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Meetings Agenda

6:00pm - Doors Open

6:30pm - Meeting Begins: Welcome, Problem Clinic, Top Tips

7:00pm - Main Presentation Part 1

7:50pm - Break

8:10pm - Main Presentation Part 2

9:00pm - Presentation Ends. Retire To Bar.

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A Guided Tour of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight 4 with Mike Taulty
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, March 05, 2010 10:58 AM
The fabulous Mike Taulty, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, introduces us to the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight 4. MEF is a powerful and valuable way to de-couple your application from specific implementations. Mike is showing MEF in Silverlight 4 but the technology itself is valuable regardless of your choice of UI platform.
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Leading-edge Web Development with ASP.NET MVC with Steven Sanderson
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:55 PM
It's not often you have a published author right here in your home town. This month sees Steven Sanderson, author of the best selling MVC book talk about, well, ASP.NET MVC of course. Steve was rated the best speaker (by knowledge of subject) at DDD South West so this should be a great night.
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Silverlight 4, MVVM and TDD with Jesse Liberty
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, February 15, 2010 7:47 PM
Jesse Liberty (yes, that Jesse Liberty), Silverlight Geek from Microsoft US, starts his first UK and Ireland Silverlight tour in Bristol with a session on Silverlight 4, MVVM and TDD. Meet the man himself and see what this prolific guru has to say.
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Hyper-V For Developers with Liam Westley
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, February 12, 2010 3:28 PM
Liam Westley returns to Bristol fresh from his DDD8 exploits to give us a second dose of virtualization, this time focussing on Hyper-V.
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Building an application for Windows Azure & SQL Azure with Eric Nelson
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, January 22, 2010 6:43 PM
No longer a 'mere' Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Eric Nelson (aka Captain Azure) is now Microsoft UK's Azure Evangelist and he's coming to Bristol to be frank, honest and forthright once more.
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Xamlathon Live '10 with Josh Twist
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, November 30, 2009 2:25 AM
Top, top speaker, Josh Twist, returns to deliver an evening of Blend and Xaml. Josh knows and explains Blend and Xaml like no one else. Don't miss this one.
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Entity Framework in .NET 4 with Eric Nelson
DotNetDevNet News By Administrator Account on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:12 AM
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Eric Nelson returns to The .NET Developer Network to tell us all that is new in next year's Entity Framework in .NET 4
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Credit Crunch Code with Gary Short
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:30 AM
Gary travels from the deepest and darkest depths of Scotland to give us a good ticking off for writing poor code.
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Aspect Orientated Programming with Steve Strong
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, September 07, 2009 3:05 PM
Steve introduces us to Aspect Orientated Programming and shows how it can be used to show a clear separation of concerns
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A Hands On Journey Into TDD with Stephen Oakman and Ronnie Barker
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Sunday, July 26, 2009 11:05 AM
Steve and Ronnie travel down from The Agile Workshop to share their skills in Test Driven Development in an audience participation presentation
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Windows 7 Special with James O'Neill
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:55 PM
Windows 7 is just around the corner and the very first IT Pro Technical Evangelist to visit the DotNetDevNet is going to tell us all about it.
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Rethinking Object Orientation with Kathleen Dollard
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:29 PM
International Speaker and MVP, Kathleen Dollard, will be visiting 6 user groups in the UK and Ireland and The .NET Developer Network is one of them. Kathleen will be presenting a unique topic, Rethinking Object Orientation (voted for by the members), in which she will take a fresh look at the model used so long we have come to take it for granted.
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What's New In ASP.NET 4.0 with Dave Sussman
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:16 PM
Dave Sussman becomes the second Software Legend to visit the DotNetDevNet. And he's come to talk about what's new in ASP.NET 4. Can't be bad.
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WPF And Data Binding with Josh Twist
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:52 AM
Josh Twist makes his first visit to Bristol to tell us all about WPF data presentation and visualisation.
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Windows Mobile Development with Roger Whitehead
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, February 20, 2009 1:48 AM
Windows Mobile evangelist and guru Roger Whitehead comes to Bristol for our two year anniversary on St. George's Day to bring us up to speed on mobile development and the latest news in the field
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Windows Azure And SQL Data Services (SDS) with Eric Nelson
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:04 AM
Microsoft's latest addition to the Developer Evangelist team, Eric Nelson, comes to Bristol to tell us all about Windows Azure and SQL Data Services.
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A Lap Around Workflow Foundation and What's New In Workflow Foundation 4 with John McLoughlin
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:31 PM
John McLoughlin travels from Southampton to introduce us to Windows Workflow Foundation and show us all of the new goodies in version 4
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Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework with Mike Taulty
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:07 PM
Mike Taulty, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, explains the Parallel Extensions in the .NET Framework 4.0 and shows how to write applications that make use of the otherwise redundant processors in today's multi-core machines.
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"What's New In C# 4 ?" and "Strategic Development Methodologies Using Rock Band" with Guy Smith-Ferrier
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, October 17, 2008 8:47 PM
The next version of C# is about to be unveiled and this is your chance to learn what's in it and why Microsoft think it's so great. Also it's Christmas and Rock Band is just the ticket to let your hair down and get into the Christmas spirit.
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"Producing Production Quality Software" and "Interaction based testing with Rhino Mocks" with Oren Eini
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:11 AM
Oren Eini, author of Rhino Mocks and contributor to the Castle Project and NHibernate, is in the UK for two weeks and this is a great opportunity to listen to two essential and valuable presentations.
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A Developers Guide To Network Admin... with Dave McMahon
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 5:52 PM
Dave McMahon to the rescue! Never again will a network administrator play acronym tennis with your brain. Stand proud, stand tall and tell them where to configure their DNS servers.
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Virtualisation for developers - What, Why, Where? with Liam Westley
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:37 AM
