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NxtGenUG

Events coming up

• Oct 14

  Let's Rock with ASP.NET ...

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Chris Hay the "Grande Fromage" of NxtGenUG Cambridge flies in to Birmingham, with outrageous T-Shirt and all to give a top performance on getting Top Performance out of ASP.NET Web Sites! Yes its a session on building High Performance ASP.NET web sites, plus a member nugget from Mohammed Muzammil frsh from 'Ready, Steady, Speak!' at UK REMIX, Pizza and nice bright Swag also fresh from REMIX ...

• Oct 16

  'Agile' Birthday To Us ...

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  It's been a year since Southampton NxtGenUG came on the scene, so you're invited to our Birthday party, Plamen and Rich will be giving you that Agile feeling and talking about how to get Scrum and other Agile techniques working in your business. Pizza of course, Swag naturally!

• Oct 20

  An Experience to Remember

  Coventry, United Kingdom

  Ben Sykes pops over the Irish sea to talk about the Human Experience and Applications from a Design and User (Human)Experience Perspective. Rich won't be doing a nugget which uses Blend, but we'll have some perfectly designed Pizzas - leaving you with a nice warm experience in your tummies :-)

• Nov 17

  Alex Homer is Back!

  Abingdon, United Kingdom

  You just can't keep them away. Microsoft's Alex Homer is back with his Policy and Dependency Injection with Enterprise Library hat on. We'll be having a nugget and some Pizza.

• Nov 18

  Make Patterns With Patterns

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  You can draw nice patterns and stuff with WPF, but unless you get organised, your WPF application can soon deteriorate. "Vista Squad" founder Ray Booson and top UK Community man visits Cambridge and looks at creating simple data bound applications moving towards a practical framework for WPF projects.

• Nov 18

  Make Your Day With CSLA ...

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Andrew Hallmark will introduce you to CSLA.NET and some of the features that it offers. He will then entice you with the productivity benefits that it can bring in combination with code generation and demonstrate why you should find out more. If you want to put the Rapid back into Application Development but don't want to compromise on quality why not come along and join in? Member nugget, Swag and Pizza as per normal too!

• Nov 20

  Something SQL This Way Comes..

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  OK, so it's not halloween, but that SQL stuff can sure be scary, and tonight we have a session that will blow away the cobwebs and shed some light on this oftentimes mysterious beastie, Woh,Hah,Hah, Hah!

• Nov 24

  WPF Episode 1: DeepDive

  Coventry, United Kingdom

  MSP and WPF Fanatic Kris Athi stops by in Coventry to give us a heads up on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). They'll also be a nugget and the customary pizza.

• Dec 8

  WPF Episode 2: I18N

  Coventry, United Kingdom

  Guy Smith-Ferrier returns to the flying club, for his Faggot and Mushy Pea batch - along with a great Session on Internationalization of WPF and Silverlight Applications. We'll also be looking into Santa's Sack - Phnarr, Phnarr - for a Yueltide nugget!

• Dec 9

  VB.NET - The Full Nelson

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  He may only have scored 600 points on Manic Miner, but when it comes to VB.NET, Microsoft's, Eric Nelson knows his stuff. We'll also be havintg a Christmas pudding pizza and a Nugget.

• Dec 9

  Happy Christmanic Miner ...

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Christmas is a time for games, so let's see how Richie Costall and Pete McGann wrote their Tribute to Manic Miner in Silverlight 2.0 and in XNA. We'll get a chance to play Manic Miner for Christmas Swag and there will be food a plenty, Ho Ho Ho!

• Dec 9

  Deck the Halls .. Mark ...

  Abingdon, United Kingdom

  It may be Christmas time in the workhouse, but that don't mean it needs to be a slog! Andrew Hallmark is here to tell us how to spend more time in the Pub this Christmas, by making use of the CSLA Framework as promoted by Rocky Lhotka. Should be great, plus Chrimbo Swag and Pizza of course!

• Dec 11

  Let's Twist Again ...

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Like we did last June 12th ... when Josh Twist a relatively unknown speaker from Microsoft knocked us all out with his gauges! Yes, the developer who can also do design returns to NxtGenUG for a rerun (plus a bit extra) of his top rated WPF Databinding session. Don't miss this one, it's a cracker!

