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DoEvents - October 2007
Did you know there is less than 2 weeks till this year’s .NET Conference? If you’ve not had the chance of attending any training courses this year, attending this 2 day .Net conference will give you a fantastic ROI. Full session details plus event registration can be found at http://www.vbug.com. Come along and join nearly 200 of your fellow developers. Not only do we have the conference but with the nights drawing in what better way to spend your time than in a cosy environment of a VBUG support meeting! Please see the list of VBUG and other user group events listed below. What more could you ask for! I look forward to meeting you at the conference! With very best regards, Emma Britton VBUG Events
Shown below are some of the future events for VBUG, Microsoft, The .NET Exchange, The London Database Developer's Forum, Scottish Developers, DNJOnline, The London .NET User Group, The Access User Group, the SQL Server User Group and The DotNET Developers Group. Click on an event name for more details or to reserve your place online!
VBUG Annual Conference 2007 VBUG: 'Code at your fingertips' with Serge Baltiyskiy - ONLINE EVENT Date: Tue 30 October to Tue 30 October 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR - OPEN TO ALL Overview: Code at your fingertips with ReSharper support for VB.NET and mixed-language solutions This demonstration focuses on the productivity benefits achieved by extending Visual Studio with ReSharper. The quick overview shows what simple things you may be missing from the base IDE that are keeping you from developing with pleasure. The presentation will prove interesting for VB.NET developers and especially for those who maintain mixed-language solutions. It is based on developing a sample VB.NET application, all live coding, and has no prerequisites besides general knowledge of .NET. The highlighted topics include: Writing code. The “use-before-declaring” development strategy, as enabled by ReSharper, is represented by completing a code fragment first and only then creating the needed properties, methods, and classes from their first usages. This approach is shown to make the development process more straightforward, linear, and efficient. Exploring code. As a project code base grows in size, developers start spending more time reading existing code than writing new code. A way to address this productivity issue is demonstrated with the help of ReSharper’s sophisticated support for fast search and navigation in the hierarchy of classes and/or methods. Its reliability ensures up-to-date information even when it involves looking in incompilable files, crossing the C#/VB language boundary, or checking for late-bound references in “strict off” mode. Venue: ONLINE Start Time: 19:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Accelerate Your I.T. Learning with David Ringsell Date: Wed 31 October to Wed 31 October 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: People who work with I.T. face the challenge of life-long learning. Technologies change rapidly and we want to keep up. This is a different kind of talk that will not look at particular product. Instead we will look at learning and mastering any new technology - Using to both the left an right hand sides of the brain to enhance effectiveness, Creating Mind Maps to understand and memorise software, Employing our visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities to improve the way we work. Venue: Thornbury Golf Centre, Bristol Road, Thornbury, Bristol. BS35 3XL Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Getting Back to basics: Semantics, Micro formats & the Art of Simplicity Date: Wed 28 November to Wed 28 November 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Getting Back to basics with Ian Lloyd: In these days of Rapid Application Development (RAD), .NET controls and WYSIWYG editors, it's easy to forget that for many people, it all started with the humble notepad.exe. The art of creating clean, simple and meaningful markup is becoming more difficult thanks to the tools that supposedly help in developing quicker solutions. Ian will be looking at where we find ourselves today, and looking at the issues that have come about through the use of RAD tools, including the problems with AJAX, accessibility oversights and trying to find where the semantic markup is hiding. This will be a reminder of some of the fundamentals of web development that have been masked by layer upon layer of shiny development tools. Venue: Nationwide Building Society, Nationwide House, Pipers Way, Swindon, SN38 1NW Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Visual Studio 2008 for the web developer” with Daniel Moth Date: Thu 1 November to Thu 1 November 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code named “Orcas”) brings with it a host of features for the web developer. In this session, we demonstrate the benefits you can get out of the Visual Studio toolset when working on your existing ASP.NET 2.0 projects as well as for new ASP.NET 3.5 projects. There are many improvements in the IDE so we’ll need to focus on JavaScript Intellisense and debugging improvements, the new designer, CSS enhancements and a few more. Venue: Coventry City Council's Corporate Training Centre, Mill Lane, Coventry. CV1 2LQ Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Developing on the Windows Live Platform with Martin Parry Date: Thu 1 November to Thu 1 November 2007 Topic: VBUG: ONLINE TECHNICAL SEMINAR - OPEN TO ALL Overview: Windows Live defines a set of services and components that can be used in your web applications, whether or not you use Microsoft's server platform. In this session we look at a selection of Windows Live services and build them into an application. We'll look at the Windows Live Contacts API - really useful for social networking functionality but also a great example of what's possible using the Windows Live Data service. We'll build maps into an application using the Virtual Earth map control. We'll let our users browse their photos using the Windows Live Spaces Photos control, we'll enable authentication in our app using Windows Live ID and we'll show how you can leverage the Windows Live Search functionality too. If time permits, we'll also look at Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live. We'll take a simple Silverlight application and encode some media content, then host it all with Windows Live. Venue: