Tonight – June 17, 2008 Central-Penn.NET:

Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI), 470 Friendship Road, Harrisburg (3rd floor)

5:30 - 6:00: Content Management and Workflow with SharePoint (Andy Heller)
Microsoft Sharepoint is a platform for information.  One core component that is gaining traction among users is content management and workflow.  We will take a view at how content management and workflow in SharePoint can be relevant to the developer community.

6:00 - 6:30: Pizza and business meeting

6:30 - 7:30: SharePoint and Applications:  Workflow Designer (Alejandro Rosado)
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides tools to automate business processes and build efficient applications on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Specifically, we will look at the Workflow Designer and see how to create custom event notifications and other collaboration tasks.

7:30: Q/A and cleanup

I will be attending this meeting, see you then!

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 Tomorrow - June 18, 2008 .NET VALLEY:

Session 1 : 6:00 PM

What’s next for SBS?

Presented By: Michael J. Murphy

Tags: IT Professional | Small Business Server
Session Length: 60 minutes
Session Summary:
SBS 2003 is 5 years old. When can you expect SBS 2008? What should you know about the move to 64x only? What versions will be available? Have you heard about the mid-size server solution Windows Essential Business Server? What technology gap will this technology fill? How can I take advantage of it? If you want answers to these and other questions join us for a discussion of the upcoming release of SBS 2008 and EBS.

Session 2 : 7:15 PM

Providing Your LINQ to SQL

Presented By: Jason N. Gaylord

Tags: Application Development | LINQ | SQL
Session Length: 60 minutes
Session Summary:
One of the issues many developers have is generating a solid data layer for their applications. Microsoft realized this and developed LINQ (Language Integrated Query). LINQ can be used to provide the data layer for nearly anything including XML, Objects, and SQL Server. During this talk you'll see how to use LINQ to SQL, build Lambda expressions, and provide a complete data layer with doing very little work.
 

.NET Valley Live!

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Location: At Luzerne County Community College

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM

This event will begin at 5:30pm in room 712 in building 7. Be sure to register for each session in this event by clicking the register button under each presenter's picture. The agenda is as follows below:

Time
Happening

5:30pm
Pizza, Soda, and Social Gathering

6:00pm
Application Development: Mobile Development

7:00pm
Break

7:15pm
IT Professional: What’s New in Windows Server 2008

8:15pm
Raffle and Closing

Session 1 : 6:00 PM

Mobile App Development with .Net Compact Framework, SQLCE and PPC’s

Presented By: John Baird

Tags: Development | .NET | Mobile App | .NET Compact Framework | SQLCE | PPC
Session Length: 60 minutes
Session Summary:
This introductory presentation will cover the basics of setting up the compact framework, SQLCE, working with emulators, active sync and the differences between developing using the regular .net framework and the compact framework.

Session 2 : 7:15 PM

What’s New in Windows Server 2008

Presented By: Michael J. Murphy

Tags: IT Professional | Windows Server 2008
Session Length: 60 minutes
Session Summary:
Windows Server 2008, in addition to incorporating new capabilities and enhancements to existing features, includes a number of improvements in the core OS that enhance the Operating System’s capabilities in this area. Features aimed at increasing the ability of Windows Server 2008 to support highly critical workloads by improving operational reliability, reducing system failures, and easing management. We will also discuss improvements in other related elements in the platform that help Windows based systems and services help move an organization's IT Department
 

Perhaps I should know about this already, but I was not-so-blissfully unaware that you can disable that annoying, nagging popup window that keeps asking you to reboot after new updates are installed.  That dialog drives me absolutely insane, as I'm positive it waits for me to be doing some important coding and then it decides to disturb me and throw me off track.  Hop on over to Michael Pietroforte's blog for instructions on how to disable the reboot option.

 

June 17^th:  Central Penn.NET Meeting

Hands On FUN!!! This sounds great! You get to try out new things in a round table style meeting with helpful developers around.  This should be a great time indeed.

June 18th: Lehigh Valley .NET User Group Meeting

Tim Yocum from HLN Consulting will be the presenter.  Check the LV UG website for more details on the topic.

June 27th: .NET Valley Live Meeting

Mike Murphy will be presenting on Exchange 2007 Routing & Transport. The developer session is AJAX Best Practices given by Lindsay Rutter, a developer evangelist from Microsoft Corp. 

 

Run over right now to the TECHbash website and register for Northeastern Pennsylvania's premiere technical event!  There will be sessions for both IT Pros and Developers.

Just a few great things about the event:

• Lots of giveaways - books, magazines, software, t-shirts, etc...
• Premiere software raffles
• Great presentations on the latest technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco.
  • Windows Server Codename "Longhorn"
  • IP Telephony
  • SharePoint*
  • Ajax
  • More...
• Opportunities to network and chat with other industry professionals

*I will be presenting the SharePoint Technologies overview.  This is a great chance to get a look at what MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0 has to offer!