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VBUG Midlands: What's New in .NET 4.0
Date: Tue 13 January to Tue 13 January 2009
Topic: What's New in .NET 4.0 with Dave Sussman
Overview: Come listen to Dave give an overview of the new features in .NET 4.0.
What will he talk about? Even he doesn't know yet, with the next version in technical preview and new functionality surfacing with every release.
There's bound to be something about ASP.NET 4.0, something about Visual Studio and the great new changes they're building into it, but beyond that, it's anyone's guess.
Dave Sussman is an independent trainer, consultant and writer. Dave is a Microsoft MVP, a member of INETA Speakers Bureau and the ASP Insiders. a body of industry experts that advises the ASP.NET team. He has spoken at many conferences, including Microsoft ASP Connections, TechEd and PDC and is a regular and community events around the UK.
Venue: The Swan & Rushes, 19 Infirmary Square, Leicester, LE1 5WR, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE
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VBUG Bracknell: SQL Server Event
Date: Tue 27 January to Tue 27 January 2009
Topic: SQL Server Indexes for Performance
Overview: Join the VBUG Thames Valley group for an evening of SQL Server.
Our guest Colin Leversuch-Roberts will be giving a session on SQL Server Indexes for performance. This will be a session based upon practical solutions and not a best practices or text book view of indexing. Some of the areas covered will include:
- Why we index
- Curse of the null
- Size does matter
- Indexed views
- Filtered indexes (SQL 2008)
- Sparse data and compression (SQL 2008)
Tim Leung will also be presenting a session on various SQL tips and tricks.
During the event, we'll be giving away a promotional copy of SQL Server 2008 Standard edition and also a copy of Nevron Chart for .Net worth $299.
BIO:
Colin has 18 years of database experience and has worked with SQL Server since v6.0. He began with a development background and has now worked as a production DBA for around 12 years. He tends to specialise in performance tuning and optimisation, as well as the usual code and index tuning. Further areas that he covers includes hardware and storage.
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/
Venue: Bracknell Council Chamber, Brooke House, 54 High Street, Bracknell, RG12 1LL, GB
Start Time: 19:00
Price: Free
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VBUG Midlands: Policy and Dependency Injection
Date: Tue 10 February to Tue 10 February 2009
Topic: Policy and Dependency Injection with Alex Homer
Overview: using Enterprise Library Policy Injection Block and Unity Block.
Venue: The Swan & Rushes, 19 Infirmary Square, Leicester, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE
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VBUG Midlands:Domain driven design approach, with unit testing
Date: Tue 10 March to Tue 10 March 2009
Topic: Peter Morris presents domain driven design approach, with unit testing.
Overview: 01: Create a business model using a UML tool.
02: Generate the code for the model.
03: Generate the DB from the model.
04: Write some unit tests for a class or two using Rhino Mocks, Inversion of Control to control the environment of the tests.
05: Show the objects being used from an ASP.NET / WinForm GUI, both if I have time.
06: Change the model.
07: Update the code.
08: "Evolve" the database.
Peter has been a professional programmer since 1994 and has been using DDD type approaches since 2001. DDD designed CRM app released for Imperial Tobacco approx 6-8 months ago which is working very well. Handheld Pocket PC app deployed over 2 years ago.
Venue: The Swan & Rushes, 19 Infirmary Square, Leicester, GB
Start Time: 18:00
Price: FREE
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