SSW Update - Do you know how to create nice URLs using ASP.NET 4?
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There are a lot of reasons to have nice URLs for your website:

  • Easy to remember
  • Easy to navigate
  • Better for search engines
Bad example - This URL is impossible to remember for your users, and even search don't like these URLs
Figure: Bad example - This URL is impossible to remember for your users, and even search don't like these URLs
Good example - Nice clean URL, easy to remember, easy to guess where I am and good for search engines
Figure: Good example - Nice clean URL, easy to remember, easy to guess where I am and good for search engines

With ASP.NET 4 it is easy to create this URLs. The ASP.NET team includes routing features, known from the MVC web framework.
Add a route in Global.asax 

protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)

{


    //RouteTable and PageRouteHandler are in System.Web.Routing


    RouteTable.Routes.Add("ProductRoute",


        new Route("products/{productname}",


        new PageRouteHandler("~/ssw/Products/ProdCategoryList.aspx")));


}
Figure: Example on how to route www.ssw.com.au/products/{everything} to the www.ssw.com.au/ssw/Products/ProdCategoryList.aspx page

Note: There is no dependency on the MVC framework in order to use this code.

Note: IIS7 has a module called URL rewrite module that can do this functionality without changing any code. Just a configuration of a "Rule" in the IIS Manager.

See all of the SSW Rules here.

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Sydney .NET User Group -
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Sydney .NET User Group
Wednesday 18th August 2010
5:45pm - 9:00pm
Microsoft, Sydney
1 Epping Road, North Ryde

Interface Usability - Adding Schweppervescence

Speaker: Adam Cogan

iPhones give an awesome User Experience but interface design is not something that belongs solely in the world of Apple. Your website and applications can all benefit greatly from an understanding of how your users might navigate your product. Unfortunately for developers, interface usability is something of an afterthought, making your otherwise perfect application suck.

In this session, get real world examples of good and bad usability from Adam. Bring along your websites and applications and undergo the Adam Cogan crash test!

The evening will commence with a detailed discussion of good interface design and usability, and then move onto an analysis of good and bad site examples.

The night will finish with an open floor workshop to discuss user submitted sites and applications, and workshop improvements for attendees as well as a vote on applying the correct architecture in certain situations (Ajax vs Silverlight vs WPF vs HTML5).

Please send your submissions to Adam prior so they can be scheduled into the discussion.

Format:

  • 5:45pm – Arrive
  • 6:00pm – News (the latest Microsoft, Technology & Developer news)
  • 6:30pm – Introduction to Interface Design and Usability Principles (Adam Cogan)
  • 7:15pm – Examples of good and bad interface designs (Adam Cogan)
  • 8:00pm – Open floor to discuss user submitted web sites and applications (moderated by Adam)
  • 8:30pm - Closing with a vote on the Right Architecture (Ajax vs Silverlight vs WPF vs HTML5)
  • 9:00pm – Finish

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SSW Brain Quest -
Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2010

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Team Foundation Server 2010 for Successful Project Management by Adam Cogan

Visual Studio Ultimate (formerly Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are the cornerstones of development on the Microsoft .NET platform. These are the best tools for a project manager to have successful projects and for the developers to have a focused and smooth software development process.

Come and see Adam Cogan, Microsoft Regional Director, VSTS Champ and Chief Architect from SSW show you:

  • How to successfully gather requirements with User stories
  • The right way to use work items
  • The way to complete a work items and send a 'done'
  • Use templates for your standard work items
  • The extra work items that developers always forget
  • What is good and bad about Excel and Project integration
  • What you can use from the built in reporting as well as the Project portals available on from the SharePoint dashboard
  • The important reports to give your Project Manager

Walk away knowing how to see the project health and progress. Visual Studio Ultimate is designed to help address many of these traditional problems faced by project managers. It does so by providing a set of integrated tools to help teams improve their software development activities and to help project managers better support the software development processes.

