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DoEvents - March 2008
Dear Developer Only a few weeks to go and we can all take a well earned rest over the Easter weekend, in the meantime a plethora of developer events are taking place (including a certain product launch, as if you didn’t know!) Please feel free to pass your copy of DoEvents onto any colleague who isn’t currently signed up. It’s the best way of keeping up to date with regional and national events! Have a great month. Christian Mitchell VBUG; Developing the Developer SPONSOR: Get programming with these key titles from Wrox
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The MSDN subscription is an invaluable developer tool that no serious professional can afford to be without, and it doesn’t have to break the bank. Did you know that Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Professional can cost from around about £360.00? VBUG knows licensing, so you don’t have to. For the most cost effective way of purchasing your software, make sure you give VBUG a call on 01753 649 680 (Price based on 3 year annual invoice scheme and is ex VAT). VBUG EventsVBUG: Accelerate Your I.T. Learning with David RingsellDate: Tuesday 04 March 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: People who work with I.T. face the challenge of life-long learning. Technologies change rapidly and we want to keep up. This is a different kind of talk that will not look at particular product. Instead we will look at learning and mastering any new technology. We will look at: Using to both the left an right hand sides of the brain to enhance effectiveness Creating Mind Maps to understand and memorise software Employing our visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities to improve the way we work I have worked for many years as a Microsoft technical trainer. As such, I constantly have to learn new stuff. I use these techniques on a daily basis. I have also taught accelerated learning methods to medical students and at universities. PLEASE ARRIVE FROM 18.00 READY FOR THE 18.30 START Venue: Welsh Institute of Sport, Taff Suite , Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, CF11 9SW Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Building User Controls in Silverlight 2.0 with Fritz Onion Date: Wednesday 12 March 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Abstract: The primary mechanism for reuse in Silverlight 2.0 is the user control. This talk will walk through the steps for building effective user controls in the newly released Silverlight 2.0 beta, including steps for creating user control projects in Visual Studio 2008, editing user control user interfaces with Expression Blend 2.0, exposing properties and events from user controls, as well as control packaging. Bio: Fritz Onion is a founding partner of Pluralsight, a premier Microsoft .NET training provider. Fritz is the author or co-author of Pluralsight's ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax, and Silverlight courses, and teaches course offerings around the world. He is the author of the highly acclaimed books Essential ASP.NET and Essential ASP.NET 2.0 (Addison Wesley). He is a columnist for MSDN Magazine and is also a regular speaker at Please arrive from 18.00 ready for the 18.30 start. Venue: Anteo Group, 45 Beech Street, London Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: Free More Info: click here VBUG: What’s new in WPF for .NET 3.5 with Ian Griffiths Date: Tuesday 25 March 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: TBC Venue: Bracknell Leisure Centre, Bagshot Road, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 9SE Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: What’s new in VS08 .NET Fx 3.5 for the Web Developer Date: Wednesday 26 March 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Join VBUG and Mike Ormond of the Microsoft Developer & Platform Group to find out what's in store for both the ASP.NET platform and Visual Studio in the upcoming release. As web developers, there's a lot to get excited about including many features you can take advantage of in your existing projects. In this session, we demonstrate the benefits you can get out of the Visual Studio toolset when working on your existing ASP.NET 2.0 projects as well as for new ASP.NET 3.5 projects. We'll take a look at some of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5. New server controls, ASP.NET AJAX integration, not to mention Language Integrated Query (or LINQ), we'll take a look at the lot. And while we're at it we'll see where Microsoft Silverlight fits in the picture. You can arrive from 18.00 ready for an 18.30 start Spaces are limited to 25 seats. Venue: Johnston Press Digital Publishing, Peterborough Webb Estate 324 Oundle Rd, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9QR Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here SQL Server 2008, Win Server 2008 & VS.NET 2008 Launch Event Date: Thursday 27 March 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: The HEROES Happen {Here} Manchester launch of the latest set of Microsoft products - Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 will be an absolute blast. We'll be exploring all three products with the help of some Community Super Heroes who will be giving you the information you need to head back to work and be a Hero yourself (cape not provided). Along the way we'll be giving away a huge range of prizes; someone will walk away with thousands of pounds worth of software and goodies, will it be you? Can you afford to risk not showing up? Time Description 17:30 - 18:00 Event Registration 18:00 - 18:45 Windows Server 2008 18:45 - 19:00 Break & Networking 19:00 - 19:45 SQL Server 2008 19:45 - 20:00 Break & Networking 20:00 - 20:45 Visual Studio .NET 2008 20:45 - 21:00 Prize Draw & Close 21:00 Onwards Pub (and a well earned pint) Venue: Manchester Digital Development Agency, Lower Ground Floor, 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester, M1 6ED Start Time: 5:30 PM Price: FOC More Info: click here Third Party EventsSQLBits - Community ConferenceDate: Saturday 01 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: When? SQLBits will be holding its next Free community conference on the 1st March 2008 Where? We will be again sponsored by Microsoft but we will be holding the conference at Aston University Lakeside Conference Centre. The conference centre is a custom built in the heart of Birmingham and increases our capacity to 440. The venue is easily accessible off the M6 and is walking distance from Birmingham New Street station. This opens up the conference to more of the UK. The layout and size of rooms will also enable us to reduce congestion for popular sessions and provide more room during the breaks. What? We will be having 20 sessions