Topic: Introduction to jQuery

jQuery is a newer JavaScript library/framework, backed by Microsoft with the inclusion in Visual Studio, as well as fueled by passionate, energetic jQuery Plugin developers.  Jessy Houle is excited to present an introduction to jQuery, covering Selectors, the Plugin architecture, and AJAX through jQuery (with MVC).

Speaker:

Jessy Houle is a Minnesota-based independent technical consultant and Web developer with 10+ years' experience leading Web-based and data-centric applications that have contributed to the success of client companies including GMAC, Allianz, General Mills, Best Buy, and Digital Marketing.

 
Jessy's passion for programming was sparked by the video games he played as a kid. He started his career with C and C++ applications, moving to VB and ASP, then on to VB.Net, C#, and ASP.NET, and most recently to ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and Silverlight. He is also a fan of open source .NET frameworks like NHibernate, S#arp Architecture and StructureMap.

Jessy continues to build on his skills and can frequently be found at local meetings like TechMasters, the Twin Cities Developers Guild, Silverlight User Group, and .NET User Group.

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Title: A Special ugPDC Event!

This session will provide an overview of some of the major products and announcements that came of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2009 held last November.  Topics to  be covered in this meeting include:

• "3 Screens and a Cloud"
• Azure
• Silverlight 4
• WCF RIA Services
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
• Parallelism

Come check it out and get up to speed on the latest news for Microsoft developers.

Speaker: Jeff Brand

Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 12 years, starting with the company soon after the release of Windows 95. While at Microsoft, he has been a consultant, an ecommerce specialist, and an enterprise technology advisor. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff was in the Air Force stationed at Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE where he was Chief Network Engineer (his pre-developer days) for the USSTRATCOM LAN. Today, Jeff is a .NET Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's North Central District. He lives in Minneapolis and often travel to the surrounding states of Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. In his current role, he is responsible for working with developers and customers that are evaluating or using .NET and assisting in them in understanding and using Microsoft's developer platform.

Title: What's New In ASP.NET MVC2

In this session the audience will be exposed to what has changed in the ASP.NET MVC framework in version 2. During the presentation, an existing ASP.NET MVC application will be upgraded to MVC2 and features will be demonstrated. This demonstration will include the use of the new Data Annotations, Asynchronous controller actions, strongly typed input helpers, validation and more!. The session will end with an audience Q & A. An understanding of ASP.NET MVC is expected for this session.

Speaker: Donn Felker 

Donn Felker is an independent consultant with over 9 years of professional experience in various markets that include – entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial, and real estate. He is a Microsoft ASP Insider, an MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET 2.0 and 3.5 and is also a certified ScrumMaster. He is the founder and coordinator of the Twin Cities Give Camp, leader of the Twin Cities Developers Guild and the founder of Twin Cities Pragmatic Beer. He is also a writer, presenter and consultant on various topics ranging from architecture, development in general, agile practices and patterns & practices. Follow Donn on twitter: @donnfelker or read his blog here: http://blog.donnfelker.com

Topic: High Speed, Low Drag: Driving Application Quality with Minimal Friction

Software teams are continually under pressure to do more in less time, to build higher quality and ever more complex applications on ever increasing ship cadences.  In this session we will use Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 Application Lifecycle tools to demonstrate how to deliver bugs that get fixed first time, every time; how to prevent regression with Coded UI Tests and Automation for Navigation; how to streamline build and application deployment using Lab Management and virtual environments; and how to identify the source and impact of changes even when developers “forget” to mention them.  Finally, we will spend some time talking about Microsoft’s own efforts to ensure the quality of our release and what we have learned through these efforts.

Speaker: Mark Mydland

Mark Mydland is the Principal Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers product at Microsoft.  In the past 13 years, Mark has worked as a developer and consultant across a wide variety of applications and industries.  Mark first joined Microsoft in 2001 working as a member of the Natural Interactive Services Division (NISD).  During his time in that group, Mark was the development manager for a team focused on analytics for assessing the efficacy of natural language interpreters with a particular emphasis on driving authoring simplification and relevance quality for user assistance.  Based on this work, Mark filed numerous patents and coauthored a paper for the SIGIR journal.  In 2004, Mark left Microsoft to work as a Director of Development at Getty Images where he led a change in process from a traditional waterfall methodology to a scrum-based agile approach which brought the release frequency from 12-18 months down to 1 month.  Since Getty made extensive use of VSTS, it seemed a natural fit for Mark to join VSTS on his return to Microsoft in 2006.  Mark received his B.S. from West Point in 1991.  He has also held positions with USWeb/marchFirst and Andersen Consulting/Accenture.

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Topic: Windows Workflow 4 – from Hello World to Real World in one hour

In this session, you will get a fast introduction to the programming model in WF4, and quickly move through several features, with a focus on using the technology in your applications. Invoke workflows from web forms and MVC applications; build workflow services, and create truly reusable components. See how WF fits in with the rest of the .NET framework with which you are already familiar.

Speaker: Matt Milner

Matt is a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight, where he focuses on connected systems technologies (WCF, Windows WF, BizTalk, "Dublin" and the Azure Services Platform). Matt is also an independent consultant specializing in Microsoft .NET application design and development. As a writer Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines including MSDN Magazine where he currently authors the workflow content for the Foundations column. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional and international conferences such as Tech Ed. Microsoft has recognized Matt as an MVP for his community contributions around connected systems technology. Matt blogs at http://www.pluralsight-training.net/matt

Topic: Modern Mashups – AJAX, HTML, Silverlight, Bing, WCF

This talk will explore what is now possible within the .Net web technology space to deliver compelling applications will exploiting existing web resources.  This presentation will focus on ways to include Silverlight in various ways into existing web applications, utilizing the HTML bridging to work with both the browser DOM and javascript.  Using the Bing API will also be demonstrated as well.

Speaker: Doug Nelson

 .Net Developer at Large – The number of years I have been coding is getting to be a really long time.  I enjoy using Microsoft technologies to solve tough problems.  I think Silverlight is an amazing platform and enjoy making people aware of what can be done with.

 

 

 

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No meeting for July, 2010