During this session we will cover the lifecycle of creating work items and tracking of releases using Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server.

Visual Studio 2010 Team System - An Overview

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team System is an integrated software development platform to build the mission-critical applications that businesses depend on. It extends Visual Studio's integrated and productive experience from the developer to the entire development team by delivering powerful new role-based tools for software architects, developers, testers and project managers. In this session you will see an overview of these tools and how they can improve your software development cycle.

Visual Studio 2010 Testing with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 - the life of a bug

Visual Studio 2010 makes up a large part of a .Net developers life. This session will delve into the 'life of a bug' by taking a walk in the shoes of an everyday bug from discovery to release (and the steps that make up the in between). Come along and check out the new features that will make you happier by making your code better, your job easier, and your team more productive by reducing the obstacles you face in your everyday coding life. Learn:

  • What the new features for testers and developers
  • How you now care - even if the tester can't reproduce the bug
  • How to stop struggling to find the source of the bug in your code
  • How can you streamline the testing process and make sure you don't repeat the same bugs
  • How to automate more and reproduce bugs easier and discover problems sooner.
What's new in SharePoint 2010

In this session Adam Cogan will provide information about what is new in SharePoint 2010 and his personal favorites. The SharePoint Team has invested in many including:

  • UX support for Silverlight and Ajax
  • their Web Content Management System
  • Digital Asset Management System (for videos)
  • Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint 2010
  • Developer Platform
  • Office 2010 integration
  • RESTful Web API
  • Tagging and Rating

Let's see what's good and what's not.

Something About Mary (SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010)

Come see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.

First you will get an overview of what is great about having SharePoint in your business. Then see real world examples of:

  • Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together (Comparing with what with had with 2007)
  • Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
  • Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
  • Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/searchability/versioning across the company
  • Overview of how data can be synchronised between the two (eg using Access and Excel)
  • Overview of what 'workflow' (really!) means
  • How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
  • High level examples of using/integrating Office with other products (eg VSTS integration with Outlook)
  • Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
  • Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Office Connector)

This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.

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Scrum Training Course
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Overview

This Scrum Developer course is a unique and intensive five-day experience for software developers. The course guides teams on how to turn product requirements into potentially shippable increments of software using the Scrum framework, Visual Studio 2010, and modern software engineering practices. Attendees will work in self-organizing, self-managing teams using a common instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 to achieve this goal.

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SYDNEY: Something About Mary (SharePoint and Office 2010)

Friday, 24th September 2010
8:00am-11:00am

Come and see Adam Cogan explain what works well with SharePoint and Office for Mary and the other knowledge workers.

First you will get an overview of what is great about having SharePoint in your business.

Then see real world examples of:

  • Using SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 together
  • Where it fits with other important Microsoft products like CRM 4 and TFS
  • Examples of how Word and Excel can be integrated into business processes (separate from SharePoint), and then followed by
  • Examples of how Word, Excel, PowerPoint can be combined with SharePoint to improve visibility/ searchability/ versioning across the company
  • Overview of how data can be synchronized between SharePoint and external data sources (eg using Access and Excel)
  • Overview of what 'workflow' really means!
  • How Office can be incorporated into company workflows with SharePoint
  • Extending SharePoint with Office SharePoint Designer 2010 (free!)
  • Where VBA and VSTO fit in terms of how solutions can be developed
  • Examples of other interesting Office/SharePoint integrations (eg the Atlassian SharePoint Connector and Atlassian Office Connector)

This is a good chance for you to consider new ways of using Office in your company, along with pitfalls to avoid. Adam gets excited about this session because too often companies limit Office to just an email application, word processor and spreadsheet - completely missing the positive impact it can have on the entire business process.

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Our Company is based in Neutral Bay which is one of the most elegant and scenic areas of Sydney. SSW is an Australian owned progressive consulting firm specialising in building, implementing and maintaining Microsoft .NET software applications.

We are currently strongly looking for a SharePoint Developer.

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