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MEETING
No Registration Required for this Event |
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 Microsoft
Office as a Developer Platform |
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SQL
Server Analysis Services and
Building MDX
Cubes for .NET Developers |
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User Group Meeting
(4th Monday monthly)
Monday,
September 22, 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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Microsoft Office as
a Developer Platform
with
Joe Shirey,
Microsoft
Senior Architect Evangelist |
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Over the
years, Microsoft Office has evolved as a technology that can
be used as a part of an application development effort. With
the release of Office 2007 and Visual Studio 2008, there are
a number of additional means for developers to leverage
Office as part of their solutions.
We will focus on some of the
new features of Office such as the Document Information
Panel, the XML File Formats, changes to the Office User
Interface, and a new version of Visual Studio Tools for
Office.
Come and discuss how to best leverage
these tools within your applications! |
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Joe Shirey
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Joe Shirey
is a Senior Architect Evangelist for
Microsoft based in the Denver area. In this role, Joe works
closely with customers and the community to help them
understand where Microsoft technologies fit into the
architecture of their solutions. Prior to joining Microsoft,
Joe was a Vice President at Interlink group where he was
responsible for service and delivery for Interlink's Denver
market. |
In
the past, Joe was a Microsoft Regional Director, a member of
the Microsoft Architect Advisory Board, and sat on the .NET
Partner Advisory Council.
Joe has more than eighteen years of
hands-on technical and functional experience in project
management, systems analysis, design, development, and
implementation. Joe attained his Microsoft Certified
Architect award in 2005.
 Contact
Joe Shirey,
720-528-1657,
Blog,
Microsoft Certified Architect |
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Meeting Sponsor
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Ted Hellmuth,
Recruiting Manager, Consulting Services |
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more than 100 locations in North America, Europe, Australia
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Meeting
Sponsor
Presentation
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SQL
Server Analysis Services and
Building MDX Cubes for .NET Developers
with
Brian Shurley
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Business Intelligence Consultant, Robert Half
Technology |
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Brian Shurley, Business
Intelligence Consultant for Robert Half Technology, has over
nine years of experience with IT consulting, business
intelligence, data warehousing, ETL solutions, and data
mining. He has extensive experience with Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 and Analysis Services including MDX cube
development. Brian has designed and developed enterprise
solutions for data warehousing and business intelligence and
will be sharing his expertise in a segment specifically
designed for .NET developers.
Download
Brian's presentation. |
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Meeting
Sponsor Refreshments
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Silver Mine Sub
Sandwiches
and drinks -- for your light
dinner / snacks and drinks during our Informal Networking and Refreshments
before our meeting begins.
Quantities
Limited
- Come early, 5:30 -
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Meeting
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Please arrive
before 6:00 p.m., entry after that is not guaranteed. Building doors are
scheduled to remain unlocked until 7:00 p.m.
See FAQ. If you leave the
4th floor after
7:00 p.m., return entry is not available.
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.*
PLEASE silence your electronic devices during our meeting.
5:30 - 6:00 (30 min) Informal Networking and Refreshments (come
early)
You may arrive after 5:15 p.m., Meeting
starts
PROMPTLY
at 6:00 p.m.
You must arrive before 7:00 p.m. lockout, see
above about late arrival
6:00 -
6:05 (5 min) Welcome and Announcements -
Chris Wallace
6:05 -
6:15 (10 min) Open "Mic" Time - Member Announcements, your
time to speak!
6:15
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6:45
(30 min)
Sponsor Presentation
SQL
Server Analysis Services and
Building MDX
Cubes for .NET Developers
with
Brian Shurley,
Business Intelligence Consultant, Robert Half
Technology
6:45
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7:00
(15 min) Networking Break
7:00 - 8:30 (90 min) Feature Presentation
Microsoft Office as
a Developer Platform
with
Joe Shirey,
Microsoft
Senior Architect Evangelist
8:30
- 9:00
(30 min) Closing Thoughts and Door Prizes -
Chris Wallace
* All times are approximate and
subject to change.
Please note: we need to vacate
the room no later than 9:00 p.m.! |
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Meeting Door Prizes
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To
qualify to win any of our door prizes, follow the
complete door prize requirements and details.
You must be a qualified
group member and you must be present to win -
Include your name and current e-mail address on your ONE (only) business card
entry per meeting. All door prizes are subject to change. Other door prize qualifications may be required by third
party sponsors, check with them. |
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You agree to send a business-like thank you by e-mail to
your door prize
provider (you will be given the name and e-mail address to send your
thank you). Accepting a door prize obligates each winner to
send a thank you note to their door prize provider.
