Victoria .NET Developers Association

Final Spring 2006 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association and its sponsors are excited to welcome Jean-Luc David from Ottawa Ontario!

Jean-Luc David is a senior consultant at ObjectSharp Consulting and the CEO of Stormpixel Solutions based in Toronto, Canada. He has been an ongoing active participant in user groups, online chats and developer events. Most of his time is spent writing, creating courseware, speaking and deploying Team System and WinFX to companies in Canada and abroad.

Jean-Luc's latest book includes "Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System" published by WROX Press (he also wrote a book called Professional WinFX Beta which was released at the 2005 PDC and contributed to Professional Javascript 2nd Edition). He is currently in the process of writing a new book called "Professional Team Foundation Server" and will be delivering two Team System MSDN webcasts as part of TechEd 2006. You can read his blog at: http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/jldavid/

Title: "Using Microsoft ATLAS in your web applications"

Description:  Atlas is a framework of extensions that allows Web developers to build real-time interactivity and personalization in ASP.NET based applications. It uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques to dynamically integrate client and server side code without "round tripping" (avoiding a complete page reload). In this session, you will learn how to incorporate and extend Atlas functionality in your own Web applications.

Date/Time: Monday June 26th, 2006 from 7-10pm

Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A125 see map 

• TBA

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "June 26th Event"

June 2006 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association and its sponsors are excited to welcome back Ted Neward from Redmond, Washington!

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

Please see http://www.tedneward.com/ for more info on Ted.

Title: "Real World Web Services, SOAP, and WCF (Indigo)"

Description:  A lot has been said about service-orientation and SOA, but precious little of it describes the actual, concrete practice of building services that interoperate via the use of XML. In this talk, Ted Neward, author of the forthcoming “Pragmatic XML Services”, will present a down-to-earth concrete discussion of building services, the reasons for doing so and the tools by which building services can be made easier, all with an eye towards actual working interoperability with .NET, Java and Ruby clients and servers.

Date/Time: Tuesday June 6th, 2006 from 7-10pm

Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

• Web Services with Visual Studio
• SOAP
• Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo)
• WinFX
• Talking to other platforms like Java, Ruby, etc.

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "June 6th Event"

May 2006 Monthly Meeting & MSDN Spring User Group Tour

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes John Bristowe. John is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Canada. In the past four years, John has co-founded the Melbourne NET User Group, been active in the Chicago .NET User Group, and worked with the International .NET Association (INETA) as a member of its technical committee. John's focus is service-orientation and its associated plumbing and protocols. John's passion is assisting members of the .NET community at large.

We will be having pizza and drinks at this meeting, and some great give-aways.

Title: "New Features in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 - Part II"
Description: Now that Visual Studio 2005 has been out for a while, come find out more of the great enhancements and improvements over the previous version. Note that this meeting has two parts, and introductory session and an advanced session.
Date/Time: Tuesday May 2, 2005 from 7-10pm.
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

If you are new to the .NET and/or Visual Studio 2005 platform, this is the session for you! In this session, John outlines some of the starting points with Visual Studio 2005, and gives us an introductory look at how .NET works from the perspective of a developer who is new to .NET.

• Windows Form Designer – Simplifying your development process
• ASP.NET Pages and Controls - Starting out with ASP.NET
• ADO.NET - data access made easy
• SQL Server 2005 – easily integrate and leverage the enterprise strength of SQL Server

Topics Covered in Session 2 (8:30pm - 10:00pm):

John has spent the last year with all kinds of Visual Studio Users learning the ins and outs of the new platform. This session will cover all of the advanced tips, hints, and topics he has learned. Feel free to jump in during the session with your own questions and concerns with the new Visual Studio.

• TBA

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "May 2nd Event"

Presentation Slides: Available after the meeting

April 2006 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association and its sponsors are excited to welcome Ted Neward from Redmond, Washington!

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

Please see http://www.tedneward.com/ for more info on Ted.

Title: "Focus on Web Services, SOAP, and WCF (Indigo)"

Description: Ted has agreed to take requests from everyone on what topics you want him to present.

What part of web services do you want to know more about, or having trouble with?

Add your request here: http://blogs.tedneward.com/CommentView,guid,7fb090b9-0591-4d16-99ab-fe013463c75a.aspx

Date/Time: Tuesday  April 4th, 2006 from 7-10pm

Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

• To be announced based on input from all of us.

