As you can see in 2010 MADdotNET has a LOT going on!
We have three events every month: the first Wed of the month being our in-depth presentation meeting where we have awesome presenters from Microsoft and other .NET professionals come and deliver full length presentations on .NET technologies, the second Wed of the month we just started getting together for .NET Lunches where we have great food and great conversations on all things .NET, and last but certainly not least the third Wed of the month we have our ALL.NET meetings focusing on Micro-Presentations where we encourage everyone to come out and bring their questions on projects they’re working on, want to work on, have seen and want to show off, etc. Come out - share and code with us!
Check out our “All Upcoming Events” calendar for the latest!
1) This month I’m very excited to have the PDC User Group Tour from Microsoft! And we’re giving away one copy of Windows 7 Ultimate! As well as ReSharper and Telerik licenses, and several more things in our raffle!
For all those (including myself) that didn’t make it out to the Professional Developers Conference 2009 (PDC) we’re very fortunate to have Microsoft provide the PDC User Group Tour – so if you didn’t get out to L.A., come see it in Madison!
Some fantastic new Technologies were unveiled at PDC and the following highlights that will be covered:
- Silverlight 4
- “3 Screens and a Cloud”
- Azure
- WCF RIA Services
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
- Parallelism
And we’re very much looking forward to having Scott Seely back to present!
Scott Seely bio: Senior Technical Architect for SAVO Group (http://www.savogroup.com). He has written four books, most recently as co-author of Effective REST Services via .NET. When not sitting behind a keyboard, Scott can be found in northern Illinois spending time with his wonderful wife, three kids, two dogs, two frogs, and whatever other animals happen to be in the house
2) Our monthly ALL.NET meeting @ Herzing College (5218 East Terrace Drive, Madison) -- Room #120 -- is on Feb 17th!
As always -- bring your questions / comments -- bring things to show off and / or just talk about -- bring your second wives (or husbands)... errr.. laptops <g> -- this is YOUR time to come and tap the minds of and share with some of the other top developers in our area!
Specifically, I’ve been coding a “File Repository” application using Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework 4 and SQL 2008 ( using FILESTREAMs ) – and want to share where I am with that and get feedback from everyone. So if you’ve worked with any of these ( or want to ) I’d love everyone’s input.
If you have anything in particular you want to share – bring it!
3) .NET Lunch is @ Alt-n-Backs on the 2nd Wed of each month -- starting at 11:45. ( http://altnbach.com/ -- 2602 Whalen Lane Madison, WI )