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DoEvents - February 2008
OK so the next commercial season is Easter, hands up who spotted eggs in the shops earlier than Xmas Eve then?!?! But before then we have a crammed month for February! Please do keep your topic suggestions coming in; you can mail me at Christian@vbug.com. Our new region in Peterborough was a great success in January so watch out for more events here. Next month (March) we are launching a meeting in Cardiff; and events in Reigate are also on the cards! Did you know we are regularly running active meetings in the following locations:
OK, so check the listings below and get signed up! Have a great month and look forward to catching up with you in March.
With very best regards, Christian Mitchell VBUG Events
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VBUG EventsVBUG: '.NET 3 - The Game Challenge' with Oliver SturmDate: Thursday 07 February 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY MEETING Overview: .NET 3 - The Game Challenge Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are two important pillars of Microsoft's next generation development platform. Since Visual Studio Orcas has been released, these components are becoming relevant in every day developer life. This session provides an overview of both technologies by demonstrating their combined use in a network enabled Connect Four game. Venue: Royal Station Hotel, Ballmoral Suite - Ground Floor, Neville Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5DH Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: 'Best Practices for Test Driven Development' with Ian Cooper Date: Tuesday 12 February 2008 Topic: TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: How do you organize your tests? What is the difference between a customer test and a unit test? Should tests touch the db, the filesystem? What is the difference between a test stub and a mock and when should you use one or the other? How do you test legacy code, UIs, and data access. We answer all these questions and others as we talk about what the TDD community has learnt in the past few years about improving the quality of our tests and their cost of ownership Venue: Brighton Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: SQL Server 2008 with Andras Belokosztolszki Date: Wednesday 20 February 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: "SQL Server 2008 is due in Q2 2008. It introduces many new T-SQL language enhancements. In this session we will have a look at the features that are already available in the latest Community Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008. These include the MERGE statement, the new date and time related data types, the hirerachy_id and spatial data types." Venue: London TBC Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: 'Advanced Enterprise security' with Chris Seary Date: Thursday 21 February 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: 'There are many great applications available which never make it into large organisations such as banks, because they lack a few 'tweaks' necessary for them to work in a cross-platform environment and meet compliance. Chris will take you through practical examples of how to meet some of these requirements, and how to integrate with all manner of Single Sign On frameworks. We will look at the .Net framework, and how to integrate web services and web applications using WCF. Chris is an MVP, CISSP and CESG Listed Advisor. He has spent several years securing large, enterprise applications.' Venue: Swindon Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG and NxtGenUG - SQL Server 2008 - What's New? with Andras Belokosztolszki Date: Tuesday 26 February 2008 Topic: VBUG & NXTGEN TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: "SQL Server 2008 is due in Q2 2008. It introduces many new T-SQL language enhancements. In this session we will have a look at the features that are already available in the latest Community Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008. These include the MERGE statement, the new date and time related data types, the hirerachy_id and spatial data types." Venue: St Johns Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Code Access Security for Protecting Web Applications with Chris Seary Date: Wednesday 27 February 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Code Access Security gives an extra layer of defence for protecting your web application from malicious code. Chris will give demonstrations of how an attacker can get code onto your web server, and what damage it can do. He will then demonstrate how CAS can be used as an effective control against this. The presentation contains plenty of sample code and templates that conform to Microsoft Patterns and Practices recommendations. Chris Seary is a CISSP, a CESG Listed Advisor and a Developer Security MVP. Please note that you can arrive from 18.30 ready for a 19.00 start. Venue: BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Third Party EventsScottish Developers: Team Foundation Server - Richard FennellDate: Tuesday 12 February 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: How many times have you heard the developer say ‘but it works on my PC ’? How much time have you wasted trying to get a complex solution to build on a new PC? In this session I will show how continuous integration, the automated building and testing of projects whenever files are checked in, can be used to improve the quality of any software development project. Helping to catch and resolve problems as soon as possible in the development cycle; not waiting until to delivery phase of a project to find there are integration problems. The session will include demos of continuous integration using Visual Studio Team Server, as well as discussions of integration with other system such as MSTest and Virtual Server. Venue: Room 16 (Level 2) Continuing Professional Development Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow , G4 0BA Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here .NETDEVNET: A Tour Of Visual Studio 2008 And The .NET Framework v3.5 Date: Monday 18 February 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Want to know how Visual Studio 2008 differs from every single previous release of Visual Studio? Do the terms "red bits" and "green bits" confuse you? Are you having a hard time finding what exactly is new in the .NET Framework v3.5 – the complete list? Have you got an interest in exploring what the new C#3 and VB9 language features can do for you today and not tomorrow? This talk will satisfy all of those questions plus more. After attending this session, the first thing you will do when you go back home is move your VS2005 projects to VS2008 - that's a promise! Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here About DoEvents
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