Event Information

March meeting – Vista and .NET 3.0 Launch Event
When:	Thursday, 3/8/2007 at 6:45 PM
Where:	University of Phoenix campus in Pleasanton, 7901 Stoneridge Dr. Suite 100
Event Description
Come and see the key features of Vista and .NET 3.0 that affect us as developers including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and CardSpace. Beth Massi, David Klitzke, and Deborah Kurata will be providing an in-depth look at these technologies with lots of demos and sample code. The meeting will start with a look at the many different things you can do with WPF to build Windows applications that look stunning and provide a rich user experience. This includes details on building WPF applications with Visual Studio. We'll then go over how WCF provides interoperability, productivity and service-oriented development to developers. WCF unifies current technologies for building distributed applications and enables you to easily build services that speak advanced web service protocols enabling your applications to interoperate easily with other platforms. Please join us for this exciting event! Food will be served. Bring your appetites not only for WPF and WCF but also for REAL FOOD! .NET FUNndamentals Vista Certification Microsoft has been pushing as many vendors and partners as possible to submit their application for Vista certification. Find out what's involved in this effort from someone who is currently submitting an application for Vista certification.. Even if you're not planning on certifying your application, you will want to know about the new Vista features that will affect your applications when they start running on Vista. Topics that will be presented and discussed include: User Account Control (UAC) Restart Manager Windows Installer 4.0 Windows Error Reporting (WER) The 32 Test Cases
Agenda
5:45 - 6:30 .NET FUNdamentals: Vista Certification Food will be served. 6:30 - 6:45 check-in and registration 6:45 - 7:15 tech talk; announcements 7:15 - 8:45 presentation and open discussion 8:45 - 9:00 give aways
Presenter's Bio
Beth Massi www.GiftRAPCorp.com Beth Massi is a Senior Systems Architect at a health care software product company called GiftRAP Corporation. A Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP, she is currently working on distributed applications and frameworks using Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, SQL-Server, and Visual FoxPro. In the past she has worked for the Visual FoxPro team at Microsoft and has been a consultant for Flash Creative Management. She has helped build back office infrastructures and front-ends using .NET, SQL-Server, Visual FoxPro, and other Microsoft technologies. She has worked on various projects including developing object-oriented middle-tier frameworks, COM, .NET, Web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools. Deborah Kurata President, InStep Technologies Inc. Deborah Kurata is cofounder of InStep Technologies Inc., a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. She has over 15 years of experience in architecting, designing, and developing successful applications. Deborah has authored several books, including the Doing Objects in Visual Basic series (SAMS), Best Kept Secrets in .NET (Apress) and Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques (Apress), and is currently working on Doing Objects in VB 2005 (Addison-Wesley). She also writes for MSDN and CoDe magazine (http://www.code-magazine.com/). Deborah speaks at .NET user groups all over the country as a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau (http://www.ineta.org/) and at conferences, such as VSLive, DevDays, and TechEd. For her work in support of software development and software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. David Klitzke IdeaBlade
Driving Directions
FROM THE NORTH OR SOUTH: Take the 680 freeway to the Stoneridge Drive exit (the first exit south of the 580 freeway). Turn west on Stoneridge: turn right if coming from the North; left, if from the South. Follow Stoneridge Drive for a half of a mile to the University of Phoenix building on your right. If you found yourself at Foothill Road, you missed the target! FROM THE EAST: Take the 580 freeway up to the merge with Hwy 680, then take the 680 freeway South (toward San Jose) to the Stoneridge exit. Turn right (west) on Stoneridge. Follow Stoneridge Drive for a half of a mile to the University of Phoenix building on your right. FROM THE WEST: Take the 580 freeway east toward Stockton to the Foothill Road exit (one exit prior to the 680 freeway junction). Take Foothill Road for 9/10 of a mile to Stoneridge Drive, turn left and follow Stoneridge for another 1/10 of a mile to the University of Phoenix building.