Upcoming .NET User Group Meetings (July and August 2011)

Group: Dallas ASP.NET User Group
Speaker: Tom Dupont
Topic: Attack of the Cloud

Cloud computing is great, but what do we put in the cloud? The web is advancing at an incredible pace and it’s time to start building true Web Applications, not just web sites! Web Apps shake off the constraints of operating system specific frameworks, and free developers to work in open standards based environment.
This session will cover a variety of topics ranging from ASP.NET MVC development, unit testing, REST APIs, JSON, JQuery, ExtJS, tips and tricks, lessons

learned, and more. It will conclude with building a sample blog reader Web App, and then deploying that to Windows Azure.

When:
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)

Where:
1st Floor Conference Room
Microsoft
7000 State Highway 161
Irving, TX 75039

Register at:
http://dallasaspjul2011.eventbrite.com/

More info at: http://www.dallasasp.net/Meetings/3704.aspx


Group: Dallas C# SIG
Speaker: Chander Dhall
Topic: From Delegates, to Lambdas and Expression Trees: Your guide to writing elegant code in C# .NET 4.0

This talk takes you from the delegate syntax from .net 2.0 to actions and funcs. Then it dives deep into creating elegant code using lambdas. Gives you an understanding as to how to implement expression trees for some cool and quick framework development inside your organization. This talk does not require any understanding of delegates and goes from the beginner to intermediate level.

When:
Thursday, August 04, 2011 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)

Where:
Improving Enterprises
One Hanover Park
16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100
Addison, TX 75001

Register at:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1934465037

More info at:
http://dallas-csharp-sig.com/


Group: hands-on-coding.net
Speaker: ?
Topic: Implementing an Inversion of Control container in your app

Bring your laptop and build an application implementing an Inversion of Control container. We’ll walk-through the process step-by-step.

When:
Tuesday, August 09, 2011 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (CT)

Where:
Improving Enterprises
16633 Dallas Parkway
Suite 1000
Addison, TX 75001

Register at:
Not required

More info at:
http://www.hands-on-coding.net/StudyGroup/UserGroupInformation.aspx