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Sydney .NET Users Group - The Best Place to Learn .NET for Free in Sydney
Every month, SSW hosts the Sydney .NET User Group where developers meet to exchange
ideas and listen to presentations by local and international industry experts. Topics
focus on .NET development, SharePoint, SQL Server and a splattering of Office and
Access. We also love discussing the latest industry news and exciting new trends.
Usually held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, the
Sydney .NET Users Group has covered Microsoft Windows Forms, Web Forms, C#, VB .NET,
WPF, Silverlight, Access, SQL Server, XML, Exchange Server, SharePoint and WSS,
new product releases, legal issues of software development and tips and tricks sessions.
3 Great Reasons to Attend The .NET User Group
- Learn
- Build contacts
- Socialize *
* For information on why we
spell this the American way
Developers are already good at writing code. Writing reams of code just digs you
deeper into an already deeply specialized skill. What I am proposing is that we
spend less time coding and more time developing skills in other areas that complement
our coding skills. Become a better writer. Become a better speaker. Improve your
personal skills. Participate in the community. Try to spend some time talking to
people instead of the compiler. That's how you distinguish yourself from your peers.
And that's ultimately how you become a better software developer, too.
Jeff Atwood
Coding Horror
When Is It On?
The 3rd Wednesday of every month.
Upcoming dates:
- Wednesday, 21 April 2010
- Wednesday, 19 May 2010
- Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Session Details
Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2010 06:00pm - 9:00pm
Microsoft PerformancePoint 2010 (Part of SharePoint 2010)
by
Adam Cogan
Microsoft PerformancePoint 2010 (part of SharePoint 2010) is an integrated performance management application designed to help improve operational and
financial performance across all departments and all levels of your organization.
With Microsoft PerformancePoint 2010 as part of SharePoint 2010, you can monitor progress, analyze what is driving variances, and plan your business from budgeting
to creating management reports. You can have metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and reports delivered to every desktop through
intuitive scorecards, dashboards, and the easy-to-use 2007 Microsoft Office system environment. A key component of the Microsoft Business
Intelligence (BI) offering, Microsoft PerformancePoint 2010 (part of SharePoint 2010) can help you understand how performance can align with personal and
departmental.
Adam will also show the new Microsoft Access Services which takes an Access database and turns it into a first class
web solution in 2010.
Upcoming Sessions
Date: Wednesday, 24th March 2010 06:00pm - 9:00pm
Introducing the .NET Service Bus by Juval Lowy
The .NET services bus is part of the new Microsoft Cloud Computing Windows Azure
initiative, and arguably, it is the most accessible, ready to use, powerful, and needed
piece. The service bus allows clients to connects to services across any machine,
network, firewall, NAT, routers, load balancers, virtualization, IP and DNS as if
they were part of the same local network, and doing all that without compromising
on the programming model or security. The service bus also supports callbacks, event
publishing, authentication and authorization and doing all that in a WCF-friendly
manner. This session will present the service bus programming model, how to configure
and administer service bus solutions, working with the dedicated relay bindings including
the available communication modes, relying on authentication in the cloud for local
services and the various authentication options, and how to provide for end-to-end
security through the relay service. You will also see some advanced WCF programming
techniques, original helper classes, productivity-enhancing utilities and tools, as
well as discussion of design best practices and pitfalls.
Discover a new WCF with Discovery by Juval Lowy
Up until WCF 4.0, the service address had to be known in advance to the client.
This complicated deployment and run time configuration. In addition, the service
had no way of knowing that its port or pipe is available for use in the first place.
With WCF 4.0, you can use service address discovery to address both issues. The client
can discover at run time the service address, and the service can pick up any available
address on the fly. WCF also offers announcements of the service when its goes on or
off line, and scoping the discovered services. Moreover, it turns out that discovery
opens the door for new ways of composing applications and new design patterns of
distributing information in the system. This session starts by discussing the basic
support of discovery in WCF and then presents helper classes that streamline the
interaction with discovery both on the client and the service side and the related
design patterns, including a framework for a discovery-based publish-subscribe system.
