Jun 14, 2007
Chad Campbell - Silverlight

May 10, 2007

Mike Culver, Amazon.com - AWS, .Life in a Post Web 2.0 World

Apr 12, 2007

Craig Utley 

 

Mar 8, 2007

Dave Bost, Microsoft

February 8, 2007
SQL Server Integration Services
(SSIS) and What it Can Do for You!
Andrew Bonslater, Crowe Chizek

This month we will step back and dig into databases by focusing on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).  We'll sprinkle in a little bit about what integration technology to and when to use it. Join us this month and see if we can help reduce some of the confusion around SSIS.

 

January 11, 2007

WCF Fundamentals
Jerry Brown
In the words of Monty Python, "Now for something completely different!"

Learn the basic skills needed to work with WCF, Microsoft's new unified framework for building secure, reliable distributed applications. This includes different ways to connect a client to a WCF service, such as sharing contracts and using a proxy. You will also learn how to configure a service with multiple endpoints, host a service in IIS, define data contracts, and handle service failures.

December 14, 2006
Implementing a Custom Membership Provider in ASP.NET 2.0
Tolga Ercan, Centric Consulting

Providers in ASP.NET 2.0 provide templates for creating custom classes to handle a variety of tasks, making it easier to expand and customize the system to meet business needs. The Membership provider gives you a class template as well as a set of web login controls that reduce the amount of time and effort required to establish website security based on an existing user data source, such as a legacy system's users.  Come discover how to implement the Membership provider based on a dataset storage scheme.  You'll see how various login controls can be used to easily customize a website based on login status.

Tolga Ercan is a software architect with Centric Consulting, LLC, a business process and IT strategy and delivery consulting company.  He has been developing enterprise to small scale software for over 8 years and has been through various projects, both in .NET and other technologies.

November 9, 2006
SharePoint as a Development Platform
Featuring ASP.NET WebParts (and lots more)
Cornelius J. van Dyk & Brad Stayte

Windows SharePoint Services sites take file storage to a new level, providing communities for team collaboration and making it easy for users to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and other information. In addition, team and site managers can coordinate site content and user activity easily. The Windows SharePoint Services environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.

SharePoint sites are made up of Web Parts and Windows ASP.NET-based components. Web Parts are designed to be added to pages and configured by site administrators and users, creating complete page-based applications. Windows SharePoint Services ships with a number of ready-to-use Web Parts. Corne and Bryan will discuss how developers can create Web Parts to interact with native SharePoint objects.

October 12, 2006
Using Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio .NET
Craig Utley, Microsoft Corporation

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a technique gaining acceptance in the development community as a way to significantly reduce software defects while providing a series of tests that can give immediate feedback on the impact of code changes. Creating useful tests against GUIs and database code has always been a challenge. Discover how to properly separate functionality from the UI and appropriately test your application. You'll learn how to create and run tests, what tests are most useful and why, and how to implement test in order to separate them from production code easily. If you are already using, or considering using, TDD in your applications, this session will show you the best techniques for leveraging this powerful development practice.

About Craig Utley
Craig Utley is a program manager with the SQL Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. He focuses on enterprise business intelligence on the Microsoft BI stack and is a published author and frequent conference speaker.

September 14, 2006
Windows Forms Tips & Tricks
Mark Strawmyer, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA

This month we step back from the 'look into the future' and take a look at Windows Forms. Mark will present a number of Tips & Tricks to help you do more with the forms you present.

August 10, 2006
Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon")
Bill Steele, Microsoft Corporation
 
July 13, 2006
Using Open Source Code from DotNetNuke in Your ASP.NET 2.0 Application
David Leininger

DNN is a leading Open Source application. See how to use upload, unzip, and other nifty code in your own applications built in ASP.NET. This will be a code-heavy presentation on using the DNN code outside of the DNN framework.

David Leininger is a co-founder of SolutionAvenue LLC. He has been actively involved in software since he sent his first email in 1979. He has focused on secure web applications since 1995.

June 8, 2006
VSTS: Work Item Tracking and Version Control
Scott Lee, MCSD.NET, MCDBA

Now that Team System has been released it is time to go beyond a simple overview and dive deep into the Work Item Tracking features of Team System. We will discuss a Work Item Overview, Customizing your Work Items, Customize Team Explorer by adding queries, discuss Work Item integration with other tools and other advanced Work Item topics.