Liam Westley visits Bristol to uncover the exceptionally useful world virtualization on our very first meeting on a Thursday.
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An Evening Of Silverlight with Jesse Liberty
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, July 21, 2008 7:01 PM
Learn from the Silverlight Geek himself, Jesse Liberty. This is not an "Introduction To Silverlight". This will be loads of fun but it assumes that you know the basics.
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The DotNetDevNet Summer Social Event 2008
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, July 21, 2008 6:14 PM
We're off to the pub to have a tech chat. We will drink and chat and chat and drink and maybe eat. The simple plans are the best.
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Double Bill: "How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance" & "Being Lazy With Microsoft Windows Powershell"
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:00 AM
Ben Lamb shows the opposite to patterns - anti-patterns i.e. how not to write code. In addition Ben shows PowerShell, an awesomely powerful and extensible shell that should be every developer's friend.
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Double Bill: How To Give Great Presentations & Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:44 AM
Two quite different presentations this month. We've seen many presenters a DotNetDevNet and the first session of the evening shows how you can achieve the same results by knowing how great presenters present. The second session is all about making your websites multi-lingual and culture-aware.
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The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions (MVP, Dynamic Data, AJAX History)
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:04 AM
The fourth Microsoft Developer Evangelist comes to Bristol to reveal the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions including MVC, Dynamic Data and AJAX History (there's no Silverlight 2.0 because the whole of the May meeting is on that).
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Geek Dinner
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:40 AM
Bristol gets its very first Geek Dinner: lots of geeks go and have dinner together. We drink, we talk, we eat and we go home. The simplest plans are always the best.
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Silverlight 2.0 Unplugged
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, February 15, 2008 9:46 PM
Chris Hay presents an evening of Silverlight 2.0. This is a major step forwards for web development as it allows WPF and C# to run cross-platform in a browser. Come and see the future of web development.
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Basic And Advanced Design Patterns For All
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:44 PM
Gary Short hosts the one year anniversary of the very first DotNetDevNet meeting on St. George's Day with a whole evening of Design Patterns. Gary is well worth listening to any time but particularly on this subject.
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Community Night
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:39 PM
The Community Night is a different kind of meeting in that it is run by us - the members of The .NET Developer Network. There will be grok talks, micro-presentations, discussions, networking activities and, above all, fun.
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A Tour Of Visual Studio 2008 And The .NET Framework v3.5
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 10:26 PM
Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework v3.5 were released in November 2008. In this session Daniel gives everyone a kick start in getting up to speed with the latest and greatest from Microsoft.
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FinalBuilder and Test Driven Development with Craig Murphy
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:04 PM
Two sessions on building and testing applications from the ScrumMaster himself, Craig Murphy. Not only is Craig deeply into the UK community but he has profound depth of knowledge in this area.
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Xmas XNA eXtravaganza (XXX) With NxtGen
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:17 PM
The XXX meeting is a well earned Christmas treat from The .NET Developer Network and The Next Generation User Group. Come and meet the kings of swag, the .NET party boys and learn lots about the most fun .NET technology you'll ever meet: XNA.
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C#/.NET Training
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, September 24, 2007 2:37 AM
The .NET Developer Network is very pleased to offer an evening of free C#/.NET training to be provided by PC-Talk (http://www.pc-talk.co.uk) trainer David Ringsell. PC-Talk offer custom and Microsoft-certified courses in C#, Visual Basic and the .NET Framework using Visual Studio 2005 and later. Use this opportunity to train up your developers in C#/.NET and/or to "try-before-you-buy" PC-Talk's training services.
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WPF Training Day
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Sunday, September 23, 2007 7:52 PM
A whole day of Windows Presentation Foundation training by senior consultant, Patrick Long of Charteris plc. Places are limited to 10 people and the cost is £100 (which is a fraction of what this training would normally cost).
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ADO.NET Entity Framework and Microsoft Codename "Astoria" with James Winters and Guy Smith-Ferrier
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, September 07, 2007 1:47 AM
The ADO.NET Entity Framework is an entity relationship model for ADO.NET complete with class library and design tools. Astoria is the answer to "how do we access data over the internet in an AJAX/Silverlight/XBAP/PopFly application ?". Astoria uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to achieve its goal and hence these two subjects go well together.
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Windows Presentation Foundation And SilverLight With Oliver Sturm
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:42 AM
Windows Presentation Foundation is the new UI technology in the .NET Framework 3.0 for Windows applications and takes full advantage of the latest hardware. SilverLight is the cross platform engine that renders a subset of WPF in a browser. Oliver Sturm is an MVP, regular speaker and works for Developer Express.
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Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, May 07, 2007 8:16 AM
Team Foundation Server - the answer to all project management problems ? Richard Fennell covers the key components and usage of TFS, installation issues, the range of third party tools available and how to write your own tools using the API.
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Developer Tools And Development Practices
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Monday, May 07, 2007 6:48 AM
A set of 4 grok talks on developer tools followed by a group discussion on development practices led by Adam Towler (a member of The .NET Developer Network)
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Windows Communication Foundation and Windows CardSpace with Martin Parry
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:06 PM
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Martin Parry introduces two of the four cornerstones of the .NET Framework 3.0: Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Cardspace
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Enterprise Library And The Policy Injection Application Block with Alex Homer
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, March 23, 2007 3:25 AM
Software legend, author, speaker and MVP Alex Homer presents a double header including the hot off the press PIAB. You might not know what this is yet but when you do you will want to know.
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An Evening Of LINQ With Mike Taulty
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, March 16, 2007 5:02 AM
An Evening Of LINQ With Mike Taulty
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