Next Meeting: Thursday, June 26th at the Edmonton Public Library; doors are open at 5:30 and the presentation will start at 6 PM.

ABSTRACT:

Silverlight for Business Developers

Isolated Storage, data templates, data grids, calling Web and WCF Services… All unsexy but essential topics when it comes to developing Silverlight 2.0 applications. This talk will demonstrate the various techniques for dealing with moving, consuming and manipulating data in the Silverlight 2.0 environment.

BIO:

Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA. Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy.

Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2005 conference in Montreal Canada. Rod was made an MSDN Canada speaker in 2004 and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.

Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development.

Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://codebetter.com/blogs/rodpaddock/

Thursday, April 24th will not just be one of the greatest EDMUG evenings of all time, but it will also be the opportunity of a lifetime.  It will be your chance to rub shoulders with a legend that walks like a man.  And the name of that legend is:

Tom Opgenorth!! 

Yes, as unbelievable as it sounds, pick your jaws up off the floor because Edmonton's newest Microsoft MVP is coming to chat with EDMUG about Monorail!  The man with the largest collections of Hawaiian shirts, functioning rifles, and spandex LuluLemon tops in the entire province will be here next Thursday for the presentation NO ONE dares to miss!  As per usual, the presentation will be at the Edmonton Public Library; doors are open at 5:30 and the presentation will start at 6 PM.  Be there or be riddled with gunfire*!


ABSTRACT:

Viewstate, PostBack, and Page LifeCycle! Oh My!

Interested in seeing another way to ASP.NET applications without using
Web Forms?  Come to the April meeting of EDMUG and experience Monorail
from the Castle Project.  What is this Monorail we speak of?  Monorail
is a mature, stable, open source MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework
for ASP.NET from the Castle Project.  Come learn about web
applications without the Web Forms.

BIO:
Tom Opgenorth is a local .NET aficionado and consultant who has a
tendency to dabble in Linux.  He was recently received a Microsoft MVP
Award for 2008 in C#.

David Woods
Security In the .Net Framework

Thursday, February 28th 2008, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

The .NET framework does a lot of security work for us, it is important to know both how applications get attacked and how to defend yourself. In this talk we will hack a website using common techniques used in the wild today and then will learn how to defend against these attacks using simple techniques and best practices. We will also take the defense up a level by protecting secrets via cryptography to minimize the damage if an attacker were to compromise our systems.

David Woods is an independent contractor based in Edmonton, Alberta. He has worked his way from BASIC (and still has his Apple II to prove it) to .NET and still enjoying programming. Dave currently works on developing enterprise applications.

Adel Khaled
Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation

Thursday, January 31st 2008, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

Materials are available for download here.

Are you getting tired of expressing business processes in opaque code over and over? Are you having headaches when trying to follow and understand the business processes expressed in code? Well worry no more because Windows workflow (WF) is part of the .Net 3.0 that enables developers create workflow enabled applications. During the talk, I will introduce windows workflow and its constituent parts including the activity model, workflow designer, workflow runtime and the rules engine. The session includes a couple of demos to show how to use WF effectively in today's business

Adel Khaled is currently pursuing his Phd. in software engineering at University of Alberta. For the past 4 years, he has held the position of technical manager and software architect at Netways an e-Solution company based in Riyadh. Adel has an extensive experience with .NET framework and has been working with .NET since early releases. He has over 7 years of experience in software development with Microsoft technologies developing client-server, windows based applications, web services and distributed applications. He has implemented many projects using Microsoft technologies such as Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Message Queuing, MS SQL Server and BizTalk. Before moving to .NET, he has worked in C++ building windows applications for Supply Chain and Customer Management in an Italian company called TXT.

DNIC and John Bristowe
Developer Night in Canada (DNIC) III – Bringing the Power of the .NET Framework to Your Existing Application

Wednesday, September 26th 2007, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

James Kovacs
The nHibernate Mafia
and the
Persistent Ingorant Domain Model

Thursday, August 23rd 2007, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

Bil Simser
DDD and Fitnesse
Tuesday, July 31st 2007, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

Tom Opgenorth
Introduction to Embedded Databases
Donald Belcham
New features in C# for .NET 3.5
June 28th 2007, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

Roy Osherove
Agile Development Techniques and Methodologies
May 22nd 2007, 5:30pm at the Milner Public Library

Download the materials here.