About Juval Lowy
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign
(www.idesign.net),
specializing in .NET architecture consulting and advanced training. Juval is Microsoft?s
Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry
adopt .NET 4.0. His latest book is Programming WCF Services 3rd Edition (O'Reilly 2010).
Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET
and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles, regarding almost every
aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences.
Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world's top .NET experts
and industry leaders.
Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2010 06:00pm - 9:00pm
Silverlight 4.0 Overview for the Business Developer
by
Steve Forte
Learn how to build data driven, n-tier Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Silverlight
4.0. Line of business applications (LOB) in Silverlight 4.0 are easy by tapping
the power of WCF RIA Services, the Silverlight Toolkit, and elevated out of browser
support. This demo centric session will walk you through an example of building
a LOB application with Silverlight 4.0. See how Silverlight and WCF RIA Services
support domain logic, services, data binding, validation, server based paging, authentication,
authorization and much more.
Silverlight 4.0 means business!
The History of The Sydney .NET User Group
SSW has now run user groups for over 16 years. From its humble beginnings as the
Access User Group to the largely popular Sydney .NET User Group, SSW has seen its
membership and attendance levels increase. Aside from being a great chance to network
with IT professionals at the cutting edge of their industry, it's a great chance
to learn something new in a relaxed, fun environment. SSW has also been known to
invite international guest speakers to present at the User Groups. Gurus such as:
- Ken Getz, Microsoft Regional Director
- Bill Vaughan
- Brian Randell
- Tom Howe
- Chris Kinsman, Microsoft Regional Director
- Mike Fitzmaurice
- Scott Hanselman (coming soon)
Here's a quick history of the SSW User Groups.
- 1992 Debuts of the "Access User Group, Sydney"
- 1995 Renamed to the "Access/VB User Group, Sydney"
- 1996 Renamed to the "Access/VB/ASP User Group, Sydney"
- 1997 Renamed to the "Access/VB/ASP/SQL Server User Group, Sydney"
- 2001 Renamed to the ".NET User Group, Sydney"
Take a look at Recent User Group Sessions.
Who Organizes It?
The User Group is organized by Adam Cogan.
He can be contacted at SSW on +61 2 9953 3000 by Mobile on 04
1985 1995 - or by Email at Adam
Cogan.
What Do I Bring Along?
Just yourself.... and a hot tip on any of these topics:
- ASP.NET (aka Web Forms)
- Atlas
- Microsoft Expression (aka the new FrontPage and Photoshop)
- CSS / HTML
- Windows Forms
- VB.NET and C#
- ADO.NET
- LINQ
- SQL Server
- SharePoint Portal Server (aka MOSS)
- Windows SharePoint Services (aka WSS)
- Outlook
- Access
- Hot Sites
- Hot Blogs
Look forward to seeing you there...
I Would Like to Present
Every month the User Group is full of highly technical early adopters of technology
and SSW are always open to exploring the latest technologies. We welcome companies
and guest presenters to present new topics and new gadgets. We do require you to
delve beyond the sales and marketing pitch and show us how it was built, not just
why it was built. Here's a quick list of some of the requirements for prospective
User Group presenters:
- Presentation needs to be directed at a highly technical audience (No sales pitch)
- Introduce new technology
- Samples and giveaway prizes for User Group attendees
- SSW needs to approve the presentation prior to the meeting with a rehearsal - make
a time with Adam
- Guest presenters must send a summary (maximum of 150 characters) of their presentation
for inclusion into our Past SSW Newsletter one week prior to the User Group
If you think you're up for the challenge and have something new to show us please
contact Adam Cogan.
Past SSW Newsletters
By signing up for our newsletter you'll be kept informed about the latest upcoming
developer events and news. The User Group topic will only be known in advance to
recipients of the SSW Update so make sure you sign up so that you're guaranteed
that the topic at the next meeting is exactly what you're interested in. See previous
Past SSW Newsletters.
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