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

David Milner – Intro to SharePoint Development for .NET Developers

SharePoint is a rapidly growing product for development, architecture and website support.  Historically SharePoint has presented a learning curve to entering into developing for the SharePoint environment, and has been supplemented by open source tools written by the dev community.  With Visual Studio 2010 a great deal of effort has been dedicated to a better developer's experience coding for SharePoint 2010.  This session will cover the fundamentals necessary to start productively coding for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010.

David Milner : Dave Milner is an independent consultant in the .NET and SharePoint arenas who is a MCSD.NET, a MCT, and has an MBA in technology management.   Dave is very involved in the local .NET and SharePoint communities and is currently working on blended .NET and SharePoint solutions in the DoD world.

Last month Ben Hoelting presented on Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).  He continued on the same lines as Erik Lane did the month before.  After some review he continued by discussing backend patterns and solutions to OOP using the ADO.NET Entity Framework and .NET RIA Services.  The meeting then went into Design Patterns.  He explained why Design Patterns even exist and their pros and cons.  Finally he took a quick look at how to architect a MVVM solution with a Silverlight front end.  Obviously there was a ton of information presented so please take a look at the slides and demos below.  The pictures where removed from the final Silverlight demo to make the file smaller to download.  The file also includes a script to create the database.  If you have any problems please contact us at info@southcolorado.net.

Click Here To Download Demo Zip File

It was another good turnout and the Jimmy Johns sandwiches provided by Graym and TEKSystems were awesome.  The facilities at the OTC were also outstanding.  Thanks to everyone that supports our group and thanks to the attendees as well.

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

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

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

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

Ben Hoelting : C# MVP and Senior Software Developer at Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. Graduated from Colorado State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Information Systems and a Minor in Computer Science. Ben joined the IT industry in 1996 as an intern and has worked with .NET since its inception back in 2002. Worked for the Gates Corporation (formally the Gates Rubber Company) from 2000 – 2005. He left Gates to pursue a consulting career. Currently he works for Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. in Colorado Springs. His most recent projects include a Silverlight line of business application that uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to access the backend data store. He also still supports and adds features to a Windows forms Smart Client that requires offline support, an ASP.NET tracking system for the floral industry and a Microsoft CRM customization using ASP.NET.  Ben is also a MCP, certified in both CRM Customizations and .NET Framework Application Development. Finally, Ben is very involved in the local .NET community and is the leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group.  His blog is at http://www.benhblog.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/benhnet.

Last month we had local guru Erik Lane give a great talk on Object-Oriented Programming.  His talked sparked a bunch of discussion related to the benefits and drawbacks of some of the Object-Oriented concepts.  His demos where easy to follow and helped inform the group.  Below is a link to his slides and demos.  Thanks Erik!

Erik's Demos

I was also informed about an event happening in Denver on Oct. 26th.  Markus Egger is doing a two part session for the Denver Visual Studio User Group.  Part one is on the State of .NET Technologies.  Part two, which is at the the normal time the Denver group meets, is on “Building Reusable Web Components with Silverlight”.  Get more details here.

Other than that we will see you in November.

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

Erik Lane – Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and You

If we are a .NET programmer then this must mean we are object-oriented (OO) programmers, right?  For the most part that is true because .NET languages like C# and VB.NET are OO but are we taking full advantage of object-oriented programming (OOP) or just writing procedural code with objects?  As programmers, we can create good OO designs in .NET but to do it we need a solid grasp of OO concepts and principles.  Do you know enough OO lingo to pass an interview but not real sure how it applies when you open up Visual Studio and start writing code?  Have you been slinging code for years but sometimes forget the simpler solution and over complicate things?

 
In this back to basics talk, we will get knee deep into core OO basics like abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism and then jump into a few OO principles like encapsulate what varies, program to an interface and not an implementation, and one of my favorites...tell don't ask.  Please come expecting to see lots of code and get this whole OOP thing into context.  Nothing will be too basic so bring a co-worker or beginner as we all try and nail down these core concepts.

Erik Lane is a senior developer for Ciena Corporation and works remote from his home in Monument.  He is a MCTS in .NET 2.0 and hold a Bachelor's Degree in CIS.  He has been writing software since 1998, .NET since 2003, and still remembers when he finally wrapped his brain around the concept of object-oriented programming.  Erik is a father to four and a husband to one.  He is a veteran of the USAF and enjoys baseball, golf, camping, hiking, and writing code.  His blog is at http://blog.eriklane.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/eriklane.