ReSharper – Unleashing the Code Ninja

April 12, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM Visual Studio 2010 is out and ReSharper 5 is on its heels; if you don’t know about this product, you need to come to this meeting. If you do, be prepared to learn something new as we go through ReSharper’s features and take a look at some new [...]

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Mining List Data in SharePoint 2010

March 9, 2010

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 6:00 PM Notice date change, this will be the third Wednesday of the month Following up on the SharePoint 2010 introduction from last month, this month’s talk will dive into the different options a developer has for getting at information stored within SharePoint. Topics covered will include the Client OM, [...]

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Getting Started With SharePoint Development in 2010

January 10, 2010

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:00 PM If you have been putting off SharePoint development until 2010, in the hopes that such development will get streamlined, I have both good and bad news for you. The good news is that development on the SharePoint Server 2010 platform has improved significantly with strong Visual Studio 2010 [...]

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What’s new in C# 4.0

November 10, 2009

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 at 6:00 PM Come join us in exploring the new features of C# 4.0. This will be an introductory talk that just scratches the surface on what is coming, but will hopefully spark some interest and discussion for further topics.

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VS 2010 Beta 2 Install Party

October 25, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM This meeting has been cancelled due to the speaker getting an unexpected scheduling conflict. **** Note, this meeting is scheduled for Thursday this week ***** With the Beta 2 drop of VS 2010 having a go-live license and the ability to be installed side by side with VS [...]

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No meeting for October

October 9, 2009

Due to the inability for the Admins to get a topic for this month, the meeting is cancelled again. Mark Michaelis has promised he will have a topic to present on the month of November, so we will not be cancelling 3 months in a row.

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No meeting for September

September 9, 2009

Due to scheduling issues with the Admins, there will be no meeting this month for the .NET User Group. Please check back in a couple of weeks to see what the meeting topic will be for October.

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F# Programming

August 3, 2009

Monday, August 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM This talk should be a very interesting one! We will be doing an introduction to F# syntax and language constructs, followed by a discussion of functional programming paradigms and concepts in general. All the while, keeping ourselves grounded with plenty of F# demos and code samples (as well [...]

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Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC)

July 3, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 6:00 PM This session will cover Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC) and their relationship to SOLID design principles, techniques, and side effects in statically typed languages. In addition, IoC containers, how they work, their usages, patterns, and role as building blocks for loosely coupled applications will be [...]

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Essential LINQ with C#

June 3, 2009

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 6:00 PM This session discusses LINQ and the other extensions to the C# 3.0 language that make LINQ possible. After outlining the features of LINQ, we demonstrate the elegance of the C# 3.0 language extensions that enable the functionality of LINQ. This includes discussions of extension methods, type inference with [...]

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