Discuss future of user group, elect new leadership, and social hour.

Date: 2/23/2010 6:00:00 PM

Come hear more about the latest announcements and technologies presented at this years PDC in LA.  This session will provide an overview of some of the major products and announcements that came of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2009 held last November.  Topics to  be covered in this meeting include:

• “3 Screens and a Cloud”
• Azure
• Silverlight 4
• WCF RIA Services
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
• Parallelism

Date: 1/26/2010 6:00:00 PM

See how to use the next version of Visual Studio Team System to manage user stories, easily generate code based on usage, and even re-factor existing architecture. Learn how to diagnose real production problems, debug in-production virtual labs, capture test data to eliminate the no-repro bugs, and transparently plan, monitor, and adapt software projects.

Date: 11/24/2009 6:00:00 PM

We are going to have not one, but two presentations this month.

Introduction to WCF – This is an introduction to the Windows Communication Foundation and writing services in .NET.

Introduction to C# 4.0 – This is a great introduction to the new features of C# 4.0, and the power that these features enable.  All done in Visual Studio 2010.

Date: 10/27/2009 6:00:00 PM

What is Aspect Oriented-Programming? It's a technique for encapsulating code that typically permeates your codebase but is difficult to express with current OO syntax. We will review the basic concepts of AOP and some common scenarios that would benefit from AOP techniques. There are several frameworks that support AOP in .NET but the easiest to get started with is PostSharp. We'll take a look at the tool, what it's capabilities are and how we can use it to apply AOP principles within our codebase.

Date: 9/29/2009 6:00:00 PM