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NOTE: Lab this month on July 25 !
 SQL
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User Group Meeting
(4th Monday monthly)
Monday,
July 28, 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
for ALL!
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! He'll almost certainly bring a couple of
great books to give away, plus this truly "fabulous" door
prize:
MSDN Premium 1-year
subscription -- including Microsoft Visual Studio
Team System 2008 Team Suite version development tools,
servers, operating systems, office system, Dynamics, and
much much more (approximate value $5,800 NFR)
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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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Meeting Sponsor Presentation
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Effective Resumes with
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John Padilla,
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BRING YOUR RESUME
for a private personal review before our meeting during our
Networking and Refreshments, 5:30 p.m. to
6:00 p.m.!
Plus -- During our meeting sponsor
presentation, John and the Modis Development Team
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and an introduction to Modis. This will help you with
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NOTE: Lab this month on July
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SQL
Server 2008 Reporting Services RC0 |
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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),
Directions and Live Local Maps
Address:
6825 South Galena St., Englewood,
CO 80112,
Phone: 303-832-4665, 877-660-4876 |
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SQL Server
2008 Reporting Services RC0
with
Steve Wake,
Senior Web
Developer, Visa; MCP,
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In this lab Steve will show more of the new features in SQL
Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS), which should be
available in August. All demonstrations will be done on the
latest public build of SQL Server 2008 (RC0 as of July 9th).
Microsoft has added more new features after CTP5 to SSRS and we
will go through each of them. Steve will also cover some of
the features that he was not able to show at the
April 28 Denver Visual Studio User Group 'Heroes Happen Here
{Community} Launch Event presentation and there will
be time for questions as well.
Make sure to come early, because space is limited.
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Steve Wake
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Steve Wake
is a Senior Web Developer at Visa 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 10 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 applications that
leverage Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and is
now being used as the enterprise reporting platform at Visa.
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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Microsoft
Certification. Don't stand still, stand out.
Certification Study Group is now forming... FMI -- Contact
RJ Hatch |
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A new
Certification Study Group
is now forming within our user group! Get in on the ground floor to
help your fellow members and yourself. Your ideas and suggestions
are needed to make this study group and you succeed. The study group has
not yet met, but plans are being formed now.
Goals (these are initial guidelines -- it's up to you
to decide):
1. Pass the tests leading
to Microsoft certification!
2. Motivate one another
by a shared group commitment.
3. Benefit from shared
knowledge.
4. Fill in the
knowledge gaps needed for the tests.
5. Accelerate our
learning track, even if you don't care about certification!
FMI
and to get involved -- Contact
RJ Hatch,
our user group member volunteer.
Also
see:
Microsoft Certifications Overview
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your educational Microsoft .NET developer needs
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Expression or Silverlight on your site!
Free to our members, no obligations.
FMI and to sign up, see:
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Softpro Books - An independent computer
bookstore with a wide selection of the best computer books available
anywhere.
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Phone: 303-740-7751 |
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Sun: closed;
South of the DTC at
6862 S. Yosemite St., Denver/Centennial, CO 80112 |
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Denver Visual Studio
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We are a professional independent user group
private volunteer membership association whose
members
are 100% committed to the Microsoft
Visual Studio development tool set, emphasizing Visual Basic
and C#. We support our members in that commitment! See About
and History. Please
see Notice.
The Denver Visual Studio User Group meets at a
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