BT, Unit 7, Room 3, Innovation Place, Delta Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE11 9DJ Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Getting Back to basics: Semantics, Micro formats & the Art of Simplicity Date: Wed 28 November to Wed 28 November 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Getting Back to basics with Ian Lloyd: In these days of Rapid Application Development (RAD), .NET controls and WYSIWYG editors, it's easy to forget that for many people, it all started with the humble notepad.exe. The art of creating clean, simple and meaningful markup is becoming more difficult thanks to the tools that supposedly help in developing quicker solutions. Ian will be looking at where we find ourselves today, and looking at the issues that have come about through the use of RAD tools, including the problems with AJAX, accessibility oversights and trying to find where the semantic markup is hiding. This will be a reminder of some of the fundamentals of web development that have been masked by layer upon layer of shiny development tools. Venue: Nationwide Building Society, Nationwide House, Pipers Way, Swindon, SN38 1NW Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here SQL Bits - DDD eye for the SQL Guy Date: Sat 6 October to Sat 6 October 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: The first SQL Community conference (SQLBits - http://www.SQLBits.com), 20 sessions in 4 tracks (Business Intelligence, DBA, Development and Katmai) on a Saturday in Reading, UK, completly free of charge. Venue: Microsoft HQ, Thames Valley Park, Reading Start Time: 08:45 Price: FREE More Info: click here MSDN: What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 for the Web Developer Date: Tue 16 October to Tue 16 October 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: OverView: Come along and find out what’s in store for both the ASP.NET platform and Visual Studio in the upcoming release. As web developers, there’s a lot to get excited about including many features you can take advantage of in your existing projects. Session 1 – Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code named “Orcas”) brings with it a host of features for the web developer. In this session, we demonstrate the benefits you can get out of the Visual Studio toolset when working on your existing ASP.NET 2.0 projects as well as for new ASP.NET 3.5 projects. There are many improvements in the IDE so we’ll need to focus on JavaScript Intellisense and debugging improvements, the new designer, CSS enhancements and a few more. Session 2 - .NET Fx 3.5 In this session we’ll take a look at some of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. New server controls, ASP.NET AJAX integration, not to mention Language Integrated Query (or LINQ), we’ll take a look at the lot. And while we’re at it we’ll see where Microsoft Silverlight fits in the picture. Venue: Microsoft Ltd, Lismore House, Edinburgh, EH2 4JN, UK Start Time: 18:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here DotNetDevNet: An Overview Of WPF & An Overview Of SilverLight with Oliver Sturm Date: Tue 16 October to Tue 16 October 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Windows Forms are yesterdays technology and WPF is undeniable in class and potential. And because SilverLight gives you some of the power of WPF in a web application and co-exists with regular web technologies in regular web pages. http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Meetings/tabid/54/EntryID/8/Default.aspx Venue: UWE (Unniversity of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol - Room 2q48 (in Q block) Start Time: 18:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here NxtGenUG: XSLT - Why, How and When ... Date: Tue 23 October to Tue 23 October 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Watch out, Dave and Rich are in town, and Dave's got his XSLT hat on again, this time with knobs on! Yes its an evening with the NxtGenUG co-founders as Rich talks to his Vista in his award winning Nugget. Dave will be running through his XSLT 'Extreme' session which he will be giving at TechEd in November. Pizza and swag will abound as ever, don't miss it! Venue: St Johns Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS Start Time: 19:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting: Backup solutions for SQL Server Date: Wed 24 October to Wed 24 October 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: For more info in this event, please visit - http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/ Venue: HBOS, Sighthill, Edinburgh Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here NxtGenUG: Halloween 'Spooktacular' ... Date: Wed 31 October to Wed 31 October 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: NET 'Wizard' Liam Westley looks at the 'ghost' in the machine as he dives into Windows and looks at developing Windows Services. Remember those? Well, in case you hadn't noticed they're all around us in the development world, but hard to see and hard to capture with a debugger! Liam shows us how we can make our lives easier when writing and working with Windows Services including some of the differences between NT and Windows Vista Services. Other scary things to see on the night: Spicy Pizzas, A Nuggets of Wisdom and of course the now patented 'Swag Distibute-o-Meter'... Venue: iCentrum Birmingham, Birmingham, B7 4EJ, UK Start Time: 19:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007 Date: Fri 9 November to Sun 9 September 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: TechEd Developers is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference, designed to provide developers with deep dive technical training, information and community resources focusing on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for current and soon to release products and technologies. Evolving from last year's four day (plus Pre-Conference) event structure, the new FIVE-day event now offers a greater choice of content than ever before. Customize your own technical curriculum with a choice of hundreds of learning opportunities; evaluate the latest products in the labs and meet face-to-face with the Microsoft and industry experts behind the products. http://www.mseventseurope.com/teched/07/developers/content/Pages/Default.aspx Venue: Barcelona, Spain Start Time: 09:00 Price: Click on link for more info More Info: click here About DoEvents
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