Orlando .NET User Group The Community for .NET Developers in Central Florida

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This talk will  describe Windows Phone 7 development for a Stock quoting and Alerting demonstration application to highlight the phone's capabilities and it's development environment.   Some of the development features shared will be Threading, Thread communication using messaging, WebClient access, MVVM Light, Isolated Storage, LINQ, Behaviors, and Push (Microsoft Push Notifications, or MPN).  

 

Stock quoting was chosen as the domain as it lends itself to using these features.  The application uses Yahoo Financial as the quotes' source  however the data access is abstracted and therefore easily changed.   We will start by building the User Experience(UX) and data access to display the quotes on the phone. In this mode the user is able to select the stocks they want to follow and set alerts that are fired when a threshold is exceeded. In the end,  these alerts are the real value to the application. The interactive use should be minimized as the battery usage and bandwidth requirements are too great. We will then move the application to a push model where the alerts are fired from an Azure server application using MPC.

 

About John Mcfetridge:

Experienced in .NET design, architecture, and training with focused experienced using C#, ASP.NET,WCF, LINQ, design patterns, Silverlight and JavaScript. Regular presenter at North Florida code camps on a range of subjects including Silverlight, LINQ, MVVM and Prism.  Currently involved in developing WP7 apps and one of the authors of CorelDraw.

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Come learn how to build apps and services on Windows and SQL Azure. Jason Milgram, CEO of Linxter, will not only walk you through the steps of building and deploying apps on Azure, but he’ll also demonstrate two use cases — the PayPal Cloud Connector, a cloud service which lets you easily process credit card transactions within your client apps; and MonitorGrid, a server monitoring web app. Bring your Azure questions and join us for a grounded cloud conversation.

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Silverlight and an implementation comparison between WCF and RIA Services

We will look at two main approaches to developing Silverlight 4 Data driven application using traditional WCF and also the newly introduced RIA Services.  Using two possible patterns we will create very simple applications. We will look at pros and cons of each of the approaches. We will then look at some of each of the approaches. We will then look at some of the real world examples utilizing each of the above approaches and have some nice open ended discussions and find out how we can best utilize to improve our development.

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The Microsoft Visual Studio team is taking a Florida tour and their first stop is Orlando.  Come and join Kirill Osenkov and Yang Xiao as they show us new features in .NET 4!

Kirill’s talk: New features in C# 4.0 Language and IDE

Abstract:

·         Language

o   Dynamic

o   Named and optional

o   Co/Contravariance

o   COM improvements, NoPIA, omit ref etc.

·         IDE

o   Call Hierarchy

o   Quick Symbol Search

o   Highlight References

o   Generate From Usage

o   Fix aggressive IntelliSense (consume first, list filtering)

·         Room for ANY questions (tester’s life at Microsoft, Silverlight/WPF, www.livegeometry.com, CodePlex, VS 2010 Extensions – any random stuff)

Kirill’s Bio:

Kirill Osenkov is an SDET on the Microsoft Visual Studio C# IDE team. He is responsible for IntelliSense, navigation, refactoring, editor, etc. as well as stress testing for managed languages. As a hobby, Kirill works on http://livegeometry.codeplex.com - an open-source .NET (Silverlight/WPF) interactive CAD/dynamic geometry library. Kirill has a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kirillosenkov and Twitter at http://twitter.com/kirillosenkov.

 

Yang’s Talk: What’s new in VB 10

Abstract:

·         Language

o   Auto-implemented properties

o   Array literals/Collection initializers

o   Multiline lambdas

o   Interop with dynamic languages

o   Compiling without PIAs

o   Generic Variance

·         IDE

o   Generate from usage

o   Implicit line continuation

o   Navigate to

o   Keyword colorization

o   Fix aggressive IntelliSense

·         Q&A (any question is welcome!)

Yang’s Bio:

Yang Xiao is an SDET on the Microsoft Visual Studio VB IDE team. She ships features including Generate from usage, No PIA, Edit and Continue, and Silverlight editing and debugging experience. Yang got her Ph.D in computer science in Arizona State University before she joined Microsoft, her research is using deltas to analyze data dependencies and semantic correctness of concurrent process execution in web services environment.

The Orlando DotNetNuke User Group (ODUG) is brining in an amazing speaker this month, so we are teaming up with them to give our members access to such a great event.  While the topic of this event is "DotNetNuke", all of the techniques, methods, and designs that are used in DNN development are globally useful to any ASP.Net developer. 

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Official Hackathon Information

ODUG Event Information

This session focuses on introducing attendees to the Model-View-Presenter pattern, support for which was recently introduced in the DotNetNuke Core. We'll start with a quick overview of the pattern, compare it to MVC, and then dive right into code. We will start with fundamentals and then develop a full-featured module using this pattern. In order to do justice to the pattern, we will use ASP.NET WebForms controls minimally and implement most of the UI using jQuery plug-ins. Finally, to increase audience participation (both present at the meeting and remote), we will use a hackathon-style model and allow anybody, anywhere to follow along with the presentation and code their own MVP-based solution that they can share online during or after the session. A URL with full instructions for the hackathon will be posted online a few days prior to the meeting.