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "April 4th Event"

Join us March 14th for a Pub Night at Swans, and learn about the InnerWorkings contest to win an XBOX 360! See more about the contest here: http://www.vicdotnet.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=VictoriaXBOX360ContestOverview.doc&tabid=43&mid=359

Date: Tuesday, March 14th 2006
Time: 7-10pm
Place: Swans Hotel, Collard Room (the small private room between the pub and the restaurant)

Food and Drink: Appy’s and drinks (beer and pop) will be included, plus cash bar at Swans

Due to room capacity, we can only take a maximum of 50 people for this meeting, so please register early!

Bring your questions for the group or any .NET development-related questions, there will be a good number of .NET experts in the room!

How to register: Please send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the Subject “March Pub Night”.

To cancel your registration: Please send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the Subject “Cancel March pub Night”.

March 2006 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association (in association with INETA) and its sponsors are excited to welcome Scott Hanselman from Portland Oregon!

Scott Hanselman is Chief Architect at the Corillian Corporation, an eFinance enabler. He has over a decade of experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and currently VB.NET and C#. Scott is proud to have been appointed the MSDN Regional Director for Portland, OR for the last three years, developing content for, and speaking at Developer Days and the Visual Studio.NET Launch in both Portland and Seattle. Scott was in the top 5% of audience-rated speakers at TechEd 2005 in Orlando. Scott also spoke at the Windows Server 2003 and VS.NET 2003 Launches in 4 cities. He's spoken internationally on Microsoft technologies, and has co-authored two books from Wrox Press. Scott is also currently the host of his own geeky podcast, Hanselminutes. Check it out!

Please see www.computerzen.com or www.hanselminutes.com for more info on Scott!

Title: "Software Architecture Best Practices: Anatomy of a Successful ASP.NET Application"

Description: Scott Hanselman heads the DasBlog Open Source project along with Omar Shahine, following in the footsteps of Clemens Vasters and his dramatic modification of the BlogX engine. DasBlog is now on version 1.8 and is aguable the most successful ASP.NET blogging engine for the single user. DasBlog is now the work of many folks over many years and while it has some very hairy sections of code, it's full of design techniques and reusable components that you can use in your work today.

Date/Time: Tuesday  March 7th, 2006 from 7-9pm

Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

• Httpmodules
• Httphandlers
• Background threads
• Internationalization
• Caching
• Skinning
• Creating a macro language
• Web Services that are more than just SOAP
• More architectural concepts that work in any ASP.NET application

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Mar 7th Event"

February 2006 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association is excited to welcome local developer Jonathan Zack, MCSD!

Since joining Momentis in 2000, Jonathan has been a driving force in the core software development, whereby he is involved in the technology direction, including designing and implementing n-Tier architecture based on Microsoft Windows DNA and Microsoft .NET, and defining the company's .NET templates, and best practices. As Lead Architect for the Next Generation Software group, he is responsible for the design, development, release management, and deployment of all the modules built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, and business-to-business e-commerce applications (Sales Force Connect, Vendor Connect, Customer Connect). In 2003, Jonathan became one of the first Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Microsoft .NET in the world.

Prior to joining Momentis, Jonathan worked as an independent consultant where he held software developer positions at top companies like SHL Systemhouse (now EDS), Seagram Company Limited, and STS Systems (now NSB Group).

Jonathan graduated with great distinction from McGill University, where he received his bachelor degree in commerce with a concentration in management information systems.

Title: "Visual Studio 2005 Community Launch"

Description: Learn about Smart Clients and the new features of WinForms and the C# language in Visual Studio .NET 2005. Using training provided by Microsoft and INETA, and supplemented with his own learning, Jonathan will be demonstrating some of the great new productivity features in the .NET Framework 2.0.

Date/Time: Wednesday February 8th, 2006 from 7-9pm

Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A125 see map 

• Understanding Smart Clients
  • Why smart clients?
  • What is a smart client?
  • How do you decide between
    browser-based and smart client UI?
  • Changes in n-tier architecture for smart clients
• C# 2.0 Enhancements
  • Generics
  • Nullable types
  • Partial types
• Improvements in Windows Forms 2.0
  • ToolStrip Controls
    • Creating Customized, Professional Applications
  • DataGridView
    • Customization and Binding to business objects
  • BackgroundWorker
    • Making an application more responsive
  • TableLayoutPanel
    • Simplifying dynamic layout
  • Configuration APIs
    • Storing Application and User State

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Feb 8th Event"

Presentation Slides and Samples: Coming soon!

