Boston .NET User Group

Wed 1/13 Meeting:SilverLight Line of Business Applications with RIA Services and Expression Blend

Pat Tormey has graciously volunteered to speak on short notice at the Wednesday meeting. Please help spread the word about the meeting via your blog, Twitter, etc. See you Wednesday.

SilverLight Line of Business applications with RIA Services and Expression Blend

Wednesday 1/13/2010
6-8 pm
Microsoft Waltham, MA Office

Guest Speaker Pat Tormey MS MVP
Foursquare Solutions Inc

In this session Pat will examine the business applications of SilverLight and several of the tools that you’ll want to know. There’ll be no dancing donkeys or spinning widgets. We’ll check out a real application, from initial design to finished product. While “almost complete” this is a work in process application and a great time to see how it all came together. What worked.. What didn’t… and a bunch of the other stuff.

Pat Tormey is a local developer, and long time user group leader currently running the New Hampshire Dot Net User Group.

Wed Jan 13th Speaker: Pat Tormey on Silverlight RIA

Pat Tormey has volunteered to speak on a current Silverlight RIA application he is developing. Details posted tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.

Boston .NET User Group Jan 13th Meeting: Need replacement speaker

Unfortunately, our speaker for the Wed 1/13/2010 meeting has a family emergency and will be unable to speak.

If you or anyone you know would be willing to present to the group this coming Wednesday please let me know at chris.pels@bostondotnet.org. We will make a decision by 6 pm Tue 1/12 whether we can hold our meeting. Check back for a follow-up announcement.

O’Reilly Partners w/ Microsoft Press: Offers 40-50% Discount

O’Reilly publishing has partnered with Microsoft Press and is now offering a 40% (books) 50% (e-books) discount on the O’Reilly web site. Use the code MSINT in the shopping cart.

Boston .NET User Group Wed 12/9 Meeting CANCELLED

Horrible driving today so we’ll try again for at our Wed January 13th meeting.

Have a great holidays!

Gilbane Conference in Boston 12/1-3/2009

The Gilbane Conference is all about content management and worth checking out if you have an interest in this area.

Northeast MSDN Roadshow-Providence

Our local developer evanglists Chris Bowen and Jim O’Neil are doing another edition of their popular MSDN Roadshow. Providence has been added this time on Wed 12/9 around so if you live in the area or know someone spread the word. See the details at http://bit.ly/101mOR.

Boston .NET User Group 11/11/2009 Meeting Cancelled

Unfortunately our November meeting speaker is unable to make it so the meeting is cancelled. See you for our 12/9/2009 meeting.

Boston Geek Dinner @ Boston Beer Works: Tue 11/17

From Jason Haley:

Anyone up for a Geek dinner Nov 17th? 

It’s been 3 months since the last one … so I think it’s time for another.

We’ll be upstairs by the pool tables in Boston Beer Works on Canal Street. 

I know Nov 17th is the first day of the PDC … but this date is driven by events at the Garden so sorry if you are going to be at the PDC - I’ll also try to schedule one for early December (depending on events at the TD Garden of course).

Enterprise Service Bus & BizTalk Server: Wed 10/14

Boston .NET User Group October 14, 2009 Meeting
6:00-8:00 p.m.

Enterprise Service Bus & BizTalk Server
Hai Ning, Microsoft

BizTalk Server is the Microsoft premium enterprise application integration engine. In this session, we will take a tour around BizTalk, explore many core integration features it offers, and demonstrate an end-to-end order processing application that leverages BizTalk, SharePoint, InfoPath and many other technologies to build a robust enterprise application. We will look at how to use the built-in business activity monitoring solutions to monitor the execution metrics to gain insights of the business process. In addition we will also introduce the concept of Enterprise Service Bus and explore how to build an ESB infrastructure on top of BizTalk Server.

Hai Ning is an Enterprise Application Platform Architect of Microsoft Northeast District. He helps Microsoft’s most strategic enterprise customers in the New England region to define their technology strategies around service-oriented architecture and systems integration. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a senior architect for a number of leading IT consulting companies, building integration solutions for major financial services corporations on the Microsoft stack. Hai received his Ph.D. in Information Technology, and Master of Science in Architecture Study from MIT. He blogs at http://www.hyperbina.com/tech/blog.