User Group News

We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site.

Our first installment of the 2008 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, January 12 from 8:00-5:30. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. Sorry, but we are all sold out. There will be another Code Camp in May.

• Lots of code, just say no to slides!
• 9 hours
• 50 sessions (8:00, 9:30, 11:00, 1:10, 2:40, 4:10)
• 8 tracks lunchtime Birds of a Feather
• 400 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
• Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!)
• Raffles and prizes at 5:30
• Easy parking
• Limited wireless

7:30 Registration, continental breakfast

Alt.NET - 141
8:00 Brian Donahue - Panel Discussion
9:30 David Laribee - Fundamental Domain-Driven Design
11:00 Jeremy Jarrell - Decoupling Your Design - Dependency Injection with Windsor
1:10 Jeff Deville - ASP.NET MVC - A New Way To Build Web Apps 
2:40 Don Demsak - Design Patterns
4:10 Steve Eichert - Behavior Driven Development In Action:  The Evolution of TDD

Architecture - 104
8:00 Mitch Ruebush - Designing for Extensibility: Patterns and Practices that Can Make Your Software More Flexible
9:30 Chip Lemmon - Entry Level Event Models
11:00 Max Zilberman - Maturing the .NET in the Enterprise - an Architects Perspective
1:10 Sam Gentile/Mike Richardson - Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures
1:10 in 134 Mike Ferrari - IIS 7
2:40 Mark Pollack - Spring.NET
4:10 Harish Bidadi - BizTalk R2 BAM

Business Intelligence - 109
8:00 Chuck Urwiler - What’s new in Reporting Services for SQL 2008
9:30 Mark Scott - What is new in Analysis Services 2008
11:00 Dan Hartshorn - Overview of Performance Management and PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics 
2:40 Dan Clark - Integrating SQL Server Reporting Service Reports in .NET Applications
4:10 Andy Leonard - Incremental Loads with SSIS

User Experience - 111
8:00 John Juback - Real World Experiences with Silverlight
9:30 Miguel Castro - Developing Provider-based Features in ASP.NET
1:10 Jonathan Newell - Databinding ASP.NET End-to-End Development
2:40 Tony Lombardo - Polishing your Ajax application with Silverlight
4:10 Eric Pascarello - Investigating JavaScript and Ajax Security

Framework - 105
8:00 Jim Bonnie - SubSonic as a Data Access layer for DotNetNuke
9:30 Chris Eargle - Continuous Integration with MSBuild and CruiseControl.NET
11:00 Kevin Goff - Crash Course on LINQ and VS2008 Language Enhancements
1:10 Rachel Appel - Exception Handling & Management Strategies
2:40 Milan Negovan - Can we LINQ it? Yes we can!
4:10 Marc Ziss - Building ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web Sites using LINQ for SQL

Collaboration - 113
8:00 Russ Basuira - Programming Composite Applications that use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog
9:30 Gary Blatt - Using OpenXML to Access Excel and other Office 2007 Files
11:00 Bob Fox - SharePoint Disaster Recovery, Backup and more…
1:10 Michael Lotter - InfoPath 2007 with Visual Studio 2008
1:10 in 111 Susan Lennon - Using SharePoint Designer to Build a Dashboard-type View of Lists
2:40 David Mann - Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality via Components
4:10 Tony Testa - AJAX in SharePoint

Database - 108
8:00 Sebastian Meine/Dennis Lloyd - TDD (Test Driven Development) for SQL code
9:30 Sharon Dooley - Partitioning Strategies In SQL Server 2005
11:00 Joshua Lynn - SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Enhancements
1:10 Sebastian Meine/Sagi Shkedy - Performance Comparisons of Common Runtime and SQL Functions and Avoidance Techniques
1:10 in 109 Hilary Cotter - SQL Server Replication and What's new in Katmai
2:40 Prashant Shekhar - Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) in SQL Server
4:10 Ed Pochinski - SQL Server Administration Scripting

Toolbox - 106
8:00 Travis Laborde - Top Ten Tools Tips and Tricks
9:30 Steve Andrews - Visual Studio 2008 Tools and Add-Ins
11:00 John Baird - Mobile App Development with .Net Compact Framework, SQLCE and PPC’s
11:00 in 134 Judy Calla - Intro to Developing Reporting Services Reports in Visual Studio 2005
1:10 Rob Keiser - Powershell 2.0
2:40 Mark Magliocco - FaceBook Developer Toolkit in .NET
4:10 Todd Snyder - Using Refactoring to hunt down code smells

12:20 Birds of a Feather tables in the break room, Primo hoagies, drinks and snacks

5:30 evals, lots of raffle prizes