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DoEvents - November 2007
Firstly for those of you who attended the VBUG Conference it was great to finally meet you and now I can put names to some of your faces! We are all really please with how the conference went and we have had some excellent feed back on speakers. I hope you all enjoyed the two days and above all saw an excellent ROI! Don’t forget you can download the presentations from the website at http://www.vbug.com/Conference/2007/Slides.aspx. Check out what we have in store for you this November! Don’t forget if you are not already enjoying our full services, you can join VBUG for less than £15 a month! Check out our Membership PDF at http://tinyurl.com/ywqhj2 The next VBUG London meeting in November…will be appearing on the website in the next couple of days, so keep your eyes open! With very best regards Emma Britton
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Shown below are some of the future events for VBUG, Microsoft, The .NET Exchange, The London Database Developer's Forum, Scottish Developers, DNJOnline, The London .NET User Group, The Access User Group, the SQL Server User Group and The DotNET Developers Group. Click on an event name for more details or to reserve your place online!
VBUG: Visual Studio 2008 for the web developer” with Daniel Moth VBUG: Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework 3.5 Overview with Daniel Moth Date: Tue 13 November to Tue 13 November 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Want to know how Visual Studio 2008 differs from every single previous release of Visual Studio? Do the terms "red bits" and "green bits" confuse you? Are you having a hard time finding what exactly is new in the .NET Framework v3.5 – the complete list? Have you got an interest in exploring what the new C#3 and VB9 language features can do for you today and not tomorrow? This talk will satisfy all of those questions plus more. After attending this session, the first thing you will do when you go back home is move your VS2005 projects to VS2008 - that's a promise! http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog Venue: Madgex Limited, Suite 1 Clarence House, 30-31 North Street, Brighton. BN1 1EB Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG: Getting Back to basics: Semantics, Micro formats & the Art of Simplicity Date: Wed 28 November to Wed 28 November 2007 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Getting Back to basics with Ian Lloyd: In these days of Rapid Application Development (RAD), .NET controls and WYSIWYG editors, it's easy to forget that for many people, it all started with the humble notepad.exe. The art of creating clean, simple and meaningful markup is becoming more difficult thanks to the tools that supposedly help in developing quicker solutions. Ian will be looking at where we find ourselves today, and looking at the issues that have come about through the use of RAD tools, including the problems with AJAX, accessibility oversights and trying to find where the semantic markup is hiding. This will be a reminder of some of the fundamentals of web development that have been masked by layer upon layer of shiny development tools. Venue: Nationwide Building Society, Nationwide House, Pipers Way, Swindon, SN38 1NW Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here Third Party EventsMicrosoft TechEd Developers 2007Date: Mon 5 November to Fri 9 November 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: TechEd Developers is Microsoft’s premier EMEA conference, designed to provide developers with deep dive technical training, information and community resources focusing on building software solutions with Microsoft development tools for current and soon to release products and technologies. Evolving from last year's four day (plus Pre-Conference) event structure, the new FIVE-day event now offers a greater choice of content than ever before. Customize your own technical curriculum with a choice of hundreds of learning opportunities; evaluate the latest products in the labs and meet face-to-face with the Microsoft and industry experts behind the products. http://www.mseventseurope.com/teched/07/developers/content/Pages/Default.aspx Venue: Barcelona, Spain Start Time: 09:00 Price: Visit Website for more details More Info: click here DotNetDevNet: ADO.NET Entity Framework and Microsoft Codename "Astoria" Date: Tue 13 November to Tue 13 November 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY MEETING Overview: Abstract for ADO.NET Entity Framework presented by James Winters - The Entity Framework is way more than just another ORM, it is an extremely flexible way to interact with any persistence store. Although it's not shipping with Orcas, it will be available some time in early 2008 and you need to get to grips with it. In this session I'll examine the framework and show you how to get to grips with it. Abstract for Microsoft Codename "Astoria" presented by Guy Smith Ferrier - The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has brought new opportunities and caused us to solve old problems in new ways. AJAX and Silverlight applications need read/write access to data and business objects without performing full page refreshes and without dumbing down the data so much we are just left with primitives. Microsoft's answer to this problem is Microsoft Codename "Astoria". In short "Astoria" is a data access layer for client-size technologies such as AJAX and Silverlight. This session shows how it works, how you can write "Astoria" data servers and how you can customize "Astoria" to your applications requirements. Venue: Room 2q48 UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol, BS16 1QY Start Time: 18:30 Price: FREE More Info: click here Scottish Area UK SQL Server User Group and Scottish Developers Date: Wed 14 November to Wed 14 November 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Speaker: Frank Kerrigan - Introduction to Microsoft Reporting Services Speaker: Steve Phillips - SQL Server Managed Objects (SMO) For full details visit- http://www.scottishdevelopers.com/modules/extcal/event.php?event=7 Venue: Room 16,Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA Start Time: 19:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here The Acces User Group National Seminar Date: Fri 16 November to Fri 16 November 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: The next AUG seminar, topics include: Office 2007 Client Developer Features presented by Martin Parry, Microsoft Application Development - Sharepoint As An Alternative Tool to Access presented by Stuart Holywell, Gordon Associates Application Development - Working with Access 2007 and SharePoint Together presented by Derek Goodridge, WorkerThread Limited Access 2007 Is Great – No It Isn’t – Yes It Is – No It Isn’t: a review of the new version of Access presented by Alan Cossey Converting SQL from Access to SQL Server presented by Andy Couch Overview of Office 2007 presented by Rod Gordon, Gordon Associates Venue: Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1WG Start Time: 09:15 Price: £99.00 + VAT for Members More Info: click here SQLServer UG: Controling and Reusing Query Plans with Kalen Delaney Date: Fri 16 November to Fri 16 November 2007 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: This full-day seminar will cover techniques available for determining if, when and how you should override the optimizer’s choice of query plans. It will also cover how to determine if your plans are being reused, how you can determine if reuse is desirable for your queries, and how you can control query caching behavior. Although the demonstrations will be run on SQL Server 2005, much of the information presented will relevant to SQL Server 2000 as well. This seminar will cover the following topics: • Tools for Analyzing Query Plans • Plan Caching and Plan Cache Metadata • Plan Reuse and Parameter Sniffing • Managing Plan Cache and Preventing Cache Bloating • Overriding the Optimizer • Plan Guides • Plan Management and Plan Caching Futures One of the problems you often see with production systems is badly written queries that do not use the Procedure Cache effectively or through developers not understanding key concepts like Parameter Sniffing. Venue: Building 3,Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1WG Start Time: 09:30 Price: £199 ex VAT More Info: click here DDD6 - One Day Developer Conference Date: Sat 24 November to Sat 24 November 2007 Topic: Various Developer Topics Overview: DDD6 (Developer Developer Developer 6th Event) is a premier UK community event, free to attend and held at a weekend. It is always over-subscribed, so fix the date in your calendar and watch this space for more. Delegates vote on the sessions that they would like to see. You, the community, shape both by proposing the sessions and by deciding which sessions happen. Looking forward to seeing you there. The VBUG Team. Venue: Microsoft HQ, Thames Valley Park, Reading Start Time: 09:00 Price: FREE More Info: click here About DoEvents
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