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Wed Nov 15th - SDLC using Visual Studio Team System
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Richard Hundhausen
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SDLC Using Visual Studio Team System
..:: PLEASE RSVP HERE ::..
For 15th of November meeting Richard Hundhausen, of Accentient will talk about "The Software Development Lifecycle Using Visual Studio Team System".
Visual Studio Team System is Microsoft's set of development solutions for the .NET platform. Richard will give us an overview of the capabilities of Team System, and then go into the further depths and details of implementing the entire software lifecycle using the tools provided with Team System.
 This is an INETA sponsored event.
Speaker's Bio: Richard Hundhausen is a principal consultant with Accentient. He has over 20 years of software and database development experience and over 15 years of training and presentation experience. His primary area of evangelism is the ever-expanding intersection between .NET development and SQL Server development and, as a result, became a Microsoft Regional Director in 2004. Richard's most recent book is Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Microsoft Press. He is Visual Studio Team System MVP and travels the world evangelizing these technologies. He calls Boise, Idaho home.
Accentient's website can be found at www.accentient.com
Meeting Agenda:
- 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
- 6:30p Presentation Starts
- 7:15p Break
- 7:30p Presentation Resumes
- 8:15p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way. In case of difficulty, please contact 626-513-1665 or 562-397-8641 for assistance.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza and meeting logistics.
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Source Code from the Oct 18th Kim Greenlee Meeting
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Hello all! Kim Greenlee has been wonderful and provided us with the slides and sample code from the October 18th meeting on Concurrency. She has also included an extra code sample which is a grid computing version of Hello World.
Download it here.
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Wed Oct 18th - Concurrent Software Development - The Next Big Thing
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Kim Greenlee
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Concurrent Software Development - The Next Big Thing
..:: PLEASE RSVP HERE ::..
For 18th October
meeting Kim Greenlee, of digipede will talk about "Concurrent Software Development – The
Next Big Thing". Digipede is an easy to use distributed computing grid
system built using .NET framework.
With the advent of dual-core and dual-processor machines, concurrent
software development is breaking onto the scene--creating a paradigm shift like
we haven't seen since the OO movement. Two
technologies that will help you add concurrency to your applications are
threads and grid objects. While you can
find a lot of documentation about adding threading to your apps, there isn't
very much available to tell you how threads really work. I'll explain that to you. I will also use the Digipede Network to introduce
you to grid objects. Grid objects give
you the ability to easily distribute application functionality on a compute
grid.
Building fast, scalable applications begins during the
design phase and extends through the life of your application. After this presentation you will understand
the Microsoft threading model. You will
be introduced to grid computing as an extension of the threading model. I will show you how the Digipede Network's
grid computing solution eliminates some of the problems inherent in multi-threaded
applications. And you should leave with
a better understanding of how the two technologies can work together to improve
your application's scalability and performance.
Speaker's Bio: Kim
Greenlee is a Digipede Evangelist. Kim has been actively involved in commercial
software development since 1987 on both the engineering and marketing sides. During
her career Kim has focused on small companies and startups pursuing leading
edge solutions and she has won several corporate awards for her engineering
contributions. Kim holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from St. Bonaventure
University, plays and coaches women’s hockey, and is generally a fun person. She is blogging at: http://krgreenlee.blogspot.com/
Digipede's website can be found at http://www.digipede.com
Meeting Agenda:
- 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
- 6:30p Presentation Starts
- 7:15p Break
- 7:30p Presentation Resumes
- 8:15p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at
570 E Huntington Dr,
Monrovia,
CA
91016. Meeting is across the street in
605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way. In case of difficulty, please contact 626-513-1665 or 562-397-8641 for assistance.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza and meeting logistics.
Swag Details
· 1 Infragistics NetAdvantage .NET 2006
Subscription (Web UI controls - a $795 value)
· 1 FarPoint Spread for Web Forms (Web spreadsheet
controls - a $895 value)
· O'Reilly's
Ajax
Design Patterns
· SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedure Programming in T-SQL
& .NET
· Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System
· DHTML and CSS Advanced
· Visual Basic 2005 Complete Reference
We hope to see you there!
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SoCal .NET Technical Summit II - Community Event
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Southern California's local .NET user groups are joining forces to host the SoCal .NET
Technical Summit II, a special one-day developer conference featuring
in-depth technical sessions presented by renowned industry experts, on
Saturday, September 23rd.