• Jan 20

  Design In The NewYear ...

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  To give a different feel to the first NxtgenUG Brum meeting of teh new year, we have top Designer Ticky come to help us "Design Challenged" developers get a grasp of some basics ...

Past events

• Building ASP.NET Controls

  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Barry Dorrans explains how to build .net controls for use in Web Applications, member James Coulter extends the Windows Forms Listbox in our nugget session, plus the usual interviews and, of course, food.

• Mind your TABLE manners!

  Mon, 13 Aug 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Dave Sussman (ASP.NET MVP, Author and Speaker) drops in to tell us why Table based web page layout can cause design change issues. We have Pizza based layout on the Tables and Rich comes up with a pretty amazing, yet sinister nugget.

• Agile In August

  Mon, 20 Aug 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Technologist and speaker, Gary Short roles up and unroles his list of comparisions between strengths and weaknesses of the 'Agile' Development in the Enterprise and the ISVs. This session was very well received at DDD5. We'll also have a first nugget from NxtGenUG Member Ami Bening on testing using NUnit .... what? Pizza? Will we have Pizza? Do you have to even ask? Swag? Come on! See you there, its going to be another great evening!

• It came from Outer Card-Space.

  Mon, 17 Sep 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Barry Dorrans is beamed down to Coventry - to reveal the future of Internet Identity with Microsoft's Windows CardSpace - Information Cards. We also welcome the return of Inspector Martin Wright of the West Midlands Police who will be presenting a 'nugget' on e-security and WARPs, Galactic 'Swag' and 'Intergalactic' Pizza feature ... Engage!

• It's Just a Click Away ...

  Mon, 24 Sep 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Top speaker, writer,founder of DotNetDevNet User Group and all round 'good guy', Guy Smith-Ferrier joins the NxtGenUG Brum crew and gets his XBAPs out to show us how great Windows and Browser apps are just a click away ... An evening of WPF, Pizza, 'Swag' and a NxtGenUG Nugget to inform and delight ... See you there!

• The Lost World: Win Services

  Mon, 15 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Intrepid Explorer Liam Westley takes a trip back in time as he dives into Windows and looks at developing Windows Services. Remember those? Well, in case you hadn't noticed they're all around us in the development world, but hard to see and hard to capture with a debugger! Liam shows us how we can make our lives easier when writing and working with Windows Services including some of the differences between NT and Windows Vista Services. Other gigantic things to see on the night : Pizza-o-sa...

• Southampton 'LAUNCH Event'!

  Thu, 18 Oct 2007, 18:30 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Then there were 5! Two months, two new regions, first Cambridge now Southampton. So we're having the mandatory 'Launch' extravaganza featuring Top UK speaker Guy Smith-Ferrier and NxtGenUG's own Dave McMahon. It's going to be informative and fun! 'Astoria' will be covered by Guy and Dave will get one of his Nuggets out on SQL ... We'll have swag, pizza, chat, everything a User Group ever needed. See you there for a never to be repeated event!

• VS2008 and .NET 3.5

  Mon, 22 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Daniel Moth drops in at the flying club to tell what all the fuss is about with VS2008 and .NET 3.5. We decided to ban him from talking about LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL, and just let him LINQ to a nugget. Make sure you don't BLINQ or you'll miss the pizza. NOTE: This session contains no LINQ.

• XSLT - Why, How and When ...

  Tue, 23 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Watch out, Dave and Rich are in town, and Dave's got his XSLT hat on again, this time with knobs on! Yes its an evening with the NxtGenUG co-founders as Rich talks to his Vista in his award winning Nugget. Dave will be running through his XSLT 'Extreme' session which he will be giving at TechEd in November. Pizza and swag will abound as ever, don't miss it!

• Reading on the MonoRail ...

  Tue, 30 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Heading into the future as ever, but keeping our feet firmly on the ground, the Oxford crew have engaged one of their own Steve Wilmot, and Ian Cooper, no less, of London .NET for your delectation this evening. Pizza of course, swag of course, Chris, Dave and ... Barry, of course!

• Halloween 'Spooktacular' ...

