discount Code DEV999 will receive complimentary admission to InnoTech this year. Lead sponsors include Microsoft, Comcast, Akamai, OTBC and others. For a complete listing of presentations, speakers and to register visit www.innotechoregon.com.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The excitement builds as Jason got the Portland Code Camp v3.0 site up this week! I'll blatantly plagiarize his blog post here to save some typing: Head on over to the Portland Code Camp v3.0 site and register to attend, submit a session or two, or just check out what's going on with the event. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up to date with latest news about the event. It's happening May 19-20 at WSU-Vancouver and you won't want to miss it. One word of note... changes have been made to ease the password requirements on the site. You no longer need non-alphanumeric characters in your password, so you actually have a chance of remembering your password now. As a result of the change we've blown away all the previous user accounts, so you will need to create a new account even if you have registered for a Code Camp in the past. I'm sure this will the best Camp we've had yet. The campus and facilities are first-rate and it will be a great time of year for the event.
Friday, March 2, 2007
All the way from Australia, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Adam Cogan will be joining us for a very special BONUS PADNUG presentation.
| WHAT: |
March BONUS PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 03/07/2007
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Corillian Corporation)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe
3400 NW John Olson Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
Adam Cogan
Adam Cogan, all the way from Australia, is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in Office and .NET Solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Quicken, and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. |
| TOPIC: |
Rules to Better Code and Successful Projects
Managing a team of coders can be a tricky experience, especially as most coders like to do things their own way. During this session we go through a list of rules that help make the development process as smooth as possible. These rules govern the creation of specifications and schedules, best methods for testing and fixing bugs and even the employees working conditions.
He'll also likely cover some of his tools like SSW Code Auditor that can help you write better code. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, December 4, 2006
INETA has been kind enough to get Bill Vaughn to make the trip down to Portland to present to us this month. This is going to be a fabulous presentation and I expect to gain a lot of knowledge on this one.
Come out to this months meeting to learn about ADO.Net connecting.
| WHAT: |
December PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 12/06/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by INETA)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $3 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
William (Bill) Vaughn
An industry-recognized author, B will illustrate how to connect to SQL Server and other backend servers. He's been in the industry for over thirty years- working with mainframe,minicomputer and personal computer systems. Bill has written six editions of "Hitchhikers Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server". Bill is a top-rated speaker and we are honored to have him. |
| TOPIC: |
ADO.Net Connecting
Learn how you can use connection options that can help your application connect quickly and stay connected as well as encrypt your connection string. The session includes examples of the new SqlConnectionStringBuilder, the new User instance feature of SQL Express and even funtionality like FullTextSearch and Reporting Services. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Thursday, November 9, 2006
It sounds like Cory Smith has one of those MVP MSDN Subscription cards available and he's giving it away!
The theme is "What would you do to get one?" and it's a great opportunity. Think about it... a subscription just in time for the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007. What more can you ask for?
The idea is to be creative... it doesn't sound like you would actually have to perform your act to win. But don't let me be the final say on that!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
We always want to take advantage of Rick Strahl's time in the northwest. He's a fabulous presenter and really knows his stuff when it comes to programming ASP. He'll be heading home to Hawaii next month, so don't miss this opportunity to see him one more time!
| WHAT: |
August PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 08/30/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Microsoft)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $2 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
Rick Strahl
Rick Strahl is president of West Wind Technologies on Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application development, training and tools with focus on ASP.NET and .NET in general. Rick is author of West Wind Web Connection, a powerful and widely used Web application framework, West Wind HTML Help Builder and West Wind Web Store and Business Framework for .NET and Visual FoxPro. He also collaborates with Kevin McNeish on the Mere Mortals Framework for .NET. Rick is a Microsoft C# MVP, a frequent contributor to magazines and books and speaks frequently at professional developer conferences all over the world. He is co-publisher and co-editor of CoDe magazine. In the summer months, Rick spends his time in beautiful Hood River, Oregon to play on the river, forests and mountains. |
| TOPIC: |
Taking ATLAS for a ride
This session presents ATLAS, Microsoft's new client side/AJAX extension for ASP.NET slanted for release as an Add-on for ASP.NET 2.0 later this year. ATLAS introduces a rich framework for remote scripting with a wide variety of tools and approaches available to build rich client applications. In this session he'll overview the features available in the framework and show business oriented examples of how to utilize the various features. We'll look at the server centric approach with ATLAS Server controls like UpdatePanel, and a client centric approach relying on core ATLAS network features and the client side ATLAS framework and contrast the two approaches. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Monday, July 24, 2006
Come out to our July meeting to learn about Amazon Web Services.
| WHAT: |
July PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 07/26/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Centerstance)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $2 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
Mike Culver
Amazon Web Services Evangelist, will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services and show you the possibilities created by these innovative offerings |
| TOPIC: |
Amazon Web Services
Learn how you can create innovation applications and launch online businesses leveraging world-class technology and content platform that powers the Amazon web site for millions of customers everyday. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Friday, June 23, 2006
Come out to our June meeting to learn source control best practices.
| WHAT: |
June PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 06/28/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by InfoGroup NorthWest)
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $2 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
Patrick Cauldwell
After completing a Bachelor's degree in the unlikely field of East Asian Studies, Patrick Cauldwell fell into the software industry. Since then he has written tools that helped Intel localize software into 17 languages; architected large E-Commerce web sites like 800.com and gear.com while at STEP Technology, and spoken nationwide about how to build large scalable applications. Patrick is currently an architect/developer at Corillian Corporation, where he designs and develops software for online banking. |
| TOPIC: |
Making Good Use of Source Control
We’ll discuss source control best practices, and how those practices apply to some common SCC packages. The emphasis will be on practices and procedures, not the mechanics of a particular SCC solution. Specific attention will go to how source control fits into an agile development process and continuous integration. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Come out to this month's meeting to learn tricks to building a reusable ASP.NET toolbox. Mark your calendar and come join the fun.
