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User Group Meeting
(3rd Monday, this month only;
then back to 4th Monday monthly)
Monday,
May 19, 2008,
Networking & Refreshments 5:30 p.m., Meeting 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Microsoft, Desert Mountain
(Denver),
Directions and Live Local Maps
Address: 7595 Technology Way, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80237, Phone: 720-528-1700 |
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Visual Studio
-- ‘Get into
Programming’ plus IDE Tips and Tricks!
with
Rod Stephens, Visual
Basic MVP, Author, Speaker,
Consultant |
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Rod Stephens, Visual Basic MVP,
will help you ‘Get into Programming’ through a quick
introduction to Visual Studio 2008.
He'll demonstrate how you can build forms that display
information and that use controls to allow your user to
interact with your application. He'll explain how you can
use properties to control your program's appearance and
behavior. He’ll show you how you can use events to let your
program respond as your user clicks buttons, selects menu
items, and otherwise fiddles with your program.
For a grand finale, Rod will show you how to build a
complete database program in 30 seconds! Plus, he'll give a
quick show-and-tell showcasing some of the remarkable things
you can do with Visual Studio.
This talk does not require previous programming
experience and beginners should get a decent head start at
moving into Visual Basic or C# programming. For those of you
who have some experience with VBA, VBScript, Visual Basic
"Classic," or some other language, you will be able to
concentrate more on the amazingly powerful Visual Studio
integrated development environment (IDE) and how you can
achieve particular tasks with this remarkable developer
tool.
If you’re new to all of this, come and ‘Get
into Programming.’
If you’re an experienced developer, come and
learn from the master of the IDE to get the most out of your
Visual Studio programming!
 Note
that Rod is known for bringing fabulous door prizes to give
away at meetings! Well, perhaps not exactly fabulous, but
he'll almost certainly bring a couple of books to give away. |
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Rod Stephens
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Rod
Stephens started out as a mathematician but, while
studying algorithms at MIT, discovered the joys of computer
graphics and algorithms and he never looked back. He is a
Microsoft Visual Basic MVP who has been a software
consultant specializing in custom business software and user
interface development for more than 22 years. During that
time he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications
spanning topics such as cartography, fuel taxes, wastewater
treatment, automated dispatching, ticket sales, and
professional football coaching.
Rod is an accomplished
speaker and author who has written 19 books that have been
translated into a dozen or so languages. He has also written
more than 250 articles in magazines such as "Visual Studio
Magazine," "Visual Basic Developer," "Dr. Dobb's Journal,"
"Delphi Informant," and "J++ Informant."
He has been working with
Visual Basic in all of its flavors (Visual Basic, VBA,
VBScript, .NET) since Visual Basic 3, and has been using C#
and Visual Basic .NET since their version 1 betas.
Rod's VB Helper Web site
(http://www.vb-helper.com), which racks up about 7 million
hits per month, contains more than 5,000 pages of tips,
tricks, and example programs for Visual Basic developers.
Bookmark it so you can quickly find the hints you need to
get past that tricky piece of code and get moving again!
Contact
Rod Stephens
and see
vb-helper.com.
See
Rod's most recent book
"Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's
Reference". |
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with
Hamid Shojaee, Axosoft
founder, Speaker, Software Evangelist |
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Axosoft, LLC is a leading provider of bug tracking
and software project management applications for software
development teams.
Axosoft’s flagship product, OnTime, stands out with
industry-leading innovations, an intuitive user interface
and state-of-the-art technology.
OnTime is in use by
over 5,000 development teams in ISV, Consulting and IT
organizations within 45+ nations around the globe. OnTime
is the only product of its kind with Windows, Web, and
Visual Studio .NET interfaces that is available both as an
installed product and/or as a hosted service.
Axosoft,
800.653.0024,
Contact
Darcy Graham,
480.362.1900 x600 |
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Hamid Shojaee
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Axosoft founder, Hamid Shojaee, is a software
industry veteran who, prior to starting Axosoft, lead
software development teams at Microsoft, Intel and IBM.
It was as a Sr. Consultant with Microsoft that Hamid
realized how common it was for even the brightest dev teams
and managers to have difficulty answering basic questions
about their software projects: Who's working on what? What's
the status of this bug or that feature? When will the
product be ready to ship?
To help teams stay on course and ship software on
time, Hamid created OnTime. He was able to invest his
project management and development experience into a product
that would help dev teams function together in better
harmony.
When OnTime v1.0 was publicly released as a free app,
Hamid was overwhelmed by the response it received. People
who were using OnTime were vocally enthusiastic about it --
they finally had a tool that "got it" and actually helped
them get things done.
Axosoft was born. Today, Hamid actively manages and
provides guidance in all areas of Axosoft's business. With
his passions for Axosoft and OnTime strengthening, he also
dedicates time as a speaker at software development
conferences and functions as Axosoft's #1 OnTime evangelist.
Learn more about Hamid Shojaee by visiting his
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User Group Lab (first
month of each quarter, on
Friday
before our monthly Meeting)
Friday,
July
25, 2008,
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Location:
LeaderQuest
(formerly named Hensmann
Learning),
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6825 South Galena St., Englewood,
CO 80112,
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SQL Server
Reporting Services for 2008
with
Steve Wake,
Senior Web
Developer, Visa; MCP,
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This lab
is a continuation of our wildly popular series on SQL Server Reporting
Services where Steve will
'show and tell' more fun with
SSRS! He will present more on the 2008 version, which he
introduced during our
April 28 Denver Visual Studio User Group 'Heroes Happen Here
{Community} Launch Event.
Watch this space and our e-mails
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Steve Wake
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Steve Wake
is a Senior Web Developer at Visa Inc. in the Member
Processing Solutions group. He is a Microsoft Certified
Professional and Microsoft Certified Applications Developer
in .NET. He has worked at Visa for 11 years and has been a
computer programmer since high school.
He started working at Visa on creating and
maintaining COBOL reporting and billing applications for MVS
and AS/400 systems. In the last 5 years he has trained
himself on ASP .NET and C# programming. When the first
version of Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services was
released as an add-on to SQL Server 2000 he saw the
potential to move most of the existing reporting at Visa to
this platform. For the last 3 years he has built an ASP .NET
2.0 application that leverages Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Reporting Services and is now being used as the enterprise
reporting platform at Visa. Steve has presented 3 labs since
January 2007 on SQL Server Reporting Services for the Denver
Visual Studio User Group.
Steve
was a co-presenter of our Denver Visual Studio User
Group 'Heroes
Happen Here {Community} Launch
Event' for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server
2008.
Contact
Steve Wake:
office
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