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The newest version of C# introduces a number of language features that finally make it very easy to employ a functional style of programming. However, from the perspective of an imperative programmer, there are lots of questions surrounding functional programming. -
An evening led by Gordon McKenna where we will discuss how best to manage and monitor Exchange using SCOM 2007 -
Asp.net MVC is Microsoft’s new web development model implementing the Model View -
WCF offers a strong array of tools for adding security to all boundaries of your -
WCF offers a strong array of tools for adding security to all boundaries of your -
Taking efficiency one step further - F#
Microsoft Research describes F# as "a -
What is common to all .NET applications is how to build and deploy components and services, design for maintainability and reuse, manage multithreading, issue asynchronous calls, subscribe and publish events, access objects on remote machines, design for scalability and consistency, manage transactions and provide a secure, environment for the application to operate in. -
Guerrilla .NET gives you a comprehensive look at the modern .NET development. It will give you the skills and knowledge to build large reliable applications with confidence and troubleshoot them effectively when things break down. Drawing from several of our popular courses (including Effective .NET and our What’s New series) the course focuses on a few key areas. -
Changing business requirements are the bugbear of the application developer. The -
CSLA.NET is a business object framework that can help developers of all skill le -
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
After intense negotiations, the ever-popular Simon Sabin has signed up for a sequel to his visit to NxtGenUG last year. His Service Broker session was an unexpected hit and so he's back with a new session on SQL 2008 taking a look at a number of the new features. Pizza, Swag as ever. Don't miss it ... -
Taking efficiency one step further - F# Microsoft Research describes F# as "a sc -
Using Visual Studio Team Edition for DB Professionals - Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals for the first time makes the database developer a first class citizen in the Microsoft development family. In this presentation Richard Fennell will cover the complete development life cycle using this tool, addressing issues such as schema management, source control, testing, data generation and deployment. -
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
NxtGenUG Co-Founder travels down to Southampton to tell the attendees about his collection on MOSS Experiences, and his tales from frontline action. We'll also be sampling pizza and partaking in a nugget too.. -
Monday, 21 July 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Derr de derrr... [Insert Star Trek Music] Robert Hogg, of Black Marble, Trekkies down to NxtGenUG Coventry to reveal Microsoft Volta. Microsoft Live Labs "Volta" is an early access toolset that presents a new way of developing client and server side applications by allowing multi-tier web application to be rapidly developed using familiar .NET skills and techniques. They'll also be a Nuggetoid from Rich on the Planetoid Silverlight, and hopefully you'll klingon till the pizza arrives. Beam Me... -
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Ian Cooper, from the London .NET user group travels up to Cambridge to present his sessio on LINQ and Enterprise Applications. We'll also be having a nugget and some pizza too.. -
A very informal evening held at a local hotel with presentations given by .net developers on any topic they wish to talk about followed by a pint & tasty meal.
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It is reckoned that 80-90% of data has a spatial component to it. But what do we -
Saturday, 26 July 2008, 09:00 - 17:00 in Poole, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Silverlight 2.0 looks set to revolutionise web Development when it ships later this year.
The NxtGenUG Southampton boys are proud to present a one day workshop 'Silverlight Assault course' to be held on the 26th July 2008 in Poole, Dorset.
We'll be having presentations from Richard Costall and Chris Hay, plus Hands-on-labs for you to get your hands dirty with experts on hand to answer your questions on the day.
The price for the day is £40.00 and includes a Pizza lunch, plus the tradition... -
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
An evening on Continuous Integration featuring Liam Westley, stalwart member of the UK Community and man of many talents. Member nugeet will feature and the ubiquitous Swag and Pizza in whatever order! -
FOWA Expo is coming back to London - it's promising to be bigger and better than ever with all of the biggest names in the industry gathering for Europe's biggest web conference. Registration is now open, book now to get your early bird discount!
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Monday, 11 August 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Somethings you do in the bedroom you don't talk about, but this certainly is worth it. Pete Mcgann (XNA) and Richard Costall (Silverlight) talk about XNA, Gaming and Silverlight in their own unique style. Plus we'll have a nugget and some pizza -
Silverlight developer Tim Hustler and Expressions Blend designer Simon Sturgess -
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Microsoft's Mike Taulty, bring his Famous Entity Framework session to Cambridge, and give us the low down on The Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. We'll be showing a nugget and serving up the pizza! -
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Southamptons very own John McLoughlin steps into the limelight with a practical guide to Workflow Foundation, and like Dr Frankenstien the session will end with a living creation of workflow - minus the bolts. We'll also have a nugget and some Pizza too, for a change -
This class places an emphasis on how VSTS tools fit into the Software Development Life Cycle and how VSTS supports different development methodologies. Developers will learn about the new unit testing, profiling and build tools; testers will learn how to use the new test types available to them, including unit testing, web testing and load testing. -
This class has three primary goals (for almost all topics/modules): planning, practice/implementation and post-mortem - with the largest emphasis on designing/implementing the RIGHT solution. Questions that you must ask are: How do you choose technologies to fit requirements and effectively use key features of SQL Server 2005/2008? How does your technology/choice affect workload performance? -
Monday, 1 September 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
Love it or hate it Web Developers have to embrace it. Helen Emerson drops in to explain the power of Javascript and what we can do with it. We'll also be having a nugget and maybe, just mayve, a slice of the old pizza. -
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Free to members. Non members can attend 2 meetings FOC. (NxtGenUG)
The 3 Laws of Robotics Studio "A Microsoft employee shall demonstrate cool robotics stuff to NxtGenUG members", "A Microsoft employee shall give out copious amounts of 'swag' to NxtGenUG members", "A Microsoft employee shall eat Pizza with NxtGenUG members". Pretty sure Paul Foster will do that! Yes, Paul visits Birmingham to show off Microsoft Robotics Studio and all the cool stuff and games and worlds you can create with it. Don't Miss It! -
This course will introduce practicing .NET developers to the new programming models and UI features introduced by WPF, with practical hands-on labs to reinforce the concepts.
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Features, functions and flashing lights - that's what the majority of developers focussed upon. Certainly there were those who wrote security features but that vast majority of Microsoft developers devoted most of their time to meeting the needs dictated by the functional specification.
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This course has been developed to help existing C#.NET 2.0 programmers and developers upgrade their .NET development skills and learn about the new features of Microsoft's C# 3.0 and LINQ to XML and ADO.NET using Visual Studio 2008 (currently codenamed Orcas). -
Monorail is the model-view-controller engine of the Castle Project, bringing many of the best ideas of Ruby on Rails to the .NET world.
In this talk, David De Florinier and Gojko Adzic show how Monorail makes it easy to develop .NET based AJAX applications, and how to use the Castle Project to build Web 2.0 applications effectively.
Come to this session if you are a .NET web developer. Everyone is welcome!
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The UK national Python conference, PyCon UK, is in Birmingham September 14th - 14th. It includes speakers from the international and UK Python communities on subjects including learning Python, Python on Windows and IronPython. We host tutorials, talks, lightning talks, sprints and a social get-together over long weekend.
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