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DoEvents - January 2008
I hope you have all had a great Christmas. What a fantastic way to start off the New Year with a full list of VBUG events! And what’s more is we have a new region for you… Peterborough kicks off in January with Richard Fennel presenting on Team Foundation Server! Not one to miss out on… If there’s someone you may know who might want to sign up for our fantastic monthly events newsletter, simply just forward on this link - http://www.vbug.net/myaccount/register.aspx.
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VBUG EventsVBUG: What’s new in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Fx 3.5 for the Web DeveloperDate: Tuesday 15 January 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Everything for the Web Developer: tools, framework and platform. The design-time support for web application development has undergone a radical overhaul in VS2008. We’ll show it to you while we explore the neat new features in ASP.NET 3.5, such as AJAX integration. We’ll also look at some of the ASP.NET Futures, including Silverlight support and dynamic data pages. Underpinning your web applications on Windows is IIS, and the latest version has undergone some significant architectural changes that we think you’ll appreciate. In this session we’ll walk you through those changes and highlight some of the possibilities they afford. Venue: London CP Customer Meeting Room No 05 AV, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Developing Sharepoint with Colin Byrne Date: Tuesday 15 January 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Join us for an evening of SharePoint! Our guest speaker Colin Byrne will be giving an introduction into SharePoint 2007 for developers. The topics covered will include: 1. SharePoint, what is it, what can it do and what’s in it for me 2. What tools do I need to develop for it 3. SharePoint Object Model 4. Custom Web Parts 5. Handling List Events 6. Workflow 7. Search Customization Colin Byrne is a MCSD.Net and has been developing business software using Microsoft tools for 16 years. Past projects include writing an OLAP client, designing a warehouse system, developing a Pocket PC mobile sales application. Colin runs the software and consultancy company Flexnet Consultants a company specialising in collaboration software using SharePoint and ASP.NET. Venue: Bracknell Leisure Centre, Bagshot Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 9SE Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Workflow Foundation with Morgan Skinner Date: Wednesday 23 January 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Session Title: Windows Workflow Overview Abstract: In this session Morgan will provide an overview of Windows Workflow, describe many of the inbuilt activities and show how you can create custom activities. There will be plenty of code in this presentation. Bio: Morgan is an Application Development Consultant who has worked for Microsoft for six years. He's been working with the .NET framework since the first beta release and has authored several MSDN articles and contributed to a couple of books on C#. He likes nothing more than getting his hands dirty in some low level code, and for relaxation he spends time fighting weeds on his allotment. Venue: Mellon Analytical Solutions, 1 Whitehall Riverside Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4BN Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Presentation with Karl Lightfoot Date: Thursday 24 January 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: TBC Venue: Coventry City Council, Corporate Training Centre, Mill Lane, Coventry, CV1 2LQ Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: 'Code Access Security for Protecting Web Applications'with Chris Seary Date: Tuesday 29 January 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: 'Code Access Security for Protecting Web Applications' Code Access Security gives an extra layer of defence for protecting your web application from malicious code. Chris will give demonstrations of how an attacker can get code onto your web server, and what damage it can do. He will then demonstrate how CAS can be used as an effective control against this. The presentation contains plenty of sample code and templates that conform to Microsoft Patterns and Practices recommendations. Chris Seary is a CISSP, a CESG Listed Advisor and a Developer Security MVP. Venue: BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennel Date: Wednesday 30 January 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Sick of SourceSafe? Is Microsoft's Team Foundation Server the answer to all your problems? In this session Richard will cover the key components and usage of TFS, installation issues, the range of third party tools available and how to write your own tools using the API. The seminar will include demos of cool addins and tips drawn from good and bitter experience. Richard will also look at the changes to TFS in the upcoming 2008 ‘ORCAs’ release. Venue: Media House, 324 Oundle Rd, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9Q Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Third Party Events.NETDEVNET: FinalBuilder and Test Driven Development with Craig MurphyDate: Tuesday 22 January 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Automating your build process using FinalBuilder - Over the course of this session Craig will explain the need for automating the build process and will demonstrate VSoft's FinalBuilder tool (and Automise if time permits). Craig does not have any formal connection with VSoft, he is just evangelical about their product! An Introduction to Test-Driven Development - Over the course of 60-75 minutes Craig will introduce the benefits of code coverage using both manual methods and automated tools. He will briefly introduce TDD and will go on to demonstrate the benefits of using code coverage tools against your unit tests, i.e. how well do your tests exercise your classes/application? Craig will be using Visual Studio 2005 and C# - his demonstrations are available for Visual Basic.NET and Borland compilers too. Venue: University of the West of England, Room 2q48, Frenchay, Bristol Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Black Marble's: Annual Technical Update for Microsoft Technologies Date: Thursday 31 January 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Black Marble's annual Technical Update returns in 2008. We will be looking at all of the leading new products that came from Microsoft 2007, with a review of the work that is coming out in 2008 and beyond. This event is designed to give you a roadmap for the next few years to help you design and plan your IT strategies. Venue: The Courtyard, The Pastures, Tong Lane, BD4 0RP Start Time: 9:00 AM Price: FREE More Info: click here MSDN: What’s new in Smart Client Development with Martin Parry and Date: Thursday 31 January 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Do you build rich client applications? If so, you'll want to make sure that you're aware of all Microsoft's client-development technology. This event will showcase a wealth of new and forthcoming technology, including Visual Studio 2008. 1. Building Rich Clients on the Microsoft Platform - Martin Parry People want compelling user experiences supported by powerful online services. Microsoft's platform and tools empower developers to build both the rich client and the service. In this session we'll concentrate on some recent and forthcoming technologies that enable rich client apps: Visual Studio 2008, WPF, SQL Server Compact Edition and ClickOnce to name but a few. 2. Office as a development platform with Visual Studio 2008 - Daniel Moth The 2007 Microsoft Office System is extensible like never before. In this session we'll look at the numerous ways to extend the various Office applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook and others. Customisations demonstrated will include the new designers and templates for the Ribbon, Actions Pane, Task Pane, Content Controls and Form Regions. This will all be done in managed code from within Visual Studio 2008 and we will also see how to interop in both directions with VBA code. Venue: The Courtyard, The Pastures, Tong Lane, BD4 0RP Start Time: 2:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Ed Gibson, Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor in the UK Date: Thursday 31 January 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Mr. Gibson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Ltd, in the UK. His primary role is to serve as an advisor to Microsoft’s customers, and the public, on the work Microsoft is doing to improve the security of its products. This role comes on the heels of his retirement from a 20-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During this period, Gibson was a recognized expert in investigating complex, international money laundering schemes, asset identification and confiscation, and intellectual property theft. While assigned to FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC, Mr. Gibson developed and managed an operational training program for all Special Agents and executive management, in money laundering and asset confiscation investigations. From early 2000 – mid 2005, Mr. Gibson was assigned to the FBI’s Legal Attache office, US Embassy London, as an Assistant Legal Attaché. There, he was responsible for all FBI cyber, hi-tech, cyber-terrorism, and infrastructure investigations in the UK. His leadership resulted in the creation of a model cyber program adopted by all Legal Attache offices around the world. Mr. Gibson was a corporate lawyer for a US based multinational corporation for five years prior to the FBI. While assigned to the US Embassy, he qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales, and completed a two-year computing program at Oxford University. He is a Member of the Board of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety, in England. Venue: The Courtyard, The Pastures, Tong Lane, BD4 ORP Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here About DoEvents
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