Scott Lee is a Senior Consultant at Quest Information Systems, Inc. He has been actively involved with Visual Studio Team System since the early CTP builds and has recently been spearheading the effort at his company to move projects towards utilizing Team System.

May 11, 2006
Enterprise Library 2
Chris Keslin

Enjoy an in depth look into the evolution of Enterprise Library, from its early beginnings to how it's being leveraged in Enterprise solutions today. In the first half of the meeting we'll cover everything from what is Enterprise Library, why is it needed, what's included, and how it's being extended by the larger .NET community. In the second half of the presentation we'll examine leveraging Enterprise Library in a common enterprise architecture pattern leveraging NUnit and highlighting some tips, tricks, and gotcha's uncovered the real world.

Chris Keslin is a Senior Solution Developer for Avanade, a Microsoft and Accenture joint venture focusing in enterprise scale solutions based on the Microsoft platform. Chris has worked with .NET since its initial beta release, and has been developing solutions leveraging Enterprise Library and its predecessors two years prior to its public release.

April 13th, 2006
Using the CAB to develop a Smart Client Application Framework
Tim Landgrave, Microsoft Practice Leader, Crowe Chizek

The Composite Application Block from the Microsoft patterns&practices team contains a rich set of UI elements that allow developers to rapidly create a robust interface for smart client applications. By customizing the CAB and sprinkling in a few more technologies (like the p&p Enterprise Library, some third party controls and other goodies) you can create a reusable Application Framework that will dramatically accelerate your smart client development efforts. In this presentation we’ll go through the basics of the CAB, discuss how to integrate it with other packaged technologies and demonstrate an example of an application framework built from these packaged assets.

Tim Landgrave is the Microsoft Architecture Evangelist for Crowe, a Microsoft Gold Partner. He's currently focused on developing solutions to help enterprises design systems using Service Oriented Architecture on the Microsoft platform using Web Services, Smart Clients and Smart Devices. He also authored a series of training courses designed for developers creating Smart Client applications and Web Services using Office 2003, Visual Studio Tools for Office and Sharepoint. Tim has served as a Regional Director for Microsoft since 1996, providing a third party view of Microsoft technologies as an evangelist, consultant and trainers for strategic development technologies. He's a frequent User Group speaker and also delivered sessions at TechEd 2005, the regional Visual Studio DevCons in Chicago and Detroit and was a featured speaker on Smart Client technologies at VS 2005 launches in the Midwest.

March 9th 2006
Dave Bost, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
 
February 9th, 2006
It's all about Generics
Mark Strawmyer

Introduced into the .NET Framework 2.0, generics is destined to be one of its most important features. Not only does it change the way you do arrays, lists, and collections, but it also could change the way you create your own types. Come join the discussion of generics and learn why they are a great thing within .NET 2.0. We'll cover why they were added as well as how to create and consume your own generics.

Mark Strawmyer is a Senior Architect of .NET applications for large and mid-size organizations. Mark is a technology leader with Crowe Chizek specializing in architecture, design and development of Microsoft-based solutions. Mark was recently honored to be named a Microsoft MVP for application development with C# for the third year in a row.

January 12th 2006
AJAX and "Atlas"
Bill Hatfield, MCT - Author of ASP.NET 2.0 for Dummies

AJAX stands for asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is the newest rage for interactive, responsive Web sites. Used by Google Maps, Colr.org, and many other sites, it gives interactivity at the level of desktop applications. "Atlas" is the codename for Microsoft's entry into AJAX.

Bill presented on AJAX and showed what it could do. Examples were presented using Microsoft's "Atlas" technology.
 

