User Groups

CapArea Silverlight SIG April Meeting: Silverlight & SharePoint

Frank La Vigne — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:24:00 GMT

Things are really rolling along at CapArea Silverlight SIG.

In our first meeting, we had Dean Fiala talk about creating a Texas Hold'em game in Silverlight and, in March, Pete Brown spoke on Silverlight 3 fresh from MIX09 in Las Vegas.

So, let's get a little practical and a little more day to day for our April meeting, so you can convince your management to start rolling out Silverlight apps. ;)

SharePoint is everywhere and, if you learn how to add Silverlight to the mix, then Silverlight could be anywhere, too.

The session title may sound like we ripped it off the New Jersey Tourist Board, but the content is all fresh and it's all Sahil -- high energy, fun and interactive.

Sounds a lot like Silverlight.

Title: Silverlight & You Perfect Together

Abstract:

Silverlight is one of the most exciting things to come out of Microsoft lately.

In this session, Sahil cooks up a practical and interesting completely hands-on demonstration of how to use Silverlight in SharePoint. Not only does he talk of various details of Silverlight, along with proper deployment of Silverlight projects in SharePoint, he also mixes WCF and demonstrates using Silverlight with full access to the SharePoint object model. You should attend if you are interested in either Silverlight, SharePoint, WCF, or any mixture of the above.

About the speaker:

Sahil Malik has been a Microsoft MVP & INETA Speaker for many years, author of many books and numerous articles, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally. His talks are full of humor and practical nuggets. His talks tend to get very highly charged, fast moving, and highly interactive.

Sahil likes to maintain a balance and learn as much as possible of all Microsoft technologies, and thus completely ignores the balance in his life.

You should check out his site at http://blah.winsmarts.com.

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Date/Time:

Wed April 29 7:00 PM

Address:

1900 Gallows Road, Vienna, VA 22182

Also, based on feedback at our last meeting, I may do a 15 minute session on "Introducing Blend to Developers" talk.

I am waiting to find out if could start 15 minutes earlier to give my "mini-session" as not to cut into Sahil's time.

Stay tuned for details.

Technorati Tags: CapArea.NET,Silverlight,SilverlightDC,Sahil Malik,SharePoint

Pete Brown Speaks on Silverlight 3 Tomorrow Night

Frank La Vigne — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:46:00 GMT

Tall buildings, traffic, fancy restaurants and expensive boutique stores.

No it's not Las Vegas, it's Tyson's Corner!

Pete Brown will be presenting at at the CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG to show off Silverlight 3 , which was publicly announced last week at MIX09 in Las Vegas.

A little bit of Las Vegas comes to Tysons Corner this month when Pete Brown shows off Silverlight 3, which was unveiled last week at MIX09. Learn about the improvements that support line of business development, out-of-browser, 3D transforms, pixel shaders, and hardware acceleration.

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Technorati Tags: Pete Brown,Silverlight3,Silverlight,CapArea.NET,SilverlightDC

Free Microsoft Robotic Studio Training

Frank La Vigne — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:24:00 GMT

The DC/VA/MD Microsoft Robotics Studio Group has just announced another event.

From the group's Meetup Page:

I will provide a 6 hour training session (with frequent breaks) covering only the basics of using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) for building robotic systems. We will cover CCR, DSS, and the most used tools so you will gain a working knowledge of how to build robots using this technology.
You will need a portable (laptop or notebook) PC running either Windows XP or Vista. You will also need Visual Studio Express 2008 (free) configured to use C#. I will bring the installation S/W on a thumb drive so we can load your PC at the begin of the training session. We will start the actual training at 10:30 AM. Come at 10:00 AM if you don't have the S/W installed.
This meeting will cover the just released version (2.0).
All are welcome.

Location

Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library
7584 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22043
703-790-8088
How to find us
"Meeting Room 1"

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Technorati Tags: Robotics,Microsoft,Robotics Studio

Regional User Group and User Group Leaders on Twitter

Frank La Vigne — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:17:00 GMT

Inspired by Adam Kinney's Microsoft Twitter list, here's my list Twitter list of regional user group leadership in the Mid-Atlantic.

This list is by no means exhaustive, I know there are more user groups and user group leaders on Twitter.

It's a first draft, so please don't feel offended if I've left you off this list.

So if you don't see yourself in this list send me a message on Twitter (@Tableteer) or contact me via my blog and I'll add you to this list.

UPDATE 2: I've moved this list to a Silverlight Control backed by XML file: all updates from now on will be here: http://www.franksworld.com/Silverlight/TwitterList/

UPDATE: Added two more leaders and made a correction on another. Also, I originally thought of this as a DC, MD, DE and VA thing, but I'm beginning to see the need for a wider scope.

