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.

Developer-centric Features of SQL Server 2008

This session will cover a variety of topics presenting many of the new developer-centric features of SQL Server 2008. These items will focus on Transact SQL and other SQL Server Product changes. I will leave detailed coverage of external things like LINQ, the Entity Framework, Sync Framework , etc. for other presenters.

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 - Building Data Visualization Applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight
• 8:15 PM Prize drawings if anything to give away
• 8:30 PM Wrap-up

Presented by Kevin Boles

Kevin is a SQL Server expert, working exclusively with the product since version 6.5. With over fifteen years of IT industry experience, he holds every SQL Server certification including MCT and MVP. Kevin has been a very successful independent consultant for the past ten years. Find out more about Kevin at linkedin here.

Technical Sponsor Information – Power Church Software

Since 1984, PowerChurch Software has been developing software for churches and non-profits. We realize that no two organizations are alike and pride ourselves in products that are as flexible and customizable as possible. Over 29,000 churches and non-profit organizations have come to rely on PowerChurch Software for their ministry management software needs. Jeff Campbell and Tracy Pearson from PCS will likely be at the meeting.

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

• October 14th -  Developer Centric Features of SQL Server 2008 by Kevin Boles who is an independent SQL Consultant and SQL Server expert as well as a SQL MVP. Technical sponsor is PowerChurch Software.
• November 11th - ASP.NET MVC Framework by Brian Hitney, Microsoft Developer Evangelist. More details soon.