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The New England Visual Basic Professionals Group will be featuring two excellent speakers at their upcoming meeting on December 7th:
5:30 - Jim Miller - Microsoft .NET: What is It and What’s Next
CLR: Internals and Future Direction
Earlier this year, Microsoft released version 2.0 of .Net. Jim Miller will talk about the implementation of some of the new technology (generics, for example). Then he’ll talk about future directions for the CLR. But I’ll leave most of the time for discussion purposes. What would you like to see in the next version of the CLR? What have you always wanted to know about how the CLR evolves over time? What technologies do you think should become part of a future CLR?”
Jim Miller is a senior architect on Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR) team.
6:30 - Pizza
6:45 - Joe Stagner - Microsoft's Web 2.0 / AJAX strategy
ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX
Learn what Microsoft is doing to help Web Developers Improve the User Interface experience of their web applications and minimize the impact of their rapidly evolving technology set.
Joe Stagner is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Developer Tools & Platform Group.
The meeting will be at the Microsoft offices at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA. For details and directions, see http://www.nevb.com
-Chris
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[Cross-posted from my new blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen. Please update your subscriptions.]
The New England launch event for Visual Studio Team System's new Database Professionals role is coming to the Boston area (Waltham) on December 14th from 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM.
This new Team System role complements the existing Architect, Tester, and Developer roles, providing many new features for working with databases:
- The new Visual Studio Database Project allows you to import your database schema and place it under source control. When the time comes to deploy schema changes the new project system allows you to quickly build update scripts and then provides a mechanism to deploy them to the database of your choice
- Rename Refactoring allows you to easily rename any object in your database and be assured that all references to that object will be renamed to correspond to the change
- A New T-SQL editor allows you to be more productive when writing T-SQL code from within Visual Studio including support for parallel execution of queries and viewing of execution plans
- SchemaCompare allows you to quickly compare the schema of two databases (or your source controlled project and a database) and script updates to bring the database schemas into sync
- DataCompare allows you to quickly compare two databases and script updates to bring the data in these databases into sync
- The Database Unit Testing infrastructure allows you to create database unit tests using T-SQL or managed code
- DataGenerator lets you create data generation plans that produce repeatable sets of meaningful data based upon your existing production databases that can be deployed to a database prior to running unit tests thus ensuring consistent test results
You can read more about these features here.
Full details of the launch event are attached below. Register for the Boston/Waltham event or visit http://teams-deliver.com for other cities and more information.
Hope to see you there!
-Chris
| | Keeping competitive means leveraging your data to provide your people with the tools they need to drive sales, efficiencies, and customer satisfaction. Visual Studio Team 2005 Edition for Database Professionals delivers a market-shifting database development product designed to manage database change, improve software quality through database testing, and bring the benefits of Visual Studio Team System and life cycle development to the database professional.
Join us at one of 23 cities to learn how Visual Studio 2005 for Database Professionals can help your SQL DBAs and Visual Studio developers. Register today at http://www.teams-deliver.com to avoid disappointment. WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
SQL development teams, developer teams writing against databases WHERE ARE THE EVENTS?
Events are held in 23 cities across the United States. | | Atlanta GA 11/30
Boston MA 12/14
Chicago IL 12/12
Cincinnati OH 12/07
Dallas TX 12/13
Denver CO 12/13 | | Detroit MI 12/05
Ft. Lauderdale FL 12/12
Houston TX 12/14
Los Angeles CA 12/07
Milwaukee WI 12/06
Minneapolis MN 11/29 | | Mountain View CA 12/5
New York City NY 12/12
Philadelphia PA 11/30
Phoenix AZ 12/12
Pittsburgh PA 11/28
Raleigh NC 12/14 | | Seattle WA 12/14
San Diego CA 12/6
St. Louis MO 11/30
Tampa FL 12/5
Washington DC12/5 | AGENDA
7:45 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Joining Forces: Assimilating Data Experts into the Development Team
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Taking Control of Database Change
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. Automate Database Testing to Improve Quality
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Panel Discussion | |
[Cross-posted from my new blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen]
Bob Familiar, my Architect Evangelist counterpart in New England, has posted details of upcoming events related to the arcStream initiative:
- December 11th - arcCouncil meeting on "Composite Application Architecture and User Experience"
- January 11th - arcLab session: "Take a lap around .NET 3.0"
- There are also many arcCasts on a variety of subjects coming up as well.
More details and registration can be found at the arcStreamEast.net site.
-Chris
[Note: My blog has moved to http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen. I'll cross-post content for a little while, though.]
Here are some upcoming events for the New England and upstate New York areas. If you are a user group leader or volunteer, please contact me (using the Email link above) and let me know about your upcoming events!
-Chris
November 13, 6 – 8:30 PM
Vermont .NET User Group
“Microsoft AJAX – What’s it all about?” - Joe Stagner
Vermont Tech, Williston, Admin Building, Room 215
November 13, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Boston .NET Certification Study Group
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham
November 15, 1 – 8:30 PM
Boston Area Access Users Group
“Access Day” – Various Topics/Speakers
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham
November 15, 6 – 8 PM
.NET Architecture Study Group
Topic TBA
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham
November 28, 6:30 PM
C# User Group of Greater Boston
“.Net 2.0 Membership, if only...” – Patrick Hynds
November 30, 1 – 5 PM
MSDN Event, Tyngsborough, MA
· “Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals”
· “Windows Workflow Foundation Exposed”
· “Creating Cutting-Edge Web Designs with Expression Web”
[Also in Syracuse, NY on December 5th and Buffalo, NY on December 7]
December 5, 6:00 PM
Western Mass .NET User Group
“Building Web Parts for Sharepoint with Visual Studio 2005” – Mauro Cardarelli
Atalasoft Offices, Easthampton, MA
December 6, 7:00 PM
New Hampshire SQL Server Users Group
“SQL Server Integration Services” - Mike Bishop
New Horizons, 460 Amherst Street, Nashua, NH
December 7, 6:15 – 8:30 PM
New England Visual Basic Professionals
“Microsoft Web 2.0 / AJAX strategy and the ASP.NET 2.0 ATLAS initiative” – Joe Stagner
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham
December 11
Vermont .NET User Group
VTDotNet Holiday Party
Vermont Tech, Williston, Admin Building, Room 215
December 13, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Boston .NET User Group
Annual Holiday Potluck Party
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham
December 14, 8:30 – 1:00 PM
Launch Event - Visual Studio 2005 Edition for Database Professionals
Various Speakers & Sessions - Boston Event Registration
Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham
[Note: This entry is cross-posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2006/11/13/upcoming-northeast-developer-events.aspx]
I've spun up a shiny new blog over at MSDN Blogs. Please update your subscription to http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen
Time will tell what I do with this blog. I'll probably mirror content for a little while until the search engines catch up with my new location.
See you at MSDN!
-Chris
Day one at Microsoft is done! The people are great and the
amount of internal information available is amazing. Imagine it's
the first day of classes and each of your professors has handed you a
textbook filled with details that would be extremely helpful
for you to know *this very moment*. Then add a healthy dose of
meetings and events to attend. Oh, and save a little time
for your wife and kids, too.
Drinking from the firehose, but I'm
looking forward to more tomorrow. There will be plenty of
events, initiatives, and technologies to tell you about, so stay tuned!
-Chris