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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!
We're working on a site with an session schedule and
registration. If you're interested in presenting on any of the above
topics (or if you have something you'd like to present not on this
list), or would like to be noitified of any updates, please contact the
president@tvug.net.
Griff