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

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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

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Microsoft-Raffle Prizes and Books sponsored by Microsoft and CodeZone

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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.

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,

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— Repost from Manoj’s blog

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