Tuesday Sep 29, 2009: Paul Sheriff – Build Unit Tests the Easy Way with VS.NET 2008

Tuesday Sep 29, 2009: Paul Sheriff Build Unit Tests the Easy Way with VS.NET 2008 When: Sep 29, 2009 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM RSVP: Seating is limited – RSVP Required Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/ (login required) Where: UC Davis Extension, Room 200A, Sacramento. Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816 Directions: 2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions) Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Speaker: Paul Sheriff   Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff’s Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com). Topic: Build Unit Tests the Easy Way with VS.NET 2008   Everyone knows that they should be writing better test cases for their applications, but how many of us really do it? In VS.NET 2008 testing is an integrated part of the development environment. So there is no longer any reason to avoid not doing test driven development and automated unit testing. In this seminar you will learn how to architect your applications to make testing quicker and easier. You will learn to use the tools in VS.NET 2008 to help you do the testing. You will learn 1.How to architect for test driven development 2.Creating test cases 3.Using the VS.NET 2008 testing tools. Links View this page online: SacNetUg Archives RSVP: http://www.sacnetug.org/ Please visit http://www.sacnetug.org to register, login and update your email preferences or to unsubscribe. Sponsors   Premier/Space SponsorsINETA Speaker and Refreshments sponsored by INETA. Quest Systems Quest has been a trusted technology management company delivering successful solutions for our clients from Fortune 50-5000 small and medium-sized clients. Quest offers technology products and Professional and Managed Services either on-site or from its secure data centers. Other Sponsors Microsoft-Raffle Prizes and Books sponsored by Microsoft and CodeZone. DynamSoft-SacdotNet uses SourceAnywhere remote source control solution, sponsored by Dynamsoft. . Discount ASP.NET-SacDotNet webhosting is sponsored by Discount ASP.NET Fees Admission is free.   This email is sent to only registered members with a username and password. If you do not like to receive event announcements in future, please login and change your email options

March 31, 2009: Stuart Celarier – Windows Workflow Foundation Essentials: Why, What, and How?

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Tuesday March 31, 2009: Stuart Celarier
Windows Workflow Foundation Essentials: Why, What, and How?

When:

March 31, 2009 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM

RSVP:

Seating is limited – RSVP Required
Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/ (login required)

Where:

UC Davis Extension, Room 200A, Sacramento.
Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816

Directions:

2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions)
Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage.
Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage.

Speaker:

Stuart Celarier

Stuart Celarier is Chief Software Architect of Aivea, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems. His career spans more than two decades of development, architecture, writing, and training, with a focus on new and emerging technologies. His professional interests include the current and next generations of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), “Oslo” modeling platform, “Dublin” application server extensions, “Geneva” claims framework, .NET Framework 4.0, and Windows Azure.
Stuart is co-founder of Portland Code Camp and frequently speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community events. He is a member of the Software Association of Oregon’s Development SIG committee. Stuart is an INETA Speaker and has volunteered with INETA since 2003, including co-chairing the community-led Birds-of-a-Feather track at Tech•Ed 2005–2009 and PDC 2005.
Stuart blogs at http://visualstuart.net

Topic:

Windows Workflow Foundation Essentials: Why, What, and How?

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) released as part of .NET 3.0 in late 2006, and yet I frequently meet people who haven’t used WF even when it seems to be ideally suited to their task at hand. Often that is due to not knowing the essence of workflow: why, what, and how? These are the three essential things that everyone needs to know about a technology before we can start making critical decisions about when, where, or even if we should use it. Why does it exist: what is the fundamental problem that it solves? What does it do: what does the solved problem look like? And how does it work: what is going on underneath the hood to make it happen? And this is absolutely key to success with WF, since WF is a radically different kind of technology to most of us. This talk is a deep, solid introduction to WF. I’ll examine the why and what of WF so that we have a common context, and then explore the mechanics using several small demos to illustrate just how WF works. I’ll also take a look at what’s coming down the road for WF in .NET 4.0. You’ll take away an understanding of the core of WF so that you can make informed decisions about using WF and you’ll have a good framework for exploring WF further

