We'd also like to thank Matt Bates from TEKSystems for supplying the food and EMC\Configuresoft for letting us use the space.  We really appreciate thier support.

We have finally got around to getting some social networking stuff in place.  So, please join the Facebook group here and follow our Twitter handle here.

Joe Mayo – New Features of C# 4.0

Come learn the new features of C# 4.0 and VS 2010 that can make you more productive in getting your job done. C# 4.0 introduces new features such as Dynamic Types, Optional Parameters, better COM-Interop, and Co-Variance/Contra-Variance support. This presentation will explain each of these features and how they can make your programming tasks easier. You'll also learn about new features of VS 2010 that support the C# code-focused development paradigm.

Joe Mayo is an author of muliple books, including C# 3.0 Unleashed/Sams and LINQ Programming/McGraw-Hill. He operates Mayo Software, where he writes custom software for customers using Microsoft .NET technology. Joe is also a Microsoft Visual C# MVP.

On Twitter: http://twitter.com/JoeMayo

Adam Roderick – jQuery makes JavaScript Fun and Easy

Most of us have a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. It can do some great things, but it is usually painfully difficult to work with. Forget about all the time lost fighting with JavaScript and discover the goodness of the JavaScript library called jQuery. Learn about selectors, events, and plugins—and go home with enough knowledge to start using jQuery immediately!

Adam Roderick has worked in IT and software development for nearly 10 years, in roles such as tech support, auditor, project manager, and developer. The Microsoft suite of tools has made him ten times as productive as before, and he hasn’t looked back since attending his first .NET user group. Currently, he is a Solutions Manager at Qortex, a local consulting firm. His certifications include Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCPD in ASP.NET, and MCTS in SharePoint and BizTalk.

What’s New in Silverlight 3?

Are you interested in building business-focused Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)? Would you like to take advantage of 3D in the browser, but assume it is too hard? Have you wanted to take a Silverlight application offline? Then this session is for you. We will explore and illustrate the new features of Silverlight 3, including the following:

· Support for perspective 3D

· Offline Support

· .NET RIA Services which simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms

Building Web Applications with Windows Azure

This session will begin with a brief overview of Azure and discuss some of the announcements made at MIX. We will then illustrate through demo how to build a Windows Azure application from the ground up. We will illustrate how to consume Azure Table Storage, how to host services, web pages and Silverlight components, as well as how to deploy your solution to the cloud.

MVC 1.0 vs ASP.Net Webforms

Have you heard about the new ASP.NET MVC framework from Microsoft and wondered what it was all about? Are you curious whether this replaces ASP.Net WebForms? Well in this session you will learn how to use the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern to take advantage of your favorite .NET Framework language for writing business logic in a way that is de-coupled from the views of the data. In addition, we will talk about the pros and cons of both MVC and Web Forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific project, various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications vs. Web Forms applications, and the implications for using each approach.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Microsoft Denver Office
7595 Technology Way #400
Denver, CO 80237

Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413165&Culture=en-US

OR1-877-673-8368, reference Event ID 1032413165

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Microsoft Denver Office
7595 Technology Way #400
Denver, CO 80237

Time: 8:00 am –12:00 pm

Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413166&Culture=en-US

OR 1-877-673-8368, reference Event ID 1032413166

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Configuresoft, Inc.
7450 Campus Drive
Colorado Springs Colorado 80920

Time: 1:00 pm –5:00 pm

Register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413167&Culture=en-US

OR 1-877-673-8368, reference Event ID 1032413167

Thanks to Paul Sheriff for coming out and speaking for us.  It was a great!  I also want to thank INETA for getting us connected with Paul.  It was a pleasure having him.  At the end of Paul's talk he left us with some information regarding where he was going place the demos as well as a code to a discounted membership to his www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com web site.  Here is that information:

Demos and Slides are at www.pdsa.com\event\SouthColorado

www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com user code for the discount is SOCOL0509.  Code is valid until 5/15/09

Also be sure to check out www.pdsa.com for information regarding Paul's framework and extensions for .NET

Finally, I also mentioned the MSDN Unleashed Best of MIX 09 event coming at the end of this month.  The link to register for that event is http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032413167&Culture=en-US

Other than that we will be in touch once we get closer to next months meeting.  As always please email us at info@southcolorado.net if you have any questions or comments regarding the group or other groups in the area.