In lieu of a presentation and due to popular demand, January’s monthly meeting will be a networking pub night at Swans Hotel!

Date: Tuesday, January 17th 2005
Time: 7-9pm
Place: Swans Hotel, Collard Room (the small private room between the pub and the restaurant)

Food and Drink: Appy’s and drinks (beer and pop) will be included with the fee, plus cash bar at Swans

Book Exchange: Bring any unwanted computer books to exchange with others, and leftover books at the end of the night will be donated to the Times Colonist Book Drive!

Cost, collected at the door:

• $10 each, with the exception of:
  • Individual Sponsors get in free
  • Employees of Corporate Sponsors are $5, bring a business card!

Sign up for an individual sponsorship at the meeting ($20) and you also get in free. Remember, sponsorships pay for great speakers and help us throw great events like these!

Due to room capacity, we can only take a maximum of 50 people for this meeting, so please register early!

There is no agenda for this meeting. Bring your questions for the group or any .NET development-related questions, there will be a good number of .NET experts in the room!

How to register: Please send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the Subject “Jan Pub Night”.

To cancel your registration: Please send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the Subject “Cancel Jan pub Night”.

December 2005 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association and its sponsors are excited to welcome Bill Vaughn from Redmond, WA!

Bill is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server and data access interfaces. He’s been in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000 after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He primarily specializes on data access and especially Visual Basic and SQL Server and more recently SQL Server Reporting Services. He’s written six editions of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server” (working on the 7th edition) and two editions of “ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers”. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed “Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services”.

Please see www.betav.com or www.betav.com\blog\billva for more info on Bill!

Title: "Business Intelligence: Creating SQL Reporting Services Reports with Visual Studio 2005"

Description: Based on Bill’s latest book, this session walks you through a series of live code examples that illustrate how to leverage the new Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 RDL-based reporting features. We’ll see how to create a new report from scratch and how to import a report created with SQL Server Reporting Services. We’ll setup a report-specific data source, capture user parameters to focus the report data, capture multiple-select parameters, pass parameters to the queries and execute stored procedures to return data for the report. We’ll build table, matrix and chart reports and applications used to launch the reports. We’ll show how to deploy the reports and implement (fake) some of the features you’ll only find on Reporting Services. We’ll also look at the new SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services features that can leverage this same technology as implemented in SQL Server Express and other editions. When you’re done you’ll have a better understanding of the differences between the Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services implementations.

Date/Time: Tuesday December 13th, 2005 from 7-9pm

Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A121 see map 

• How to setup a report project.
• How to convert from another reporting tool (like Crystal Reports)
• How to build a suitable report-specific Data Source.
• How to use the ReportViewer control.
• How to layout a report using the Table, Matrix, Graph and Image controls
• How to address the data source columns and map them to report elements.
• How to capture and insert parameters into the data source queries.
• How to deploy the report.
• What is the difference between the Visual Studio 2005 and Reporting Services implementations provided by SQL Server 2005?

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Dec 13th Event"

Presentation Slides and Samples: Coming soon!

Topic:
This meeting will be a little bit different than usual. We want to invite anyone from the community who is interested to come out and participate in a community .NET meet and greet..

There will be no formal presentation or out-of-town speaker, but there WILL BE pizza, drinks, and some excellent SWAG!

If you are using .NET and you either have questions you want answered, or feel that you can help answer questions, come out and participate in our informal chat!

We will also have some local experts on board to discuss whatever .NET topics come up, including but not limited to:
- What’s with the new VS and SQL 2005 products
- Licensing those products
- 3rd party controls
- 3rd party source control and build tools
- General .NET development best practices
- Security

We can also go over any local Developers Association stuff:
- The upcoming Victoria and West Coast .NET Code camp
- More info on sponsoring the Vic .NET Dev Association
- The study group
- The Canada-wide inter-group competition
- Finding a job or looking to fill a job

So if you are interested in any of the above, or have something you want to talk about, come out for a casual meet and greet!

When: Tuesday November 8th, 7-9pm
Where: UVIC Cornet Building room A120.

