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VBUG Bracknell: Creating Silverlight apps using Blend & VS'08
Date: Tue 12 August to Tue 12 August 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: Silverlight developer Tim Hustler and Expressions Blend designer Simon Sturgess plan to do a 2-hour how-to on creating Silverlight apps using Blend and Visual Studio 2008. They'll incorporate LINQ-to-SQL via a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service as well as add animations and events to some custom control created specifically for the seminar. Both of them have been following Silverlight from the off and they recently won a competition ran by Microsoft, the Web Harmony 'Be all you can be challenge'
Come along and enjoy a TOP presentaion, networking and a bite to eat!
Venue: Bracknell Leisure Centre, Bagshot Road, Bracknell, RG12 9SE, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE
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NxtGenUG: It's Alive-Workflow Foundation
Date: Thu 21 August to Thu 21 August 2008
Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT
Overview: Southamptons very own John McLoughlin steps into the limelight with a practical guide to Workflow Foundation, and like Dr Frankenstien the session will end with a living creation of workflow - minus the bolts. We'll also have a nugget and some Pizza too, for a change
Venue: TBA
Start Time: 19:00
Price: FREE
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VBUG Manchester: XML - The missing LINQ with Dave McMahon
Date: Thu 28 August to Thu 28 August 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: We've heard much about LINQ to SQL, its neat, but what is also neat is LINQ to XML, which hasn't has anywhere near as much press. So while everybody is looking the other way, lets sneak a look at how VB 9.0 is gearing up for a bit of a revolution in the way we handle XML: XML DOM is on its way out, XElement is on its way in. Along the way we'll check out a few new XML features in VB 9.0 including LINQ to XML, XML Literals and a bunch of other stuff too ...
Speaker Bio: Dave works as Chief Architect for .NET Development at Ridgian Limited, a privately owned software house based in Central Birmingham. Ridgian are a Microsoft Certified Partner and specialise in Business Intelligence Solutions and Custom Software Solutions. He is very active in the Microsoft community speaking at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper conferences, and at numerous User Group meetings around the country on such topics as SQL XML, SQL 2005 Security, Regular Expressions and his favouritte technology XSLT and XPATH. He has recently published articles on SQL Server 2005 Security in International Developer Magazine and on Vista and Office 2007 in the Microsoft Beta Newsletters.
Venue: Manchester Digital Development Agency, Lower Ground Floor, 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6ED, GB
Start Time: 18:30
Price: FREE
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VBUG NEWCASTLE : ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview With Alan Dean
Date: Thu 4 September to Thu 4 September 2008
Topic: ASP.Net MVC Framework
Overview: Alan will be providing an introduction to the new ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview and, by way of association, usage of some new .NET 3.5 features such as LINQ. The talk will cover the MVC design pattern in outline, and demonstrate usage of the ASP.NET MVC Framework itself with a simple RESTful application
Alan Dean has been a professional developer for more than a decade, primarily in the retail sector, and is currently a Senior Technologist at Charteris. An unconventional thinker, he has been involved in REST and the semantic web for 7 years. He is also a committed extreme programmer and one of the Alt.Net UK Conferences organisers.
Venue: TBA
Start Time: 18:30
Price: TBC
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VBUG LONDON: CSLA.NET with Andrew Hallmark
Date: Wed 10 September to Wed 10 September 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: CSLA.NET is a free, open source business object framework that can help developers of all skill levels to build scalable, maintainable applications that adhere to industry best practices without extended delivery time.
Code generation is a technique for automatically creating sections of code to a consistent standard.
Both techniques are beneficial in their own right but in combination offer a compelling method of quickly delivering high quality applications.
Following positive feedback from the Thames Valley region I continue my inappropriately named "World Tour of Bracknell" by visiting the capital. My aim is to introduce you to CSLA.NET and some of the features that it offers. I will then entice you with the productivity benefits that it can bring in combination with code generation and demonstrate why you should find out more. If you want to put the Rapid back into Application Development but don't want to compromise on quality why not come along and join in? What will you do with the time it saves?
SPEAKER BIO: Andrew Hallmark is a Technical Architect for Maritz, a performance improvement company. He's been in software development for 14 years, first programming in Clipper before becoming Microsoft certified. Having delivered solutions of all sizes in VB, ASP and even Access he now most often develops using SQL Server and .NET. Like everyone else, Andrew regularly encounters the need to deliver quality applications with short lead times. By trying to balance the investment required to learn new skills and techniques with the benefits they bring, he constantly strives to deliver cost effective solutions to customers.
PLEASE ARRIVE FROM 18.00 READY FOR PROMPT 18.30 START
NON MEMBERS FREE TO ATTEND 2 VBUG SEMINARS ONLY
Venue: 150 Minories, London, EC3N 1LS, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE
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VBUG Bristol: The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation with Ben Lamb
Date: Wed 10 September to Wed 10 September 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation
Writing a client-server application used to be pain. For projects that
were exclusively .NET you could use Remoting but suffered from brittle
interfaces. If you wanted to talk to other platforms the choice was
webservices which offered a small subset of features. Two different APIs,
two different sets of capabilities.
This talk introduces Windows Communications Foundation, Microsoft's
unified API for anything communications related in .NET. See how it lets
you create fast, non-brittle communications channels between your
application components and external services.
