http://www.vbug.co.uk/events/ en-gb Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:53:20 GMT http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/Leadingedge-Web-Development-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/Leadingedge-Web-Development-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:13 GMT Date: Tuesday 11 May 2010........ http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/Silverlight-4-MVVM-and-TDD.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/Silverlight-4-MVVM-and-TDD.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:54:28 GMT Date: Monday 12 April 2010........ http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/HyperV-For-Developers.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/HyperV-For-Developers.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:51:56 GMT Date: Thursday 25 March 2010........ http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/June-2010/DDD-South-West-2.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/June-2010/DDD-South-West-2.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:58:56 GMT Date: Saturday 5 June 2010........An annual, one-day technical event By The Community For The Community http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/June-2010/A-Guided-Tour-of-the-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-in-Silverlight-4.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/June-2010/A-Guided-Tour-of-the-Managed-Extensibility-Framework-MEF-in-Silverlight-4.aspx Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:54:01 GMT Date: Wednesday 2 June 2010........Presented by Mike Taulty For more information: http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Meetings/tabid/54/EntryID/45/Default.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-London-Real-World--The-Edinburgh-Comedy-Festival-Portal.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-London-Real-World--The-Edinburgh-Comedy-Festival-Portal.aspx Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:30:12 GMT Date: Tuesday 23 March 2010........The Edinburgh Comedy Festival Portal - from scratch! The Edinburgh Comedy Festival Portal allows over 500 acts to submit, describe and schedule over 11,000 performances for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is currently being revised using .NET 4.0 technologies. This talk will go through the strategy and architecture behind the new implementation. It will cover topics including: ASP.NET Code Contracts Interfaces Test Driven Design User Controls Encapsulation User-Centred Design Speaker: Richard Jarmain has been an IT and systems consultant for much longer than he can actually remember. After well over a decade of being employed for dry, business-oriented intranet and desktop applications, he offered to help out at the Pleasance, the largest venue provider on the Edinburgh Fringe. This talk is the result of his experience working together with the Pleasance, redefining the process for acts and producers to get their information into the Fringe and Comedy Festival brochures, each read by a million people, and onto the Fringe and Comedy Festival websites. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Scotland-Credit-Crunch-Code--Time-to-Pay-Back-the-Technical-Debt.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Scotland-Credit-Crunch-Code--Time-to-Pay-Back-the-Technical-Debt.aspx Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:08:08 GMT Date: Wednesday 24 March 2010........Technical debt is the cost of putting off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back to avoid the “interest payments” becoming crippling. This presentation will focus on a number of common developer (and project) anti-patterns that can lead to the build up of technical debt in a project and, having identified these behaviours, we’ll look at techniques to firstly quantify and then to mitigate against them. We will finish by looking at some metrics you can use to identify technical debt in your code base. Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, especially in the areas of technical debt and refactoring. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK. As well as C#, Gary also has an interest in dynamic languages such as Smalltalk, Ruby and Python as well as iPhone development using Objective-C http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/VBUG-Bristol-An-Introduction-to-Windows-Communication-Foundation.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/VBUG-Bristol-An-Introduction-to-Windows-Communication-Foundation.aspx Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:04:51 GMT Date: Tuesday 25 May 2010........Windows Communication Foundation provides a way of creating and calling remote services in fast and flexible way. WCF allows the building of connected, service-oriented applications within .Net. Services can be implemented on a variety of platforms and accessed using open standards. There is a wide choice of configuration options for a service, for example, the most effective communication protocol can be used. Visual Studio has some useful tools to create & configure WCF services. This talk will tell you all you need to know to start working with WCF services in .Net. I will demonstrate how to create, configure, host and then call a service. Content: Service orientation Unifying communication models Communicating using contracts Hosting WCF services Creating a WCF service Creating a client that consumes a WCF service http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/June-2010/VBUG-Portsmouth-Working-with-the-Bing-Maps-Silverlight-Control.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/June-2010/VBUG-Portsmouth-Working-with-the-Bing-Maps-Silverlight-Control.aspx Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:32:44 GMT Date: Monday 28 June 2010........Working with the Bing Maps Silverlight Control Abstract: In this session we will have a closer look at the Bing Maps Silverlight Control. We will go through the basic steps to add multimedia content, connect to databases, create thematic maps and more. Throughout the session we will have a look at various options to measure performance and solve performance-related issues. If we're really lucky, I'm going to get the chance to probe Johannes about what we might be able to do with Silverlight as a rich UI on Windows Mobile devices. Speaker: Johannes Kebeck is a Technology Specialist for Microsoft’s Bing Maps, supporting customers and partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently based in Reading, UK and has over 14 years of experience in the GI/GIS market. In October 2004 Johannes joined Microsoft in Germany working within the Enterprise & Partner Group and in 2005 he joined the Bing Maps team. Before specialising on Microsoft’s geospatial products and services, he had experience with various GIS, spatial databases, relational database management systems, workflow management, collaboration products and IT security. Blog: http://johanneskebeck.spaces.live.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/johanneskebeck Any code samples will be in VB.NET Please arrive from 6.00pm for a prompt 6.30pm start. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-Reading-Visual-Studio-2010-Mini-Launch.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-Reading-Visual-Studio-2010-Mini-Launch.aspx Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:41:41 GMT Date: Tuesday 13 April 2010........Join us in Reading for our Visual Studio 2010 mini launch event. This is a casual event where you can grab a bite to eat and find out more about the features in .Net 4 and VS2010. We'll be demonstrating the new and interesting features in both the framework and IDE and we'll also have advice on how you can get started today! