HDNUG Meeting - #80 ( 06/12/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Introducing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by Michael Steinberg and Introducting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 by John Hellman

  Michael will present information about the new features of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and John will present information about the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

  Michael Steinberg, a long time member of HDNUG is the President of HDNUG and John Hellman, who works for Sogeti in Houston, is the Vice-President.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #79 ( 05/08/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.5 by John Ebeling

  This presentation, which is an INETA Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Event, will provide an introduction to the changes to Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 3.5. If time permits, John will also cover some of the changes to the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.

  John Ebeling is a long time member of HDNUG. He has server on the board as the elected Secretary and has been our Webmaster for several years. He is an independent Software Developer and has been developing software for more than 15 years. John has spoken to the group several times before as well as at last years Houston TechFest.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #78 ( 04/10/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Introduction to LINQ to SQL and Gotchas by Mohammad Azam

  In this presentation Mohammad Azam will introduce LINQ to SQL framework. LINQ to SQL is part of the .NET 3.5 framework and is used to perform object relational mapping. Mohammad will also discuss some of the gotchas when using LINQ to SQL framework.

  Mohammad Azam is the founder of the knowledge based website, GridViewGuy. GridViewGuy hosts tons of articles, videos and podcasts related to the .NET technology. He is a Microsoft MVP for 2007 and 2008 for ASP.NET technology. He also contributes videos for the AspAlliance website. Currently, he is working for the University of Houston as an ASP.NET developer.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #77 ( 03/13/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - What UserControls are REALLY for by Les Pinter

  Coming from a FoxPro background, I naturally wanted to subclass the form controls so that I could change all labels' font in a single location. UserControls looked like what we did in FoxPro, so I dove in. One year later, I was wondering how it could POSSIBLY be so hard.

  Les Pinter is a noted author, Microsoft MVP, and popular INETA speaker who regularly presents at conferences in the US, the Americas, Europe, and Russia. Les founded Pinter Consulting in 1982 after selling the precursor of Microsoft Word to a 23-year-old Bill Gates. Pinter Consulting has developed enterprise applications for Halliburton, Shell Oil, Exxon, Mitchell Energy, Lockheed, Catholic Charities, TRW, and many other companies throughout the United States and abroad. His company offers development services in VB.NET, ASP.NET and Visual FoxPro. Les has written 7 books and over 260 journal articles on programming. He is a Contributing Editor for Universal Thread Magazine (Montreal) and a former Contributing Editor of Point DBF (Paris), and published a database newsletter in the US and Russia for 10 years.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #76 ( 02/14/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Performance of C#.NET Compared to Java™ for Numerically Intensive Applications by Edward Stewart

  Modern computing platforms are changing the way developers write and expect applications to run. While high-performance computing (HPC) was once relegated to the climate-controlled basement full of servers, more and more desktop users are asking for more out of their personal workstations. Because modern languages like C# and Java are easily learned and very popular, the languages have become the environment of choice for many developers, including those that develop numerically intensive software. This leads to the logical questions: Is Java or C# fast enough? Which one is faster? Are there limitations? With a focus on the Windows platform, this presentation will show that either C# or Java can be fast enough for a wide variety of mathematical and statistical algorithms, but that it is important to keep expectations realistic.

  Edward Stewart is currently the product manager for the IMSL Numerical Libraries. Ed received his Ph.D. in physical ocean science and engineering from the University of Delaware. He has experience in many quantitative areas including quantification and interpretation of statistics and probability, coordination and analysis of large data sets, frequency domain time series analysis, partial differential equations, finite difference numerical modeling, and nonlinear dynamics. Ed has also been a major contributor in the development of new features and algorithms in PV-WAVE and the IMSL Libraries. He has published journal articles on experimental fluid dynamics and technical documents regarding Visual Numerics' products.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #75 ( 01/10/2008, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - ASP.Net MVC Framework by Ben Scheirman

  This presentation will give you information about Microsoft's ASP.Net MVC Framework. Checkout Ben's blog (http://www.flux88.com/ThankYouHDNUG.aspx) for more info about the MVC framework.

