Last night we had about 60 people at the Atlanta MS Pros user group listening to Jim Wooley talk about the migration path developers currently using Linq to SQL might use to move to the Entity Framework. Jim has some deep history with Ling, including being the coauthor of the Manning Press book Linq...
Don Browning from Turner Broadcasting came out of the fun buildings which bring you the Cartoon Network (and those other channels) to talk to the group about the new architecture features of Visual Studio 2010. Those changes include: 6 new designers case model – a visual view of user stories (including...
Jim Wooley and the Atlanta Visual Basic Study Group will be hosting the .NET University courses on .NET 3.0 starting this Wednesday on Windows Workflow Foundation. Come out and join us and make sure to register. Dotnet University comes to Atlanta
The Atlanta Visual Basic .NET Study Group met at it's new location for the second time since loosing the LaVista Rd. facility. Last night's meeting featured me talking to the group about SharePoint 2007 and Groove 2007. Before I went on, Jim Wooly Wooley wrote a quick demonstration app that showed how...
Due to a sudden loss of venue, the VB User Group (and the Atlanta FoxPro Group) is suspending future meetings until a new meeting location has been secured. If anyone knows of a free meeting area complete with projector and screen that can accommodate up to 20 people, please let me know.
Been working on Winforms code and you're finally feeling like you know what's going on? Now Microsoft is throwing some new stuff at you - Avalon or the Windows Presentation Framework. Avalon is this crazy new breed of Windows Forms where you define your UI in XML (actually, XAML, but that's splitting...
Last night 27 people showed up to the cross user group holiday party/Visual Studio Launch Event recap. I gave a quick slide deck based recap of the Launch Event content (the web slide deck is now online at the Atlanta MS Pros website ). Chris Wallace followed me with some great demos of new ASP.Net features...
10 people turned up for Jim Wooley's presentation of the DotNetNuke survey module. Since Jim and I wanted to post an online survey and Jim wanted to extend the module to allow open ended questions and comments as part of the survey, we looked at his work in the group. Check out Jim's blog to see his...
Last night I lead the VB.Net User Group down the meandering path of DotNetNuke development. Unfortunately, the group was actually pretty small - only six people showed up aside from our perenial leader Jim Wooley and myself. Fortunately, that meant practically no one was present when the data access...