  Wed, 31 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  .NET 'Wizard' Liam Westley looks at the 'ghost' in the machine as he dives into Windows and looks at developing Windows Services. Remember those? Well, in case you hadn't noticed they're all around us in the development world, but hard to see and hard to capture with a debugger! Liam shows us how we can make our lives easier when writing and working with Windows Services including some of the differences between NT and Windows Vista Services. Other scary things to see on the night: Spicy Pi...

• Presentation Skills

  Mon, 12 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Time for something different! Dave, Rich and John all undertook a two day presentation skills course at Microsoft. Alan Elston, accomplished trainer, coach and presenter, has kindly offered to drop in on Coventry and lift the lid on presentation and hosting skills. Anybody fancy doing a nugget? plus there will be pizza too..

• The Sound of Security ...

  Mon, 19 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Rogers and Hammerstein may be no more, but we've got our own dynamic security duo in the form of (Alun) Rogers and (Chris) Seary. The hills may be alive with the sound of music, and these sessions will be music to your ears. We have top Developer Security MVP Chris Seary and top IT Pro Security MVP Alun Rogers telling us like it is!You won't have to travel to the South Pacific, just to Birmingham where the King and I (Geff 'Bacardi' Lombardi and Dave McMahon) will host you for the evening p...

• An Evening With The Greek One

  Tue, 20 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Is he the 'Special One'? Maybe, maybe not, but he is the self-styled 'Greek One'. Yes, Daniel Moth is on the road to Cambridge and he's bringing with him a barrel load of demos of the new Visual Studio 2008. We'll have a Nugget, Pizza of course and no doubt a bit of swag will be banded around, get yourself her, you won't regret it!

• NxtGenUG in the Media

  Tue, 27 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG in the media, well media centre. NxtGenUG's very own John Price give his 10 foot view on media centre and demonstrates how easy it is to write applications for it and how we can all convince our better halves to buy XBOX 360's

• I'm dreaming of a ...

  Mon, 10 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the buttons glisten and attendees listen to hear, great demos in the show.I'm dreaming of a Silveright Christmas With every web Page I write. May your devs be merry and bright And may all your pages not be white. I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Demo With Chris and Rich on Stage. May your SWAG be expensive and bright And may all your Pizza be large. Chris Hay and Richard Costall will present a variety of Silverlig...

• I'm dreaming of a...

  Tue, 11 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the buttons glisten and attendees listen to hear, great demos in the show.I'm dreaming of a Silveright Christmas With every web Page I write. May your devs be merry and bright And may all your pages not be white. I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Demo With Chris and Rich on Stage. May your SWAG be expensive and bright And may all your Pizza be large. Chris Hay and Richard Costall will present a variety of Silverlig...

• We wish you a mobile Christmas

  Thu, 13 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  We Wish you a Mobile Christmas, We wish you a Mobile Christmas and a CodeSmith Nugget. Microsoft's Mobile Legend Marcus Perryman takes us on a sleigh ride of mobile development, and John McLoughlin examines CodeSmith. Ho. Ho. Ho.

• It's Chris - TFS - mas Time!

  Mon, 17 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Its Christmas Time in the workplace. And will Santa bring you a nice Team Foundation Server for yule-tide delight? Who knows, do you even want one? Well Richard Fennell top speaker from Black Marble reckons you do, and he's here to tell you why. We'll have a Christmas Nugget from Dave - one for the kids this time on KPL, so stand by for a game of Pong for 'Swag', Christmas Pizza, Crackers, Christmas Cake and maybe a tipple of something ... Ho Ho Ho!

• The Moth Goes To Oxford

  Mon, 14 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Venue 4 in Daniel Moth's NxtGenUG Tour! Yes, its a new year, but there's only one Moth. Daniel is back for a solo performance of his Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 talk with no LINQ in sight. Pizza will abound as will swag, and when you get home you'll want to install that Visual Studio 2008 - "Daniel Says" ...

• Testing, Testing, Testing....

  Tue, 15 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Is this thing on? NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall shows us what Testing is all about with a demonstration of MBUnit and how we should factor testing in when designing and developing applications. Plus we'll have a nugget and of course Pizza and SWAG.

• I've seen the Silverlight...

  Thu, 17 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Man of loud Shirts, and Cambridge Coordinator, Chris Hay shows us the brightest thing, not his shirt, but Silverlight 1.1 - a revolution in web development! Plus we'll have equally loud pizza and a nugget - please bring your sun-glasses.

