When we meet each month, our members enjoy excellent speakers, free food, and great prizes all thanks to our sponsors. We are so lucky to be part of an industry that is so supportive to the community.
DevExpress provides a suite of awesome controls for Winforms, Asp.Net, WPF and Silverlight. They also provide Reporting, Charting, Business App Frameworks and, of course, Code Rush with Refactor Pro. Their products and support for the development community are great. Please check them out at www.devexpress.com.
Kforce is a full-service professional staffing firm providing contract and direct hire staffing solutions for hiring organizations and career management for job seekers. They sponsor and attend our meetings so you can meet them in person to discuss your next career opportunity. You can check out their web site at kforce.com
Telerik is a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft .NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF, and .NET Reporting and content management solutions. In fact, this web site is built on the Telerik SiteFinity tool.
Be sure to check out telerik.com and play with their online demos or download free trial versions of their products.
Applied Innovations is a Boca Raton, FL based web presence provider (web host) that specializes in hosting on the Windows Server platform. They are a great supporter of the .Net community and are hosting this very web site. Please visit them at appliedi.net
SiteFinity, by Telerik, is the Content Management System that we used to build the OneTug.org web site. It's powerful and easy to use. Please check them out to learn more at sitefinity.com.
The O'Reilly User Group & Professional Association Program supports the good work of user and professional groups by providing:
Apress supports user group education and training efforts. Thanks to Apress, we benefit from:
Please visit the apress.com community link
Component One is a leading supplier of components for all kinds of .Net Applications. Their DevTools line of products includes components for WinForms, WPF, Asp.Net, Silverlight, iPhone and more. They also have an excellent line of Documentation Tools as well as an innovative set of Sharepoint components.
Please check them out at componentone.com
Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, .NET, and Exchange. The company’s product line includes tools for comparing, synchronizing, backing up and recovering SQL Server databases; understanding and fixing .NET code problems; and email archiving for Exchange. www.red-gate.com.
Wrox Press is committed to supporting the programming community. As part of that commitment, they've developed the Wrox User Group Program to support the efforts of user groups like ours. They've donated tons of great books and will give our members generous discounts. Please check them out at wrox.com
Established in 1994, Atlantic.Net is a market-leading business data services provider known for exceptional service, simplifying complex technologies and building a brand that people trust. Atlantic.Net operates a 25,000-square-foot colocation Data Center in Central Florida and helps businesses around the globe with their advanced online needs through services including dedicated servers, server colocation, managed Servers, Internet connectivity, business continuity, and managed services such as data backup, security and private networks.
Atlantic.Net’s services enable companies to focus on their core business and forgo the expense of capital equipment purchases and ongoing IT management costs. Atlantic.Net’s technological savvy and strategic acumen have been the foundation for its reputation and profitability since 1994.
Check them out at www.atlantic.net
Perpetuum has great tools like Report Sharp-Shooter and Report Sharp-Shooter for Silverlight. They also have a Silverlight Viewer for Reporting Services which is pretty sweet! Check them out at perpetuumsoft.com.
If you're doing anything with Silverlight then you need to check out the Document Toolkit for Silverlight and Silverlight Spy. Silverlight Spy is a runtime inspector tool providing unprecedented access to all aspects of any Silverlight application. Explore the UI element tree, monitor events, extract XAML, interactively execute DLR code, view statistics and more, much more.
While you're there, you can get the source code for Silverlight P2PLib (Live messenger interoperability) and Silverlight Slideshow. firstfloorsoftware.com
Peter Blum is one of the best-known asp.net web control programmers and offers Peter's Data Entry Suite which contains almost 90 ASP.NET web controls designed around data entry. Its controls improve data entry and communication with the user by covering these aspects of data entry forms. Check out Peter's site at peterblum.com
JetBrains, has a passion for making people more productive through smart software solutions that help them focus more on what they really want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive "computer busy work". Their products include productivity tools like ReSharper, dotTrace and more. Check them out at jetbrains.com
Software FX provides top-of-the-line data visualization tools like Chart FX, Grid FX and Chart FX Gauges (plus many more.) Their tools are available for Asp.Net, Sharepoint, Silverlight and WPF. Please check out their web site at softwarefx.com
Thanks to Julie Yack at Colorado Technology Consultants for providing copies of Silverlight 3 Jumpstart and XRM as a Rapid Development Platform. These boosk are well written and a must-read for our members. Click the links above to get your physical or e-copy of these great books.
Sql Sets is an innovative new tool for anyone who uses Sql Server. It lets you take snapshots of your Sql Server data and send them around for viewing in their custom viewer. There are tons of uses for this tool so check them out at sqlsets.com
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