Vince Blasberg's Blog : Dallas C# SIG

VSLive! Dallas 2006 - Day 1

vblasberg — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:50:00 GMT

Day one of VSLive! Dallas 2006 came and went. It was an all-day presentation by Rocky Lhotka covering his CSLA framework. I used it a few years ago and was not nearly as impressed as now. Rocky has evolved this framework to be extremely flexible, well-designed, and still free. Add that to a day of training at DunnTraining.com to get a serious development jumpstart. Think about it... a top consultant's help at the price of a book. Beat that!

Now I’m off to playiwith this newest version with a little CodeSmith help…

http://lhotka.net

http://www.dunntraining.com/CSLATraining.htm

-VinceB

Dallas C# SIG Happenings

vblasberg — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:12:00 GMT

I just published the monthly Dallas C# SIG newsletter. Check it out if you want to know what's going on at the group. We have some great meetings ahead.

If you're in Dallas for one of the meetings, drop by for a few hours of C# and .Net.

http://www.dallas-csharp-sig.com/Newsletters/csharpsig%20newsletter%209-30-06.txt

-Vince

Dallas Code Camp - June 24th, 2006

vblasberg — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:23:00 GMT

If you are in Dallas this weekend, be sure to register and attend the Dallas Code Camp this Saturday, June 24th. This is a free, all-day training event for developers by developers. The schedule will be posted in the next few hours.

Please sign up at http://DallasCodeCamp.com if you can attend this event.

What's going on at the Dallas C# SIG?

vblasberg — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:10:00 GMT

The Dallas C# SIG is a special interest group that meets on the first Thursday of each month at the Microsoft offices in Las Collinas, TX. (Dallas). It's been around for a few years thanks to my co-leader, John Davis.

I've been in other cities on business and tried to attend the local meetings. The most recent was a user group meeting in Baltimore. It didn't work out but I consider it each time I go to another city. If you're in the Dallas area during one of our meetings, stop by the Microsoft offices and tune in on the first Thursday of each month. You can also sign up for the newsletter at Dallas-CSharp-Sig.com. The newletter is only once or twice a month to alert the community of what's going on. The best Dallas developer community news for our area is at http:\\TOATalks.com. Our Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Caleb Jenkins, runs that site. There are now 21 user groups in the Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas area.

So what has been going on at the Dallas C# SIG? Here's the news from "Past Meetings":

June 1, 2006 - Cory Smith and Vince Blasberg - Converting To and From C# and VB.Net - More than just a semicolon...
This was a two part discussion convering some considerations when converting a VB.NET project to C#. Cory took over at half-time to discuss converting C# to VB.NET. The VB.NET vs. C# war was saved for the DallasCodeCamp.com event a few weeks later. Vince covered some of Lutz Roeder's reflector but Cory shifted it in high gear by showing the Reflector plugin that can convert a complete assembly to a new project.

May 4, 2006 - Caleb Jenkins - Advanced Atlas
Utilizing Atlas to create dynamic AJAX applications with ASP.NET 2.0. Caleb demonstrated all of the Atlas features that we haven’t had time to cover anywhere else.

April 6, 2006 - Abraham Saldaña and Vince Blasberg - SQLServer 2005 Night
Vince demonstrated how easy it is to understand and develop SQLCLR with C#. Abraham then took over and demonstrated some great new features with the new XML data type with XQuery, XML, XSLT.

March 2, 2006 - ADO.Net 2.0 with Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth, the ADOGuy at ADOGuy.com, talked about some new features in ADO.Net 2.0. Slides and resources are located on his site. It was a great time so thanks Shawn.

Here's what we have going on in the next few months:

July 6, 2006	Click-Once Deployment: Beyond the Basics	Paul Ballard - Click-Once Deployment: Beyond the Basics
August 3, 2006	Advanced ASP.Net	Stephen Swienton - Advanced ASP.Net
September 7, 2006	Doing More on the Mobile Platform	Dan Fergus - Doing More on the Mobile Platform
October 5, 2006	Using MSBuild	Omar Villarreal - Using MSBuild
November 2, 2006	Managed C++ with C#	John Davis - Managed C++ with C#