• Hoots Mon! Its Murphy Time!

  Mon, 21 Jan 2008, 18:45 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  With great dedication, Craig Murphy, DDD6 organiser, author, blogger, speaker and lynchpin of the UK Community travels from deepest Scotland to tell us why he believes in Test Driven Development and why we should do it too. In a 'double header' evening, Craig also gives us a whirlwind tour of Automated Build processes using FinalBuilder. It's not quite Burns Night, but we'll see if we can't have a poem or two, "To a USB Mouse" perhaps? There's certainly Pizza, certainly swag and maybe neep...

• I wanna tell you Astoria..

  Mon, 28 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Guy Smith-Ferrier, last years Coventry 'Best Session' winner, comes back by popular demand and wants to retain his title. He is even willing to talk about something other than Internationalisation. Plus they'll be a nugget and some pizza....

• Ahhh, Ahh, Astoria.

  Tue, 12 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Bless You, or Bless Guy Smith-Ferrier who'll be heading over to Oxford to tell us about this technology. Astoria is a data access layer for client side technologies, such as AJAX and Silverlight. We'll also have a nugget and some pizza.

• The Travelling Swagman ...

  Tue, 19 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  In a meeting with a different tack, Dan Taylor visits NxtGenUG Brum, after programming his SatNav with an Evolutionary Algorithm no doubt and comes to explain what Evolutionary Algorithms are and how they can help to solve this famous problem and maybe some others per chance ...? Andy Maggs delivers his second Nugget the first of a series on MSBuild. Pizza will arrive courtesy of the travelling Pizza Man and 'swag' courtesy of the travelling 'swag' man ...

• On the .Net ship Enterprise

  Thu, 21 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  MVP, Author, Speaker and 'Software Legend' Alex Homer makes his debut in Southampton to talk about Enterprise Library in ASP .NET. We'll also be beaming up some pizza, and Richie Allen with be giving a reading from the Captain's log of 'Code Standard' Nugget - In Space nobody hears you code!

• From here to Entity

  Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Mike Taulty pops along to Coventry to tell us about the ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework, how it works and why it's important. Can he beat Daniel's high scoring VS2008 session - The gloves are off and the laptops are on!. We'll also have a nugget and some pizza.

• SQL Server 2008

  Tue, 26 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  The launch of SQL Server 2008 is just around the corner, so we decided to give the NxtGenUG members a head start by inviting Red-Gate's Architect Andras Belokosztolszki over to talk about what's coming in the next release. There's also bound to be a nugget and, of course, pizza!

• Even more Mobile

  Tue, 11 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Roger Whitehead is back to Oxford by popular demand to drill into the exciting area of mobile development, we'll also have a nugget on something or other, and the pizza will attending too..

• Launch/InstallFest

  Thu, 13 Mar 2008, 18:30 - 21:30 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Before they were "Guitar" heroes - 2008 Launch Event and Install Fest Join the southampton crew for a night packed full of 2008 launch action. Our very own co-ordinators Rich and John will be joined by fellow community member Neil Robbins in a heroic triad of presentations covering the top 5 things you need to know about VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. But wait it doesn't end there though, this night will be starting a little earlier and finishing a little later to fit in o...

• Pre-Launch LINQ & Pizza!

  Tue, 18 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  "Twas the night before The Launch, ..." , yes and our good friend Ian Cooper, founder of London .NET User Group pays another visit to NxtGenUG Brum this time bearing his LINQ. James Coulter from Coventry group pops in as an Observer and with the 2008 Launch Event tomorrow, we might have a few surprise guests popping in. Swag and Pizza abound. Just what you need before a Launch Event ...!

• LINQ in the Enterprise ...

  Tue, 18 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper, founder of London .NET User Group pays another visit to NxtGenUG Brum this time bearing his LINQ ... More details to follow

• In the Media Centre Spotlight

  Tue, 25 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  John Price visits Cambridge, he don't pray to the demo gods - he taunts them. John will talk about media centre, XBOX 360, the 10 foot experience and the most important acronym of the night, the WAF. Whats' best served with this, not a TV dinner, but pizza and maybe a nugget. You might even get to drive the NxtGen Car! Anyone fancy challenging Rich Costall's son to halo 3?