Twitter ID	Affiliated User Group	User Group URL
CapareaDotNet	Cap Area .NET	http://www.caparea.net
SilverlightDC	Cap Area .NET Silverlight SIG	http://www.caparea.net/silverlight
briannoyes	Cap Area .NET User Group	http://www.caparea.net
scottlock	Cap Area .NET User Group	http://www.caparea.net
antoniochagoury	Capital DotNetNuke Users Group (CDUG)	http://www.capitaldug.org
halhayes	Capital DotNetNuke Users Group (CDUG)	http://www.capitaldug.org
csteen	CMAP (Columbia, MD)	http://www.cmap-online.org
codesmith	Frederick .NET	http://frednug.org/
susanlennon	Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group	http://www.hrssug.org
kevdadev	Innsbrook .Net UG (Richmond)	http://www.innsbrookdotnetug.org/
cpuguru	Delaware .NET User Group	http://dednug.org
AndyLeonard	Richmond SQL Server User Group	http://richmondsql.org
wvhoki	Roanoke Valley .NET User Group	http://www.rvnug.org
RockNUG	RockNUG	http://www.rocknug.org
KevinHazzard	Richmond.NET User Group	http://richmonddotnet.org
JustinEtheredge	Richmond Geek Dinner	http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/423160/
1kevgriff	Hampton Roads .NET User Group	http://www.hrnug.org/
jbaird_pa	Northern Delaware .NET User Group	http://nodenug.org/

Technorati Tags: Twitter,Developer Community,Mid-Atltantic

Caparea .NET Silverlight SIG Tonight Cancelled

Frank La Vigne — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:35:00 GMT

Tonight’s inaugural meeting of the CapArea .NET Silverlight SIG has been canceled due to the inclement weather. The meeting has been rescheduled for February 25th, 2009.

Big shout out to Andrew Duthie, Pete Brown and Scott Lock for helping to get the work out.

Technorati Tags: SilverlightDC,Silverlight,SIG,DC

One Week Until CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG!

Frank La Vigne — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:22:00 GMT

Next week on January 28, 2008, CapArea.NET Silverlight will hold its Inaugural Meeting with local Silverlight expert Pete Brown presenting an introduction to Silverlight.

Everyone with an interest in learning more about Silverlight is welcome.

We're hoping to draw a diverse crowd: developers, designers, and those folks who fit into both categories: dev-igners.

Like all CapArea.NET meetings, it's free and open to anyone interested.

Wednesday @ 7PM
January 28th, 2009

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Hope to see you there next week!

Technorati Tags: Silverlight,Silverlight SIG,CapArea.NET,Pete Brown

Frederick .NET User Group Joins INETA

Frank La Vigne — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:41:00 GMT

As the INETA Membership Mentor for Maryland, Delaware and Washington, DC, it's my privilege to announce that Frederick .NET User Group is now a member of INETA.

FredNUG was began last September and meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the Urbana Regional Library.

The next meeting will be January 28th.

Technorati Tags: FrederickMD,FredNUG,INETA

Silverlight SIG Inaugural Meeting on Community Megaphone

Frank La Vigne — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:56:00 GMT

Things are really moving for CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG.

We now have the meething schedule mapped out for 2009 and an entry on Community Megaphone.

Description:
On January 28, 2008, CapArea.NET Silverlight will hold its Inaugural Meeting with local Silverlight expert Pete Brown presenting an introduction to Silverlight. Everyone with an interest in learning more about Silverlight. We're hoping to draw a diverse crowd: developers, designers, and those folks who fit into both categories: dev-igners. Like all CapArea.NET meetings, it's free and open to anyone interested.
Website:
http://www.caparea.net/silverlight

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Technorati Tags: Silverlight,CapArea.NET,Silverlight SIG,Silverlight DC

Julie Lehrman at CapArea.NET This Tuesday

Frank La Vigne — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:03:00 GMT

Speaking of user group meetings this week, Julie Lehrman will be presenting at CapArea.NET this Tuesday on the Entity Framework.

Maybe she'll have something to say about the petition silliness regarding the Entity Framework.

Julie Lehrman is a superstar developer who has presented at major developer events world wide on topics such as web services, Tablet PC development, Silverlight and ADO.NET.

When
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 7:00 PM [Add to Calendar]
Where
1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA [Get Map]
Abstract
The ADO.NET Entity Framework provides .NET developers with a new means of writing Data Access code using a customizable data model to query and update your data. This introductory session will give you an understanding of what the Entity Framework is all about. You will learn how to build a basic Entity Data Model and inspect it's most important parts and learn basics of querying with Entity SQL and LINQ to Entities. You will also learn how to easily access its highest level of abstraction in common data binding in a variety of application scenarios . Lastly the session will tempt you with the potential of building and using highly customized models as well as what lays beneath the surface of the Entity Framework APIs.
Bio

Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for more than 20 years and is the author of O’Reilly’s Programming Entity Framework . Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and writes articles for many well-known technical publications. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group, is a board member of the Vermont Software Developers Alliance and a member of the Champlain College Software Engineering Advisory Board. You can read Julie’s blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog.

Technorati Tags: Julie Lehrman,CapArea.NET,User Groups,Entit Framework

Frederick MD User Group Meeting

Frank La Vigne — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:51:00 GMT

In September, Frederick, MD got its own user group when FredNUG started up.

This Wednesday the group has their third meeting and their first meeting as an official INETA member group.

Intro topic: “Intro to WatiN” with Tim Plourde.

In-depth topic: “Geocoding, RSS, and Mapping, oh my!” with Andrew Duthie.

Abstract: Take a trip into the wonderful world of geolocation with Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie. Andrew will explore the use of such technologies as Windows Live Maps and RSS as data sources for geolocation, geocoding via the MapPoint Web Service, and mapping out geolocated data with the Virtual Earth Map control (including the recently previewed ASP.NET Virtual Earth Server Control). If you’re feeling lost, this tour of geolocation tools and technologies may be just what you need to find yourself.

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As the INETA membership mentor for the region, I am delighted to add another user group to the growing developer community here in Maryland.

On a personal note, I'm happy to have another user group to go without having to get on the Beltway. :)

[found via Andrew Duthie]

Technorati Tags: INETA,FredNUG,FrederickMD,Andrew Duthie,Developer Community