Search
Thursday, July 02, 2009 ..:: Home ::.. Register  Login
 News Minimize

There is a new SharePoint Users Group. The group hopes to provide a wealth of knowledge and resource for developers, administrators, and users in the area who have an interest in Microsoft SharePoint technologies. They will have meetings on the first Wednesday of each month with presentations from Microsoft professionals and SharePoint experts from the surrounding areas. Check out their website at www.wncsug.com for more information.

We are a member of the O'Reilly user group program. Click here to find out about membership benefits including a 35% discount on all O'Reilly company books. Please send your reviews on books to Dave Kolb so we get more books for giveaways.

We are members of the INETA and Culminis organizations.


 Speaker Blogs Minimize

 Community Links Minimize

 Welcome to the WNC .NET Developers Guild Website Minimize

The WNC .NET Developers Guild is an independent, all volunteer organization, dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community of Asheville, NC and the surrounding areas. Our monthly meetings will offer refreshments, professional networking and educational programs and we will often have some great items to give away.

Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 6 to 8:30 PM in the training center of our meeting host, ImageSmith Communications, located near Asheville at 19 Walden Drive in Arden near the intersection of Sweeten Creek, Hendersonville, and Airport roads. Click here for a map and directions.

Anyone interested in .NET software development is invited to join our group. We invite you to register so that you will be notified of upcoming meetings and events. Your contact information will not be used for any marketing purposes. You are invited to attend whether you register or not. See the individual meeting announcements to add the event to your calendar and to RSVP so that we can estimate refreshments for our meeting sponsors.

If you have an interest in helping to sponsor or making presentations at meetings please contact us.


 Next Meeting - July 14th Minimize

New ASP.NET Ajax 4 Features

Wally McClure will present on ASP.NET 4 AJAX.  The highlights for this presentation include:

  • ASP.NET AJAX is more than just the UpdatePanel.
  • An overview of the basics of ASP.NET AJAX with web services (ASMX and WCF).
  • Features in ASP.NET AJAX that shipped with .NET 3.5 SP1.  The key new feature is history support.
  • With ASP.NET 4 AJAX, we’ll look at how we can do complicated data binding on the client side. 

Please click RSVP to send us an email that you will attend this meeting to help us estimate refreshments. Click here to add this meeting to your calendar.

Agenda 

  • 6:00 PM Networking and Refreshments
  • 6:30 PM Announcements and Introductions
  • 6:45 PM Presentation - New ASP.NET Ajax 4 Features
  • 8:15 PM Prize drawings
  • 8:30 PM Wrap-up 

Presented by Wally McClure

Wallace B. McClure graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He continued his education there, receiving a Master’s degree in the same field in late 1991.

Since that time, McClure has done consulting and development for such companies as Coca-Cola, Bechtel National, Magnatron, and Lucent Technologies, among others. 

  • He is the founder and president of Scalable Development, Inc. Achievements & Awards:
  • Co-authored two papers on Symbolic Signal Processing while at Georgia Tech.;
  • Co-authored Building Highly Scalable Database Applications with .NET, a book focusing on building applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework;
  • AspInsiders member - the AspInsiders is a group of experts in designing and architecting Web and Widows based applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework;
  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the area of ASP.NET; honored six years in a row, 2004-2009;
  • Co-authored five books on .NET programming, included on the subjects of ADO.NET, AJAX, and new features in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Read Wally’s blog here

Technical Sponsor Information – Dot Net Code Slingers Inc.

Dot Net Code Slingers is primarily involved in creating CmdMan [Command Manager] which is a System Monitoring and Maintenance tool that manages execution of Windows PowerShell scripts across a network based on an extensible event trigger design. PowerShell scripts can be executed in response to various calendar, network, system log, data file, WMI and performance counter events. Users and 3rd party developers can also define and manage their own event triggers and PowerShell scripts. WMI and performance counter support especially allow for a wide range of events to be monitored.  CmdMan management consoles are used for configuration and status display. Please contact Dave Kolb for more information. 

Wally is presenting to us courtesy of the INETA Speaker Bureau!


 Future Meetings Minimize

See the Future Presentations page for more details but here is a summary of what we already have lined up:

  • July 14th, 2009 - ASP.NET 4.0, AJAX and Azure by Wally McClure - more details later

 Account Login Minimize


Register
Forgot Password ?


We wish to express our thanks to our current sponsors:

 

 

 Agile Software Group

 

Copyright (c) 2009 WNC .NET Developers Guild   Terms Of Use  Privacy Statement