BSDA for Thursday Feb 11, 2010 – Tobias O’Leary on Asynchronous Programming in WinForms and WPF
The next meeting of the Birmingham Software Developers Association will be Thursday, February 11 at 6:30 pm. Tobias O’Leary will be presenting Asynchronous Programming in WinForms and WPF.
Most of learned to program on the command line. One task at a time. The user got printf()s for progress updates and CTRL+Z to cancel. Then the GUI came into our lives and our command line training lead to the infinite hour glass of unresponsiveness. Now a days we know at least one or two ways to avoid this with WinForms, but WPF might be another matter.
We’ll first take a trip down memory lane and visit our old pals Application.DoEvents(), the BackgroundWorker, IAsyncResult, and others. We’ll then enter the new realm of WPF and it’s Dispatcher, and also find out which of our old friends have fallen by the wayside.
Also at this meeting we will have the annual officer elections, postponed from January. If you ever thought “Gee, I wish the club would…” or “If I were in charge…” or “I wonder what I could do to help out more…” now is your opportunity! Being a club officer is a rewarding and valuable experience.
The meeting will be at the usual place, the New Horizons Training Center in Homewood.
Bug.Net Feb 9, 2010 – Client Scripting in ASP.NET with Microsfot AJAX Library (Part 1)
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Next Meeting: February 9, 2010 6:30 PM |
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| Speaker: | Todd Miranda |
| Presentation: | Client Scripting in ASP.NET with Microsoft AJAX Library (Part 1) |
| The Microsoft AJAX Library is not just for asynchronous functionality. It actually includes some very helpful JavaScript classes. You can use some of these classes to develop JavaScript in a fashion more similar to C#. We’ll take a look at some of these classes and how they can be used to develop JavaScript more like object oriented C#.
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| Food will be provided and drawings will be held for swag at the end of the meeting.
Meeting will be held at New Horizons – click here for directions |
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Super Silverlight Event – Thursday January 14, 2010
The Birmingham Software Developers Association is pleased to host the Birmingham .Net User Group (BUG.NET) and the Silverlight Nights user group for a very special combined user group meeting. Glen Gordon, the Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the South East area, will give a presentation on new Silverlight features, and cover some of the news on Silverlight that was announced at the recent PDC.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm at the New Horizons facility in Homewood, AL. Food will be provided, and there will even be a few door prizes.
Due to limited space we do ask that you register for the event by going to https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=144478 . It’s free, and only takes a few minutes.
Special note to BSDA members, due to the special nature of the event we will post pone the usual January elections until the February meeting.
iPhone + Mobile Camp Saturday December 12
The time is almost here for the first iPhone + Mobile camp. It will be here Saturday morning December 12 from 8 am to 1 pm. At this event you can learn more about mobile technology for a great price (Free)! If you have ever thought about writing an app for the iPhone or Android or if you have ever thought about hiring a developer then this is a great event for you. Even if you are a seasoned mobile developer there is something at this event for you too.
Participants of iPhone and Mobile Camp Birmingham 2009 will determine the presentation itinerary at the Dec. 12 event. Modeled after BarCamp conferences, the iPhone and Mobile Camp will allow attendees to pitch and vote on the day’s topics. The free event will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Dec. 12 at Daxko’s headquarters.
Presentations will include topics on development, marketing and sales and creating mobile applications for non-developers. Registration will be conducted on-site beginning at 8 a.m. and can also be done online at http://mobilebham.eventbrite.com/. If you plan on attending please do us a favor and RSVP at the link below.
If you are interested in presenting or sponsoring, or just have general questions you can reach us through the contact form at the website.
Thanks and we hope to see you there.
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Multi-User Group Holiday Party Tonight!
Just a reminder to all that tonight is the Birmingham Multi-User Group Holiday Party. The Birmingham Software Developers Association (BSDA), Birmingham.Net Users Group (BUG.NET), Steel City SQL Users Group, and the Silverlight Nights Users Group are combining forces for this annual holiday event. Families from these groups will get together at Richards BBQ and Grill on Acton Road for an evening of fun. To make things easy each family will pay for their own meal from their very reasonably priced menu.
If you are or were a member of these groups we want to encourage you to attend and bring the family. Even if you are just interested in user groups in Birmingham we invite you to come on out, the more the merrier. And, we promise our spouses / dates / families no geek talk. Well, not too much.
Happy Holidays!
Steel City SQL November Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 17th at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for our November meeting. This meeting will feature two famaliar favorites, Morgan Smith and Robert Cain, presenting The Best Thing I Learned at the PASS Summit. Fresh off there trip from Seattle to the biggest gathering of SQL Server Professionals in the world the 2009 PASS Summit, Morgan and Robert will share some of there experiences the took away from the Summit for those of us who were not able to make it.
As usual the meeting will begin at 6:00pm with a thirty minute networking session. Robert and Morgan beginning their presentation at 6:30pm. Food and beverages for the month’s meeting will be sponsored by PASS. If you plan on attending this month’s meeting let us know by sending us an RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount for the food. Hope to see you there.
A Developers Guide to SQL Server Integration Services – BSDA Meeting for November 12 2009
We’ve all been there. We develop a new system to replace some older system long overdue for retirement. The dread always comes around the data conversion step. Having to figure out the quickest, easiest way to get the data from the old system to the new. What most developers don’t realize is that they already have an extremely powerful tool for data conversion: SQL Server Integration Services. SSIS isn’t just for feeding your warehouse, it’s also a great tool for data migration. At the next BSDA meeting Robert C. Cain will be presenting “A Developers Guide to SQL Server Integration Services”. Come get an introduction and learn how you can be using SSIS for your projects.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm at the normal location, the New Horizons training center in Homewood AL.
Robert Cain is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Development, and works as a Senior BI Architect for ComFrame. His main responsibility is the SQL Server Business Intelligence Data Warehouse for the NASA ARES project. He is also a contributing author to the book “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives”. Prior to his current position, Robert spent five years working for a south eastern nuclear power company designing and developing the BI/Data Warehouse as well as leading the development team. Robert also spent 10 years as a senior consultant, working for a variety of customers in the Birmingham area using Visual Basic and C#. He also maintains the popular blog http://arcanecode.com .
T-SQL – Common Table Expression (CTEs)
Do you need recursive queries, do you want your T-SQL to be easier to read and maintain? Come checkout the presentation.
Bug.Net – Nov 10, 2009 – Intro to Prism V2 in Silverlight 3
Prism can be thought of as a set of libraries that help Silverlight applications be scalable and testable. It has a number of features (modularity, view regions and commanding) that help with this. In this presentation, Sista SriHarsha will given an introduction and overview of Prism V2 for Silverlight 3.
As usual the meeting will take place at the New Horizons offices. Meeting will kick off at 6:30 pm, there will be food provided, and swag given away at the end of the meeting.
