Central Jersey ASP.NET MVC Fire Starter

Friday, December 05 2008

From Peter’s blog “If you missed the MVC Fire Starters in New York and Philadelphia over the past few months, I’m happy to announce that the ASP.NET MVC Fire Starter is coming to central Jersey next Saturday, December 13th.  This is your opportunity to come out and learn about the new ‘old’ way of building web applications on ASP.NET!  Feedback from the New York & Philly events were great.  Due to popular demand for this topic, we’re bringing the content to Jersey.”

More info here

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Windows 7 Beta 1 for MDC Attendees

Thursday, December 04 2008

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Breaking news!!!

Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD.

Note:  The Windows 7 DVDs will not be ready to hand out in time for the events happening in December, but we’ll definitely mail them out to you as soon as they become available.  Everyone attending the event from Houston, Orlando and Atlanta WILL get their DVD, just not at the actual event  :-)

Register today and you’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and hear all of the exciting announcements around the Azure Services Platform and Windows 7.

  1. Experience Windows Azure
    Create applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone
  2. Be among the first to see Windows 7
    See the latest advances in Multi-Touch Application Development
  3. Take your .NET skills to the next level
    See sessions on WPF 4.0, Silverlight 2, The Future of C# and VB, ASP.NET 4.0, Live Mesh and more

The Cost? Just $99.
And, did we mention that attendees will get some cool giveaways?

Check out the session line up…

Azure Services Platform Client and Presentation Tools, Languages and Framework
A Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform ASP.NET and JQuery The Future of Managed Languages: C#, and Visual Basic
Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service Developing Data-centric Applications Using the WPF DataGrid and Ribbon Controls A Lap Around "Oslo"
A Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services Building Business Focused Applications using Silverlight 2 A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010
Developing Applications Using Microsoft SQL Data Services ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap An Introduction to Microsoft F#

 

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Great events in December…

Thursday, December 04 2008

ASP Firestarter Pittsburgh

Register HERE

Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:00 AM
Microsoft Pittsburgh
30 Isabella Street
2nd Floor Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15212
United States

Topics covered will include “How Do I...”

- Create Views Easily? ( HTML and Url Helpers )
- Handle Get and Post Requests?
- Pass Data Between Views and Controllers? ( ViewData and TempData )
- Bind Views and Forms to complex data types? ( ModelBinders )
- Handle Errors Gracefully? ( ActionFilter Attributes )
- Provide Input Error Validation? ( ValidationMessage, ValidationSummary, ViewData.ModelState )
- Handle Authentication and Authorization? ( ActionFilter Attributes and Membership Provider )
- Persist to a database ( LINQ To SQL, Entity Framework )
- Log Messages to Database, File, EventLog ( ActionFilter Attributes, etc. )
- Leverage AJAX and JSON? ( ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery )

MSDN Freedom Roadshow (Harrisburg)

Register HERE

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:00 AM

CAI
470 Friendship Road, #300
Harrisburg Pennsylvania 17111
United States

9:00 to 10:30 – Windows Presentation Foundation Demystified
10:30 to 12:00 – Implementing RESTful services with WCF 3.5
12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 to 2:30 – Exploring the ADO.NET Entity Framework
2:30 to 3:15 – A Developer’s Guide to Internet Explorer 8
3:15 to 4:00 – UI, UX, U Confused?

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Harrisburg Code Camp 2008

Monday, November 10 2008

CodeCampLogo.jpg Judy and crew are at it again. Harrisburg Code Camp 2008 will take place Saturday December 6 at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

This year they are hosting the following tracks:

Tracks:
   Architecture
   SQL Server
   Application Development
   SharePoint (1/2 track)
   Mobile Application Development (1/2 track)

Make plans to attend. Last year this event was blast.

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Don't miss Web Platform Technical Training Next Week in Reston, VA

Friday, November 07 2008

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We have 80 people registered for this event next week in Washington, DC but still have a few seats open.  If you want to get a Jumpstart on Live Services, take a minute now to register for next weeks free training event.

Want to build traffic, drive user engagement and influence behavior through your Web applications?

Want to ride the social networking and mobility wave in the consumer market?

Join us at the Live Services Jumpstart event in Washington, DC on November 13th to explore the full breadth of the consumer components of the Microsoft ‘Software + Services’ Services – Live Services – in several in-depth technical sessions, hands-on code labs and informal Q&A. Microsoft's top engineers and Web development experts will lead you through 2 days of level 300-400 discussions on the latest technologies and upcoming offerings.

