Event Information

July meeting – Creating and Consuming OData Services
When:	Wednesday, 7/14/2010 at 6:45 PM
Where:	University of Phoenix Learning Center in Livermore, 2481 Constitution Drive, Room 105
Event Description
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web and is becoming the new standard for data-based services. In this session you will learn how to easily create these services using WCF Data Services in Visual Studio 2010 and will gain a firm understanding of how they work. You'll also see how to consume these services and connect them to other data sources in the Azure cloud to create powerful BI data mash-ups in Excel 2010 using the PowerPivot add-in. Finally, we will build our own Excel add-in that consumes OData services exposed by SharePoint 2010. FUNdamentals Series Introduction to the new Data Project in Visual Studio 2010 – Deborah Kurata
Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 .NET FUNdamentals 6:30 - 6:45 check-in and registration 6:45 - 7:00 tech talk; announcements and open discussion 7:00 - 9:00 main presentation and give aways
Presenter's Bio
Beth Massi www.BethMassi.com/ Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. She has over 15 years of industry experience building business applications and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. You can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9 MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog www.BethMassi.com. Follow her on Twitter @BethMassi. Deborah Kurata (FUNdamentals speaker) 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 (Addison-Wesley), "Best Kept Secrets in .NET" (Apress) and "Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques" (Apress).
Driving Directions
University of Phoenix Learning Center 2481 Constitution Drive, Room 105 Livermore, CA (Off 580 at Airway Blvd. and just East of Costco) • bing map • google map •

Event Sponsors Pizza dinner will be provided by Slalom Consulting. As always, thanks to our sponsors University of Phoenix, Microsoft, and Voice Gateway, and club members who volunteer their labor!