No User Group Meeting for May 2012

by Michael Stokesbary on May 8, 2012

With the presentation done last week on the Entity Framework we are cancelling the meeting for this month and will meet back up in June.

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A Lap Around The KnockoutJS Framework

by Kelly Adams on April 9, 2012

Wednesday April 11, 2012, 6:00 PM

With the arrival of ASP.Net MVC4, a new open-source javascript framework will be in the box:  KnockoutJS.  We will take a look at the Model/View/ViewModel (MVVM) pattern as it is utilized in KnockoutJS.  Observable properties and arrays, data binding syntax and some awesome helpers for common javascript tasks will be covered in a Visual Studio 11 demo MVC4 application.  KnockoutJS in this demo will be consuming JSON data from RESTful WebAPI controllers.  The code will be available here.  Join us as we dispel the apocrypha of fast and easy client-side interactions on the modern web.

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Presentation by Kelly Adams

Kelly Adams is a Code Ninja with IntelliTect. He has been a student of the Microsoft web development stack since 1999 (Visual InterDev anyone?) Recently his work has taken him closer to the twin suns of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 resulting in an interesting pattern of sunburns. When not coding for pay, or trying to get his pull requests accepted on open source projects, Kelly spends his time playing bass for local rock band Fairmount Chase.

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Update: Entity Framework Training

March 6, 2012

Thursday May 3, 2012, 12:30 – 4:00 PM Over the past 25 years developers all over the world have been faced with the challenges of integrating object-oriented and relational database designs. In spite of continued advances in Object Relational Mapping (or ORM) technology, developing solutions that use object-oriented and relational technologies continues to prove painful. [...]

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Visual Studio 11: A Guided Tour of the IDE

February 29, 2012

Wednesday March 14, 2012, 6:00 PM In this session we review what Visual Studio 11 has in store for developers from an IDE. Specifically, the focus is on new tooling centered around productivity. The following list provides an overview: Project Compatibility IDE Productivity Improvements Search Everywhere Toolbar Improvements Additional Tooling Multiple Monitor Support Performance Enhancements [...]

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PowerShell for Unattended and Automated Build

February 14, 2012

Wednesday February 15, 2012, 6:00 PM Why the change: Since Visual Studio 11 Beta won’t be available before the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we are delaying the Visual Studio 11 presentation until a later time in order to present on the VS11 Beta rather than the Developer Preview from Windows Build instead… Following a quick [...]

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Code Katas: Honing the Craft

January 9, 2012

Wednesday January 11, 2012, 6:00 PM Code Kata, created by Dave Thomas, are ways to practice coding and get feedback. In this presentation, I will perform the Gilded Rose kata  which is available on GitHub. This will be a combination of the code kata with a performance kata, giving us a chance to review how we can make [...]

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Windows 8 Development Architecture and Strategy

November 7, 2011

Wednesday November 9, 2011, 6:00 PM With Windows 8 Microsoft ushers in a new set of technologies designed to challenge Apple’s market share while maintaining the full productivity of the PC.  In this session we discuss what they are offering and what technologies they are introducing to successfully compete – both from a users perspective [...]

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Continuous Testing: Think Different

September 30, 2011

Due to scheduling conflicts, the presentation this month will be on continuous testing. Wednesday October 12, 2011, 6:00 PM Continuous testing can dramatically increase your productivity. There are a number of open-source tools that do just that. What we are really talking about in continuous testing is applying a lean workflow. By looking at how [...]

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No meeting for September

September 12, 2011

Unfortunately we are going to have to cancel this month’s meeting as well. The good news is when we have a meeting in October, we will have already had the BUILD Conference and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, so there should be plenty of content to speak on for a while.

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No User Group Meeting for August

August 8, 2011

Due to vacation scheduling conflicts, there will not be a User Group meeting for the month of August.

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