| WHAT: |
May PADNUG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 05/31/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $2 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
Rick Strahl
Rick Strahl is president of West Wind Technologies on Maui, Hawaii. The company specializes in Web and distributed application development, training and tools with focus on ASP.NET and .NET in general. Rick is author of West Wind Web Connection, a powerful and widely used Web application framework, West Wind HTML Help Builder and West Wind Web Store and Business Framework for .NET and Visual FoxPro. He also collaborates with Kevin McNeish on the Mere Mortals Framework for .NET. Rick is a Microsoft C# MVP, a frequent contributor to magazines and books and speaks frequently at professional developer conferences all over the world. He is co-publisher and co-editor of CoDe magazine. In the summer months, Rick spends his time in beautiful Hood River, Oregon to play on the river, forests and mountains. |
| TOPIC: |
Building a reusable ASP.NET Toolbox
This session demonstrates some re-usable tools, classes and components that every Web Application should integrate. Every application needs a core set of features, like managing configuration settings, handling and reporting errors consistently, logging requests, providing application status information, displaying consistent error and information message pages, managing application cookies consistently and more. In this session I'll demonstrate a handful of useful utility classes and processes that accomplish these tasks in a reusable fashion and show how they work under the covers. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Come out to this months meeting to learn some more about Atlas (Microsoft's upcoming implementation of AJAX).
The reason is that although the hype around AJAX is sure to fade, the technology itself will be around for a long time. That is, AJAX/Atlas helps solve a long-standing problem (avoiding server round-trips), and this allows web applications that are (potentially) more responsive.
| WHAT: |
March PADNUG Meeting. |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 03/29/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza, Sponsored by 3Leaf
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $2 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
Erik Mork
Erik was trained as a biochemist. Currently, he works for Tranxition Corporation where he is heading up development of a secret application that will change how users manage their personal data. |
| TOPIC: |
Atlas Shrugged
A Presentation on Atlas. While Microsoft only released a preview of Atlas, it is becoming increasing clear when the next-generation of web applications are made, they will be made (at least in part) with Atlas. |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
All I can say is: Wow! Nick, you really did a great job!
For those that missed it, Nick effectively showed how the .NET Framework already supports all that is neccesary to make LINQ possible by implementing the SELECTion bit in his own namespace. Then, dazzled by switching to the packaged namespace without changing the code.
If you would like to grab the presentation and/or code examples, <<click here>>. You too will be able to write code like this one day:
1 partial class Program {
2 static void DemoCode() {
3 DataContext dc = new DataContext(
4 "server=(local);database=Northwind;Integrated Security=true");
5
6 Table<Customer> customers = dc.GetTable<Customer>();
7
8 var results = from customer in customers
9 where customer.CustomerID.StartsWith("A")
10 select customer;
11
12 Show(results, "Results from DLinq Query");
13 }
14 }
15
16 [Table(Name="Customers")]
17 public class Customer {
18 [Column(Id=true)]
19 public string CustomerID;
20
21 [Column]
22 public string CompanyName;
23 }
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Come out to this months meeting to learn some more about how you may be using LINQ to improve productivity in your projects.
"The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities."
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future/linq/)
Personally, I find this technology very compelling.
| WHAT: |
February PADNUG meeting. |
| WHEN: |
Wednesday 02/22/2006
6:00 p.m. Pizza, Sponsored by 3Leaf
6:30 p.m. Presentation |
| WHERE: |
PCC Auditorium at Capital Center
18640 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, Oregon
The auditorium is in room 1508 through entrance B. There is a $2 parking fee. The kiosk for paying for parking is located between entrances B and C. |
| WHO: |
Nick Muhonen
Nick is a Portland area consultant with over 5 years experience in the .Net Framework. He is currently certified as both an MCT and an MCSD. |
| TOPIC: |
How LINQ Will Improve Your Everyday Life
A Presentation on the LINQ tool-set and the upcoming .Net C# 3.0 language extensions. The topic will compare current methods of Data retrieval in ADO.Net 2.0 with the new LINQ Tools. And of course- DEMOS for the faithful! |
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
I know that I've seen this somewhere before, but I was reminded again this evening. I like being able to have a visual cue when I'm approaching the (likely arbitrary) right edge of my coding page. Sure, you can keep one of your eyes on the column number along the bottom status bar, but then, who watches the code?
Well, thanks to Roy Osherove, I now have the tip and the time at the same moment and have added the vertical rules to my Visual Studio sessions at 80 and 120 columns.
It looks something like this:
If you want to save some time, just click here to get the .reg file (download and check it first to be safe and backup the registry! ).
Monday, May 30, 2005
Another one of these "solution needed for the workplace" type of blog entries. First, I know - putting nearly 100,000 items in a control might suggest an alternative method, but accept that it's the right solution for the moment. There... don't we feel better?
Now, the situation is that I need to populate a listing type of control with between 80,000 and 100,000 items. Honestly, I would have gladly used a combobox or a listbox, just as long as it provided some means to come up quickly.
It surprised me that creating the collection of items could be so quick yet populating the control was so slow. But, I've come to accept that fact and went searching for a control that was a bit 'smarter' about its contents.
What I found was a Virtual ListBox implemented on vbAccelerator.com. It fits the bill well for my needs. The only thing to add to it is the ability to accept keyboard input to quickly move to items in the list. That is on the docket for next week .
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