Session Summary In this presentation, Chris Patterson explained event driven architecture, described the different types of events, demonstrated how events can be related and orchestrated, and provided a basic understanding of how this method can drive the architecture of enterprise systems. In addition...

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Session Summary In the time that LINQ to SQL has been available, we have been identifying ways to make LINQ to SQL better. We have compiled all of those cool tips and tricks including new features into a set of CodeSmith templates. PLINQO opens the LINQ TO SQL black box giving you the ability to control...

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Session Summary Presented 5 August 2009 - this was a look at what’s coming in the next version of C#! Released with .NET Framework 4, the C# language has continued to evolve into one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Microsoft Developer Evangelist Chris Koenig gave a tour...

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Session Summary Presented 3 June 2009 - this was a look at how the newly released ASP.NET MVC framework could be used to build dynamic websites on the .NET platform. Topics included the Model-View-Controller pattern, how that works with ASP.NET MVC, how MVC compares to Webforms, how to build forms and...

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Session Summary Presented 7 January 2009 - Silverlight 2 opens a whole new world of possibilities and options to .NET developers in the Rich Internet Application space. Combining the best of web application deployments with traditional Windows development, this best of breed application platform is changing...

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Presented December 2008, in this session, we looked at some of the things coming from the ASP.Net team in the 4.0 release. We talked about what this release means to you the developer and how Microsoft is changing the way it rolls out new technology. We focused on AJAX Templates, ADO.Net Data Services...

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Session Summary For our August, 2008 meeting, we were psyched to welcome back Bill Robertson who presented a code-heavy session about JavaScript, ASP.NET AJAX, and integration with .net! Javascript…the language of "I hope this works". This session was a deep dive into javascript patterns...

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Session Summary Presented in July, 2008. Patterns talks tend to be abstract, academic discussions rather than real world examples but I'm not that kind of guy. This talk will cover techniques you can use to refactor your current code base to implement patterns and provide a more maintainable and testable...

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Session Summary Presented 7 November 2007, Jeff Palermo of Party with Palermo fame gave a talk on Nhibernate. His presentation files are available on his old blog . [VIDEO] Speaker Bio Jeff Palermo, CTO of Headspring Systems Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems in Austin, TX. Headspring is...

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