• Launch Swagaganza 2008

  Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 18:45 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Come to Coventry, raise that champagne glass and celebrate the launch of the latest set of Microsoft "Heroes Happen Here" products - Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. Tonight we'll be focusing on the ITPro side of things with coverage of SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. Join me on a trip to the 'Dark Side'. Vegas has it's fountains, but NxtGenUG have mount Swagavarus and it's due to errupt tonight - plus they'll be pizza and maybe a launch drink! Bring yo...

• Oxford 2008 Launch meeting.

  Tue, 1 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Its launch time in Oxford and Barry has got Simon Sabin to tell us about SQL Server 2008 - We'll have a nugget and, of course, some launch SWAG and Pizza. You'd be a fool to not attend this one!

• That's Entity-tainment!

  Thu, 17 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Mike Taulty, stalwart of the UK Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelist (DPE) Group, has decided he needs a bit of sea air, and so is heading for the South Coast to mix it up with those enthusiastic chaps of NxtGenUG Southampton. It looks like Mike and Daniel Moth are trying to collect the full set of NxtGenUG regions! Mike tonight talks about the new Microsoft Entity Framework and NxtGenUG member and Ready Steady Speak! 'Hero' Neil Robbins delivers his second nugget this time on IIS 7.0. R...

• Daves Moss Collection

  Mon, 21 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  The phone line wasn't too good when we chatted, but NxtGenUG's very own Dave McMahon will be dropping by to show us his MOSS collection, he also said something about being able to SHARE and POINT at the MOSS with some great demos. Dave will also be interested in that we have Mushroom on the pizza.

• Silverlight and Silvertongue

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Richard Costall travels to Brum to show us the latest developments with Silverlight, is it living up to the hype? Does Richard live up to his own hype? Come along and find out about this sea-change in web-based development on the Microsoft and Other Platforms ... Full details to follow

• Astoriaroids

  Tue, 29 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  It's actually called ADO.NET Data Services, but you try making a joke out of that. Formerly Astoria, but now ADO.NET data services, Guy Smith Ferrier, International Speaker, Author and Community Guy hops over to Cambridge to talk about this technology and how it will save developers 1,000's of lines of code and bring the big stick of power to Ajax and Silverlight Applications. Plus we'll be taking a new devliery of pizza and hopefully they'll be a nugget!

• Entity Framework

  Tue, 6 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Mike Taulty drops in on Oxford to talk about the entity framework, and object relational mapping technology - plus they'll be a nugget and/of course Pizza!

• Doing The BizTalk

  Thu, 15 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Yossi Dahan explains what BizTalk is, does and how it works, plus a member nugget, Pizza, Swag you know how it goes ...

• Murder on the SQL Express

  Mon, 19 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Murder on the SQL Express. A special event and the ultimate Whodunnit. How did it happen? Why did it happen? Who can solve this? Is Rich being cryptic about this event? All will be revealed soon... dun dun derrrr.. Watch out for details appearing on the site over the next 2 months.

• Test Driven Meeting

  Mon, 19 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member, and RedGate Test Engineer Ben Hall comes back to Coventry to talk about Test Driven Development - What's it all about and why's it important. They'll probably be a nugget and some food!

• Homer's In Town ...

  Tue, 20 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Yes, top UK and INETA speaker Alex Homer is in the second city to talk about Design Pattern's in ASP.NET. Do we need them in ASP.NET? Do they even make sense? Come along and get some great information froma top speaker. You'll see a member nugget too, plus we suspect Pizza and without doubt - swag!

• AtMOSSpheric Night

  Tue, 27 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  As put so well by Russ Abbott - "I love a meeting with a happy AtMOSSPHERE". International Speaker, and NxtGenUG Co-Founder brings his "tales from the front" Highly Rated MOSS (Sharepoint) Session. Missing it will be a 'MOSStake', plus we'll have an IE8 nugget from Chris Hay and some Pizza too... No more cheap MOSS gags - we proMOSS!

• To MVC or not to MVC ?

  Mon, 9 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Alan Dean takes a dive into the MVC framework including the design patterns, and usage of some of the .NET 3.5 Framework. We'll also have a nugget, and some pizza

• Pre-FEST08 G(r)eek Dinner

  Wed, 11 Jun 2008, 19:30 - 21:30 in READING, United Kingdom

  Join us in a Pre-FEST08 G(r)eek Dinner at Pizza Express in Reading and have a last UK supper with Daniel Moth too (in spirit only - he can't make it now :-()!