December 8, 2005 Borland and .NET Mike reviewed Borland's latest position in the Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) space and discussed how Borland compliments a .NET environment as well as provides demonstration of Borland's products. In this presentation, we learned about Borland's perspective on .NET today and on .NET tomorrow. We also got an overview of how development in .NET and ALM can work together. We saw how Design Driven Development (DDD) can work within .NET. Special thanks to Borland for their sponsorship of this meeting. Mike Rozlog - Chief Technical Architect - Borland

November 10, 2005 Visual Studio 2005 Launches! It has been in beta for what seems like years, but between now and our next meeting, Visual Studio 2005 along with SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk 2006 will launch! Come get an overview of some of the key features of the newest version of Visual Studio 2005. It is packed full of new stuffs and new editions. This is your chance to get a scoop on the key details of the new tool and languages changes! Bradley Jones, Microsoft MVP, IndyNDA President

October 13, 2005 Microsoft BizTalk Keith will be presenting on Microsoft's BizTalk product. If you have not seen BizTalk, then you will find this to be a very cool product. If you are familiar with it, then come ask your questions on 2004 as well as get the latest insights into the 2006 version. Microsoft BizTalk Server is a key component for enabling complex connected systems (EAI, B2B, x2x). We will discuss how BizTalk can be leveraged to help you take your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodologies and implement them via BizTalk. This session will explore core BizTalk features including schema generation, mapping, orchestration, business rules, business activity monitoring, and what’s coming in BizTalk 2006! Keith Bauer, Microsoft Program Manager - BizTalk

September 8, 2005 Code Access Security - Understanding the Hows and Whys Although code access security (CAS) has been around as long as the .NET Framework, many developers are still not fully utilizing the application security features provided by CAS. In this session, we'll explore what CAS means to you, your company and your users and how to set up machines and applications to make the most of these tools. Jacob Cynamon from Microsoft Corporation

August 11, 2005 WinForms, Databinding and Other Cool Stuff Discover how to build compelling user interfaces that leverage advanced databinding concepts. Learn how to provide an application architecture that is both visually appealing and a strong foundation for future development. Watch Bill build a very cool little application right before your eyes! Bill Steele from Microsoft Corporation

July 14, 2005 Developing with Web APIs Denise talked about using public APIs that you can easily access. Want to tap into features of Google, PayPal, Amazon, eBay, UPS, and other major sites, then this meeting is for you. You're sure to learn something new or interesting! Denise Gosnell is a recognized industry leader and WROX author. In addition to writing numerous books, she has also been recognized as one of Indiana's Top 40 professionals under the age of 40.

June 9, 2005 Using DataGrids in ASP.NET DataGrid's are a common part of many web applications and this presentation will cover how to use them. Areas covered will include binding (not just to DataTables), formatting, and handling actions/events. Jonathon A. Walsh, IndyNDA Program Director and a Senior Consultant with Quest Information Systems

May 12, 2005 Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2005 Web Developer Express Overview Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 has released! May's meeting will be lots of information on Beta 2 from lots of people. To go with this, we will give away lots of door prizes. We are going to try to increase your odds for winning at this meeting. Come see VS 2005, eat some pizza, and have a great time! This will be a "blow out" meeting with lots of new books for door prizes along with our normal items! Jay Miller, AstraDigital, INETA. What's New in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Bill Hatfield, IndyNDA Co-founder, ASP.NET author Visual 2005 Web Developer Express Overview

April 14, 2005 Design Patterns in .NET Design patterns are well known to Java developers, but have been slow to gain acceptance in the Microsoft community. Design patterns allow the developer to break down applications into common tasks and have a library of code with the most efficient implementation of those tasks. Examine examples of the Observer, Factory, Composite, and Singleton patterns and understand how they work. More importantly, discover where you would use them in your .NET applications. Craig Utley (provided by INETA)

March 10, 2005 Emerging Threats and Trends in Information Security We'll be focusing mostly on the emerging threat of application security. the discussion and demonstration will include SQL Injection, OS Command Injection, Cross-Site Scripting attacks and parameter tampering. Gerald Quakenbush

Febuary 10, 2005 Performance Tuning This was a great presentation! Jacob presents at the Microsoft MSDN events and this month he presented at our meeting to over 100 people! Jacob Cynamon, Microsoft Corporation

January 13, 2005 XML in .NET .NET is built from the ground up to richly support XML. In fact, support is so rich that it is sometimes bewildering to try to figure out what approach is most appropriate for your project and how it should work. Bill Hatfield cut through some of this confusion by providing an overview of your XML processing options in .NET, including Data Sets, XML Reader, and serialization. He also dove more deeply into the most flexible of the options: XML DOM. Bill Hatfield, MCSD, MCAD, MCP co-founder of IndyNDA

