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Welcome to the Tech Valley .NET Users Group (TVUG)!

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month from September through June at:

VersaTrans Solutions, Inc.
4 British American Blvd
Latham, NY 12110

Our topics cover all things that relate to Microsoft .NET technologies. Register on our site to stay up to date with all of meeting announcements and local Microsoft events.

Think TVUG is great? Want us to continue being able to supply interesting door prizes? Make sure that you attend as many meetings as you can, and bring a friend!

Have a better idea for a door prize, or a presentation? Talk to an officer!

Join Us for The Winter Northeast MSDN Roadshow!

Somewhere in Scenic Vermont We just couldn't take not being out on the road, talking about tech, so we're heading back out again in December for the Winter Northeast Roadshow!

This, our seventh Roadshow, will feature a ton of great stuff like jQuery and ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, WPF, WF, Silverlight and WCF/REST, and even some interesting things from Microsoft Research!

Join my fellow road and code warrior, Jim O'Neil and me for a relaxed day of deep content for developers and architects. Oh, and it's free.

We're heading to six cities in December:

Rochester, NY: December 2nd [registration] Venue Change
Albany, NY: December 3rd [registration] Venue Change
Burlington, VT: December 4th [registration] Venue Change
Farmington, CT: December 9th [registration]
Waltham, MA: December 15th [registration]
Augusta, ME: December 16th [registration] Venue Change

Most of our stops for the Fall Northeast Roadshow filled up, so if you're interested, register early.

Agenda:

8:30 – Register, Grab Some Coffee, and Pull Up A Chair
9:00 - Morning TechUpdate
9:15 - Turbo Boosting for Web Developers: Using jQuery and ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX
10:45 - Workflow Foundation (WF) Steals the Show
12:00 - Lunch in the Lab: A Look at Tools & Tech from Microsoft Research
1:00 - Deeper into Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
2:30 - Adventures in Data with Silverlight, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services
3:50 – Wrapup, Evals, and Giveaways

November meeting - Jingle Bells in C# Video (sorry about the quality - they'll get better)

Meetings

A Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services

Speaker: Griffith Townsend, Principal Architect, docSTAR
When: Tuesday December 16th, 2008 - 6:30-9PM
Where: VersaTrans Solutions, Latham, NY

Live Services is an important part of the Azure Services Platform, providing a set of building blocks for handling user data and application resources that can connect various devices across the Internet and provide data and applications across these devices in a consistent and connected manner.

Live Services open up a whole set of interesting scenarios that were either very difficult to implement or not possible at all until today. The session discusses the fundamentals of Live Services and the overall challenges faced in designing and developing connected applications using a Framework that allows consistent communications across application boundaries and devices. This session delves through various types of objects that are available in this environment, discusses the differences, and explains how to build applications that use them. We’ll introduce and discuss the Mesh Operating Environment, Mesh Objects, and the Live Framework Resource Model.

Bio: Griff Townsend is the Principal Architect/Team Lead for docSTAR and the President of the Tech Valley .Net Users Group. In addition to over 14 years of web- and windows- development experience in Central and Upstate New York, he has also taught Software Development for Syracuse University and ITT Tech. He is a Microsoft Certified Developer in .Net, as well as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and an avid gamer.

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