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     Most recent first, by Date with Subjects. First items may be for Meetings in the near future!
     For broken links, contact the presenter by name and e-mail address listed in the message for that presentation.
     2008    
Check our Last Presentation Meeting Message

 
June, 2008 - "Windows Live for Developers!"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Managing Your Application Lifecycle Management
    with Visual Studio Team System -- Adventos
"
May, 2008 - "Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 (continued from last month) –
     New features you’ll really want to use!
"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Axosoft"
April, 2008 - "Microsoft "Heroes Happen Here {Community} Launch Event"
   
Your Open Discussion "
Building Your Professional Network"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
COMSYS - Putting IT To Work"
March, 2008 - "Introduction to Silverlight 2.0"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Colorado Technical University"
February, 2008 - "Building Line of Business Applications"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Identity Federation – What is it and why is it important?"
January, 2008 - "What's New in Visual C# 2008"
   
Open Discussion "
Social Networking Sites"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
COMSYS - Putting IT To Work"

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     2007    
December, 2007 - No  Regular Monthly Meeting, holiday break!
December, 2007 - Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest(ivus)
November, 2007 - "Microsoft’s Web UX platform: Silverlight, ASP.NET, and AJAX"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Microsoft"
October, 2007 - "Speed-up Your Application Development with Repeatable Techniques"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
2008 IT Compensation Trends"
September, 2007 - "Halo 3 - Pre-launch Party!"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Microsoft Halo 3"
August, 2007 - "Windows Presentation Foundation: Beyond the Bling!"
   
Sponsor Presentation "TEKsystems
"
July, 2007 - "Simple Design Patterns That Solve Real World Development Issues"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
CONNECT: The Knowledge Network"
June, 2007 - "Amazon Web Services: Webscale Computing"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
K2 “BlackPearl” (Workflow) for Developers"
May, 2007 - "May meeting canceled, due to Memorial Day"
April, 2007 - "Why Workflow?"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
IBM’s Build Forge tool demo and Q & A plus
         
Introduction to cognence"
March, 2007 - "Business Application Development with Office Server 2007
         
(Community Launch Team)"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Introduction to RSS and NewsGator for
         
Software Developers in Denver"
February, 2007 - "Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Top to Bottom"
    Sponsor Presentation "
Alumni Consulting Group"
January, 2007 - "Build Effective Object-Oriented Apps in .NET 3.0"
    Sponsor Presentation "Welcome to MicroStaff"

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     2006    
December, 2006 - No Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2006 - "Your BIG Introduction to: .Net 3.0, Vista, Office 2007, Expression, Live"
   
Sponsor Presentation "Microsoft"
October, 2006 - "Security - The Identity Metasystem, Active Directory Federation
         Services (ADFS), and Windows CardSpace (formerly 'InfoCard')
"
   
Open Discussion "Generalist or Specialist? - What to be?"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
YohIT"
September, 2006 - "BPA - Business Process Automation"
   
Open Discussion "Full-time Employee or Consultant -- the Good, the Bad, the Ugly!"
   
Sponsor Presentation "MicroStaff"
August, 2006 - "
LINQ - Language Integrated Query - The Future of Dynamic
        Programming
"
    Open Discussion
"To Blog or Not To Blog?"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Robert Half Technology, Introduction"
July, 2006 - "Extreme ASP.NET 2.0:
          Asynchronous Client and Server Processing for Rich Web Clients
"
    Open Discussion
"Determining business needs from user wants -- Is there a disconnect?"
    Sponsor Presentation "KForce"
June, 2006 - "Atlas - Microsoft's AJAX Implementation"
    Open Discussion "
Web vs. Windows Applications - your opinion!"
    Sponsor Presentation "MicroStaff"
May, 2006 - "Generics -- in all colors!"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Introduction to Sapphire Technologies!"
April, 2006 - "Three Cool Namespaces: XML, Regex, and Crypto"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Introduction to KForce!"
March, 2006 - "ASP.NET 2.0 Jumpstart for 1.1 Developers"
    Sponsor Presentation "
Microsoft Windows Workflow (WWF) -
         Solutions for Scalable, Reliable Web Services
"
February, 2006 - "ASP.NET Data Binding – Beyond the demo..."
    Sponsor Presentation "
ASP.NET Security"
January, 2006 - "Advanced Windows Forms Tips"
    Sponsor Presentation "
SOA Runtime Governance"

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     2005    

 
December, 2005 - No Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2005 - "Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Community Launch"
    Sponsor Presentation "Microsoft"

October, 2005 - "Focus on YOU, the Developer - Visual Studio 2005"
    Sponsor Presentation "
Idea Integration - Who is Idea?"
September, 2005 - "Tips/Tricks of a Developer"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Introduction: "FUJITSU Consulting Information Services"
August, 2005 - "CSLA .Net in Action - A Time Saving Application Framework
         for your C# or VB.Net Development Projects"

   
Sponsor Presentation "
Introduction to "Yoh Company"
July, 2005 - "Take Control: A Tour of the New Controls in ASP.NET 2.0"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Enterprise Library Application Blocks: Ready-to-Use Solutions
       