December 9, 2004 Overview of ASP.NET 2.0 for Web Developers Chris presented ASP.NET 2.0 as a whole while providing code examples of each new feature in order to lay the ground work for developers to get a deeper look at ASP.NET 2.0. Chris examined the new data binding functionality, the new Security and Role Membership APIs and the new Profile APIs. He took a look at the new UI features (Master Pages, Themes), the new configuration tools, the new code behind and auto-compile function and a host of other new advancements. This was a great presentation on the latest technology out of Microsoft! Chris Mayo of Microsoft Corporation

November 11, 2004 Microsoft SQL Reporting Services Bret provided a quick overview of reporting services (e.g. what is reporting services, architecture of reporting services, why use reporting services, report design, report manager, report delivery and subscriptions) In addition to the overview, Bret explored the following topics in technical detail: Report Design with Data Driven Subscriptions Extending Reporting Services (Delivery Extensions) URL Access to the RS Web Service This was a great presentation on a very important technology! Bret Updegraff, MCAD from from Crowe Chizek

October 14, 2004 Object Oriented Programming in .NET Jon talked about implementing object oriented code within the current .NET technologies. He covered the OO basics such as class composition and inheritance. He also got into more advanced OO topics such as interfaces and polymorphism. Jon Walsh from Quest Information Systems

September 10, 2004 MapPoint and Location based services Steve Lombardi from the Microsoft campus in Redmond was our speaker in September! He presented on MapPoint and Location based services from Microsoft. This was a great presentation with a demo that got many thinking. There were things that could apply to many organizations! Steve alluded to endless possibilities for this cool, leading edge technology! Download Steve Lombardi's handy MLS Step-by-Step Lab and tutorial that he covered in the meeting! Here's Steve's full-fledged Visual Studio sample project using MapPoint and Location Based Services. Steve Lombardi from Microsoft Corporation

August 12, 2004 Managed DirectX For those needing to create visual presentations beyond GDI+ and into a world with more dimensions, check out this overview of Managed DirectX 9.0 in the development of 3D visualization applications. While it isn’t for experienced game developers, it provides some insight into the relationship with unmanaged DirectX 9.0 and primarily focuses on the Direct3D and Direct3DX namespaces. The basics of a programmable pipeline are explained. Terminology and the basic mathematical foundations are developed and made less threatening. From there, development strategies are developed from code samples (all code samples presented in C#). Kenneth Lloyd

July 8, 2004 .NET Delegates and Events Ken digs into .NET delegates and events to discuss what they are and how they are used. Ken's presentation on the use of delegates (and events) included some great working code samples. (Check out the downloads section.) Ken concluded with a working example of how delegates can be used as a poor-man’s multithreading capability. Kenn Scribner of EnduraSoft

June 10, 2004 Best Practices for Designing and Building Smart Client Applications Discover the best practices for developing smart client applications including making common choices in smart client design, working with Windows Forms controls, coordinating multiple views of data, using Windows XP theming, maximizing your use of the Microsoft .NET Framework, and more. Throughout the presentation we'll walk through an application that demonstrates the best practices of smart client development. Chris Mayo of Microsoft Corporation

April 8, 2004 Harnessing the Power of User Controls Discover the the difference between user control as compared to web controls. After diving into the creation of a user control, Phill presented about the advantages of using them. The advantage of using user controls instead of pages within your web site including site skinning/portal as well as how to inherit user controls from a base control and the advantages of doing so. This meeting included lots of Q&A time. Phill Miller of Crowe Chizek

March 11, 2004 Microsoft Sharepoint With Over 60 people in attendence, the March meeting was the chance to step back and learn about Sharepoint. The slides from the meeting are available in the download section. Geoff Baker from Fusion Alliance

February 12, 2004 Indigo: Building Services: The Fundamentals With Approximately 70 people in attendence, the February meeting was a chance to learn about some of the new communications portion of Longhorn (the next version of Windows) — Indigo Our presenter was Kevin Hammond. He is with the Midwest Microsoft office out of Chicago. He is an Architect Evangelist responsible for working with other architects building solutions upon Windows and the .NET Framework. He spends a fair amount of focus on interoperating with other enterprise technologies - most often the various implementations of J2EE, and dealing with softer, conceputal issues such as IT governance and trends in service oriented architectures.

