For those of you that were not at last month's meeting, there is no official meeting this month.  Instead there will be an organizational brainstorming meeting at the normal location at the Olympic Training Center.  The meeting will start at 5:30 and should only take 30 minutes to an hour.  If you have any suggestions for improvements we could make to the group please stop by.  Also f you'd like to help out and get involved with the group please stop by as well

See you there!

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

William Wegerson – Xaml Mammal

For the Microsoft developer, the future of enterprise level software development is currently in a state of flux. Microsoft is focusing on HTML 5 and the only clear technological bridge which has been assured by Microsoft is the use of Xaml.  This talk focuses on what a developer should know (the basics which a newbie can learn from), ought to know (the differences between WPF/Silverlight/Win 8) and must know on how the current Xaml integrates with the Windows 8 development preview.

William Wegerson : William Wegerson has been developing in Microsoft and other technologies for over twenty years and brings his passion to each of the events he speaks at. He was awarded MVP status by Microsoft in C# for his work on the MSDN forums as a moderator of the C#/.Net/Regular Expression forums and his tech blog OmegaCoder.com which discusses all things .Net. He is a free-lance Consultant primarily working in Silverlight for the past year and brings what he has learned in those projects to the audience. He has recently spoken at the Boulder Silverlight User's Group and the Denver Visual Studio User's Group.

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

Ben Hoelting – HTML5 and Internet Explorer: A Developer Overview

New versions of Internet Explorer have been released into the wild. IE supports the latest WC3 standards for HTML5. It also has many additional features that developers can take advantage of. This session will start by defining HTML5/IE and why it is a game changer in the web world. Next we will discuss what HTML5/IE brings to the developers toolbox and how it works with Visual Studio. Finally, we will discuss the timeline for broad adoption of these technologies, what features you can take advantage of today and how you can prepare for the future.

Ben Hoelting : Ben 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 Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc. from 2005 – 2010. He left the consulting world to go do some work for the Department of Defense. Currently he works for Intelligent Software Solutions, 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 is working on an office automation solution that extends PowerPoint. Ben is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) for Web and Windows .NET 4.0. His blog is at http://www.benhblog.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/benhnet. Finally, Ben is very involved in the local .NET community and is the leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group.

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

Kathleen Dollard – ASP.NET MVC 3 Architecture 

MVC 3 is the newest web architecture from Microsoft. It moves beyond the limitations of WebForms, embraces open source and JQuery, and is built with a core ethic of extensibility. Because it’s a new technology, the talk will start with an introduction to MVC and its potential benefits for your projects. One of the strengths of MVC is extensibility and you’ll see how to use the built-in features to decouple controllers and models. Another key aspect is reuse through custom html helpers, partial pages, and a common layout – similar to master pages in WebForms. You’ll see how to leverage these features to minimize the code you must write. Along the way, you’ll learn a little about JQuery and the Managed Extensibility Framework.

Kathleen Dollard : Kathleen is Technical Evangelist for Digital Folio. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and has given hundreds of speeches around the world. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures in relation to specific development platforms. Her experience includes HTML5/Javascript, Silverlight, and WPF in both C# and Visual Basic. She’s interested in making core .NET technologies available to all coders to enable them to write better software faster. Her newest adventures include Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Kathleen is also a long-time advocate of generative techniques and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies. Kathleen is active in the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, the Denver Visual Studio User Group, and the Northern Colorado Architect's Group.

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

Dave Milner – Blended SharePoint 2010 / ASP.NET Solutions

The SharePoint Server platform is Microsoft’s fastest growing server product. It is rapidly becoming the norm in the corporate environment, in online offerings such as Office 365, and seen with hooks in almost every platform including the latest Windows 7 Phone platform.  Without guidance and examples, interacting with underlying SharePoint components can be challenging, and working with the different SharePoint APIs is complicated.  Dave will introduce you to a variety of techniques to master the art of developing ASP.NET applications that are built upon a SharePoint foundation. You’ll explore integration with SharePoint components, configuration management, Code Access Security, feature packaging, proper use of SharePoint APIs, and advanced deployment techniques.   Come and be introduced to all of the steps needed to successfully build and deploy ASP.NET solutions within the SharePoint platform.

Dave Milner : Dave is a Sr. SharePoint Architect and the Products Lead for ShareSquared, a Gold Managed Microsoft Certified Partner. He has an MBA in Technology Management, is a MCPD and MCITP in SharePoint 2010, a Certified ScrumMaster and a MCT.  He has worked with the .NET framework since the beginning and has consulted and architected SharePoint solutions with multiple clients including utilities, DoD, and legal.  He is the co-leader of the COSPUG Colorado Springs branch – a statewide SharePoint User Group community. Dave also is a long time member of the leadership team for the South Colorado .NET user group, and is a frequent speaker at events such as the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta, SPTechCon, SharePoint Saturdays, Microsoft-hosted SharePoint events, and SharePoint and .NET user groups.