Event Information

November meeting – VS 2008 SP 1 Web Features
When:	Wednesday, 11/12/2008 at 6:45 PM
Where:	University of Phoenix campus in Pleasanton, 7901 Stoneridge Dr. Suite 100, room 101-102
Event Description
.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a much more than a service pack. Bruno starts with a demonstration of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and then shows the audience how to efficiently and quickly adapt thick client software and make it accessibility from within a browser that uses Silverlight. This presentation also takes a look at ADO.NET Data Services, formerly known as “Astoria”, which provides a REST-ful means to expose data over http. This is one session can teach you quite a bit about WPF, Silverlight, and ADO.NET Data Services. Exposing data effectively has always been a primary objective for business applications. So much progress has been made in automating what used to be tedious and error prone tasks. The ADO.NET Entity Framework is an effective approach that allows you to abstract away the physical database, so that business rules and data are less tightly coupled. Modeling physical data as entities and relationships with Visual Studio 2008 greatly simplifies program development. FUNdamentals Series Robin Shahan will do a demo on how to create an Outlook 2007 add-in, including creating a new group on the ribbon and adding items to the Quick Access Toolbar. She will also show how to deploy the add-in with ClickOnce deployment.
Agenda
5:45 - 6:30 .NET FUNdamentals: Robin Shahan 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
Bruno Terkaly www.brunoterkaly.com Like James Bond on secret assignment, Bruno spent his pre-MSDN Events days as a Microsoft premier field engineer – traveling around the clock to solve the most hair-raising client problems and meltdowns. From Asia to Latin America to Europe and Canada, Bruno has taught in nuclear power plants, assisted with life-or-death medical applications, and debugged multi-million-dollar financial trading software. Bruno has a finance and accounting degree from UC Berkeley and worked for several years as a money manager. Developing financial models to construct low-risk, high-return investment portfolios sparked his interest in computing, and the rest is self-taught history. Bruno brings two decades of worldwide training experience to his MSDN presentations, instructing students on C#, .NET, C++, SharePoint, J++, HTML, Web Parts and much more. Robin Shahan (.NET FUNdamentals) Robin Shahan is the Director of Engineering for GoldMail, a startup company based in San Francisco whose product provides Voice-Over-Visual messaging. She is a moderator in the MSDN Forum for ClickOnce, and vows to learn Windows Installer some day.
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.