Solve Problems Once and For All"
June, 2005 - "New Enhancements for C# 2.0"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Design Patterns - Solutions to Recurring Software Design Problems"
May, 2005 - "Essential Portal Development for ASP.NET Developers"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Code and Memory Profiling Your .NET Applications"
April, 2005 - "Building Extensible Integration Solutions
         using BizTalk Server 2004 and Visual Studio .NET
"
    Special:
Design Patterns and Agility
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Introduction to MicroStaff, consulting and placement firm"
March, 2005 - "SOA - The “PEACE” Tenets of Service Orientation"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
Career, Jobs, and Consulting Q & A"
February, 2005 - "
WHIRL WIND TOUR OF ADO.NET 2.0 & SQL SERVER 2005"
   
Sponsor Presentation "
.NET Applications and Mainframe Applications
      
using SOAP based Web Services
"
January, 2005 - "
Building .NET Solutions for Office System"

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     2004    
December, 2004 - No Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2004 - The Future of Collaborative Team Development
   
Sponsor Presentation "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System
"
October, 2004 - WinForms Best Practices
   
Sponsor Presentation "
TEKsystems - Introduction and Interactive Q & A"
September, 2004 - Creation of Distributed Object-Oriented Applications in .NET
August, 2004 -
“Application Security in .NET”
   
Sponsor Presentation "Statera - Introduction to Consulting"
July, 2004 -
Developer Solutions using Reporting Services
    Special:
Contest Winner Demo, Part 2 of 2
   
Sponsor Presentation "
UML Modeling with Visual Studio .NET & Borland Together Modeler"
June, 2004 -
Server and User Control Development in .NET
   
Special: Contest Winner Demo, Part 1 of 2
    Sponsor Presentation "Career, Jobs, and Consulting Q & A"
May, 2004 -
“Exceptional Exception Handling in .NET”
    GotDotNET
: Instrumenting Your .NET Applications
    Sponsor Presentation "Interviewing Tip"
April, 2004 -
"Visual Basic .NET 2004 World Tour - Denver, from Microsoft
    Sponsor Presentation "
Microsoft Visual Basic Developer Center
March, 2004 -
"Reflecting the Real World
    Sponsor Presentation
"SQL Server Tools Review for Developers and DBAs”
February, 2004 - "
Mastering ADO.NET Multitable Relations"
    Sponsor Presentation "
Improving the Software Development Process"
January, 2004 - "
Building Distributed Applications with Indigo"
    GotDotNET
: "Which Is Fastest When Retrieving Data from a Database?"
    Sponsor Presentation "
Managing Web services created with VS.NET"
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     2003    
December, 2003 - No Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2003 -
"SuperTransformations - HTML Output from XML"
    Sponsor Presentation "
Darwin, Band-Aids and Smart Client Applications"
October, 2003 - "
Graphics (GDI+) – Drawing You to .NET"
    GotDotNET
: ".NET Remoting - The Other RPC Architecture"
    Sponsor Presentation "Optimize Your Under-Performing .NET Applications"
September, 2003 -
Microsoft Application Architectures -
         
Doing Development Faster and Doing It Right"
    ".NET Q & A Session"
    Sponsor Presentation
"Quality, Compliance and Security Across the Application Lifecycle"
August, 2003 -
“Extending your Applications with .NET and Microsoft Portal Technologies”
    Microsoft
"Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Tools for Microsoft Office System"
    Sponsor Presentation "Faster and Easier .NET Application Development with ORM.NET"
July, 2003 -
Build Your Real-World ASP.NET Application Using the Portal Starter Kit”
    GotDotNET
Sorting Collections - The Easy Way!
          Download the GotDotNET code
    Sponsor Presentation "Legacy Applications and .NET -- Can We Talk?"
June, 2003 -
"Take a Tablet PC and Call Me in the Morning -
        
Build Applications for the Tablet PC using Visual Studio .NET”
    Special
".NET Q & A Session"
    Sponsor
"Career, Jobs, and Consulting Q & A Session"
May, 2003 - “
Automate Your .NET Code Generation"
     Sponsor Presentation
"Creating Charts for .NET Applications"
April, 2003 -
Data Binding with Windows Forms - Move up to the Power!"
     with special guest Ken Getz    
          Download the Data Binding code from AppDev (available for a limited time only)
March, 2003 -
“C# .NET – COM Interop, Automating Microsoft Office Applications"
          Download the C# .NET – COM Interop code, see presenter
    GotDotNET
"Doing XML Documents with the .NET Framework"
          Download the GotDotNET code
    Sponsor Presentation
"Strategies for Jump Starting .NET Application Development"              
February, 2003 -
"Mastering the 3 C’s of .NET – User Controls, Custom Controls,
               and Components"
          Download the Mastering the 3 C’s of .NET code
    GotDotNET
".NET Serialization"
          Download the GotDotNET code
    Sponsor Presentation
"Visual Modeling in the Real World,
              
