Events This Week – March 16th, 2009

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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area…this list now includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar, and all events entered in Community Megaphone are also now automatically synced to the UGSS event calendar:

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:00 PM: MSDN Freedom Roadshow
The future is a combination of local software and Internet services interacting with one another. Software makes services better and services make software better. And by bringing together the best of both worlds, we maximize choice, flexibility and capabilities for our customers. We describe this evolutionary path in our industry as Software + Services. In this event, you will learn about the tools and technology Microsoft provides to enable organization to take full advantage of this new industry trend.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:00 PM: Workflow and DotNetNuke
ABSTRACT: Everybody's #1 question when looking at DotNetNuke as a potential enterprise app framework... what about Workflow? What is it? How does it work? How could I use it in DotNetNuke. First, we'll cover the basics of the Windows Workflow Foundation, the workflow runtime, the workflow designer, business rules, versioning, dynamic workflow (xoml) vs compiled workflows. Then we'll look at some code and some options that you have to incorporate workflow into your DotNetNuke module.
BIO: Steve Fabian has been developing software for over 25 years in dozens of programming languages. From small utility applications to large scale core enterprise applications used by hundreds of thousands of users. Steve is a member of the DotNetNuke Core Development Team and Project Trustee, as well as the Project Lead for the DotNetNuke Repository Module and the Core Release Tracker Process.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:00 PM: Silverlight 2.0: Practical Business Applications
This presentation will demonstrate how Silverlight can be used to implement real-world business applications. Instead of focusing on XAML and UI related information, this talk will cover integration with ASP.NET, interaction with SOAP and WCF based web services, and the power of client side application functionality.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:00 PM:
Mid-Atlantic Cloud Computing User Group (MCC) Understanding Windows Azure (Compute & Storage)
Presenter: Scott Zimmerman at Microsoft
After giving an overview of the Azure Services Platform, this session will focus on Windows Azure and demonstrate the Compute & Storage capabilities. We'll also have Q&A.
Who Should Attend? Cloud computing has huge implications for developers, architects and business people. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor and be part of the community that helps pioneer this exciting new area.
Pizza will be served at 6:00 and the presentation / demo will begin at 6:30. This event is sponsored by Microsoft.
Date and Location
March 19, 2009, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Microsoft Reston MTC
12012 Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA 20190
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:00 PM: NOVA Connected Systems
Discussions and demos of Azure Services Platform and Microsoft distributed computing, including WCF, BizTalk.
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Friday, March 20, 2009 2:00 PM: Developer Round Table - .NET Memory Management
Who: You and the rest of the .NET community.
What: .NET Memory Management with special Guest Scott Doorman (https://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman)
Where: https://www.developerroundtable.com/News/08-10-20/Meeting\_Directions.aspx
When: Friday March 20, 2009 2:00 PST
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Monday, March 23, 2009 7:00 PM: NOVA SQL User Group Meeting
Main Session Title: DTS to SSIS Conversion: What Are Your Options?
Speaker: Mike Davis Company: Pragmatic Works
Abstract: Microsoft's "End of Life" policy for SQL 2000 has encouraged organizations to seriously look at migrating their SQL2000 servers to SQL2005 or 2008. One of the biggest obstacles to a rapid migration is the Data Transformation Service (DTS) package issue. As we all know the conversion is not straightforward. SSIS is more powerful and significantly different from DTS. Join us as Mike Davis shares his knowledge about: Why you should upgrade from DTS to Integration Services Advantages of SSIS over DTS Options for converting DTS packages to native SSIS Adding value to packages during the conversion process Assessing the scope of a DTS conversion project (time, costs) See a demo of DTS xChange , a tool used to convert DTS packages
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:00 PM: CMAP .NET Essentials
This SIG implements a complete ASP.NET from the requirements to the final deployment. This session will concentrate on implementing web forms that change the state of the application.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:30 PM: Frederick .NET User Group March Meeting
6:30 PM-7:00 PM - Performance of Everyday Things, John Blumenauer
7:00 PM-7:30 PM - Pizza/Networking
7:30PM-8:30 PM - Intro to Tablet PC, Frank La Vigne
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