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Welcome to the Sarasota .NET Developers Group
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The Sarasota .NET Developers group focuses on building solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, Office, and other related tools. This is a technically oriented group where our monthly 1.5 - 2 hour presentations concentrate on code development and techniques.
Meetings are generally held on a Tue/Wed/Thu in the middle of the month (speaker's choice). Our usual location: Sarasota Community Foundation, located at 2635 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota, FL 34237 (just west of Tuttle on the north side of Fruitville).
Please click the register link in the upper-right and fill out the form to receive our newsletter (NOTE: you'll receive an emailed confirmation code which you must use to login before your registration is complete).
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Upcoming SarasotaDev Meetings
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Intro to SQL Compact and Data Sync services - by Nikita Polyakov
This meeting will be held on Wed, November. 12, 2008 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Location: Sarasota Community Foundation, located at 2635 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota, FL 34237 (just west of Tuttle on the north side of Fruitville).
In this presentation Nikita will cover the benefits of SQL Compact not only on a mobile device, but as an amazing alternative to locally cached data for occasionally connected devices like laptops. We will also go over Sync Services for SQL Compact.
Upcoming SarasotaDev Events:
- DotNetNuke v5 by Stan Schultes, Thu, Dec 18, 2008. Installing & configuring DNN on Vista/IIS7, Server 2003/2008, SQL 2005/2008, and deploying to these platforms. Developing DNN modules with Visual Studio 2008.
- Aspect Oriented Programming by David Hayden, Thu, Jan 22, 2009. This session will cover the Unity and Policy Injection Application Blocks, Castle Windsor and Dynamic Proxy, PostSharp and other tools. It will also include a quick intro to the Decorator Pattern and Generic Decorator Chains.
- A Lap Around VSTS 2010 - by Brandon Kelly - Feb 2009
- Ambrose Little - Mar 2009, topic TBD
Nearby User Group/Developer Events:
- Making the Most of Entity Framework - by John Papa on Thu, Nov 6 at 6:30pm in Tampa. More info here.
- New Features of SQL Server Integration Services - by Jessica Moss (Solid Quality Mentors) on Thu, Nov 6 at 6-7:30 pm in Sarasota. More info here.
- MSDN Event in Tampa on Thu, Nov 20, 2008. Topics: SQL 2008, Silverlight 2.0, and VSTO (VS Tools for Office). More info here.
- ASP.NET MVC Firestarter - by Jim Zimmerman and David Hayden on Mon, Nov. 17 from 9am - 12pm in Tampa. More info here.
- MSDN Developers Conference - in Orlando on Thu, Dec 11. This is one of 11 events nationwide, these are re-presentations of the top PDC talks! Register now, space is limited. More info here.
Florida CodeCamps in 2008:
The 2008 CodeCamp season is now on across Florida! If you haven't attended in the past, a CodeCamp is a free, all-day Saturday developer event put on by regional developers, for developers. If you've been to CodeCamp in the past, then you know you don't want to miss the 2008 season.
- South FL - Sat, Feb 2, 2008 at DeVry University in Miramar. Another incredible event, over 600 attendees and nearly 70 sessions.
- Orlando - Sat. Mar 22, 2008. Close to 400 attendees showed up for 56 sessions on Easter weekend for the big day in O-town.
- Jacksonville - Sat, Aug 23, 2008 - almost 200 participants in this 4th annual event.
- SWFL - new this year, and close to 200 participants.
- Tallahassee - Sat, Oct 11, 2008. That show is over.
- Tampa - Sat, Dec 6, 2008 (rescheduled from July) - registration is now open.
- South FL - Sat, Feb 8, 2009 - put it on your calendar!
Other Developer Events of Interest:
- Microsoft PDC 2009 - this event will be held Nov 17-20, 2009.
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