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Dallas: Microsoft's Data Marketplace

Where: Versa Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Jim o'Neil, Microsoft Technical Evangelist

Overview
At PDC 2009, Microsoft announced "Dallas", a Data-as-a-Service offering that leverages the Windows Azure cloud computing platform. "Dallas" makes well-known and vetted public and commercial data sets from entities such as the Associated Press and Data.gov available to the development and data analysis communities. This session explores getting started with "Dallas" and accessing its data sets programmatically and via Excel 2010's PowerPivot feature.

Bio
Jim is one of the Microsoft Developer Evangelists in the Northeast District. He joined Microsoft in April 2008 after 12 years working with developer tools and application server technology as a support engineer, evangelist, and principal sales consultant at Sybase. Jim holds an MCPD and is 1/2 of the team that presents the quarterly Northeast Roadshow providing information on the latest Microsoft technologies to the developer communities in New England and upstate New York

Multi-touch Madness!

Where: Versa Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 6:30-9PM
Who: Brian Peek, Microsoft MVP - C#

Overview
Multi-touch technology is popping up everywhere, most recently in Windows 7 and various .NET technologies.  Windows 7 has been designed from the ground-up with multi-touch in mind, and the newest versions of WPF and Silverlight are multi-touch capable as well.  In this session I will take you through the 4 biggest areas of Microsoft multi-touch technology: Windows 7, WPF4, Silverlight, and Surface.  You will learn how to make your applications multi-touch aware and capable using each of these platforms, and learn where multi-touch is heading in the future with regard to Microsoft development.

Bio
Brian is a Microsoft C# MVP who has been actively developing in .NET since its early betas in 2000, and who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies and platforms for even longer. Along with .NET, Brian is particularly skilled in the languages of C, C++ and assembly language for a variety of CPUs. He is also well-versed in a wide variety of technologies including web development, document imaging, GIS, graphics, game development, and hardware interfacing. Brian has co-authored the book "Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More" published O'Reilly. He previously co-authored the book "Debugging ASP.NET" published by New Riders.  Brian is also an author for MSDN's Coding4Fun website.

Building Business Objects with EF and Visual Studio

Where: Versa Trans Solution, Latham, NY
When: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:30-9PM
Who: Griffith Townsend, Chief Architect / Lead Developer - docSTAR, Inc.

Overview
In this session, we'll take a look at using the Entity Framework in an N-Tier application. We'll examine using EF as our data layer, building business objects on top of entities, and sharing data externally. In addition, we'll explore using Visual Studio's T4 Templates to speed the development process.

Bio

Griff Townsend is the Principal Architect / Team Lead for docSTAR (www.docstar.com) and the President of the Tech Valley .Net Users Group. In addition to over 15 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.

Tech Valley Code Camp 2009 - Saturday, November 7th

The Tech Valley Code Camp web site is up and accepting speaker and attendee registration. Visit the site at http://www.techvalleycodecamp.com.

We're happy to announce that the 2009 Tech Valley Code Camp is a go! Join us on November 7th, 2009 at SUNY Albany to learn about what's new and exciting in the world of software development.

What is Code Camp? Code Camp is an "unconference." Code Camp is free to attend, thanks to our kind sponsors. Code Camp is about YOU, and YOUR development community!