Jumpstart your business with Live Services. Register today!

About Live Services
Live Services enables developers to engage large audiences with rich social sharing embedded experiences, and to connect the power and scale of the Web to rich client experiences across a world of digital devices. Live Services:

  1. Provides access to over 400M users and the experiences, relationships and data they care about.
  2. Uses an open standards programming interface and resource model that spans the PC, phone and Web (cloud).
  3. Enables data synchronization and local accessibility across many end points, including PC, phone and Web.
  4. Enables Windows applications and technologies to locally access Web data, enabling new and rich Web experiences.

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PDC 2008 Recap

Thursday, November 06 2008

Last week, I had the privilege to attend the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 or PDC 08 for short. I was super excited about attending this conference because everyone I had spoken to about it had nothing but great things to saying. I have to say that my experience at PDC08 was far better than my expectations and I was expecting a lot. I arrived at Los Angeles on Saturday morning.  After waiting a couple of hours at the airport for Peter, we headed off to Santa Monica Pier were we rented a couple of old bikes for a two hour ride on the Santa Monica Bay bike trail. I wanted to take some pictures but my camera's battery were dead so you have to take my word for it that it was a very nice ride.

The next five days were a combination of some great technical sessions , great conversation with fellow geeks and the parties at night after the sessions end for the day. A big part of every technical conference is the interaction with other geeks, even if only to play practical jokes on each other.  One day I was hanging out near the "Open Space" area with DonXML and Miguel Castro. Don spotted an opportunity to take advantage of his local "DE" (Developer Evangelist). I refused to play alone but decided to tape it just to keep as a souvenir that I could then share with you my 3 readers. Don came up with the idea, Miguel implemented it and I recorded it. True team work if you ask me.

As far as technical content I don't know where to start. Windows Azure totally blew my mind. The Mesh and Live Frameworks were pretty cool. Oh and then the was the Visual Studio 10 demos. Wow, that is all I can say. Make sure you watch ScottGu's keynote.  I am going to spend the next weeks and months ramping up on this stuff so that I can relay it back to the community. I am thinking the best way to learn it will be to start some sort of project. I just don't know what that project will be. I do have some ideas but nothing set in stones. Let me know if you have some recommendations.

If you missed the PDC, you can watch all the sessions and keynotes at Microsoftpdc.com. If you want to get to interact with the speaker and experts, make sure you check if the MSDN Developer Conference in coming to a city near you. We are re delivering some of the best 12 session from PDC08.

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New location for the RSS feeds

Thursday, November 06 2008

I changed the feeds location to get better analytics. Please subscribe to the new feed. http://feeds.smallandmighty.net/smallandmighty

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The MSDN Developer Conference is coming…Are you ready?

Tuesday, November 04 2008

The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready?

Prepare yourself for a demanding future. Attend the MSDN Developer Conference.

  1. Experience Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform
    Create applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone
  2. Be among the first to see Windows 7
    See the latest advances in Multi-Touch Application Development
  3. Take your .NET skills to the next level
    See sessions on WPF 4.0, Silverlight 2, ASP.NET 4.0, Parallel Programming, Live Mesh and more

The Cost? Just $99.
And, did we mention that attendees will get some cool giveaways?

Check out the session line up…

Cloud Services Client and Presentation Tools, Languages and Framework
Lap Around Cloud Services Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) Roadmap The Future of Managed Languages: F#, C#, and Visual Basic
Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Services Developing Data-centric Applications Using the WPF DataGrid and Ribbon Controls A Lap Around "Oslo"
A Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services Building Business Focused Applications using Silverlight 2 "Rosario": A Sprint with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
Developing Applications Using Data Services ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap Parallel Programming for Managed Code Developers

Register for a city near you…

Date City
12/9/08 Houston, TX
12/11/08 Orlando, FL
12/16/08 Atlanta, GA
1/13/09 Chicago, IL
1/13/09 Minneapolis, MN
1/16/09 Washington, DC
1/20/09 New York, NY
1/22/09 Boston, MA
1/22/09 Detroit, MI
1/26/09 Dallas, TX
2/19/90 San Francisco, CA

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ASP.NET MVC Firestarter - Pittsburg

Tuesday, November 04 2008

Register HERE

Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:00 AM - Saturday, November 08, 2008 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:30 AM 