Links

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Sponsors

TekSystems – Event Sponsor
TEKsystems is the largest I.T. Staffing Agency in the nation. We are a privately held company with over 90 offices in the U.S. and approximately 20,000 employees. We specialize in establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with Consultants in I.T. for both successive contract position placements with our clients as well as permanent FTE position placements. We focus on the areas of Web and Application Developers and Architects, Database Developers and DBA’s, Business Analysts and Project Managers, and Network and Operations Support. If you are interested in establishing a point of contact with a solid national agency with a strong local presence, please contact us at www.TEKsystems.com or approach one of our representatives directly before or after the March meeting of the .NET Users Group

INETA – Speaker sponsor
DynamSoft-SacdotNet uses SourceAnywhere remote source control solution, sponsored by Dynamsoft. Dynamsoft is the leading developer of version control and bug tracking software.
Discount ASP.NET-SacDotNet webhosting is sponsored by Discount ASP.NET
Microsoft-Raffle Prizes and Books sponsored by Microsoft and CodeZone

Fees

Admission is free.
If you like to make a voluntary contribution to help SacDotNet, please click here.

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Alek Davis – Getting the best out of ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

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Tuesday Feb 24, 2009: Alek Davis
Getting the best out of ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

When:

Feb 24, 2009 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM

RSVP:

Seating is limited
Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/ (login required)

Where:

UC Davis Extension, Room 200A, Sacramento.
Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816

Directions:

2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions)
Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage.
Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage.

Speaker:

Alek Davis

Alek is a senior application developer at Intel Corporation. He has been writing software for over 10 years focusing on enterprise applications, security, and usability. Alek graduated from California State University, Sacramento with BS degree in Computer Science and MS degree in Software Engineering. Alek wrote articles for MSDN Magazine, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Visual Studio Magazine, and other technical publications

Topic:

Getting the best out of ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery may not be the best combination of technologies for every software project, but it can offer a few advantages to developers of enterprise applications. At this seminar, Alek will describe these advantages and explain how to use the best features of ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery for building line-of-business (LOB) applications. You will learn how to get started and overcome the most common problems you will encounter when using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. The seminar is intended for novices, but if you are more proficient in either ASP.NET AJAX or jQuery, please come and share your knowledge.

Links

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Sponsors

Meeting space sponsored by Quest .
DynamSoft
SacdotNet uses SourceAnywhere remote source control solution, sponsored by Dynamsoft. Dynamsoft is the leading developer of version control and bug tracking software.
Discount ASP.NET
SacDotNet webhosting is sponsored by Discount ASP.NET
Microsoft
Refreshments, Raffle Prizes and Books sponsored by Microsoft and CodeZone

Fees

Admission is free. If you like to make a voluntary contribution to help SacDotNet,
please click here.

Tuesday Jan 27, 2009: Manoj P Keechilot Building Mobile Applications with .Net When: Jan 27, 2009 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM RSVP: Seating is limited Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/ (login required) Where: UC Davis Extension, Room 200A, Sacramento. Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816 Directions: 2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions) Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Speaker: Manoj P Keechilot Manoj P Keechilot is a practicing .Net specialist, focusing on B2B messaging & logistics applications. Manoj has been building mobile applications for the past 3 years as a hobby. In the past he has served in the Pod Development Advisory Board of a mobile data and Internet communications company in Southern California. Manoj is a founder-director of Sacramento .Net User Group. Please visit SacDotNet website for his detailed profile. Topic: Building Mobile Applications with .Net .Net has made it much easier to develop and deploy feature rich applications to mobile devices. This seminar will introduce to the group the basics of developing and deploying .Net Compact Framework applications. In addition to challenges, opportunities and tools the presentation will demonstrate developing a small but cool application using Visual Studio 2008 and C#. It will also touch up on some advanced topics, like using the native APIs, with code developed in C++. Links View this page online: SacNetUg Archives RSVP: http://www.sacnetug.org/ Please visit http://www.sacnetug.org to register, login and update your email preferences or to unsubscribe. Sponsors ConnectPoint Search Group Thanks to our premier event sponsor ConnectPoint Search Group for helping SacDotNet to kickstart 2009. ConnectPoint Search Group is a truly unique firm of tenured local market experts with over 75 years combined experience helping clients and professionals in the greater Sacramento Valley and beyond achieve the results they desire. An affiliate of MRINetwork™, one of the world’s largest search and recruitment organizations, ConnectPoint Search Group leverages the combined experience and power of over 1,100 offices worldwide to serve our clients and candidates. Meeting space sponsored by Quest . DynamSoft SacdotNet uses SourceAnywhere remote source control solution, sponsored by Dynamsoft. Dynamsoft is the leading developer of version control and bug tracking software. Discount ASP.NET SacDotNet webhosting is sponsored by Discount ASP.NET Microsoft Raffle Prizes and Books sponsored by Microsoft and CodeZone