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/Prism-Patterns-For-Building-Composite-Applications-With-WPF.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/Prism-Patterns-For-Building-Composite-Applications-With-WPF.aspx Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:45:04 GMT Date: Monday 24 May 2010........Technologies such as Windows ® Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight™ provide developers with a simple, declarative means of quickly and easily delivering applications with rich user experiences. But while these technologies aid in further separating the presentation layer from the logic layer, they don't solve the age-old problem of building a maintainable app. In smaller projects, it's reasonable to expect that a developer of moderate experience can design and build an application that can be readily maintained and expanded upon. However, as the number of moving parts—and the number of people working on those parts—increases, keeping the project under control becomes exponentially more difficult. Composite applications are a solution to this problem. In his talk, John McLoughlin will explain what a composite application is and how you can build one that takes advantage of the capabilities of WPF. Along the way John will introduce you to the new Composite Application Guidance for WPF (formerly code-named "Prism") from the patterns & practices team at Microsoft. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/Whats-new-in-Visual-Studio-2010.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/Whats-new-in-Visual-Studio-2010.aspx Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:36:08 GMT Date: Monday 26 April 2010........After attending the Microsoft UK TechDays events surrounding the launch of Visual Studio 2010, seasoned trainer Ian Finlayson will be sharing his insights with us this evening. A must-see event for anyone interested in the new killer features delivered by VS2010! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/Team-Foundation-Server-2010-plus-other-goodies--.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/Team-Foundation-Server-2010-plus-other-goodies--.aspx Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:22:52 GMT Date: Monday 29 March 2010........Richard Erwin, Developer Tools Technical Specialist for Microsoft UK, will be delivering the talk and unveiling what TFS 2010 can do for us. "The new testing features in 2010 are actually pretty cool especially when you factor in the new lab management functionality as well." Read Richard's blog here - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts/ Sign up as places will be limited and this event is sure to get booked up! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-HyperV-for-Developers.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/May-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-HyperV-for-Developers.aspx Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:32:24 GMT Date: Thursday 13 May 2010........In May, find out more about Windows Hyper-V with Liam Westley. Here's a preview of what will be covered. * For those new to virtualisation we'll provide an overview of virtualisation and the desktop products currently available for developers. * Then we'll explain the differences between those products and Hyper-V and examine the two products for running Hyper-V; Hyper-V Server R2 (free) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (semi-free). * Finally we'll demonstrate automation of Hyper-V using the PowerShell library available on CodePlex so that you can automate your testing and integrate Hyper-V in your continuous integration server. * At the end of the session you'll have a greater understanding of the Hyper-V architecture, how you can utilise it as a software developer and how to automate Hyper-V for common tasks. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-4Thought-Spring-Conference-Birmingham.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-4Thought-Spring-Conference-Birmingham.aspx Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:09:05 GMT Date: Thursday 29 April 2010........With the imminent release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net framework 4, VBUG announces VBUG4Thought, a spring conference to help to celebrate and highlight these new products. This conference is ideal if you wish to learn about the new enhancements, features and capabilities of VS2010 and .Net 4. It will also give you an overview of how you can apply these technologies in new or existing projects. As usual, we'll be featuring key speakers from the UK and abroad in order to give you expert, impartial and informative advice: Eric Nelson - Building an Application for Windows Azure & SQL Azure Gill Cleeren - Silverlight 4 Tour de Force, with a little WPF 4 Sauce on Top Hadi Hariri - Real-World Applications with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Dave Sussman - What you Really Need to Know about .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Jon Skeet - Don't call us, we'll call you: an Introduction to the Reactive Extensions to .NET Josh Twist - Building an App Store for the Enterprise with MEF and .NET 4.0 EARLY BIRD FEE (BEFORE FEB 28TH) £99.00 (PLUS VAT) FOR VBUG MEMBERS AND £119.00 (PLUS VAT) FOR NON-MEMBERS AFTER 28TH FEB £119 (PLUS VAT) VBUG MEMBERS AND £149 (PLUS VAT) NON-MEMBERS http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-Windows-Azure.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-Windows-Azure.aspx Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:23:42 GMT Date: Thursday 8 April 2010........Windows Azure is Microsoft's platform for cloud computing. If you wish to find out more about Azure, this session will be ideal for you. Marcus Tillett will our guest presenter for this month. Marcus is the author of the following book on Azure and will be demonstrating some real life applications. http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Delivering-Solutions-Platform-Questions/dp/0956155634 This event will be popular so sign up if you wish to attend! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Bristol-Streamline-your-Web-Development-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Bristol-Streamline-your-Web-Development-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:40:11 GMT Date: Wednesday 31 March 2010........Microsoft's MVC-based web development framework has stirred up the .NET world - but would you want to use it? What's wrong with classic ASP.NET, and how does MVC do better or worse? In this session we build a small application, comparing the development experience with classic ASP.NET. See MVC architecture, clean URLs, domain-driven design (DDD), tight HTML, and simple ajax at work. We'll also make use of the new features coming soon in ASP.NET MVC v2, including strongly-typed UI templating and model validation. Steven Sanderson is an independent software developer living and working in Bristol, UK. He's sometimes an author or a presenter, but is mainly a programmer with interests in web development, security, and agile principles and practices. Steve recently wrote Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress), the best selling and top rated ASP.NET MVC book on Amazon. He's a member of ASPInsiders, and regularly blogs and releases open-source code at http://blog.stevensanderson.com/