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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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"Web development with technologies that are still in the oven" with Steve Sanderson
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:53 PM
Steve Sanderson is our Christmas present to you this year and he'll be talking about a selection of new web technologies that he finds exciting. Also we'll have mince pies too.
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Re-Build: A Developer’s View of Windows 8 with Robert Hogg
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:21 PM
Robert Hogg gives an honest appraisal of Microsoft's re-imagining of the world's most used operating system. Come and see what the future holds and what new opportunities await.
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Introductory and Advanced Node.js with Gary Short
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:19 PM
Gary Short, fab presenter and top bloke, visits us to pack in as much introductory, intermediate, advanced and rocket science Node.js as he can manage in 90 minutes.
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Async methods: the C# feature you've been awaiting without knowing it... with Jon Skeet
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:24 AM
Who better than the Jon Skeet himself, author of C# In Depth, to tell us all about the biggest, most important feature of C# 5: asynchronous methods.
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Silverlight 5 – the beta and beyond with Mike Taulty
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:42 AM
The very first person to ever speak at DotNetDevNet (on St. George's Day 2007), the Fabulous Mr Mike Taulty, is returning to tell us what's new in Silverlight 5. If you haven't seen Mike present before come and watch a master being excellent.
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"The Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications" with Richard Campbell
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Tuesday, May 03, 2011 12:15 PM
Richard Campbell (of .NET Rocks and RunAs Radio) presents one of the most useful, best delivered presentations you are ever likely to see. This one will sell out.
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"Natural Laws of Software Performance" with Kendall Miller
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:39 PM
Kendall Miller travels from the US to help us sort the wheat from the chaf in the world of software performance.
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"Is your code S.O.L.I.D ?" with Nathan Gloyn
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:38 PM
Nathan Gloyn travels all the way from just down the road to help us all to be better people (but more specifically to be better software engineers). It's Nathan's farewell presentation as he leaves us to seek his fame and fortune in Reading. Also it's our 4th birthday so there'll be cake.
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"Ba-da-Bing! Using the IIS SEO Toolkit to improve your site's ranking" with Andy Westgarth
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 7:47 PM
Andy Westgarth travels half the length of the country to start his tour of the south at our own humble user group. Great speaker, great subject and a great place to start a tour. Go Andy!
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Pex and Moles with Steve Strong
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:05 AM
We are delighted to welcome the return of Steve Strong to the DotNetDevNet. Steve is covering Pex and Moles and if you haven't heard of these you will be surprised at just how much difference these can make to your testing strategy. Great speaker, great subject. Enjoy this one.
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MVC 3, Razor, Knockout: Do I really need to know all this? with Steve Sanderson
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:11 AM
Armed with his shiney new blue badge Steve travels all the way from just down the road in Bristol to UWE to talk about MVC3, Razor and Knockout. Steve wrote the best selling book on MVC and also wrote Knockout itself. You really can't get much better qualified than this. And on top of this Steve is a great speaker - clear, fluent, logical and fast paced. An evening not to miss.
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Beginners Guide To Continuous Integration with Paul Stack
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, November 25, 2010 4:06 AM
Paul makes his first visit to the South West to extol the virtues of continuous integration (CI) - no development team should be without it! And of course it's December so there will be mince pies too.
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Building Offline Experiences using Sync Framework with Andy Wigley
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:52 AM
Andy Wigley, MVP and perhaps the country's leading authority on .NET mobile development, comes straight from presenting at TechEd Europe to Bristol to detail the solution to the offline application problem using Sync Framework. The presentation focusses on using the Sync Framework with mobile applications but the knowledge of Sync Framework is applicable to many UI platforms.
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Developing for Windows Phone 7 with Mike Ormond
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, July 30, 2010 11:32 AM
Last seen at the DotNetDevNet in 2008 Mike Ormond makes a long overdue return to tell us about the subject of his latest focus: Windows Phone 7. Mike always delivers loads of content so if you're developing or considering the world's fastest growing platform come and take a look at Windows Phone 7.
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How To Manage Your Manager and Real-world Dynamic .NET with Mark Rendle
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:42 PM
Mark Rendle, voted Top Speaker By Knowledge Of Subject at DDD South West 2, presents a double bill of goodness. First he tells us how to get the best out of our bosses including how to get the best PCs, get sent to conferences and more importantly (?) how to get them to adopt new practices. And then he covers real world use of the new dynamic type in .NET 4. If you came to DDD South West 2 you'll remember Mark from his high powered grok talk at lunch time - loads of energy and very well delivered.
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May The Silverlight 4’s Be With You with Richard Costall
DotNetDevNet Meetings By host on Friday, May 14, 2010 10:34 AM
Richard Costall, MVP and the important half of the Chuckle Brothers, leaves his fortress in Coventry to survey the free lands of the South West with envy. And also to tell us about what's new in Silverlight 4.
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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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