• I've got the POWER - Shell

  Mon, 16 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  All it took was a quick mention of PowerShell by Microsoft's Andrew Fryer and the members wanted to know more - So here it is Richard Siddaway take us on a developer journey through Powershell. Powershell, Pizza, Prizes in Pinata's and Porcupines -Well no Porcupines but they'll be a nugget on something!

• Objections To Objects?

  Thu, 19 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Don't miss this one!! One of the best rated sessions of recent months is coming to Southampton. Alan Dean has gotten rave reviews about this session where he airs different views on teh world of Object Orientation. Member Nugget, Swag and Pizza also , I mean what else is there?

• The Ed of Security ...

  Tue, 24 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Stand by your beds, make sure you've read your Developers Highway Code and done your homework. Ed Gibson, Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor based here in the UK is coming to speak about what he thinks you should know about. Who are the bad guys these days? What are they up to? Where do they hide? What do they want? What can you do to protect yourself from them and to prevent your PC from joining the multitude of compromised machines ... Don't miss this one! Member nugget and Pizza and swag...

• Object Thinking?

  Tue, 24 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Alan Dean Completes his tour of NxtGenUG regions, with a trip to Cambridge to present his popular Object Thinking session, plus they'll be a nugget and a slide of the old, you know what!

• The Dynamic Man

  Tue, 1 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall likes to be dynamic, especially with the Dynamic Language Runtime. We'll also be having a nugget and maybe even some pizza

• Simon Sabin - The SQL ...

  Tue, 15 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  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 ...

• It Moss be time for Sharepoint

  Thu, 17 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Co-Founder travels down to Southampton to tell the attendees about his collection of MOSS Experiences including ways to automate deployment and to extend Out of The Box functonality using stsadm, Features and Solutions, and other tales from frontline action in the MOSS trenches. We'll also be sampling pizza and partaking in a nugget too..

• Volta - The Next Generation

  Mon, 21 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  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. ...

• The Missing LINQ

  Tue, 22 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  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..

• Silverlight Assault Course

  Sat, 26 Jul 2008, 09:00 - 17:00 in Poole, United Kingdom

  Silverlight 2.0 looks set to revolutionise web Development when it ships later this year. The NxtGenUG Southampton boys are proud to present in association with Developer Express (who have kindly provided the USB 2.0 Hard Drives), 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 ex...

• To Be Continued ...

  Wed, 6 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  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!

• XNA, Silverlight and Gaming

  Mon, 11 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  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.
  
  We've even signed up an all-star band and are proud to present "John Price and the NxtGener's" for your evenings entertainment. Band, they should be!
  
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• The Entity Framework...

  Tue, 12 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  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!

• It's Alive-Workflow Foundation

  Thu, 21 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  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

• It's Javascript Time...

  Mon, 1 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  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.

• SQL Server and the Sequel

  Tue, 2 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Andras Belokosztolszki of Red Gate tells us about Advanced TSQL commands in both SQL2005 and SQL 2005. We'll also be having a nugget and, goes without saying really, some pizza.

• CLSA or Less Pub Time?

  Thu, 11 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Southampton NxtGenUG invite Andrew Hallmark to tell them how to get to the pub quicker by making use of the CLSA application framework made popular by Rocky Lhotka. Member nugget no doubt, Pizza, Swag and the usual antics from John and Rich will ensue ...

• I, Robot

  Tue, 16 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  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!

• Oh Ah Emm ...it's nHibernate

  Tue, 7 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  An evening of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) with a look at nHibernate and how it compares to the new Microsoft Entity Framework. Main speaker for the evening is Ian Cooper of London .NET,there will be a member nugge hopefully and of course that there Pizza stuff and swag ... Enjoy!

• Not WifeSwap, Coordinator Swap

  Tue, 7 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  What's going on here. Is this Southampton? No, but the Southampton coordinators John McLoughlin and Richie Allen, make the journey up from Southampton to talk about Workflow and provide a nugget as well. Perhaps I can get John Price to go to Nepal? (yep:jp) Plus we'll be having some Pizza