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DoEvents - January 2006
Welcome to the start of 2006, which promises to be a TOP year!! As you know there were lots of developments in 2005; VS.NET 2005, changes to MSDN, SQL Server 2005 etc – technology does not stand still. VBUG will be your guide, we are busy putting together a series of regional meetings designed to help you get to grips and explore this technology. Don’t forget these meetings are also an EXCELLENT way of networking, so come along and enjoy the social (as much as the educational) side of these events! Your mind is a tool, keep it sharp!! Donna
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VBUG Events
VS2005 Launch with Geoff Hirst
Date: Tuesday 17 January 2006
Overview: VS 2005 &.NET Framework 2.0 launch is the major event of 2005. Every kind of application development has been enhanced with must-have features. Every kind of development & every kind of developer has compelling reasons why this is a must-have upgrade. In this session we will try to cover several weeks of training in a couple of hours including Generic & Protected Class & SQL Server 2005 Express . . . Can you afford to miss out? Location: Glasgow SQL Server 2005 Security with Dave McMahon
Date: Thursday 19 January 2006Overview: This session will be invaluable to SQL Server Developers who in the past have found the interaction with SQL Server security frustrating and just as invaluable to SQL Server Database Administrators who have battled with Developers over imposing a security regime. Microsoft have worked hard to find a way for both sides to meet and agree on a security model that allows the flexibility the Developer requires and the Security the administrator requires. Location: Newcastle Visual Studio 2005 - 15 Years Later: What can we do with Visual Basic in 2005? with Mike Taulty
Date: Thursday 19 January 2006Overview: In this session, well look at what got added to Visual Studio and the VB language in 2005. Well talk about the wide range of application types that we can build with Visual Basic from the humble console application to the distributed web service and stop off along the way to point out both topics of general relevance such as threading, interop and data access. Where appropriate, well link in future directions for .NET framework technologies and the VB language itself in VB 9.0. Location: Maidenhead Multi Threading with Annie Matthewman
Date: Wednesday 25 January 2006Overview: : Multi-thread apps offer many benefits eg more responsive user interface & interruptible long operations. Multi-thread prog has been made very accessible within the .NET Framework as it offers a threading architecture that abstracts the underlying Windows threading infrastructure. This session examines scenarios where you might want to use multi-threading & the common traps developers fall into when first trying to use it. It will look at how the .NET Framework exposes threads with worked examples in VB.NET Location: Bristol VS 2005 Overview comes to Yorkshire with Phil Winstanley
Date: Wednesday 25 January 2006Overview: VS 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 launch is the major event of the year. Every kind of application development has been enhanced with must-have features. Every kind of development and every kind of developer has compelling reasons why this is a must-have upgrade. In this session Phil Winstanley will try to cover several weeks of training in a couple of hours . . . If anyone can, Phil’s your man solutions. Location: Shipley Building Microsoft Office Solutions with Visual Studio - Today & Tomorrow
Date: Thursday 26 January 2006Overview: This session will provide an overview of the many tools and techniques available for developing with Office today, particularly the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2005. Well also take a look into the future at Office 12 and the features of interest from a developers perspective. Location: Ipswich WinFX - Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation with Mike Taulty
Date: Monday 30 January 2006Overview: When Windows Vista ships in 2006, it will come with a greatly extended version of the V2.0 .NET Framework called WinFX. WinFX has three main areas of functionality, namely: Presentation, Communication and Workflow. In this session well take a look at the Presentation Foundation which allows us to use managed languages to build extremely rich user interfaces that can be deployed to the desktop or viewed in the web browser. Location: Coventry
Third Party Events
Ian Griffiths on C# 3.0
Date: Thursday 12 January 2006Overview: Microsoft recently unveiled their future plans for the C# language. C# 3.0, which will ship with the next version of Visual Studio (codename 'Orcas'), will offer new features which work in concert to offer a better solution to one of today's pain points: dealing with data from relational databases and XML documents. These new language features work hand in hand with the 'LINQ' (Language Integrated Query) specification. However, the C# design philosophy has always been one of generality rather than task-specific expediency, so while the new C# 3.0 features all help LINQ, they have been designed to be much more broadly applicable. In this session Ian Griffiths will describe the new C# 3.0 language features, show how they contribute to LINQ, and take a broader look of what they bring to the language. Location: London MSDN TechTalk: Introduction to WinFX (Level 200)
Free of chargeDate: 26 January 2006 Location: Reading Audience: Developer Products: .NET, MSDN SQL Server 2005: Up and Running Roadshow
Date: Monday 6 February 2006Overview: Get the facts about deploying SQL Server™ 2005 in one information-packed day. SQL Server experts will present practical, real-world information in 3 tracks. Youll come away from this event with a clear understanding of how to put SQL 2005 into practice & how to use its new capabilities to improve your database computing environment. Location: London About DoEvents
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