Please send us a quick RSVP to event@vicdotnet.org with the Subject "Nov 8th Meet and Greet" if you are coming, and in your email please let us know what topics you are interested in chatting about so we can come prepared!

October 2005 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET Developers Association welcomes Joel Semeniuk. Joel is the co-founder of Imaginets Corp in Winnipeg, a Microsoft Regional Director, and has been recognized by Microsoft as one of the worlds' leading trainers and mentors for Visual Studio 2005 and Team System.

Title: "In-Depth look at Visual Studio Team System"
Description: We asked a few months ago for your ideas on what portions of Visual Studio Team System he speak on so now, 'You asked for it, now you'll get it'. Joel Semeniuk will come out and present a Just In Time presentation on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System addressing the concerns and topic suggestions that you have posted to his blog.  During this session Joel will drill down into areas such as software testing strategies, integrating existing software development process methodologies into Team System, strategies around adoption and configuration, scaling Team System, and much more.  Joel will also make time at the end of his talk to answer questions or to simply open up a discussion on Team System.

Date/Time: Tuesday October 4, 2005 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Oct 4th Event"

June 2005 Monthly Meeting & MSDN Spring User Group Tour

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes John Bristowe. John is a Systems Analyst with Quadrus Development Inc., a Calgary-based, Microsoft Gold Partner IT consulting firm with expertise in delivering .NET business solutions. In the past four years, John has co-founded the Melbourne NET User Group, been active in the Chicago .NET User Group, and worked with the International .NET Association (INETA) as a member of its technical committee. John is passionate about service-orientation and its associated plumbing and protocols. A Microsoft Regional Director, a MVP for ASP/ASP.NET, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, John devotes his spare time assisting members of the .NET community at large.

We will be having pizza and drinks at this meeting, and a ton of great give-aways. This will be our final user group meeting of the season, we will be returning in September with more great speakers!

Title: "New Features in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005"
Description: Microsoft continues to raise the bar for developer productivity with its latest release of Visual Studio 2005 and the Visual Studio Team System. We will explore some of the powerful enhancements to Visual Studio and introduce the Visual Studio Team System.
Date/Time: Tuesday June 14, 2005 from 7-9pm.
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

• Windows Form Designer – simplifying your development process
• New controls  - allowing you to deliver professional applications more quickly
• Click Once - simplifying application deployment
• ADO.NET - data access made easy
• SQL Server 2005 – easily integrate and leverage the enterprise strength of SQL Server

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "June 14th Event"

Presentation Slides: John's presentation slides from the meeting can be downloaded here (7MB). Also, watch John's blog over the next couple weeks for all of the code samples from the meeting: http://www.bristowe.com/blog/

May 2005 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes Richard Campbell. Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director and regular speaker at TechEd and other Microsoft technology events.

Title: "Advanced SQL Querying Tips and Techniques"
Description: Take your querying to the next level! This session gets away from the fundamentals of SQL queries and into the hard stuff. Compare and contrast querying techniques between SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. This session has a series of real world examples to show how creative SQL queries can generate solutions in record time.
Date/Time: Thursday May 5, 2005 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map 

• Crosstab queries that take seconds to execute instead of hours
• Exploiting sub-queries
• Taking advantage of self-joining
• New features of SQL Server 2005 and how it is going to make advanced querying even easier
• Much more...

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "May 5th Event"

Presentation Slides and Samples: Richard's slides and samples can be downloaded here.

April 2005 Monthly Meeting

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes local developer Jason Kemp. Jason is a .NET developer with local software firm NewHeights Software.

Title: "Introducing Visual Studio 2005"
Description: An introduction to the new editions and new features for the next version of Visual Studio.
Date/Time: Tuesday April 5, 2005 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room B112 see map  (note we're in the “B“ wing of the Cornett Building this month.)

• Code Snippets
  
• Edit & Continue
• Expansions
• Refactoring
• Much more...

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "April 5th Event"

March 2005 Monthly Meeting and MSDN User Group Tour Event

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes Richard Campbell for this spring's Canadian User Group Tour! Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director and regular speaker at TechEd and other Microsoft technology events.

We have a lot of give-aways and snacks/drinks for this event, so don't miss it! We have T-shirts, pizza and drinks, and a few copies of Visual Studio 2003 Pro to give-away!