January 8, 2004 Mobile Development in .NET - Made simple! While the pizza person seemed to have a serious problem finding the location, over 100 people attended the January meeting. Mark Skoog of Microsoft presented on Mobile development with Microsoft technology. While the code was a little light, the presentation along with the questions and answers were packed with interesting information. While it was hard to give away a J2EE and .NET book, the new Pocket PC, the copy of Windows Server 2003, and the full copy of Visual Studio .NET Pro were very well received! Mark Skoog from Microsoft Corporation

December 11, 2003
ASP.NET 2.0! A Sneak peak at Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey"
2004 promises to be an exciting year for .NET developers. Currently the next version of Visual Studio .NET (code named "Whidbey" is due to release as a public beta sometime in the first half of 2004 and fully release by the end of the year. Scott Lee presents a sneak peak at some of the new features and other changes that will occur in ASP.NET 2.0 with the Whidbey release. Be the first at your company to know what will be changing!

Scott Lee from Quest Information Systems

November 13, 2003
HACKED! HOW EVILDOERS ATTACK ASP.NET WEB SITES—AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!

Security is a big deal in all network applications, but it's even more important in applications deployed on the Web. Every day ASP.NET developers unwittingly deploy sites that are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, and other hacks. Join the fun as Jeff demonstrates the common attacks used against ASP.NET Web sites and provides step-by-step instructions on how to code against them. Fair warning: What you see here might scare you!

Industry Expert Jeff Prosise from Wintellect
Prosises is the author of bestselling books Programming Windows and Programming Microsoft .NET.

October 9, 2003
Building Interoperable Web Services
Mark shows how to build Web services that can interact with other services on different platforms. This includes a demonstration of building a .NET service that interacts with a java service.

Mark Strawmyer, Crowe Chizek

September 11, 2003
The .NET Intermediate Language

Bill Hatfield, Edgequest

August 14, 2003
Windows Server 2003 for the Developer

The impact of Windows 2003 Server

Chris Mayo, Microsoft Corporation

July 10, 2003
ChartFX for .NET
John Beech from Software FX demonstrated the Chart FX for .NET charting package that integrates into the Microsoft .NET Framework. Learn about Chart FX for .NET's data binding capabilities with ADO.NET and the advanced Wizard that allows users to create dynamic charts in minutes. Also featured, will be the ability to render a chart in a browser as a .NET control allowing an end-user the ability to change many of the chart's properties, as well as save those changes as a personal template. In addition to our regular door prizes, a free version of Chart FX for .NET was given away.

John Beech, SoftwareFX

June 12, 2003
Database performance in ASP.NET
Stephen Walther gave a great presentation on different database access methods in ASP.NET and the performance advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Stephen also took some time to go over the Community Starter Kit that he has developed for Microsoft. You can get a copy of the starter kit from www.asp.net.

Stephen Walther

May 8, 2003
Cryptography and Security
We all have to exchange data between systems -- and do it securely. No longer can we afford to live in a world where we trust that our users won't try to break into our systems. As The University of Texas found out ( http://news.com.com/2100-1002-992732.html?tag=cd_mh) someone is going to try to break into the interfaces that you write.

In this presentation you'll get a primer on the basic kinds of encryption (hash, symmetric, asymmetric) and learn how you can implement them in your code to prevent others from gaining access to your information.

Robert Bogue, MCSE, etc and Mark Strawmyer, MCSD, MCSE, etc, both from Crowe Chizek's Indianapolis office, hold 14 certifications between the two of them. Together they have passed nearly 40 Microsoft exams. Robert is the author of 16 books on technology, a frequent contributor to TechRepublic.com and other online web sites. Mark is the columnist for Code Guru's .NET Nuts and Bolts column.

Robert Bogue & Mark Strawmyer

April 10, 2003
NET Remoting
Brent is president and founder of Wise Owl Consulting with over three decades experience in software development. Brent has designed and implemented operating systems as well as new computer programming languages and their compilers. Brent is the author of numerous Windows programming books, including ATL Internals and Win32 Programming. Besides providing consulting and instruction for the premier .NET developer training organization, Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), Brent's own company, Wise Owl Consulting, recently released Demeanor for .NET - the premier code obfuscator for .NET applications.

Brent Rector

March 13, 2003
Data Structures and Interfaces

Bill Hatfield

February 13, 2003
.NET Speech SDK

Jon Nicponski is an evalgelist for the .NET Speech SDK Team at Microsoft