Previous
winners who have not sent their thank you note are not eligible to
win again! Thank you for your participation! |
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From
Robert Half Technology
Our
Monthly
Meeting
Sponsor! |
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2 -- $50 gift certificate
to
Softpro
Books |
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From Softpro
Books
Your User Group's Preferred Bookstore! |
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$20 gift certificate
to
Softpro
Books
-- Winners: Check the expiration
date of this gift !!!
6862 S. Yosemite St., Centennial, CO (near DTC, Southwest of Arapahoe Rd and
I-25), 303-740-7751
An independent computer
bookstore - wide selection of the best computer books available anywhere! |
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From
AppVenture
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2 –
AppVenture Foundations -
application generator
+ 1 year support --
"Life just got better" |
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From
JetBrains
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4 –
ReSharper full licenses -- The Most Intelligent Add-In To
Visual Studio |
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From
LearnVisualStudio.NET and TrainingSpot.com
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1 – 1-year
subscription to
LearnVisualStudio.NET |
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LearnVisualStudio.NET has over 500 easy-to-understand
video tutorials for
VB.NET,
C#,
ASP.NET
-- over 100 hours of online training to help you get up to speed quickly. |
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qualify for this discount below,
whether you win a door
prize or not -- here everyone is a winner!
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1 – 1-year
subscription to
TrainingSpot |
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TrainingSpot has over
100 easy-to-understand video tutorials for SQL Server,
SharePoint
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to
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From A
Variety of Developer Book Publishers
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Selected developer books and/or
other items! |
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From Microsoft
See all Microsoft Press Books and Upcoming Titles! |
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Selected from developer
books, software, hardware, t-shirts, mugs, and other cool stuff!
(may include: Vista Ultimate, Expression Suite,
and Office Ultimate 2007 -- all subject to availability) |
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NEXT
LAB
No Registration Required for this Event |
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User Group Lab (first
month of each quarter, on
Friday
before our monthly Meeting)
Friday,
November 7 (previously scheduled for October
24), 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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Dynamic
Data
with Steve Dzilvelis, Senior Sales
Engineer |
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Dynamic
data denotes information that is asynchronously changed as
further updates to the information become available.
The opposite of this is static data, which is literally
a snap-shot of information at a particular point in time.
Dynamic data is also different from streaming data, in that
there is no constant flow of information. Rather, updates
may come at any time, with periods of inactivity in between.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
provides a framework that enables you to quickly build a
functional data-driven application, based on a LINQ to SQL
or Entity Framework data model. It also adds great
flexibility and functionality to the DetailsView, FormView,
GridView, and ListView controls in the form of smart
validation and the ability to easily change the display of
these controls using templates.
In this lab, we'll be looking at the components of
Dynamic Data, build an sample site, and show how to
customize it in various ways. |
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Steve Dzilvelis
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Steven
Dzilvelis is a Senior Sales Engineer at ViaWest, a
super-regional provider of colocation and complex managed
hosting. He has an extensive software development background
dating back to 1983 when he started a consulting company
after graduating high school.
His diverse development experience includes
government, accounting, mortgage, insurance, and E911 call
center systems. He’s developed with COBOL, DataFlex, Delphi,
and “grew up” with Microsoft technologies from qbasic to
.NET.
Aside from technology, Steve is also
passionate about snowboarding, chocolate, and Greek culture.
He and his family reside in Lafayette, Colorado.
Contact
Steve Dzilvelis
here
or
here. |
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Lab Sponsor
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FREE
Book Offers |
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For members participating in our volunteer Book
Exchange
"FREE Book in Exchange for a Book Review." |
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You Are A Winner:
by reading down this
far, you have just won the opportunity to obtain a FREE book!
Now is the time to help
your fellow group members and yourself. You get a FREE book in exchange for
writing a review of that book. We ask all recipients of door prize books to
complete a review of their book choice; however, some specific books have
been entrusted to our group by the publishers in exchange for a published
review by our group members posted to our web site. We are obligated to
fulfill those agreements, to receive additional door prizes and more FREE
books for review. See our
Book Reviews. |
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review (one outstanding review per member, please): |
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Be the first to send an e-mail message to
Chris Wallace.