Microsoft
Microsoft Pittsburgh

30 Isabella Street
2nd Floor Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15212
United States 

When it comes to design patterns, the MVC is the granddaddy of them all.  First described in the late 70s, the MVC pattern remains very popular in the world of web applications today. ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application design, processing logic, and display.
Throughout the day we will be demonstrating the ASP.NET MVC Framework in a cookbook-style approach with recipes on how to solve common challenges when developing MVC web applications. No previous knowledge or experience is necessary. We will walk you through the basics on creating views and controllers and by the end of the day show you how to develop end-to-end MVC applications complete with Ajax, authentication, authorization, caching, databinding, logging, persistence, validation, and other common challenges we experience in day-to-day development.
 
Sample code will leverage and integrate popular frameworks and libraries like ADO.NET Data Services, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Enterprise Library, Entity Framework, and LINQ To SQL to show you how to write less code and be more productive during your development.
 
Polish it all off with examples showing the extensibility of the MVC Framework using custom controller factories, alternative view engines, and custom action filter attributes just to name a few.
 
Topics covered will include “How Do I...”
- Create Views Easily? ( HTML and Url Helpers )
- Handle Get and Post Requests? ( simple databinding of action method arguments, ActionResults, etc.. )
- Pass Data Between Views and Controllers? ( ViewData and TempData )
- Bind Views and Forms to complex data types? ( ModelBinders )
- Handle Errors Gracefully? ( ActionFilter Attributes )
- Provide Input Error Validation? ( ValidationMessage, ValidationSummary, ViewData.ModelState )
- Handle Authentication and Authorization? ( ActionFilter Attributes and Membership Provider )
- Persist to a database ( LINQ To SQL, Entity Framework )
- Log Messages to Database, File, EventLog ( ActionFilter Attributes, etc. )
- Leverage AJAX and JSON? ( ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery )
 
Some of the more complex and non-beginner topics can be discussed if time is allowed and/or maybe discussed afterwards in a social environs…
- Alternate View Engines
- IoC and Custom Controller Factories
- Unit Testing
 
Bring a friend!!!

 

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ASP.NET MVC Firestarter Event in Philly

Wednesday, October 08 2008

Register Here

Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:00 AM - Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:30 AM

Microsoft Corporation   

45 Liberty Boulevard, Suite 210
Malvern Pennsylvania 19355
United States
 
When it comes to design patterns, the MVC is the granddaddy of them all.  First described in the late 70s, the MVC pattern remains very popular in the world of web applications today. ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application design, processing logic, and display.
Throughout the day we will be demonstrating the ASP.NET MVC Framework in a cookbook-style approach with recipes on how to solve common challenges when developing MVC web applications. No previous knowledge or experience is necessary. We will walk you through the basics on creating views and controllers and by the end of the day show you how to develop end-to-end MVC applications complete with Ajax, authentication, authorization, caching, databinding, logging, persistence, validation, and other common challenges we experience in day-to-day development.
 
Sample code will leverage and integrate popular frameworks and libraries like ADO.NET Data Services, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Enterprise Library, Entity Framework, and LINQ To SQL to show you how to write less code and be more productive during your development.
 
Polish it all off with examples showing the extensibility of the MVC Framework using custom controller factories, alternative view engines, and custom action filter attributes just to name a few.
 
Topics covered will include “How Do I...”
- Create Views Easily? ( HTML and Url Helpers )
- Handle Get and Post Requests? ( simple databinding of action method arguments, ActionResults, etc.. )
- Pass Data Between Views and Controllers? ( ViewData and TempData )
- Bind Views and Forms to complex data types? ( ModelBinders )
- Handle Errors Gracefully? ( ActionFilter Attributes )
- Provide Input Error Validation? ( ValidationMessage, ValidationSummary, ViewData.ModelState )
- Handle Authentication and Authorization? ( ActionFilter Attributes and Membership Provider )
- Persist to a database ( LINQ To SQL, Entity Framework )
- Log Messages to Database, File, EventLog ( ActionFilter Attributes, etc. )
- Leverage AJAX and JSON? ( ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery )
 
Some of the more complex and non-beginner topics can be discussed if time is allowed and/or maybe discussed afterwards in a social environs…
- Alternate View Engines
- IoC and Custom Controller Factories
- Unit Testing
 
Bring your USB Flash Drive to grab the sample code and begin developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications today!
 

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