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HDNUG Meeting - #74 ( 12/13/2007, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest

  Microsoft is sponsoring our December 13, 2007 meeting by having an Install Fest for Visual Studio 2008.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #73 ( 11/08/2007, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - SQL 2005 Performance Dashboard and the Houston MSDN Premier of Life of Simon, a SQL Server DBA by Jeremy Gaige

  This presentation will give you information about the SQL 2005 Performance Dashboard and the Houston MSDN Premier of Life of Simon, a SQL Server DBA.

  Jeremy Gaige is a Systems Engineer with Idera and has over 10 years experience in enterprise management frameworks, specialized monitoring tools, and systems administration including SQL Server. Jeremy has a wide variety of experiences including consulting, training, presales, and worldwide implementations of framework tools like NetIQ AppManager, Microsoft Operations Manager, and Tivoli. More recently with Idera, Jeremy has been working with SQL Server implementations worldwide in SQL performance monitoring and administration.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #72 ( 10/11/2007, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - The UI Revolution by Markus Egger

  This presentation will give you in-depth coverage of various Silverlight versions (especially the difference between 1.0 and 1.1., which is drastic!), but also a bit of general information on what is different between Silverlight and WPF and why both are so important?

  Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B, and Web Sercices. EPS does most of its development using Microsoft Visual Studio (.NET). EPS has worked on numerous software projects for Fortune 500 companies including Philip Morris, Qualcomm, Shell and Microsoft. Markus has also worked as a contractor for the Microsoft Visual Studio team where he is mostly responsible for object modeling and other object and component related technologies. Markus is an international speaker having presented at numerous conferences in North America and Europe. Markus has written numerous articles for publications including CoDe Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro Magazine, FoxPro Advisor, Fuchs, FoxTalk and Microsoft Office and Database Journal. Markus is the publisher of "Component Developer Magazine" (CoDe Magazine), a .NET publication focusing on technologies such as .NET and Web Development. Markus is the author of the book, Advanced Object Oriented Programming with VFP 6.0. Markus is the author of several well known tools such as the Voodoo Web Controls, GenRepoX, and Visual WebBuilder. Markus has received the Microsoft MVP Award (96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004) for his contributions to the developer community. Visual LandPro 98, one of the applications Markus was in charge of, was nominated for the Microsoft Excellence Awards three times. You can contact Markus by email (megger@eps-software.com) or visit him online (http://www.eps-software.com).

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #71 ( 09/13/2007, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - SharePoint Development by Philip Wheat

  This presentation will give you a look at SharePoint Development.

  Philip Wheat is an Architect Evangelist with the Microsoft South Central region. Through his career he has worked in most of the areas of Computer Science and has in the past few years become very interested in Composite Applications in general and SharePoint/Office delivery mechanisms. His interests are software, hardware, and the wonderful ideas that writers (fiction and code) can come up with to put the two together.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #70 ( 08/09/2007, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Visual Studio Team System 2008: First Look by Mike Azocar

  This presentation will give a sneak peak at the new features of Team System that will make Team Development easier. It will also discuss the future deployment strategies of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System.

  Mike Azocar is a Microsoft Solutions Architect for Sogeti Houston. He also has the distinction of being one of the few Microsoft Certified Professionals whose only certification is from a test that he helped to author (Exam 70-510). Mike evangelizes Visual Studio Team System and works closely with both the Microsoft Houston office and the VSTS Product Team in Redmond. Mike participated in a VSTS panel for .Net Rocks which aired on 6/28/2007. Recently, Mike competed (and lost) the Speaker Idol competition and presented a Chalk Talk session on Process Templates at Tech Ed 2007 in Orlando. Mike's blog can be found at www.michaelazocar.com/blog.

  
  

HDNUG Meeting - #69 ( 07/12/2007, 6:30PM-8:30PM )

• Featured Speaker - Visual Studio 2008 by Stephen Fulcher

  The next release of the .NET platform and Visual Studio 2008 bring many enhancements for the developer. In this session, we’ll take a look at these changes. We’ll see new projects, multi-targeting, the WPF designer, WCF support, Workflow support, the new ASP.NET, AJAX support and LINQ -- to name a few. We’ll spend our time in the tool and take a look at the new features.

  Stephen Fulcher is a Principal with InformationIQ where he focuses on .NET technologies. Previously, he spent five years at Microsoft working with developer technologies. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and lives in Houston with his family.