State that you will write a review of that book within 60 days of
receiving that book and that you understand and agree to follow the book
review process and submit your review as described in our
“How To Review.” |
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Attend our Meeting described in this e-mail to see if
you are a winner of your book choice! Get your book at our Meeting.
You must be present at that Meeting to pick up your book, no exceptions. If
you are not present to obtain your book at the time during the Meeting when
it is offered, it will go to the next person who submitted an e-mail in the
order received. |
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Start reading and writing! - Plus, send
your Thank You
message to your book provider! |
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MSDN Unleashed
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Special Event ----- for Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins
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MSDN Events
Unleashed:
Demystifying WPF,
Silverlight 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1
with Rob Bagby, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft --
e-mail,
blog |
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The
first 200 persons to check-in to the Denver event and the first 25 each to check-in
to the Fort Collins and Colorado Springs events will receive the book
“Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the
Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)”
NOTE: You must register first, then
arrive early at check-in time for your chance to get this book! |
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Denver --
Click here to Register and for Directions and Map
Wednesday,
October 1, 2008,
Check-in 12:00 p.m., Start 1:00 p.m. -- End 5:00 p.m.
Location: Greenwood Plaza 12
Address: 8141 East Arapahoe Road., Englewood, CO 80112 |
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Colorado
Springs --
Click here to Register and for Directions and Map
Tuesday,
September 30, 2008,
Check-in 12:30 p.m., Start 1:00 p.m. -- End 5:00 p.m.
Location: Configuresoft, Inc.
Address: 7450 Campus Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920 |
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Fort
Collins --
Click here to Register and for Directions and Map
Thursday,
October 2, 2008,
Check-in 12:30 p.m., Start 1:00 p.m. -- End 5:00 p.m.
Location: Sunset Event Center
Address: 242 Linden Street, Fort Collins, CO 80524 |
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Today’s
applications need to do more than simply work. They need to draw in the user
and provide a differentiated experience. This means moving beyond battleship
gray forms boxy UIs and simple HTML forms, and providing a positive user
experience. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight 2 provide
powerful capabilities to develop compelling user interfaces, on the client
and in the browser, respectively.
At the heart of these rich applications is data. There
are a growing number of choices of technologies available to access data,
create database abstraction layers and expose data as services. Visual
Studio 2008 (and .NET Framework 3.5) SP1 include the production release of
the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, as well as some
enhancements to the Web Programming model (REST-Friendly) in WCF.
In these sessions, Rob Bagby will examine the
core concepts of WPF and Silverlight such as layout panels, data binding,
styles and control templates, and will use them to develop an application UI
from the ground up. Rob will further examine and demystify the options
available to you to expose data to your rich applications. |
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Certification
Study Group
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Certification. Don't stand still, stand out. FMI -- Contact
RJ Hatch
Two Certification Study Groups are now just getting going! |
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Two new
Certification Study Groups
are just now getting going within our user group! One is
located in the Golden area and one in the DTC area. Get in on the ground floor to
help your fellow members and yourself. Your ideas and suggestions
are needed to make these study groups and you succeed. The Golden
area study group has
started meeting, join them now! The DTC area study group is the
newest one to form, find out more 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
and
Six Steps to Certification. |
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Get Your FREE Developer Web Site
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Free Developer Web Site
for
your educational Microsoft .NET developer needs |
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Build your
first .NET website, stage a website, test code, and try Visual
Studio,
Expression or Silverlight on your site! Free to our members, no
obligations.
FMI
and to sign up, see:
Get Your FREE
Developer Web Site
For
services offered details, see:
Verio Free Web Site
Hosting Program. |
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RMWTUG Virtualization Mini-Conference
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We
will be comparing VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V (and possibly
other hypervisors) from a neutral viewpoint. The focus of this event
is to show how server virtualization configuration, usage and
management tasks are performed on these differing technologies.
Features and functions that are common to these virtualization
technologies will be demonstrated, and features and functions that
are unique to one or the other will also be demonstrated. Network
and storage management functions will also be demonstrated.
Technologies at this Conference
--
The main presentation will be performed with
real servers, networking and storage infrastructure on the stage. On
the stage will be four identical, large, name-brand servers
(dual-Xeon, quad-core, large
memory) along with enterprise-class networking
and storage infrastructure including iSCSI and Fibre Channel
storage. The servers will be running VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V,
and possibly other hypervisors.
FMI
and to sign up, see:
Complete details |
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asp.netPRO MAGAZINE
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asp.net PRO Magazine |
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