Events
John Papa will be speaking about the Entity Framework at the Space Coast .Net User Group Feb 20,2008 meeting.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework, part of ADO.NET components of the .NET Framework, is an Object-Relational mapping technology from Microsoft. It is geared to solving the mismatch between the formats data is stored in a database and in which it is consumed in an object-oriented programming language or other front ends. ADO.NET Entity Framework will be released in the first half of 2008, separate from .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.
John Papa, Senior Consultant for ASPSoft, Inc., a Microsoft MVP...
Russ Fustino's Tool Shed Tour
July Space Coast .Net Meeting
When: July 18 @ 6:30 PM
Where: Space Coast Credit Union Corp headquarters
Connecting Applications with WCF
Most applications of any scale need to make remote calls. Whether you need to call across processes from your smart client to a web service, from your web server to your application server, or from one client to another in a peer to peer fashion, WCF supports any kind of remote messaging or communications scenario. It doesn’t just stop at remote calls either, but also supports multiple forms of security, distributed transactions, queuing, concurrency, callbacks and many other things that are needed...
Live From Redmond Webcast Series
The Visual Basic team has put together a "Live from Redmond" webcast series aimed at the next version of Visual Basic and Visual Studio code named "Orcas". The live series starts April 18th and will continue to the end of May. Come join the Visual Basic team for this exciting series.
Here's the schedule (check the VB Developer Center for updates):
Live From Redmond: VB9 - Orcas Overview April 18th, Presented by John Stallo
Live From Redmond: VB9 - LINQ Overview April 25th, Presented by Kit George
Live From Redmond: VB9 - LINQ to SQL & O/R Designer Deep Dive May 2nd, Presented by Young Joo
Live...
ScottGu at Space Coast .Net
Recently we had Scott Guthrie who works for Microsoft stop by and present at our meeting while he was in town for DevConnections . Scott runs the teams that build the .NET Common anguage Runtime (CLR), .NET Compact Framework, ASP.NET /Atlas, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (aka "Avalon") , IIS 7.0, Commerce Server, Visual Web Developer, and Visual Studio Tools for Avalon (aka "Cider").
Scott did a really awsome 2 hour presentation. He started off showing the new CSS features of Visual Studio Orcas. Then he moved on to LINQ and showed some really useful examples....