About Nik Kalyani

Nik Kalyani is Co-founder and Strategic Advisor for DotNetNuke Corp., the company that manages the DotNetNuke Open Source project. Kalyani is also Founder and CEO of HyperCrunch. He is a technology entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in the software industry. He is irrationally exuberant about technology, especially if it has anything to do with the Internet. HyperCrunch is his latest startup business that builds on his knowledge and experience from prior startups, two of them venture-funded.

Kalyani is a creative tinkerer perpetually interested in looking around the corner and figuring out new and interesting ways to make the world a better place. An experienced web developer, he finds the business strategy and marketing aspects of the software business more exciting than writing code. When he does create software, his primary expertise is in creating products with compelling user experiences. Kalyani is most proficient with Microsoft technologies, but has no religious fanaticism about them.

Kalyani has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Western Michigan University. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and user group meetings. He lives in Mountain View, California with his wife and daughters. He blogs at http://www.kalyani.com and is @techbubble on Twitter.

Hackathon

Hackathons are developer events with a goal of increasing developer knowledge on a specific technology aspect in a casual, collaborative environment. They are also designed to encourage participation by people who are not familiar with the technology, basically providing them with an immersive quick start.

Hackathon Events are:

• built around a single programming concept (for example: DotNetNuke MVP Pattern)
• encourage participation locally (at event site) and remotely
• are broadcast online
• provide materials and dev environment setup guidelines ahead of time
• allow anybody to participate
• are peer-judged by the Hackathon participants
• have one or more winners who earn the title "Hackmaster"
• have great prizes for winners and runners up
• require all submissions to be Open Source with MIT license

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We welcome Scott Cate, an INETA speaker.  He will give us a preview of his TechEd talk on Visual Studio Tips/Tricks, followed by a talk on WCF covering oData, json, and XML.

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One of the big promises of Silverlight is that you can involve your designers more in the development process. Learn what pitfalls to watch out for that can derail this and some techniques you can use to improve  the designer-developer workflow in Silverlight. Following these techniques will also lead to more maintainable code.

Bill Reiss is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP and Software Engineer at Vertigo Software. Bill is active in the Silverlight game development community and is currently finishing up a beginning Silverlight book for Manning publications. His open source SilverSprite library helps game developers run their XNA 2D games using Silverlight and he frequently presents at local events on Silverlight and XNA.

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 Start developing web applications using ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010. Learn:

- Routing, views, and controllers

- View Model and Domain Model

- ViewData, TempData, and Strongly-Typed Views

- Authorization, Action, Exception, and Result Filters

- Validation with DataAnnotations, Enterprise Library, and IDataErrorInfo

- HtmlHelpers and AjaxHelpers

- Extensibility with View Engines, Controller Factories, Custom ActionResults

- Per-Project T4 Templates

- DisplayTemplates and EditorTemplates

- Areas

By the end of the presentation you should have a good grasp of ASP.NET MVC 2 in Visual Studio 2010 and how to start developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications.

Bio:

David is a Microsoft MVP in C# and leader of the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group. David also runs the PnPGuidance Website, which is dedicated to helping developers understand and deploy technologies from Microsoft Patterns and Practices.

http://www.davidhayden.me/

http://www.tampadev.org/

http://www.pnpguidance.net/

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You've read the articles promoting SharePoint as a compliance and records management system, but what does that mean for the everyday user?  In this session, I'll go through the entire lifecycle of an "official record" and show how to apply best practices for developing a File Plan and applying the powerful features of the SharePoint platform to take a document from it's collaborative state to a managed file in a records center site. 

Bio:

John Holliday is a SharePoint MVP and an independent consultant with over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration and enterprise content management. 

Blog:

http://johnholliday.net

MVP Profile:

http://johnholliday.net/mvp

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Most people are becoming familiar with the concept of UX. This is being viewed as HMI (human-machine interaction). HMI goes beyond UX in its efforts to understand the evolving relationship between man and machine. The more one understands the full scope of the nature of human beings, the better equiped software developers and designers are to create applications that better suit the needs of the end user.

Derek A Myers is currently a student at Brevard Community College, majoring in Computer Engineering. Growing up in Titusville. Florida, across from Kennedy Space Center and having a father that worked there as an Aeronautical Engineer, technology has been an ever present constant. Derek has spent considerable time devoted to commercial photography, technical support, manufacturing and selling rock shrimp.

"Oslo" is the code name for a set of technologies that will enable developers, architects, and IT professionals to work together more effectively through the use of modeling. We will cover Model-driven development concepts, the new "M" language, creating DSL's with "M" and the new Intellipad and Quadrant tools.

Esteban Garcia is a Principal Consultant at M2E Solutions, an Orlando-based software consulting firm. He is also the president of ONETUG (Orlando .NET User Group). He has more than 10 years experience in professional software development. He is experienced in all phases of distributed object oriented enterprise application development and design on the Windows platform, and he has focused on the .NET Framework since 2001. He has been involved with different industries such as mobile technologies, financial services, telecommunications, health care, and developer tools. Esteban excels in architecture and best practices and is able to provide advice on SDLC customization and build automation. He holds certifications on MCAD, MCSD.NET, IEEE Certified Software Engineer, and ScrumMaster. Esteban also has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering with an emphasis in software design from the University of Central Florida.