For Further details, check out the SoCal.NET Technical Summit II's website.
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Wed Sep 20th - Internals of the ASP.NET Pipeline
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Daniel N. Egan
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Under the Hood of ASP.NET Development
..:: PLEASE RSVP HERE ::..
For our next SGV.NET meeting on 20th September, Daniel N. Egan is going to discuss ASP.NET development under the hood, configuring the ASP.NET pipeline to intercept requests. This will be an excellent in-depth discussion for anybody that wants a deeper understanding of how ASP.NET processes a request, and will include information on writing custom .NET Filters and Handlers.
Speaker's Bio: Over the past seven years, Daniel has held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. Currently, he is a Sr. Architect\Sr. Trainer at Breakthrough Business Solutions Inc. (http://www.BreakthroughBiz.com) working extensively in database applications and Web development. Daniel is an MCP and MCSD.
In addition to his development work, he teaches a .NET Certification course at California State University Fullerton as well as serves on its .NET Advisory board. He is also the Author of Building Websites with VB.Net and DotNetNuke 3.0. Daniel can usually be found at the beach in Sunny Southern California (Yea right, who has the time right?)
Daniel's website can be found at http://thepatternman.com/
Meeting Agenda:
- 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
- 6:30p Presentation Starts
- 7:15p Break
- 7:30p Presentation Resumes
- 8:15p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way. In case of difficulty, please contact 626-513-1665 or 562-397-8641 for assistance.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza and meeting logistics.
We hope to see you there!
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Wed 16th Aug 2006 - WPF and the Next Generation User Experience Design Tools
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Gerald Walsh
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WPF and the Next Generation User Experience Design Tools
..:: PLEASE RSVP HERE ::..
The next generation Microsoft operating system Windows Vista is right around the corner. Vista will provide a whole new platform that will host the next generation of software applications and offer a new focus on delivering richer, more robust experiences for users. The core of this new user experience is the .Net Framework 3.0 and the Windows Presentation Foundation. This discussion will introduce you to the WPF and demonstrate the next generation tools and technologies developers will need to know to build high fidelity windows applications. Demonstrations will include WPF, XAML, Visual Studio (Codename Orcas), and the Microsoft Expression Designer Suite of tools and we will discuss how these tools can be used together as part of the new software development team model.
Speaker's Bio: Gerald Walsh is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft and is focused on assisting the developer community to better understand and implement .Net technology. Gerald has over 10 years experience developing software applications for the Microsoft platform and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer for VB6 and .Net. He has contributed his skills to writing applications for a wide variety of industries including mortgage, education, electronics, real estate, local government, healthcare and others. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has presented over 6000 hours of instruction on Microsoft developer technologies including: Visual Basic, C#, .Net Framework, ASP and ASP.Net, XML, SQL Server development and administration, and many others.
Meeting Agenda:
- 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
- 6:30p Presentation Starts
- 7:15p Break
- 7:30p Presentation Resumes
- 8:15p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way. In case of difficulty, please contact 626-513-1665 or 562-397-8641 for assistance. There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza.
We hope to see you there!
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Wed 19th July 2006 - Next SGV.NET Meeting on Ajax and Atlas
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Developing .NET Applications with Ajax & Atlas
..:: PLEASE RSVP HERE ::..
Postbacks are so 2005! Now using Ajax, the intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes. “Atlas” is a free framework for building a new generation of richer, more interactive, highly personalized cross-browser web applications. Jeremy will provide a developer oriented overview of these technologies and tools and will dive in deep with their use in real world applications.
Speaker's Bio: Jeremy Cunningham has expertise in software architecture, distributed system development and XML web services. He works as a software architect, developing financial applications and process orchestrations. Meeting Agenda:
- 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
- 6:30p Presentation Starts
- 7:15p Break
- 7:30p Presentation Resumes
- 8:15p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. In case of difficulty, please contact 626-513-1665 or 562-397-8641 for assistance. There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza.