Title: "J2EE Interop"
Description: This presentation will give demonstrations and tips on using J2EE and .NET in the same production environment.
Date/Time: Thursday March 10, 2005 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map
Topics Covered:

• Approaches to remote procedure calls and messaging
  
• Communication with non-Microsoft database platforms
  
• Enterprise system integration using bridges and connectors
  
• Web services for interoperable XML data exchange
  
• Demonstrations that illustrate interoperable messaging with and without Web services
  
• See how various platforms are supporting emerging standards such as OASIS Web Services Security
  
• Most importantly, you’ll leave this event with a greater understanding of choices available for supporting multi-platform solutions within an enterprise.

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Mar 10th Event"

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes local developer Mark Hoskins. Mark is an independent .NET developer and member of the DotNetNuke core team . This presentation will be demonstrated using DotNetNuke 3.0.9 (BETA) as the framework web application we will use to deploy our Private Assemblies, HttpModules and User Controls.

Title: "Advanced ASP.NET Tips and Tricks"
Description: This presentation will go over a few of the more advanced and in-depth capabilities of ASP.NET.
Date/Time: Tuesday February 1, 2005 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A221 see map
Topics Covered:

• Nesting Templated User Controls and dealing with their events
  
• Caching using a custom collection to manage the objects
  
• HttpModules and how they interact with your application
  
• Overriding the base Inherited Class with a customised Strongly Typed Collection

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Feb 1st Event"

December 2004 Monthly Meeting and MSDN User Group Tour Event!

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes Richard Campbell. Richard is a Microsoft Regional Director and regular speaker at TechEd and other Microsoft technology events.

Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Title: "Building Smart Client Applications"
Description: This session provides an overview of how you can use the Visual Studio .NET 2003 project templates provided by Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System to create Smart Client solutions that use Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003.
Date/Time: Thursday December 2, 2004 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120 see map
Topics Covered: This session will also show the value of InfoPath, how to build solutions and review many of the new features and managed code support. Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 is a hybrid tool that combines the best of a traditional document editing experience, such as a word processor or e-mail application, with the rigorous data-capture capabilities of a forms package.

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Dec 2nd Event"

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes Microsoft MVP Shaun Walker, Creator of the Open Source Portal/Content Management System DotNetNuke (www.dotnetnuke.com). 

Title: "Introducing the DotNetNuke Portal Framework"
Description: DotNetNuke is an open-source content management portal framework written in ASP.NET. With over 100,000 registered users and over 300,000 downloads, it is by far one of the most popular open-source projects for the Microsoft platform. Among some of its many features include skinning, plug-and-play module installation, role-based security, multiple portals served from a single site, and WYSIWYG content editing.
Date/Time: Tuesday November 2, 2004 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A125 see map
Topics Covered: This session will start out by giving an overview of DotNetNuke, its history and its open source ideals. Then we will dive into the basics of installing your own DNN Portal and administrating your membership and content. Finally we will explore more technical topics including the creation and installation of skins as well as the development and deployment of private assembly custom modules. We will also talk a little bit about the new version of ASP.NET (2.0) and what the DotNetNuke team did to prepare for its release.

Registration: Please register for the event. You can also send an email to event@vicdotnet.org with the subject heading of "Nov 2nd Event"

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes Dan Sellers from Microsoft Canada

Title: "Building Applications for Mobile Devices"
Description: This presentation will focus on building Mobile applications using the .NET Compact Framework and SQL CE. It will demonstrate and review source code of a pre-built application. Attendees will be given a link where they can download the application and its source code at the session.
Date/Time: Oct 14, 2004 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, Cornett Building, Room A120
Topics Covered:

• Using P/Invoke and why it is so important in the .NET Compact Framework
  
• Developing "Sometime Offline" Applications in the .NET Compact Framework
  
• Creating a Self-Updating .NET Compact Framework Application
  
• Using Inhereitance to create a Stream Interface Driver
  
• Consuming Asynchronous Web Services Calls
  
• Best Practices for using SQL CE

The Victoria .NET User Group welcomes Dan Sellers from Microsoft Canada

Title: "Implementing the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework"
Description: This presentation will focus on the event instrumentation block.
Date/Time: Tuesday June 1, 2004 from 7-9pm
Location: University of Victoria, David F Strong Building, Room C112

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