This meeting will be held at our new location (Thanks Configursoft!).  This meeting will be held from 5:30 PM – 8:15 PM - see here for more location and time details.

INETA Caleb Jenkins - Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 + Expression Blend

This talk is an end to end overview of Silverlight. Combining the best of web application deployments with traditional Windows development, this best of breed application platform is changing the world of on-line as well as line-of-business applications. We’ll cover the tools, features and abilities of Silverlight as well as walkthrough common scenarios, uses and pitfalls of practical Silverlight development in the field as well as highlighting some of the new and exciting Silverlight 2 features: DeepZoom, Isolated Storage and more!

Caleb Jenkins is a Principal Consultant with Improving Enterprises, National Speaker for INETA, Microsoft MVP, featured presenter for xTrain.com and Adobe.TV, technical editor for Wrox Publishing and certified Scrum Master. Improving Enterprises, Inc ( http://ImprovingEnterprises.com ) specializes in delivering enterprise solutions, agile methodologies and mentoring on the Microsoft and Java platforms.

Host, cameraman and editor for http://CommunityCast.tv ; as a long time community leader and former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Caleb is well known for his engaging speaking style, depth of knowledge and creative energy. As a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Certified Trainer and .NET architect, Caleb has helped to design and implement enterprise .NET Solutions for some of the largest companies in the world; American Airlines, Countrywide Mortgage, CGI-AMS, Dollar Thrift Automotive Group and Sunoco Inc. to name a few.

Caleb lives in the Dallas area where he continues to date his beautiful wife and busies himself playing Candy Land and Xbox 360 with their four incredible children. Occasionally he writes curriculum, speaks at conferences, and writes code for silly things like Twitter applications. Eventually he'll post some of the gazillion interviews that he's recorded on CommunityCast or blog at DevelopingUX.com

This meeting will be held at our new location (Thanks Configursoft!).  This is a summer meeting and will be held from 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM - see here for more location and time details.

Jeff Certain Discusses – Code Generation Tips and Tricks

One of the features that differentiates VB.NET and C# is the ability to use XML literals. This feature has been leveraged by Kathleen Dollard in her latest, open source code gen tool. We'll briefly explore the templating in this tool, showing how to generate both VB and C# code. In addition, a sample architecture will be shown which uses generics to provide a database-agnostic, polymorphic set of business objects.

Jeff Certain is a software architect at Colorado CustomWare, a Fort Collins, CO company that specializes in CAMA software for county assessors, treasurers and clerks. He is also a Microsoft MVP.

Do to multiple scheduling conflicts the July meeting had to be postponed one week.  The meeting will now be on July 8^th.  Meeting topic, time and location will be the the same as planned.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

This meeting will be held at our new location (Thanks Configursoft!).  This is a summer meeting and will be held from 11:30 AM – 1:15 PM - see here for more location and time details.

Unfortunately, The presentation on SQL Server Reporting Services has been postponed.  However, It’s nice to have a RD in town that can step in.

David Yack Discusses – ASP.NET Dynamic Data

ASP.NET Dynamic Data enables you to quickly build data driven web-sites that work against a LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities object model.  ASP.NET Dynamic Data allows you to automatically render fully functional data entry and reporting pages that are dynamically constructed from your ORM data model meta-data.  In addition to supporting a dynamic rendering mode, it also allows you to optionally override and customize any of the view templates using any HTML or code you want (given you full control of the experience).

David Yack is the CTO of Colorado Technology Consultants, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Colorado. As a senior hands’ on technology and business consultant with over 18 years of industry experience, David enjoys developing applications for the Microsoft platforms, specializing in large system architecture , design and integration. David embraced .NET during the final beta days of version 1.0 and has been helping clients migrate and build new applications on the technology, as well as helping to mentor and train their staffs.

David is a Microsoft Regional Director and is also a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. David is a frequent speaker at user group and industry events and is co-author of two NET 2.0 related books. David founded and is on the leadership team for the South Colorado .NET User Group and lives in Colorado Springs with his wife and two kids.

You can always track David down via his blog at http://blog.davidyack.com where he writes about his .NET adventures or visit his website http://www.davidyack.com

We’d like to thank TEKsystems for supplying the food and the giveaways.  We’d also like to thank Configuresoft for the awesome new space!

Finally, thanks to Matt Brown for a great presentation and demo of WCF.  WCF offers tremendous flexibility over traditional web services, as was evident from Matt’s demos.  Please visit Matt’s blog to get the slides, demos and a script to create the database needed to run his demos