Goodies & Swag
· Manning’s Ajax in Action
· O’Reilly’s Programming SQL Server 2005
· O’Reilly’s ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook
· O’Reilly’s XAML in a Nutshell
· Web Development with VS 2005
· Genome Object-relational mapping for .NET – a $399 value
· .NET Rocks 2004 DVD
· asp.netPRO 2002-2004 complete works CD
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Wed 21st June, 2006 :: SGV.NET Meeting on Job Trends in Technology
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Job Market Trends in Technology
Robert
Half Technologies will present a survey of new technology skillsets being
requested by employers in the marketplace and an overview of the current job
market and salary range for developers. Meeting Agenda: 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
6:30p Presentation Starts
7:45p Break
8:00p Presentation Resumes
8:50p Raffle Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr.
Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. In case of difficulty, please contact 562-397-8641or 626-513-1665 for assistance.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza. 
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Wed 17th May, 2006 SGV.NET Meeting on Agile Software Development
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Paul Hodgetts on Agile Software Development
Agile software development is an SDLC framework for undertaking software engineering projects. Agile methods emphasize real-time communication, preferably face-to-face, over written documents. Agile methods also emphasize working software as the primary measure of progress. MSF (Microsoft solution framework) for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that utilizes many of the ideas embodied in Visual Studio Team System. Paul Hodgetts will describe the implementation of Agile Software Development and MSF for small, medium and large projects. Paul will elaborate on how this process incorporates proven practices in requirements, design, security, performance, and testing. Meeting Agenda: 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
6:30p Presentation Starts
7:45p Break
8:00p Presentation Resumes
8:50p Raffle Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr.
Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. In case of difficulty, please contact 562-397-8641or 626-513-1665 for assistance.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza. 
Presenter Bio:Paul Hodgetts helps teams adopt and improve their agile development processes. As CEO and principal consultant of Agile Logic, a professional services company focusing on agile processes and enterprise technologies, he provides consulting, mentoring, and training to a wide variety of clients. Paul has more than 21 years of experience in all aspects of software development from in-the-trenches coding to technical project management, on a wide variety of projects from embedded real time control to distributed internet business applications. His recent focus has been on the integration of executive management, marketing, project management and quality assurance into an overall agile development process. Paul has served as a coach, mentor, and team member of agile development teams for more than five years. Paul is a published author (Extreme Programming Perspectives), a member of the Extreme Programming and Java/J2EE advisory boards at California State University Fullerton, and a presenter at conferences including XP Agile Universe and JavaOne.
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Wed April 19th, 2006 :: Gerald Walsh on Windows Communications Foundation
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Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation
Speaker: Gerald Walsh, Microsoft Corporation.
Windows Workflow Foundation is the new programming model, runtime components, and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled solutions on the Windows platform. This presentation will demonstrate the basics of developing, designing, and debugging workflow solutions and will also discuss creating custom activities, the fundamental building blocks of a workflow project.
Gerald Walsh is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft and is focused on assisting the developer community to better understand and implement .Net technology. Gerald has over 10 years experience developing software applications for the Microsoft platform and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer for VB6 and .Net. He has contributed his skills to writing applications for a wide variety of industries including mortgage, education, electronics, real estate, local government, healthcare and others. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and has presented over 6000 hours of instruction on Microsoft developer technologies including: Visual Basic, C#, .Net Framework, ASP and ASP.Net, XML, SQL Server development and administration, and many others.
Meeting Agenda:
6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
6:30p Presentation Starts
7:45p Break
8:00p Presentation Resumes
8:50p Raffle
Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016.
Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr.
Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. In case
of difficulty, please contact 562-397-8641or 626-513-1665 for assistance.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of pizza.
Related Links:
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Cruise Control Meeting Downloads- March 15th, 2006
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This session consists of two parts:
Continuous Integration and nightly builds using open source tools like Cruise Control.NET, NANT and NUnit.
A look at how Visual
Studio .NET 2005 Team System implements Continuous Integration with its source control, build process and unit testing framework.
Speaker's Bio:Jeremy Cunningham
has expertise in architectural design, distributed system development
and XML web services. He works as a software architect, developing
financial applications and process orchestrations.
Tonights Agenda6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
6:30p Presentation Starts
7:45p Break/Peer Networking
8:00p Presentation Resumes
8:50p Raffle
Directions:
Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016. Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr.
Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building.
There is a $5 Entry Fee to cover the cost of operation.