A Practical Approach to UML Modeling"
January, 2003 -
"Reflections on Reflection.NET”
          Download the
Reflection.NET code
    GotDotNET
"Graphics Programming with the .NET Framework - A Look at GDI+"
          Download the GotDotNET code
    Sponsor Presentation
"Component Oriented Technical Architecture"
Special Event January, 2003 - Jeff Prosise: "Power ASP.NET Programming"
          Download presentation slides and sample code
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     2002    
December, 2002 - No Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2002 - "Talkback to Microsoft – Visual C# .NET Q & A” (Discussion)
          Download the "Talkback to Microsoft" discussion:

             - Advanced C# Slide Presentation and
             - Voting Results for C# Problems and Suggestions with Graphs
October, 2002 - "Visual Inheritance - How OOP works in Windows.Forms"
    GotDotNET "
Taming the ASP.NET WebForms DataGrid Control"
          Download the GotDotNET code

September, 2002 - "XML Web Services Exposed"
          Download the
XML Web Services code
    GotDotNET "
Jagged Arrays in VB.NET and C#"
          Download the GotDotNET code

August, 2002 - ".NET Mobile Technology - The Enterprise On the Move"
    GotDotNET "
Guided Garden Stroll thru the .NET Framework Class Library"
          Download the GotDotNET code

August, 2002 - Extra: "2002 Visual Basic .NET Tour, from Microsoft"
          Download the Tour code and presentation

July, 2002 - "Multithreading in .NET, A Thread in Time Saves 9"
          Download the Multithreading in .NET presentation and code

June, 2002 - "Taking .NET Windows Forms One Step Beyond"
          Download the .NET Windows Form code

    Extra Topic "Fundamentals of OOD and Subclassing the .NET Web Controls"
          Download the OOD and Subclassing presentation

          Download the OOD and Subclassing application code
          Download the OOD and Subclassing database code
May, 2002 - "Regular Expressions for .NET Developers" - Special GotDotNET
          Download the Special GotDotNET code

    Extra Topic "Windows Services"
          Download the Extra Topic code

April, 2002 - "Powerful Distributed Computing with .NET Remoting"
    GotDotNET "Cryptography and the .NET Framework"
          Download the GotDotNET code

March, 2002 - "ADO.NET – Working with Data in .NET"
    GotDotNET "Exception Handling, Part 2"
          Download the GotDotNET code

February, 2002 - "ADO.NET – Working with Data in .NET"
    GotDotNET "Exception Handling"
          Download the GotDotNET code

January, 2002 - "Web Forms in Action, ASP.NET"
    GotDotNET "ADO.NET"
          Download the GotDotNET code

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     2001    
December, 2001 - No Presentation Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2001 - "Under the Hood of a Complete Visual Studio .NET Real-World Application" 
October, 2001 - "Visual C# .NET for the Visual Basic .NET Developer" 
     GotDotNET "Smart Object Tricks - Format Definitions & Custom Formatting"
          Download the GotDotNET code

September, 2001 - "
Building WinForms in Visual Basic .NET with a little Visual C# .NET"
     GotDotNET "Collections & Interfaces"
          Download the GotDotNET code

     "Today's Job Market, Part 2"
August, 2001 - "VB Development for PocketPC and Palm
     GotDotNET "Input/Output"
          Download the GotDotNET code

     "Today's Job Market, Part 1"
July, 2001 "Crystal Reports in VB6 & Visual Basic .NET, Forms & ASP, SQL Server"
     GotDotNET "Strings"
          Download the GotDotNET code

June, 2001
- "Object Oriented Programming in VB Now and in Visual Basic .NET"
     GotDotNET "Introducing the .NET Framework"
          Download the GotDotNET code

     "Rolling Back Up the River - Beta 1 to 2 Visual Basic .NET Changes"
May, 2001 - "Microsoft Corporate: 2001 DEVELOPER'S TOUR - Visual Basic .NET"
April, 2001 - "Getting Started with XML using DOM and SAX with VB"
March, 2001 - "Error Handling in VB.'Classic' and Visual Basic .NET"
February, 2001 - "Testing Visual Basic Applications"
January, 2001 - "Moving a Single Tier Windows App to n-Tier Browser"
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     2000    
December, 2000 - No Presentation Meeting, holiday break!
November, 2000
- "Programming Today for Visual Basic .NET Tomorrow"
October, 2000 - "An Introduction to Visual Basic .NET"
September, 2000 - "An Introduction to XML and its Uses"
August, 2000 - "Accessing the Windows Registry from VB"
July, 2000 - "VB Training and Certification"
June, 2000 - "Complete Windows DNA Real-World Example"
May, 2000 - "How to Build an IT Career using Visual Basic"
April, 2000 - "What is RAD about Visual Basic"
March, 2000 - "Building an N-Tier ASP Application Start to Finish"
February, 2000 - "COM+ Overview and VB"
January, 2000 - "Practical ADO Tricks"
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  Meetings prior to 2000 are no longer available.
 

 

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