The Edmonton .NET User Group, with the generous sponsorship of DevTeach and MSDN Canada, is very happy to be able to present Roy Osherove (www.iserializable.com) in his first North American user group presentation. Roy will be speaking on Agile Development Techniques and Methodologies which he describes here:

Ever knew on your first day on the project that you’re going to miss the deadline? Ever been “surprised” that the customer changed their mind? Ever had long nights trying to fit your latest changes into code that just keeps on breaking? You’re not alone. Wondering where you should start if you want to go Agile? In this talk we'll explore the Whys and hows of Agile development – what does it mean, and what is it trying to solve in our day to day projects? Why do most software projects fail and what are the main differences between Agile and traditional methodologies? We'l also compare two leading methodologies: Scrum and eXtreme programming, and see why it makes the most sense to combine them rather than choose one over the other. We'll also best practices and techniques for writing unit tests and Test Driven Development. Going Agile means also getting technical skills, and this is by far one for the most important of them.

Roy Osherove, Sela Group (www.SelaCanada.ca)
Roy is the Agile Development and Team System Group lead at the Sela Group in Israel, doing training, consulting and mentoring on Agile development and Team System topics. Roy has spent the past decade developing and architecting software solutions for various companies in Israel and Europe. He's a Microsoft MVP and writes regularly on .NET, Agile Development Techniques and other geeky stuff on his blog and various other places such as MSDN Magazine. Roy is also a regular presenter at Microsoft Conferences such as TechEd Europe and Israel, DevDays and user groups in Israel and Europe. Roy is one of the leading voices for Agile development in Israel and is the Founder of the Agile Israel user's group - Israel’s First and only Agile-Dedicated User’s group. You can find Roy's blog at www.ISerializable.com

Download the presentation here.

We are having a *PARTY*!!

This April, EDMUG will mark one year of great presentations, great discussions, and great people.  EDMUG has had a very successful year and this is *entirely* due to the wonderful and passionate developer community we have in Edmonton.  We want to thank you all for your contributions to putting Edmonton on the map as one of the best places for software development.  There's no better way to thank you guys than to have a massive blowout!  

Therefore, on April 26^th at 6 PM, EDMUG is holding a one-year anniversary party at the Maverick Brewery ( Google map) at 10229 105 Street NW (note the change from our regular location).  There will be

• leather couches
• free wireless access
• wicked prizes
• the ability to buy alcohol
• and finally, an amazing presentation and presenter!

Beer flows at 5:30 PM with presentation starting at 6 PM. 

For April's celebration, Christians Izquierdo of Iomer (www.iomer.com) will be presenting on "How to create and use Domain Specific Languages and Software Factories".  Christians is a Senior Solutions Architect with Iomer (www.iomer.com), a Microsoft gold certified consultancy dedicated to the Microsoft enterprise platform in Edmonton. Over the last 12 years Christians has helped many clients design and implement mission critical enterprise applications using Microsoft technology. His areas of expertise include custom .NET development, Microsoft SharePoint, Service Oriented Architectures and Project Management using Agile Methodologies.

Once again, April 26^th is our one year anniversary party and promises to be one of our high points of the year!  If you have attended previous EDMUG events you owe it to yourself to come out to this one; if you know friends who haven't come out to EDMUG events previously, this is a fantastic time to bring them out!  We are looking forward to seeing you guys and girls on April 26^th and also looking forward to another year of fantastic community events!

Swag sponsors for this event:

Edmug is proud to welcome John Bristowe as part of Developer Night In Canada (DNIC) and MSDN to the City of Champions. John will be presenting on Building a Strong Data Foundation for Your Applications and describes the event as:

The purpose of this event is to demonstrate how the Microsoft Application Platform provides a robust and secure foundation for building data-driven applications and Web sites. Specifically, this session will examine some of the tools and technologies available for developers including Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals and examine some of the exciting new features of ADO.NET.