Goodies & Swag
- Apress – Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005
- Addison-Wesley Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0
- Wrox ASP.NET 2.0 Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit
- Wrox Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML
- McGraw Hill Visual Basic 2005 DeMystified
- McGraw Hill Visual C# 2005 DeMystified
- New Riders Bulletproof Web Design
- 20 copies of the March issue of asp.netPRO magazine
- 2 copies of the asp.netPRO Complete Works CD (2002-2004)
- 1 Full license of TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio - a $299 value
- 10 Sybase T-Shirts, 50 Evaluation CDs of LeadTools Imaging Developer Toolkits and lots of other goodies.
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Mark Miller on Delegates - SGV.NET Second Meeting - Wed Feb 15th, 2006
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SGV.NET Second Meeting - Wed 15th Feb 2006 Best Practices with the .NET Event/Delegate Framework In SGV.NET second meeting, Mark Miller discussed the .NET Event delegate framework, from basic to advance. He demonstrated creating and handling unique
events with custom event args, and then explored details of the
architecture that supports this. Mark also demonstrated memory leak scenarios and how to avoid them in the delegate designs with on the fly code. After Mark's informative and practical presentation, this meeting concluded with prize draws. 
Speaker's Bio:
| Mark Miller has strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush and Refactor!, as well as the DXCore extensibility layer for Visual Studio. Mark has been writing software for over two decades. |
 | Mark Miller's Other Presentations
» MSDN Webcast: Extending Visual Studio with the DXCore
» DotNetRocks: Mark Miller on How to be a Better Programmer (session 1)
» DotNetRocks: Mark Miller wraps it up (session 2)
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Tue January 24, 2006 :: SGV.NET Launch Meeting
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User groups are a great way to learn more about .NET as well as a fabulous opportunity to network with your local peers and even the broader community of developers afar. Now it's time for San Gabriel Valley to join in the action along with all the other active .NET user groups in Southern California. SGV.NET is launched with a vision and potential to educate and share. In the core team, we have several experienced certified developers, authors and technology enthusiasts who are more than willing participate in the user education.
Launch Event - Jan 24, 2006 SGV.NET's 1/24 Launch meeting was
a raving success! This Launch was a Microsoft sponsored free buffet dinner event in
which Bernard Wong of Microsoft presented cool new features of ASP.NET, WinFX
with XAML and upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation details.
We thank all our
participants for making our first meeting successful. Details of our next
meeting will be posted here shortly.
 Bernard Wong presenting the merits of ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server Express Edition and built-in security framework.
Participants enjoying the raffle.
Our Raffle Prizes - Visual Studio.NET 2005 licenses, Books etc
SGV.NET is a member of INETA, the international .NET user group association. This is to provide our membership notable developer authorities and industry experts as the featured guest speakers. We are thankful to local developer community champion, Bernard Wong, David Wells and Scott Robertson for their support in this process. To Read more about the San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group, please click here. Please contact us with your comments, questions and suggestions at 
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Book Reviews
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Book Review: C# Cookbook
Reviewed by Rob Walling
Jay Hilyard and Stephen Teilhet have put together an outstanding collection of C# sample code. Newly revised and updated for C# 2.0 (it covers generics), the book is aimed at intermediate and advanced developers who wants a slew of sample code at their fingertips (all is downloadable, of course).
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Book Review: Accidental Empires
Reviewed by Rob Walling
Accidental Empires is subtitled How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date. The book, written by Bob Cringley of PBS fame talks from an insider's perspective on the advent of semiconductors, the first days of Apple and Microsoft, the first killer app, and so much more.
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 Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook
by Jesse Liberty
Best Delta Book on C# 2.0 Out There!
Order your copy now at Amazon.com
Review by Adnan Masood
So, you are a seasoned C# 1.x developer very much looking forward to learning the lean mean C# 2.0? Great! But as much as you want to learn the new language enhancements, you despise the fact that any book you pick seems to start teaching you the same old things over and over again; all the features you already knew (or should know); the for loop, the if statement, basics of OO; and therefore you'd have to skip several hundred pages to get to learn a new feature...that is painful.
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Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 by Jeffrey Hasan
Review by Adnan Masood
Practical, Developer-oriented, and Contemporary!
Long awaited Jeffrey Hasan’s Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 is finally out. Developing distributed applications has become an increasingly indigenous part of a present-day developer's software life cycle. XML web services provide us an easier and standardized way to facilitate distributed communications. Service orientation takes this to another level, i.e. standardizing loose coupling of these services via contracts. Hasan's book provides answers for today's enterprise needs to learn and formulate their existing distributed communication frameworks as they shift towards Service Oriented Architecture.
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