.NET User Group 4 – Introduction to .NET Programming

Presebted by Rodney Lake (Spectra Data Solutions)

Date: 20/02/2008
Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00
Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland
Regiester here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ(we really want to have an idea of the number)

Are you curious about .Net programming? This presentation is a back-to-basics introduction to programming in the .Net Framework.

Topics will include:
• An brief introduction to Visual Studio
• The difference between VB.Net and C#
• The difference between ASP.Net and Windows Forms
• Introduction to the Base Class Library
• Introduction to the Common Language Runtime
• Emerging and future technologies
• Your questions, no matter how dumb…

Ellerslie .NET User Group Website

http://www.ellerslieusergroup.net.nz/
Here is our Silverlight 1.0 DNUG website!

Ellerslie .NET User Group Facebook Group

I have created a group on facebook for our DNUG, join if you want to keep an eye on latest events and news!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5912067218&ref=mf

.NET User Group 3 – Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007

Date: 08/11/2007
Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00
Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland

Presented by Adam Cogan (Chief Architect at SSW, MVP)

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application designed to help improve operational and financial performance across all departments and all levels of your organization.

With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can monitor progress, analyse what is driving variances, and plan your business from budgeting to creating management reports. You can have metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and reports delivered to every desktop through intuitive scorecards, dashboards, and the easy-to-use 2007 Microsoft Office system environment. A key component of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you understand how performance can align with personal and departmental.
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Products/Training.aspx#MSPerformancePoint

Presented by Adam Cogan
Position: Chief Architect, Microsoft Regional Director
Qualifications: B Bus, JP, MCP, Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio Team System)
Adam Cogan is the Chief Architect at SSW, a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in Office and .NET Solutions. At SSW, Adam has been developing custom solutions for businesses across a range of industries such as Government, banking, insurance and manufacturing since 1990 for clients such as Microsoft, Quicken, and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.

Adam was one of the lead developers behind Australia’s first live .NET site – using a version that was pre Beta 1! One of his latest projects was the Smart Tag implementation for Quicken Australia. Adam was also responsible for developing Reporting Services and Exchange Server samples for Microsoft that turned into a hugely popular Exchange Reporting Tool. Adam develops in Microsoft technologies; his favorites being SQL Server 2005, Reporting Services, OLAP, Winforms and Webforms (using Visual Studio .NET 2005 with both VB.NET and C#), Access 2007, Outlook 2007/Exchange Server 2007.

http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Employees/EmployeesProfile.aspx?EmpID=AC

Post-.NET User Group 2 – Policy Injection Application Block

Thanks for coming! This time we have about 25 people, it’s around the number we’ve expected, without some people I’ve expected to come. I blame the rainy weather and bad traffic.

Mateus Velloso gave us an overview of the Enterprise Library in particular the Policy Injection Application Block. I had an overview from the code camp a month (or two?) ago but this time I get to know a bit more what PIAB can and cannot do.

It’s not a my concern whether it is easy or hard to pick up. Personally I think nothing is really hard to learn. I am more concern what can be done and what’s the limitation of these libraries, so in the future when i meet a problem i can identify the best practice for it.

Hmm hmm, but comparatively nice stuff up front seems more attractive to me. Andre is going back to Brazil for 7 weeks during Christmas time, so I will have to get speakers for January and February. I will see Nigel Parker‘s availability for those two months… he will be showing some pretty things up front, hehe…

.NET User Group 2 – Policy Injection Application Block

Alright, our second .NET User Group meeting is on next Wednesday, 24th Oct 2007!

This time our topic is Policy Injection Application Block.

Presented by Mateus Velloso (Principal Software Architect at Gen-i, MVP)

Ready to pimp your objects?

The Policy Injection Application Block simplifies the separation of business logic from cross cutting concerns (such as logging, validation, exception handling, and authorisation) by letting you define policies and the objects/methods they apply to in a declarative way.

Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00

Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Door Charge: Free
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park.

Venue
Olympic Software
10 Cawley St
Ellerslie Auckland

Map of venue

If you know anyone who might be interested please tell them about it. Remember it’s an open event so everyone is welcome.

Any idea for .NET User Group topics?

We are thinking of all possible topics for our .NET User Group. Of cause there are heaps of things we can do, however it’s good to gather more idea from the community because real and practical needs can only be found out from people in the community. So if you have any idea, anything you would like us to talk about in the .NET User Group, leave a comment here to let me know.

Post-.NET User Group 1 – VS 2008 and C#3.0

Thanks for everyone that have attended the .NET User Group meeting held in Olympic Software last night. I was very happy because there are more people than we expected and there are pizzas, haha.

I will try to get Darryl Burling’s presentation slide up here later when he has finished his VS 2008 .NET User Group tour these two months. It is not very nice if I ask him for it now and people can get it before his talks.

I will post the C# 3.0 cool features and tricks that Alex James showed us here in the upcoming posts. Since Alex didn’t have any slides and he is too busy now (see Off to sunny Seattle), I have to dig out what he has said from my little brain. Anyway, will post all (alright, most) of them here soon.

I am very happy to see VS2008 having so many improvements on the design side of things. There are not many developers care about whether things look good or not and about usability issues, but most of them do care about functionality. One of the obvious reason is currently it is very hard to make things look nice. I am very interested to learn about XAML (Silverlight and WPF specifically). It will be good if we can hold XAML based user group here in Auckland as well like Nas Khan is doing in Wellington. The user group in Wellington is called ZamDes (yet for me to find out why).

Andre said I should start blogging about Silverlight. I wish I can really do that soon.

.NET User Group 1 – VS 2008 and C#3.0

Olympic is hosting the first Ellerslie .NET User Group meeting next Tuesday. This is a public event free of charge for all developers keen on learning new tips & tricks, and keeping up to date with what’s coming up. We will host regular meetings at the Olympic Auckland office every 4-6 weeks.

Our opening night will be a double session by Darryl Burling of Microsoft (on Visual Studio 2008) and Alex James (on C# 3.0)

If you know anyone who might be interested please tell them about it. Remember it’s an open event so everyone is welcome.

Here are the details:

A lap around Visual Studio 2008 & A lap around C# 3.0
Auckland 11/09/2007
Gather at 5:45, starting at 6:00

A lap around Visual Studio 2008
Presented by Darryl Burling
Explore all the new Visual Studio 2008 features, from language enhancements; improved designers; Web and smart-client development tools; to Visual Studio Team System, a suite of software lifecycle management tools poised to transform how you deliver software for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web.

A lap around C# 3.0
Presented by Alex James
Explore quickly the new features of C# 3.0, including things like LINQ, Lambda Expressions, Anonymous Types etc.

Catering: Pizza & Drinks
Door Charge: Free
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park.

Venue
Olympic Software
10 Cawley St
Ellerslie Auckland

Map of venue