| The August Surge |
08-05-2008
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While we had only 20 RSVPs, a last minute "surge" brought 26 people to hear Jason Bock show us how to write better code using the testing and code analysis tools in Visual Studio 2008. The group had lots of good questions for Jason and the discussions went on well after the meeting had ended. Jason's slides and demo code have been posted to the forums. You can download it from the CRINETA Topics and Presentations forum.
We said goodbye to a long time sponsor last night, with TEK Systems taking a step back from their monthly food sponsorship, but still interested in participating in special events. Thanks to them for more than 2 years of great pizza and BBQ.
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| VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success |
03-18-2008
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CRineta enjoyed its largest turnout in its recorded history last evening for a Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 launch event. 56 people attended the event including people from as far away as Muscatine joining us for the evening. This reflects the growning interest in .NET in the area and the excitement around this significant group of product releases.
Overviews of the new functionality in several areas of the new releases were given by Tim Barcz, Arian Kulp, Greg Sohl and Chris Sutton. They included:
- Visual Studio 2008 IDE enhancements
- .NET Framework 3.5 core enhancements
- C# 3.0 language enhancements
- LINQ
- SQL Server 2008 enhancements for SQL programmers
- IIS 7
Our sponsors came through for us in a big way for this special event. CRineta would especially like to thank Robert Half for its sponsorship of the conference room at the Marriott and TEK Systems for providing food. While both are regular sponsors, their contributions were significantly more for this event than our regular monthly meetings.
We also had a number of meeting sponsors who provided products for our door prizes. They included Microsoft, Infragistics, Red Gate Software, Syncfusion, ComponentArt and JetBrains. We were very happy to have all these vendors as sponsors. Additionally, Geonetrics provided beverages for the meeting. Thank you!
Note that in upcoming meetings, we will be having full sessions on many of the new technologies highlighted during the launch event. See the home page for details.
Thanks to everyone for making the event a success!
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| Eric Johnson updates the group on Sharepoint at the October meeting |
10-09-2007
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With a decent turnout that included 4 newcomers, Eric Johnson, one of the group's founders, presented information on the latest that Sharepoint has to offer. The presentation has been posted and is available under the Topics and Presentations forum.
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| Jeff Brand needs some feedback on your satisfaction with Microsoft |
10-08-2007
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Jeff Brand, a MS evangelist up in Minneapolis is looking for some honest, raw feedback on your satisfaction with MS from a developer persepctive. Read about it and help him help us here:
http://www.slickthought.net/post/Give-Me-Some-Unvarnished-Feedback.aspx |
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| HDC07 - Only 31 registrations left |
09-12-2007
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from Joe Olson...
Just over 1 month left until HDC07 officially kicks off at the Qwest Center in
Omaha with our annual HDC Pre-party networking event. This year is the fastest
sellout in history with only 31 attendees passes left as of yesterday, so the
show should be the largest in history. Speakers and sessions are also
completely finalized so you can start planning your conference schedule.
With this year's speaker line up including your favorite past HDC alumni
along with Scott Guthrie (Father of ASP.NET) headlining the first timers, as
well as an additional track focused on managing your development, HDC07 will
definitely be the highlight of the year for mid-west Microsoft focused IT
professionals.
Visit the website today for more information at http://www.heartlanddc.com.
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| August Meeting Well Attended |
08-07-2007
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We had 26 members attend to see Jason Bock's presentation on using .NET reflection last night. 4 attendees were there for first time - welcome!!
Jason did a great job of walking through 3 usages of the reflection namespace - Reflecting on existing code, emitting code and updating existing code. The demonstrations were way cool and helped all to see the power of reflection. His presentation and sample code are attached to August's topic thread in the Topics and Presentations forum.
Hope to see everyone next month for Bryan Sampica's presentation on "Using Ajax through script proxies and web services".
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| Suprising turnout after low RSVP's made for a great July meeting |
07-11-2007
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We had a great turnout at our July meeting, highlighted by several first time attendees (thanks Shelby!). Greg Sohl presented a mostly demo-based session on using profiling tools to measure .NET application memory usage and isolate memory issues. The session also demonstrated how working in harmony with the Garbage Collector can reduce your application's memory footprint even without having to change the number or size of the actual allocations performed. 3 tools were demonstrated: .NET Memory Profiler from SciTech, Ants Profiler from Red Gate Software and the CLR Profiler 2.0 from Microsoft. The session was very lively with lots of questions and interaction.