Edmug is proud to welcome John Bristowe as part of Developer Night In Canada (DNIC) and MSDN to the City of Champions. John will be presenting on ASP.NET 'Atlas' and describes the event as:

ASP.NET “Atlas” makes it easy to build rich, interactive Web-based applications for personalized Web experiences. It provides a framework that includes a suite of ASP.NET server controls, Web services, and JavaScript libraries. In this session, you'll learn about ASP.NET “Atlas” and how this framework makes it dramatically easier to develop richer Web experiences.

This event requires registration which can be done at the Microsoft site here. We look forward to seeing you at the Centennial Room in the Milner Library at 5:30pm on Thursday September 7th 2006.

August 24th at 5:30pm - Edmonton .NET User Group
Note that this meeting will be held in the Edmonton Room at the Library

Code Generation for .NET - 300 Level If you've ever slogged through the monotony of writing the same code patterns over and over, code generation may be for you. We will explore the use of myGeneration for writing code generation scripts to create data access layers along with some guiding principles for use when using code generation. Speaker Biography Currently working for Fujitsu Consulting Canada in Edmonton as a Technical & Team Lead, Donald has 8 years experience in software development. During that time he has designed and developed enterprise line-of-business solutions for Fortune 100 companies and government entities in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Donald is also the current President of the Edmonton .NET User Group and an active member in the Edmonton developer community. You can find his ideas and thoughts on software development at his blog, Coding in an Igloo.

July 27th at 5:30pm - Edmonton .NET User Group

SQL Querying Tips & Techniques - 300 Level Take your queries to the next level! This session focuses solely on advanced querying techniques to get the most out of your SQL Server. You’ll see a series of real world examples to extract data from your databases in ways you’ve never seen before. Techniques demonstrated include an ultra-fast way to do crosstab queries in SQL Server, running totals and ranking. Along the way you’ll get some insight into how SQL Server works and the new capabilities in SQL Server 2005. Speaker Biography Richard Campbell is the president of Campbell & Associates, based in Vancouver, BC. He consults with a number of companies around the world on large scale and high availability web-based applications. Richard is one of the founders of StrangeLoop Networks, creators of the Mobius router. He is a technical editor for Advisor Media and co-authors a monthly Q&A column. In addition, Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and co-host of .NET Rocks! the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers.

June 27th at 5:30pm - Edmonton .NET User Group

Atlas - 200/300 Level Jean-Luc David is a senior consultant at ObjectSharp Consulting and the CEO of Stormpixel Solutions based in Toronto, Canada. He has been writing code since the age of 12, and has been an ongoing active participant in user groups, online chats and developer events. Most of his time is spent writing, creating courseware, speaking and deploying Team System and WinFX to companies in Canada and abroad. Jean-Luc's latest book includes "Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System" published by WROX Press (he also wrote a book called Professional WinFX Beta which was released at the 2005 PDC and contributed to Professional Javascript 2nd Edition). He is currently in the process of writing a new book called "Professional Team Foundation Server" and will be delivering two Team System MSDN webcasts as part of TechEd 2006. You can read his blog at: http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/jldavid/

June 29th at 5:30pm - Edmonton .NET User Group

Enterprise Architecture - 300 Level James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades living in Calgary, Alberta specializing in the .NET Framework and Enterprise Application Development. He assists clients in building smart clients, web applications, web services, and even full-fledged servers using the .NET Framework and Microsoft server technologies. (He tends to get around in the .NET space.) You can listen to him and his fellow plumbers, John, Dan, and Bill, on their podcast, Plumbers at Work - http://www.plumbersatwork.com - which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. He is a frequent presenter at user group events and is a member of the Calgary .NET User Group executive committee. James holds a variety of designations, including MCP, MCAD, MCSD, and MCT. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.

May 25th at 5:30pm - Edmonton .NET User Group

Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA. Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy. Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2005 conference in Montreal Canada. Rod was made an MSDN Canada speaker in 2004 and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP. Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development. Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://codebetter.com/blogs/rodpaddock/