Sponsors

Meeting Time & Location:

Boulder Visual Studio .NET User GroupMicrosoft .NET

Questions or comments?  E-mail us at info@BoulderUG.com

Engineering Center Classroom Wing

1111 Engineering DR

Room ECCR-245

University of Colorado

Boulder, CO 80309

Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Boulder .NET User Group Meeting Map

Rapidigm, Inc.

MicroStaff is a locally owned company established in 1994 that has specialized in providing Creative and Technical Talent for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing, and Software Development projects.

 

In this niche we have earned an excellent reputation based on our industry knowledge, strong customer service, competitive pricing and integrity. We personally meet every candidate we work with to establish a relationship and to provide accurate representation.  Our services include Contract, Contract-to-Hire and Permanent placement.

Amadeus Consulting

Partnering with ViaWest allows a firm to continually focus on its core business objectives, confident that its network and critical business data are secured by a service provider defined by a stable foundation, experienced team, and wide range of unparalleled services- offered at a superb market value.

DotNetPark

Our web site is hosted by SeekDotNet Reliable,FAST and Cheap ASP, PHP, MSSQL 2005,MySQL,SQL Server 2005,Windows and ASP.NET web hosting.

International .NET Association

INETA provides support for all user group related needs.  Receive discounts on books, software, training, and other .NET-related products and services.

Meeting Agenda:

5:30

Basics — Object Datatype

5:45

Break / food / networking

6:00

Keynote presentation

7:30

Closing remarks

Meeting Links:

Boulder .NET User Group

Meeting Map

Become A Member

May Sponsors:

From ViaWest

Pizza & drinks Sponsor ($100)

From CodeSmith

Two Professional CodeSmith

Licenses ($399)

From Dundas

Gauge Pro ($699)

From MicroStaff

Projector Sponsor ($350)

From Axtools

CodeSMART for Visual Studio 2005 license ($250)

From Code Magazine

5 copies ($45)

Bring your business card for the door prize drawings.

We'll cover tips, tricks and developer resources to speed up web development including:

- Code Generation

- ADO.NET 2.0

- Themes

- Design Templates

- Web parts

- Personalization

- GridView

- Images

Watch in horror as Steve tries to write a usable CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system in 60(?) minutes. 

Steve Dzilvelis Presents How To Write A Complete ASP.NET 2.0 Application In One Sitting

Presenter

Steve has been developing applications since 1984.  His development background spans from accounting to insurance,  to E911 call centers.  A huge fan of .NET, he's also featured in the classic read "Dating Design Patterns" which exposed the myth that design patterns were created for software instead of cultivating relationships.  Currently a sales engineer for ViaWest, he works with developers and organizations as they navigate to waters of complex managed hosting.  Aside from technology, Steve loves snowboarding, ultimate frisbee, chocolate, Guinness, and making Greek food.

Monthly Presentation for May

Date: Tuesday, May 23rd

Session abstract:

LINQ stands for .NET Language INtegrated Query and in a nutshell, it makes query and set operations, like SQL statements first class citizens in .NET languages like C# and VB.  Find out about the general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET 2.0 Framework that apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data. http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/linq/

 

After two decades, the industry has reached a stable point in the evolution of object-oriented (OO) programming technologies. Programmers now take for granted features like classes, objects, and methods. In looking at the current and next generation of technologies, it has become apparent that the next big challenge in programming technology is to reduce the complexity of accessing and integrating information that is not natively defined using OO technology. The two most common sources of non-OO information are relational databases and XML.

 

Rather than add relational or XML-specific features to our programming languages and runtime, with the LINQ project we have taken a more general approach and are adding general purpose query facilities to the .NET Framework that apply to all sources of information, not just relational or XML data.

 

 

In this session, Joe Mayo, will show you how LINQ works and makes data access more intuitive than the ADO.NET code you use today.  You'll also learn about two LINQ extensions, DLINQ and XLINQ, that allow you to query SQL and XML data respectively.

 

Some say that seeing is believing. There are three videos on Channel 9 that discuss LINQ.

 

Anders Hejlsberg and Dan Fernandez discuss LINQ and C#.

 

Paul Vick and Amanda Silver discuss the future of VB.

 

Paul Vick and Erik Meijer discuss dynamic programming.

 

LINQ Preview (May 2006).msi

 

Our Presenter:

Joe Mayo is an author, independent consultant, and trainer, specializing in .NET technologies. He opened the C# Station ( http://www.csharp-station.com/ )Web site on July 4, 2000, and has been working with C# and .NET since the pre-beta. Joe’s been programming for over 18 years and is currently a consultant and instructor, serving customers in the Denver area.    

 

His books include C# Unleashed

and C#Builder Kick Start.

 

Joe Mayo Presents Language Integrated Query (LINQ), The Future of Dynamic Programming with C# 3.0

What is on the Calendar?

June Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, June 27th