* Advantages of WCF
* Callbacks and Avoiding Deadlocks
* Differences between Remoting and WCF
* Versioning - why you don't want to upgrade all your clients simultaneously
* Additional features - reliability, guaranteed message ordering
* Streaming
By the end of the talk Addresses, Bindings and Contracts should all make
sense to you.
Please arrive from 18.00 ready for PROMPT start of 18.30.
Directions to venue:
http://www.bawa.biz/htm/php/driving_directions.php
Venue: BAWA , Room 7 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE TO MEMBERS
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VBUG Brighton: Test 1st ASP.NET develop. Use ASP.NET MVC to build Ajax website
Date: Wed 17 September to Wed 17 September 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: Asp.net MVC is Microsoft’s new web development model implementing the Model View Controller pattern. You’ll discover how to write an asp.net MVC application, what are the differences from webforms and how to implement AJAX, and how it will help you test more of your application.
Please arrive from 18.30 for PROMPT 19.00 start
SEBASTIEN LAMBLA is your presenter for the evening (http://serialseb.blogspot.com/).
Sebastien Lambla runs Caffeine IT, a .net consultancy, helping the good people of London adopt new technologies, new processes, new methodologies and in general anything that's new and shiny. Specializing in cutting-edge tools, from REST architectures to occasionally connected rich clients, Sebastien has been developing with .net since 2000, and has a secret love affair with javascript.
Only VBUG members have guaranteed access to these events
Venue: Madgex, Suite 1 Clarence House, 30-31 North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EB, GB
Start Time: 19:00
Price: FREE
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DotNetDevNet: How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance
Date: Tue 23 September to Tue 23 September 2008
Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT
Overview: How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance & Being Lazy With Microsoft Windows Powershell with Ben Lamb
Venue: , BRISTOL, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price:
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VBUG LONDON: Create a production website using MVC, Spring, NHibernate, lambda
Date: Wed 8 October to Wed 8 October 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: * Basics of MVC
Will start with a quick introduction to the MVC framework and the benefits and drawbacks that we have identified compared to a standard web forms implementation
* Using Spring.NET as an IOC container in the production of an enterprise level MVC application
In this section I will cover the architectural benefits of using IOC in a .NET web application. I will then go into the specifics of how to configure an MVC web application to work with spring.NET . We will also try to lay out some best practices based on the experienced gathered based on this implementation.
* Utilising lambda expressions and the Spring.NET expression framework in the production of the an extremely robust form data binding framework in MVC using strongly typed view data.
* MVC requires that view data is exchanged between the view and the controller. In many MVC frameworks this data is modelled as a dictionary or some kind of map. One of the things that makes ASP MVC unique from many other frameworks is that it allows you to declare your views with a generic type indicating the strongly typed view data class.
* During this project I developed an innovative framework that enables you to bind components of these strongly typed view data classes to form elements using lamda expressions and .NET 3.5 extension methods on the view side of the bind and using the Spring.NET expression framework on the controller side to dynamically repopulate your strongly typed view data objects.
* Using lamda expressions and JQuery in the development of a validation framework to work in harmony with the binding framework.
Validation is a key concern in any web application. I will cover how we customised the MVC validator toolkit to work with our innovative form binding to produce a robust validation framework.
* How best to organise your MVC application to work with Master pages.
There have been a lot of proposed solutions to tackle the implementation of master pages in the MVC framework. The problem is how to get view data to your master pages without either coupling the master pages to a specific view or making very un-mvc-like calls from the master page itself to retrieve the data that it requires.
By making a few subtle changes to the MVC framework I have developed a mechanism to allow strongly typed viewdata to be passed to the master page without coupling the master page to a specific view/viewdata.
Speaker Biography:
Gbemiga Meduoye is a .NET developer who has worked in the industry for over 5 years. Initially starting as a Java developer working for Nielsen//NetRatings, he moved to LBi (a London based media agency) before moving to William Reed in 2007.
Venue: , 150 Minories, London, EC3N 1LS, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE TO MEMBERS
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THE VBUG .NET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008!
Date: Tue 4 November to Wed 5 November 2008
Topic: THE VBUG .NET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008!
Overview: THE VBUG .NET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008!
Venue: Microsoft Reading, Microsoft Campus - Building 3, Thames Valley Park, Reading, RG6 1WG, GB
Start Time: 09:00
Price: THE VBUG .NET ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2008!
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VBUG Brighton: How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance
Date: Wed 12 November to Wed 12 November 2008
Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR
Overview: Most developers want the best possible performance from their code. Inspired by the idea of "proof by contradiction" this talk looks at how to write slow code and how the .NET platform, Windows and the processor will try and sabotage your efforts. A variety of techniques for inefficient coding will be covered including:
Flow control with Exceptions
Abusing Threads
Misuse of the Heap
It's one man against some of the brightest minds in Redmond, seeking an answer to the question "How Slow Can It Go?"
BEN LAMB is your presenter for this event, Ben has been writing business applications since the days of Visual Basic 2.0. During the dot-com era he had a brief foray into web development helping to write the UK's first online hotel reservation system, LeisureHunt, and developed geo-location services for a 3G mobile phone company. Realising that .NET was his platform of choice he now writes financial trading systems for investment banks in the City with occasional diversions into Python, Open Source and other interesting technologies.
Please arrive from 18.30 ready for 19.00 start.
Only VBUG members have guaranteed access to this event
Venue: Madgex, Suite 1 Clarence House, 30-31 North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EB, GB
Start Time: 19:00
Price: FREE
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