Stephen Walther – Building Client-Side Data Access Controls with ASP.NET AJAX

Tuesday April 29 , 2008: Stephen Walther Building Client-Side Data Access Controls with ASP.NET AJAX When: April 29, 2008 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM RSVP: Seating is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet (login required) Where: UC Davis Extension, Room #TBA, Sacramento. Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816 Directions: 2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions) Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Speaker: Stephen Walther His training company, SuperexpertTraining.com, has provided training to companies and organizations across the United States including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Verizon, Intel, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Microsoft. He also wrote several ASP.NET best-practice applications for Microsoft. He was the lead developer of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit, the Issue Tracker Starter Kit and the Yearbook Starter Kit. He is a Microsoft Software Legend, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, and a member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau. He has spoken at a number of major conferences including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft DevDays, and ASP.NET Connections. Topic: Building Client-Side Data Access Controls with ASP.NET AJAX   Microsoft provided us with a powerful framework for building client-side web applications with the ASP.NET AJAX framework. However, the cake is only half baked. The framework includes the infrastructure for client-side controls – but currently lacks any officially supported controls. In this talk, Stephen Walther discusses how you can extend the ASP.NET AJAX framework with custom client-side controls. In particular, he focuses on demonstrating how you can build AJAX controls that consume and display database data entirely from the client. Expect plenty of code samples! Sponsors: Sponsored by Axosoft & INETA Located in Scottsdale Arizona, privately held Axosoft, LLC is a leading provider of bug tracking and software project management applications for software development teams. Their flagship product, OnTime, stands out with industry-leading innovations, an intuitive user interface and state-of-the-art technology. OnTime is in use by over 5,000 development teams in ISV, Consulting and IT organizations within 45+ nations around the globe. OnTime is the only product of its kind with Windows, Web, and Visual Studio .NET interfaces that is available both as an installed product and/or as a hosted service. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups.     Links View this page online: SacNetUg Archives RSVP: http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet Please visit http://www.sacnetug.org to register, login and update your email preferences or to unsubscribe.

Microsoft Code Trip

Friday April 04, 2008: Microsoft Code Trip Don’t miss the bus this time!!!. Codetrip stops for Sacramento Dot Net User group at Sacramento. The event is free for all registered members. Please note, this is a special event, in addition to the regular user group meetings scheduled for March 25th and April 29th. Seating is limited. Please visit http://www.sacnetug.org to register, login and update your email preferences or to unsubscribe. When: April 4, 2008 from 1:30 to 4.30 PM RSVP: Seating is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet (login required). Please select the April 4th event, before confirming RSVP Where: South Natomas Library 2901 Truxel Road, Sacramento, CA 95833 Directions: Map Business I-80 East: I-80 E toward Reno. Take Truxel Rd exit. Turn right at Truxel Rd Business I-80 West: I-80 W toward Sacramento. Take the Truxel Rd exit, Turn left at Truxel Rd . A group of Microsoft presenters are traveling the western US to talk about some of the new technologies revealed at MIX08 in Las Vegas. Specifically we will be hear more details about Silverlight 2.0, Windows Live Platform Services and IE8. More info at http://www.thecodetrip.com/ Links Code Trip: http://www.thecodetrip.com/ View this page online: SacNetUg Archives RSVP: http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet Lead Organizers For Sacramento: Anand Iyer – Microsoft Team Alan Cobb – SacdotNet Team

