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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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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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.
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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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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March 11, 2010 by John Clayton
Gone are the days of having to choose which communication technology to use, and good riddance! Today we’ve got Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), which gives you a unified programming model for building services for the web and enterprise. Join us to take a look at what WCF can do, how easy it is to use, and get a glimpse of the amazing power it wields!
Oh, and there will be pizza and refreshments!
Prizes
Location: 214 North Broadway
Date: Thursday March 18, 5:30pm
Speaker: Adrien Talbot
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February 17, 2010 by John Clayton
Here is the presentation from the other night’s meeting. Thank you again to Syncfusion for sponsoring February’s meeting!
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February 9, 2010 by John Clayton
There’s a new kid in town that’s taking .NET web development by storm – ASP.NET MVC! Nearing its 2.0 release, this framework removes friction and broken abstractions and gives you absolute control over your HTML and URLs. All this adds up to being able to build rich web applications quicker than ever! Once you’ve seen the light you’ll never look at Web Forms the same way again!
We’ve also got a number of prizes on the table this month:
See you then!
This month’s meeting has been sponsored by:
Location: 214 North Broadway
Date: Tuesday February 16, 5:30pm
Speaker: John Clayton
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January 7, 2010 by Adrien Talbot
Want your web pages to be more responsive? We will be covering how AJAX with ASP.Net can help your web pages feel more responsive to your users.
Topic: AJAX in ASP.Net
Location: 208 North Broadway
Date: Tuesday January 19, 5:30pm
Speaker: Lori Latta
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November 30, 2009 by Adrien Talbot
Developers at Play (XNA development)
The meeting will be at the downtown MSU Billings Labs. Location: 2804 3rd Ave. (Corner of 3rd and Broadway)
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Topic: XNA Game Programming
Presenter: Regina Cain
Event Time: 15 December 2009 17:30 to 15 December 2009 19:30 (GMT -7)
Event Location: 2804 3rd Ave N, Billings, Montana, 59101, United States
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November 3, 2009 by John Clayton
There’s a whole lot to like about Windows 7. On the surface there are numerous usability improvements, and under the hood things have been polished and refined. The end result is quite possible the best version of Windows yet!
Want to take advantage of some of the new features in your application? It’s easier than you think, and will be the topic of the November meeting.
Location: 214 North Broadway
Date: Tuesday November 10, 5:30pm
Speaker: John Clayton
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