DoEvents - September 2006
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Hello!!,

Hands up, all who managed to go away on holiday, leaving your laptops at home?? Not that many I bet :-) Well we’re into another month, and starting it off with a Fantastic array of meetings, something for everyone. Keep an eye out on the VBUG event page for the monthly online meetings & the annual VBUG.NET Conference on the 17th and 18th of October. It would be a shame to miss out!

With very best regards

Emma Britton
VBUG Events
01753 649 681
www.vbug.net/events

Sponsor Message: ComponentOne
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We have a limited number of places available in our September schedule with early-bird discounts available to VBUG subscribers. To secure yours, just click here.


VBUG Events
VBUG: "Defeating the Hacker"
Date: VBUG: "Defeating the Hacker"
Overview: In this session well talk about how the internet changed the face of computer crime Some real-world takes of when security went bad Major risks to corporate IT security (spam, phishing, data theft, viruses, WiFi weaknesses, unpatched workstations &servers, web site defacement, and keystroke logging). Also how to go about preventing computer misuse, how to write secure web-based applications, & how to go about tracking down the perpetrator if a company suspects that someone has been attacking its systems.
Location: Brighton
VBUG: MVP in SQL Server with Craig Murphy
Date: Tuesday 12 September 2006
Overview: TBC
Location: Glasgow
VBUG: Hacking Websites for Fun & Profit with Barry Dorrans
Date: Wednesday 13 September 2006
Overview: How safe are your web sites? Do you know what cross site scripting is? SQL injection attacks? Search engine leaks? Learn how to check your sites for nasties by seeing how it’s done and what you can do to secure your sites.
Location: London
VBUG: Flirting with AJAX with Gary Rowntree
Date: Wednesday 13 September 2006
Overview: During the session we’re going to build a web based chat thing that lives within a web page. As interactive as Instant Messenger, using Microsoft’s ATLAS technology to just pass the messages backwards & forwards without doing full page postback. Amazing You’ll see how little code is involved in making your apps use AJAX Now you can add flirting potential to all your websites.
Location: Stockport
VBUG: Vista - Beyond WinFX with Daniel Moth
Date: Wednesday 13 September 2006
Overview: This session will start with a quick tour of the new operating system, describe the new APIs available and demo how to take advantage of some of them in Visual Studio 2005 (including the aero guidelines, glass, task dialog, UAC, RSS, and sidebar gadgets).
Location: Swindon
VBUG: Building ASP.Net Web Controls with Barry Dorrans
Date: Thursday 21 September 2006
Overview: This session aims to introduce you to developing your own asp.net controls. Starting ways to harness existing controls as a base for your new controls, through implementing your own control from scratch, producing a composite control and ending with coping with post backs and other goodies."
Location: Bracknell
Realising the Potential of the Windows Mobile 5.0 Managed APIs (level 200) with Tony Witter
Date: Tuesday 26 September 2006
Overview: The session will demonstrate how developers can now easily overcome a number of traditional problem areas, such as richly interacting with Outlook Mobile PIM data, using the camera to capture pictures and video, the interception and processing of SMS messages, placing phone calls, dealing with system level events, programmatically sending email and SMS messages and more
Location: Leeds
VBUG: Enterprise Architectural Design Patterns with Matt Deacon
Date: Tuesday 26 September 2006
Overview: This session will discuss the role of enterprise patterns in decomposing these complex problems into smaller more manageable concepts that can then be recombined to deliver the larger system. In conclusion, the area of guidance tooling will be discussed so liberating patterns from the confines of the text book into the world of active in-context guidance for the developer& in so doing supporting the longer term vision of software factories.
Location: Ipswich
VBUG: Object and Data Binding with Windows Forms with Rob MacDonald
Date: Wednesday 27 September 2006
Overview: In this session Rob will present the theory and practice of data binding in Windows Forms 2.0, showing how it works under the covers as well as using a real world application to showcase its strengths and weaknesses. If you have preconceptions about data binding from previous technologies, prepare to have them overturned.
Location: Bristol
VBUG: Creating WebParts for SharePoint 2007’ with Brett Lonsdale
Date: Thursday 28 September 2006
Overview: 2007 Web Parts in 10 easy steps. ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part vs. Microsoft. SharePoint Web Part Code Access Security for SharePoint Web Parts AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers() Bin, App_Bin or GAC??? DWP vs .WebPart Web.Config Safe Controls entry Deploying Your WebPart.
Location: Coventry
Third Party Events
ICS Solutions presents Microsoft BizTalk 2006 Technical Seminar
Date: 5 September 2006
Location: London
Content & Code presents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: The next generation Enterprise Content Management Platform
Date: 6 September 2006, 10:00
Location: Reading
API Software presents Business Performance Management
Date: 7 September 2006, 10:00
Location: Edinburgh
The Developers Group Meeting Comparative programming Review
Date: Monday 11th September,2006
Location: Microsoft Campus, Reading
Softcat presents Microsoft - the Next Generation
Date: 13 September 2006, 09:30
Location: Reading
BizTalk User Group
Date: 19 September 2006, 18:00
Location: London
The Web : Designing and Developing Compelling Sites and Applications
Date: 19 September 2006, 18:30
Location: Reading
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - What’s new?
Date: 20 September 2006, 18:30
Location: Reading
The Developers Group Master class
Date: Wednesday Sept 20th, 2006
Overview: Win32 Delphi Fundamentals with Brian Long
Location: Upavon, Wiltshire
Developers security features of Visual Studio 2005, VSTS and SQL Server 2005
Date: 21 September 2006, 18:30
Location: London
 
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