again covering everything from spatial data types, to index plans, to data mining. The exact agenda will be decided by you the people attending. Sessions have now been submitted and its up to you to vote on the sessions you want to see on the day. Once you register on the site you will be able to vote for your preferred sessions. We will pool all the votes to decide which sessions will be presented on the day. Who? Sessions will be given by the people from the SQL community, i.e. You. Sessions have now been submitted. You can see the speakers that are going to present here. Remember you as the community will get to choose the sessions by voting for the ones you would like to see. Venue: Conference Aston, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham., B4 7ET Start Time: 8:45 AM Price: FREE! More Info: click here Scottish Developers: Business Apps with WPF - the full monty Date: Wednesday 05 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Lots of demos of WPF show flashy UIs with animations and videos and trickery worthy of a Hollywood production worked over by ILM. Is that what your next business app is going to look like? Probably not. Nevertheless, WPF can do a lot for you, because it's the most powerful and most productive UI platform out there. Full stop. This double session walks you through the whole process of creating a business application with WPF, focusing on how it saves you development time. Venue: Microsoft Scotland, 127 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4JN Start Time: 1:15 PM Price: From £10 More Info: click here Dev week 2008! Date: Monday 10 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: DevWeek is Europe’s leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including Silverlight, .NET Framework 3.5, WCF, Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET AJAX, SQL Server 2008, LINQ, C# 3.0, Design Patterns, WPF, and more. Book early and save up to £200! If you book your place on or before 14 December 2007, you can save up to £200 off the full price – see the registration page for details. Interested in attending? The main three-day conference at DevWeek 2007 was a sell-out, so you are advised to book your place as soon as possible to avoid disappointment – you also can save up to £200 by registering now. Venue: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS Start Time: 12:00 AM Price: Book early and save up to £200! More Info: click here STUN PowerBuilder Technology Preview Date: Thursday 13 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: An exclusive PowerBuilder Technology Preview event Welcome and Introduction PowerBuilder Roadmap and Directions An Insight into PowerBuilder 12 Technologies PowerBuilder and Service Orientated Architectures (SOA) Questions and Answers Close All the session abstracts and speaker biographies can be found at: www.stun.org.uk Venue: Sybase, Sybase Court, Crown Lane, Maidenhead, SL6 8QZ Start Time: 9:30 AM Price: More Info: click here NxtGenUG: Pre-Launch LINQ & Pizza! Date: Tuesday 18 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: "Twas the night before The Launch, ..." , yes and our good friend Ian Cooper, founder of London .NET User Group pays another visit to NxtGenUG Brum this time bearing his LINQ. With the 2008 Launch Event tomorrow, we might have a few surprise guests popping in ..., Andy Maggs finished off his MSBuild series, swag and plenty of Pizza. Don't miss it! If you are not a member of NxtGenUG, you are more than welcome to attend. We just ask you register on the site, to help us to plan numbers and refreshments. Once registered on the site, you can then register for this event from this page. Ian Cooper Enterprise Application Design With LINQ Ian Cooper shows us ways to implement LINQ when designing Enterprise Applications Andrew Maggs MSBuild Part Deux - Custom Build Tasks In this session Andy "I never miss a 'swag' out" Maggs will talk in depth about build tasks and the community contributions to them as well as show you how easy it is to roll your own, build tasks that is ... Venue: Faraday Wharf, Holt Street, Aston Science Park, Birmingham, B7 4BB Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here COMPUWARE: Requirements Management Seminar - Manchester Date: Wednesday 26 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: We all know the statistics: IDC research indicates that 70 - 80% of IT projects that fail do so because of poor requirements Management, gathering and analysis.* But WHY is it so hard to get requirements right? Through attending you will discover how organisations have minimised the gap between business and IT and delivered value by better aligning development, testing and deployment with their business objectives. During each seminar we will demonstrate a solution to your requirements management challenges, which includes: Capture and structure of business requirements Collaboration and communication of requirements across the team Full traceability across the project life cycle Establishment of common shared understanding of requirements Automatic generation of comprehensive up-to-date documentation Creation of Test requirements and import in test management tools Hear from Strata, LogicaCMG and Specsavers who will all share their individual real world experiences around capturing and managing project requirements. Venue: The Lowry Hotel, 50 Dearmans Place, Chapel Wharf, Manchester, M3 5LH Start Time: 9:30 AM Price: FREE More Info: click here COMPUWARE: Requirements Management Seminar - London Date: Thursday 27 March 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: We all know the statistics: IDC research indicates that 70 - 80% of IT projects that fail do so because of poor requirements Management, gathering and analysis.* But WHY is it so hard to get requirements right? Through attending you will discover how organisations have minimised the gap between business and IT and delivered value by better aligning development, testing and deployment with their business objectives. During each seminar we will demonstrate a solution to your requirements management challenges, which includes: Capture and structure of business requirements Collaboration and communication of requirements across the team Full traceability across the project life cycle Establishment of common shared understanding of requirements Automatic generation of comprehensive up-to-date documentation Creation of Test requirements and import in test management tools Hear from Strata, LogicaCMG and Specsavers who will all share their individual real world experiences around capturing and managing project requirements Venue: London Hilton, Park Lane, 22 Park Lane , London, W1K 1BE Start Time: 9:30 AM Price: FREE More Info: click here About DoEvents
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