Tuesday March 25 , 2008: Chris Schipper C# Coding styles and standards

Tuesday March 25 , 2008: Chris Schipper C# Coding styles and standards The event is free for all registered members. Seating is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet (login required).  View this announcement online Please visit http://www.sacnetug.org to register, login and update your email preferences or to unsubscribe. When: March 25, 2008 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM Where: UC Davis Extension, Room #TBA, Sacramento. Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816 Directions: 2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions) Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Speaker: Chris Schipper Christopher Schipper is a .Net technologist with over 15 years of software development experience. He focuses primarily on the latest Microsoft technologies. Chris works as a Systems Architect at Teleplan International, building and supporting their multinational, multi-client software infrastructure. He was a key contributor in the development of Shari’s Berries (berries.com) e-commerce outlet, as an e-commerce architect and network engineer covering everything from the mouse to the FedEx truck. He has also served in the government and the US Navy. Many of his web development works have earned him all of the Dottie awards, Internet Retailer’s Top 50 award, Webby award and numerous Golden Web Awards. Chris was also a congressional nominee to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Chris studied Psychology at Columbia College and Electronics Engineering in the US Navy. Topic: C# Coding styles and standards   In this discussion, Chris will touch up on some of coding gems found in standards documentation such as the iDesign and some of the tools that can enforce better coding. He will demonstrate the why-s behind some of the suggested coding practices with C#. What are coding standards and why they are needed Commonly used standards Selected coding styles, practices and experiences with C# demo. Commonly used tools, with demo Compiler options

Tuesday Feb 26 , 2008: JD Conley C# 3.0 Overview

Tuesday Feb 26 , 2008: JD Conley C# 3.0 Overview The event is free for all registered members. Seating is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet (login required).  View this announcement online Please visit http://www.sacnetug.org to register, login and update your email preferences or to unsubscribe. When: Feb 26, 2008 from 6:00 to 8.30 PM Where: UC Davis Extension, Room #TBA, Sacramento. Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816 Directions: 2901 K St. is between 29th and 30th and K&J Streets (Map & Directions) Business I-80 northbound: Take the N Street exit. Continue north on 30th Street for three blocks and turn left on K Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Business I-80 southbound: Take the J Street exit. At the first stoplight (immediately after the exit), turn left on J Street. Turn right into the parking garage. Speaker: JD Conley JD is an entrepreneur and consultant focused on building consumer facing desktop and web software products. As a founder of two Sacramento area technology companies, Coversant and ittybittysoft, he has had the luxury of experimenting with bleeding edge technology coming out of Redmond. These experiences are documented in his blog: ” Starin’ at the Wall 2.0″. He was recently a technical reviewer for a new book titled “C# in Depth”. Prior to his entrepreneur days, JD developed critical line of business software for Malibu Boats, E & J Gallo Winery, and the Associated Press. Topic: C# 3.0 Overview   Explore the myriad of exciting new features available today in C# 3.0/.NET 3.5 including Lambdas, Automatic Properties, Object/Collection Initializers, Extension Methods, and LINQ. Dig into real world uses of these features, talk a little about their history, and take a brief glimpse into the future of .NET technology. You should leave the event with a good understanding of what’s out there and how you can get started with the latest productivity enhancing features of C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5.

 

 

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Accessing field values from the selected row of ASP.Net Gridview control

This seems to be a common question in various forums

There is a clear distinction between accessing data in TemplateField and a BoundField

For BoundFields, it is straight forward:

string s = dgMyItems.SelectedRow.Cells[1].Text; // to access the second column of the selected row

For TemplateFields, use the following

string s = ((System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label)dgMyItems.SelectedRow.Cells[2].FindControl(“lblName”)).Text;

Assuming that you defined a label in the templatefield definition for the datagrid, with id =  lblName

for example,

<ItemTemplate>
  <asp:Label ID=”lblName” runat=”server” Text=’<%# Bind(“MyItemName”) %>’></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>

— Repost from Manoj’s blog

Some information for you regarding the Jan 23rd User Group Meeting

Dear Sacramento .Net User Group Member,

Here are some information for you regarding the Jan 23rd User Group Meeting:

1: The meeting is on a Wednesday as opposed to a Tuesday. Due to the scheduling constraints of the speaker, we were not able to choose the last week of the month, for the meeting.

2: The speaker, Rob Bagby is an MSDN presenter and a highly sought after speaker. Do not miss the opportunity to learn the tricks and trades of Visual Studio 2008 which is in the RTM stage right now.

3: Thanks to Microsoft, we will raffle off 10 full licenses of Visual Studio 2008. We will collect the names and addresses of the Winners and pass them on to Microsoft. Microsoft will later send the software to them.

4: Your name needs to be in the RSVP list for you to qualify, even if you win the raffle. You may RSVP for the event at http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet. Click RSVP button, after login.

5: The meeting is sponsored by Redgate Software. There will be a brief demo of the Redgate SQL Compare software.

6: In addition to the VS2008 licenses, there will be other items like books from our sponsors for raffle. Come early, to recieve free goodies from our sponsors

7: Please see the event announcement at http://www.sacnetug.org/sacnet/archives/jan2008_announcement.htm