Date: Monday, May 12, 2008 @ 6:00 p.m. Topic: Data Access Layers with LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Data Services Speaker: Scott Hanselman and Beth Massi, Microsoft Join Scott and Beth as they show you how to build a data access layer using LINQ to SQL and then how to expose the LINQ to SQL entities using ADO.NET Data Services. LINQ to SQL is an O/RM (object ......

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Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 @ 6:30 p.m. Topic: AJAX for ASP.NET Speaker: Justin Lee, ObjectSharp Consulting AJAX for ASP.NET comes in three flavours and this session will look at all of them. First you’ll see how the new AJAX-enabled controls allow you to create ASP.NET applications that are more responsive and more scalable than traditional web-based ......

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Date: Saturday March 1st, 2008 Event Description: In case you aren't familiar with Code Camps, they are designed to provide a forum for the developer community to speak, network and share ideas. In recent years, many user groups had lost the participation of their members for presentations. This core principle has been overshadowed by commercial aspects ......

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Date: Thursday, December 13, 2007 @ 6:30 p.m. Topic: What's New in Visual Basic 9.0 Speaker: Rob Windsor, ObjectSharp Consulting Visual Basic is evolving in dramatic ways to help people be more productive when developing enterprise, data-aware applications. The next version of Visual Basic (included with Visual Studio 2008) includes several new language ......

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Date: Monday November 19th, 2007 Event Description: Conversation about the new language features in .NET 3.5 have been dominated by the inclusion of Linq. In this session we will look at some of the features that have been lost in the shuffle. We will deep dive into anonymous constructors, simple properties, anonymous types, the ‘var’ keyword, lambda ......

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Date: Monday, November 5, 2007 @ 7:00 p.m. <-- Note time change from original post Topic: Introduction to SharePoint 2007 for Developers Speaker: Reza Alirezaei, Development Horizon Corp As a SharePoint developer you must know what types of functionality the SharePoint object model provides, and how to leverage it in order to build custom solutions. ......

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Date: Thursday September 20th, 2007 Event Description: Silverlight is arguably the biggest shift in Microsoft strategy on the web since IE was introduced over 10 years ago. With the reach of cross platform and the richness of the .NET framework, the future of building Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) has never been more exciting. In this talk, you ......

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Date: Monday September 10, 2007 @ 6:30 pm Topic: Will Silverlight Change the World? Speaker: Bruce Johnson, ObjectSharp Consulting There is no question that Silverlight is one of the hottest technologies out of Microsoft in quite a while. But as it is with most hyped products, there are elements of truth and not-so-truth to the marketing story. In this ......

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Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 @ 6:30 pm Topic: Messaging Patterns for WCF Services Speaker: Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign Inc. When you build a distributed enterprise system many flavors message exchange are available to meet the needs of different communication patterns. In this session I will discuss a variety of messaging patterns and how they ......

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June 13, 2007 (EST) - Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) speaker: Sheldon Fernandez - Infusion Development location: 200 Bloor Street East Toronto (Manulife Financial) - International A The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) represents one of the most significant architectural changes to the Windows Operating System since its inception. Specifically, ......

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Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 @ 6:30 pm Topic: Extending the ObjectDataSource Speaker: Bruce Johnson, ObjectSharp Consulting One of the more interesting additions to ASP.NET 2.0 is the ObjectDataSource control. Not simply because it allows object of almost any type to be used as the source for binding to the controls on a form. But also because it can ......

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Nadeem Mitha is Presenting the Toronto SharePoint User Group on April 18th Beyond Web Parts: Rapid Web Application Development using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 At 2 Bloor St West (8th Floor) at 7 PM – Come at 6 PM for pizza Discover the advantages of leveraging SharePoint as a platform for web-based applications Learn a tried-and-tested approach ......

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Date: Wednesday April 11, 2007 Speaker: Jean-Luc David The purpose of this event is to demonstrate how the Microsoft Application Platform provides a robust and secure foundation for building data-driven applications and Web sites. Specifically, this session will examine some of the tools and technologies available for developers including Visual Studio ......

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Date: Thursday February 22nd, 2007 THIS DATE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED Speaker: Chris Dufour, MVP The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's unified framework for building secure, reliable, transacted, and interoperable distributed applications. In this session we will begin with a high-level overview of the WCF architecture and its key concepts. ......

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