INETA Speaker Paul Sheriff – ASP.NET Best Practices and LINQ to XML 

Putting together an ASP.NET Application so that it is easy to maintain, easy to change the look and feel of, and is flexible can be a real challenge these days. In this seminar you will learn how to take advantage of Master Pages, Themes, Skins and CSS for building the front end UI. In addition, you will be exposed to other concepts like the use of Providers for maximum flexibility in dealing with exceptions and configuration management. You will also see an example of using N-Tier LINQ to SQL classes.

LINQ technology in .NET 3.5 has some great hooks into XML that make using XML documents a breeze. This seminar will explore how you will put this technology to work in your applications. Many XPath queries can be greatly simplified using LINQ. Besides the obvious advantages of using LINQ to iterate over XML data you can also use it to create and process XML documents. One great way you can use XML is in prototyping, another is to merge XML data with Word 2007 documents. In this seminar you will learn to use LINQ to XML for real world applications.

Paul Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).

While we can’t extend the event’s capacity (we’re at capacity for our largest room), we are accepting waitlisters still. Some folks should still be able to register to the waitlist. We usually try to register to 130% capacity to account for drop-off.

At worst case, we’re also planning to stream the event live via Live Meeting. We can fit another 500 people that way – not quite the same experience, but at least it’s better than nothing.

So, please use these links to get the informations you need.  I guess the interest in Team System is more than they thought.  As always please contact us at info@southcolorado.net with any additional questions.

First off, thanks to Fernando for the great presentation.  There where a bunch of request for Fernando's slides and demo code.  He is going to post them here.

I also would like to extend my thanks to our sponsors.  The food was awesome!  So, please contact us at info@southcolorado.net so we can pass on your thanks to Jason Moyer and Joe Mayo and let them know how much we appreciate thier support.  If you are interested in using Robert Half's services or are in need of great consultant services from Mayo Software please check out their sites. 

Finally, I mentioned the Big Team System Event during my opening statements.  I was informed today that the event is already full!  Bummer.  I have a message into the organizers to see if they can open up some extra spots for our memebers.  Stay tuned to this site for more info.  I will update once I hear something.

Thanks again for attending and please do not hesitate to contact us at info@southcolorado.com with any feedback regarding any aspect of the group.

Fernando Cardenas : Pragmatic Architecture for Developers 

Developers are often caught between the needs of the business and the needs for creating a good technical solution. Often, the good technical solution loses that battle. This session will help developers identify the technical debt that they have accrued and fix that debt with pragmatic architecture solutions that won’t halt development or break the bank through the lens of two related principles -- Separation of Concerns (SoC) and Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). By adhering to these two principles, your code will improve immediately and your application architecture will become cleaner! See and discuss how these principles work in concert by walking through a practical example on how to separate presentation, business logic, and the database layers from one another by looking at some refactored code. Building on that example, you will then see how the codebase is flexible and resilient to common changes.

Fernando Cardenas has been helping clients of all sizes solve business problems with technology for the last ten years. Lately, he has become more focused on making technology more responsive to the needs of businesses through better software development tools. Fernando and his team at AppVenture, have created a unique way to generate entire software applications and are hoping to start a dialog with the development community about AppGen , the revolutionary approach to software development.

Jeff Rhodes did a tremendous job presenting how and why he moved an ASP.NET application over to Silverlight.  Thanks for everything Jeff.  Here is a link to Jeffs slides if you are interested:

Moving a Commercial ASP.NET Application to Silverlight

I'd also like to thank Erik Lane for doing a quick demo of ReSharper from JetBrains.

Thanks to everyone who attended!  Keep your eye out for information regarding next months meeting.