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  1. April Meeting – Set-based String Manipulation in SQL Server

    April 10, 2011 by John Clayton

    Split, parse, concatenate and more fun with strings in SQL. Learn more about how to turn those procedural string manipulations into powerful set-based declarative statements.

    We will have pizza and refreshments at the meeting, and have a fresh supply of prizes. If you plan to attend please leave a comment or drop a note on the contact form. Please note the time – we’re starting at 6:00 this month!

    Location: College of Education, Room 122, MSU Billings (Map)

    Date (Updated!): Thursday April 14, 6:00pm

    Speaker: Michael Smith

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  2. March Meeting – Windows Workflow

    March 14, 2011 by John Clayton

    Applying Windows Workflow to Long-running Interactive Processes

    The combination of Windows Workflow, WF4, with Window Communication Foundations, WCF4, promises a powerful new model for the interaction of people, applications, and data stores in complex, long-running activities. Workflow services can manage and track the state of complex processes involving multiple agents. They can express workflow structures in process flow diagrams familiar to business users. Windows Workflow can replace program flow logic embedded in programs with editable declarative flow logic, freeing programmers to concentrate on design activities.

    This presentation will present the basics to working with these new tools.

    We will have pizza and refreshments at the meeting, and have a fresh supply of prizes. If you plan to attend please leave a comment or drop a note on the contact form.

    Location (NEW!): College of Education, Room 122, MSU Billings (Map)

    Date: Thursday March 17, 5:30pm

    Speaker: Tim Bailey

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  3. February Meeting – Windows Communication Foundation 4 Basics

    February 3, 2011 by John Clayton

    Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a unified programming model for rapidly building service-oriented applications that communicate across the web and the enterprise. Come learn how to create a simple client & server system, improvements made in WCF 4, how WCF error handling works, and other tips and tricks that will come in handy when tackling WCF projects.

    Pizza and refreshments will be provided. If you are unable to make it, we’ll be live streaming the meeting as well – click here to join!

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday February 10, 5:30pm

    Speaker: Jason Unruh

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  4. January Meeting – Aspect Oriented Programming

    January 8, 2011 by John Clayton

    AOP is emerging as an OO concept for implementing cross cutting concerns in a reusable and maintainable way. Learn the power of removing boiler-plate code and replacing it with aspects.

    Pizza and refreshments will be provided. If you are unable to make it, we’ll be live streaming the meeting as well – click here to join!

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday January 13, 5:30pm

    Speaker: Adam Dockter

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  5. November Meeting – DevConnections Recap

    November 9, 2010 by John Clayton

    Find out about the latest trends in the industry as Adrien recaps his recent trip to DevConnections.

    Pizza and refreshments will be provided. If you are unable to make it, we’ll be live streaming the meeting as well – click here to join!

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday November 11, 5:30pm

    Speaker: Adrien Talbot

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  6. October Meeting – MongoDB: Built For Web Scale

    October 12, 2010 by John Clayton

    When you think about your data storage needs, a relational database is probably the first thing that comes to mind. They’ve been around forever, are battle tested, and we all know how to work with them. But what if you need to take your application to the next level? At some point any RDMS becomes a bottleneck. Not just in raw performance, but also in maintainability.

    MongoDB is one of the more popular NoSql databases that has emerged lately, and it offers features and functionality that can be used by projects ranging from tiny to massive. Come find out what makes MongoDB stand out and how you can use it in your next project.

    Pizza and refreshments will be provided. If you are unable to make it, we’ll be live streaming the meeting as well – click here to join!

    Prizes

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday October 14, 5:30pm

    Speaker: John Clayton

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  7. September Meeting – All About OData

    September 14, 2010 by John Clayton

    I hope everybody had a great summer! We’re having our first post-break meeting this week. The topic: Open Data Protocol (OData). Find out how this exciting new protocol enables you to easily expose your data to nearly any platform!

    Pizza and refreshments will be provided. If you are unable to make it, we’ll be live streaming the meeting as well – click here to join!

    Prizes

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday September 16, 5:30pm

    Speaker: John Clayton

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  8. June Meeting – What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0

    June 14, 2010 by John Clayton

    To say that the .NET 4.0 & Visual Studio 2010 was a big release would qualify if for the understatement of the year – the latest release of our favorite technology stack was absolutely enormous! Tim gave us a high-level overview of what’s new two months ago and this month we’ll be taking a closer look at what’s new in ASP.NET 4.0.

    We will have pizza and refreshments at the meeting, so come hungry!

    If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, feel free to stop by the Live Meeting!

    Prizes

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday June 17, 5:30pm

    Speaker: John Clayton

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  9. May Meeting – Practicing Test Driven Development

    May 6, 2010 by John Clayton

    We have all heard of Test Drive Development (TDD). But how many of us practice it? I would like to talk about the following technologies and how they can improve your TDD experience.

    • Dependency injection
    • Inversion of control (IoC) with Unity
    • Mocking with Moq

    We will have pizza and refreshments at the meeting, so come hungry!

    If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, feel free to stop by the Live Meeting!

    Prizes

    Location: 214 North Broadway (This month we’re in a room down the hall from the usual room)

    Date: Thursday May 13, 5:30pm

    Speaker: Adam Dockter

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  10. April Meeting – Visual Studio 2010 Launch Party!

    April 11, 2010 by John Clayton

    What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4?

    This week (the US launch is April 12 at DevConnections in Las Vegas) is Microsoft’s official launch of Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, and Silverlight 4. Visual Studio 2010 has a new language (F#), a new look (the IDE is written in WPF), and some handy new features. .NET 4 has a whole grabbag of improvements and new features.

    I will be presenting from the Visual Studio 2010 Training kit and demoing Visual Studio 2010 with some of the included labs. Two of the things that caught my attention are Workflow Services and custom code generators for Entity Framework. We will wander through other features as time and audience curiosity permit. A sneak peek at the next version of Expression Blend will also be available.

    In addition to having pizza and refreshments we are also going to try streaming the meeting live! To join the meeting simply follow the link below and follow the instructions.

    Prizes

    Location: 214 North Broadway

    Date: Thursday April 15, 5:30pm

    Speaker: Tim Bailey

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