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| Expression Web / Blend Presentation Welcomed by CRIneta Attendees in May |
05-10-2007
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Steve Loethen of Microsoft introduced CRIneta members to Expression Web and Expression Blend tools this past Monday. The group was very appreciative of Steve's trip up from Kansas City and excited to see the new tools. Steve also talked a bit about Silverlight and its implications for future web design.
Attendance was again great, with 30 members there to get the scoop on the Expression tools. Steve also brought along some nice swag, including a Zune which was given away as a door prize.
Thanks to a number of attendees for their suggestions for future topics. It is very helpful to our planning process to hear what you are interesting in learning about. You can always forward suggestions outside the meetings too.
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| AJAX Presentation a hit! |
04-03-2007
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Our April 2nd meeting was super thanks to a great presentation by Microsoft's Mike Benkovich. Mike essentially previewed his material that he'll be taking on the road for an upcoming MSDN tour. Mike went through the architecture of Microsoft's AJAX framework, formerly known as ATLAS giving us a good feel for what it is capable of and its feature set.
Our turnout was the best we've had since March last year and there were several first time attendees - welcome !! The feedback forms, as well as the great interaction with Mike, showed this to be a great topic and evening at CRIneta.
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| BizTalk: Go From ZERO to 60 in 27 Hours! |
02-14-2007
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Microsoft & Quilogy invite you to: BizTalk: Go From
ZERO to 60 in 27 Hours!
You’ve
heard how companies are harnessing the power of “mash-ups” to deliver
exciting new services to their customers. They’re leveraging the power of a new
generation of integration architecture and tools. Join Quilogy and
Microsoft in a discussion around the fastest growing integration toolset in the
industry. Learn how BizTalk helps companies realize the promise! Microsoft
Omaha Office
One
Valmont Plaza
Suite 201
Omaha,
Nebraska
Omaha, NE (Event ID #1032322752)
February 20, 2007
New Horizons
Learning Center
3850 Merle Hay Rd.
Suite 200
Des Moines, IA 50310
Des Moines, IA (Event ID #1032322753)
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| Upcoming Speakers at the Des Moines Ineta Group |
01-15-2007
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The Ineta group in Des Moines has 2 upcoming speakers that may be of interest to members of CRINETA. These are speakers with national recognition.
Feb 7th - Billy Hollis will present on WPF
March 7th - Paul Sheriff will present on OO basics
For more information, visit their web site at http://www.iadnug.org
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| The demo files for the January meeting have been posted. |
01-08-2007
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| You can find the demo files for Arian Kulp's presentation on threading in the "CRIneta Topics and Presentations" forum. If you missed the meeting, you missed a good one. Arian did a great job of explaining the basics of using threads in a .NET application. Rumer has it that this information is even applicable to those coding in RPG for .NET. |
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| Presentation and demo files for December are posted |
12-12-2006
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You can download the presentation and demo files for the Sam Gentile's December presentation on Windows Workflow in the "Topics and Presentations" forum in the thread for that meeting. Here's a shortcut to get you there quickly! http://www.crineta.org/forums/388/ShowPost.aspx
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| Send us your favorite .NET Blogs! |
02-19-2006
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We are working on a new verison of our website that allows us to have an aggregate display of related blogs on our site.
If you know of a good .NET development blog that we should include, please add a comment to this post and include the RSS link. |
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| RHI Suit Drive - Dress for Success |
02-24-2006
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RHI Techonolgoy has asked us to pass on this information regarding thier Dress for Success suit drive.
"Starting March 13, our alliance partner Robert Half International Inc. (RHI) will be hosting a suit drive to benefit Dress for Success, a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to women transitioning from unemployment to self-sufficiency.
Please bring in suits to the chapter office from March 13-24, 2006. The final day to donate is Friday, March 24.
We can only accept new or nearly new women’s suits (pants and skirts), blouses, shoes and accessories, including handbags and jewelry. All donations should be appropriate to wear to work, as well as clean, stylish and in good condition. Please provide all garments on hangers, as they will be made available immediately through Dress for Success boutiques. For more information on the drive, please visit the RHI website at http://www.rhi.com/philanthropy." |