NIMTUG Events

Introduction To Windows Phone 7 Development with Jeff Blankenburg

Damien McGivern — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:59:00 GMT

Jeff Blankenburg will be covering how to get started with Windows Phone 7 development.

19:00, Friday 13 May 2011, Radisson Hotel, Belfast

For more information and to register see Introduction To Windows Phone 7 Development

Upcoming Microsoft Events in April

Damien McGivern — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Managing the application lifecycle from requirements to retirement with Team Foundation Server 2010

Fri 01 Apr 2011 @ 09:30

The Fitzwilliam Hotel
Great Victoria Street
Belfast

How to save time and resources using Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager

Fri 01 Apr 2011 @ 13:30

The Fitzwilliam Hotel
Great Victoria Street
Belfast

TechNet Live Tour: Cloud for IT Pros

Tue 05 Apr 2011 @ 14:00

Park Avenue Hotel
158 Holywood Road
Belfast

Microsoft Kinected Technologies Evening for ‘Techsumers’

Tue 05 Apr 2011 @ 19:00

Park Avenue Hotel
158 Holywood Road
Belfast

Light up Sharepoint - Sharepoint 2010 Developer Roadshow

Thu 07 Apr 2011 @ 09:30

The Fitzwilliam Hotel
Great Victoria Street
Belfast

Reactive Extensions (Rx) talk slides and links

Damien McGivern — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:22:00 GMT

Links and slides from Bart De Smet's talk Rx: your prescription to cure asynchronous programming blues

– Rx team blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/rxteam

– DevLabs – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/ee794896.aspx

– MSDN forums – http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/rx

– Channel9 – http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/Rx

Download Slides Rx.pptx

Event Reminder - Reactive Extensions (Rx)

Damien McGivern — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:30:00 GMT

You can still register for tonights NIMTUG meeting with Bart De Smet who will be talking about Reactive Extensions (Rx).

Tue 15 Mar 2011 @ 19:30

Wellington Park Hotel
21 Malone Road
Belfast
BT9 6RU

Rx: your prescription to cure asynchronous programming blues

Production debugging of ASP.Net & Razor - slides & links

Damien McGivern — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:38:00 GMT

Cathal has supplied the following slides and links that he used and mentioned during this talk (Production debugging of ASP.Net & Razor) on thursday evening.

Slides

Nimtug - debugging.pptx

Nimtug - Razor.pptx

Windbg labs
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tess/archive/2008/02/04/net-debugging-demos-information-and-setup-instructions.aspx

Install windbg and get your first crash dump
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/johan/archive/2007/01/11/how-to-install-windbg-and-get-your-first-memory-dump.aspx

Asp.net debugging (covers PSSCOR2)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tom/archive/tags/debugging/

SoSEX
http://www.stevestechspot.com/

Tess Ferrandez’s debugging blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tess/

Free e-book on razor syntax (beta)
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/12/01/draft-asp-net-web-pages-with-razor-syntax.aspx

Event Reminder - Production debugging of ASP.Net & Razor

Damien McGivern — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:33:00 GMT

You can still register for Thursday evening NIMTUG event withCathal Connolly who will be speaking on production debugging of ASP.Net and the a lightening talk on Razor (ASP.Net view engine)

Thu 24 Feb 2011 @ 19:30

Wellington Park Hotel
21 Malone Road
Belfast

http://nimtug.org/events/130/production-debugging-of-asp-net-and-razor

Follow up post and code for CQRS talk

Damien McGivern — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:52:00 GMT

Andrea has posted to her blog with follow up information and example code related to her NIMTUG CQRS talk on Thursday.

http://roundcrisis.com/2011/01/21/cqrses-presentation-in-belfast-yesterday/

Upcoming NIMTUG meeting - Rx & CQRS - 20 Jan 2011

Damien McGivern — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:35:00 GMT

Lightening Talk (10 - 15 minutes)

Mark will give a brief introduction to Reactive Extensions (Rx), a library that allows the use of succinct LINQ-based declarative code to combine and co-ordinate asynchronous and event-based operations.

Main Talk

CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation is a simple pattern that describes the separation of command messages, that changes state, from query messages that read state.

ES: Event Sourcing. The basic idea is that your data storage is based on events instead of current state.

DDD: Domain Driven Design is the idea of modelling your system with a domain that is connected deeply with core business concepts.

Andrea will walk through an example of a system built using these principles. Of course, to do that , we'll need to understand the principles and the domain first.
From definitions, to practise. What, and why you should care about this emerging trend. Does it suit you? I'm assuming some level of understanding or at least interest on DDD

Agenda
- Definitions
- Commands and Events
- How does it affect your domain Modelling
- Event Sourcing and eventual consistency
- Testing

For more information and to register for this event see http://nimtug.org/events/128/command-query-responsibility-segregation

Windows Azure Platform - Jumpstart Workshop - Derry

Damien McGivern — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:31:00 GMT

Microsoft Ireland are running more Azure Jumpstart workshops around the country in January. One will be held in Derry on Jan 25 however the venue has not yet been finalised. For more information see http://nimtug.org/events/127/windows-azure-platform-jumpstart-workshop-derry

Defensive Programming 101

Damien McGivern — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Niall Merrigan will be giving our next talk (Defensive Programming 101) on Tuesday 09 Nov 2010 starting at 19:30

For more information and to register to attend see http://nimtug.org/events/120/defensive-programming-101

Going Deeper into Visual Studio 2010, Thu 03 Jun 2010

Damien McGivern — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:03:00 GMT

Going Deeper into Visual Studio 2010 - Belfast

Starts Thursday, 3 Jun 2010 @ 19:30

Wellington Park Hotel

21 Malone Road
Belfast
BT9 6RU
http://www.wellingtonparkhotel.com

Introduction to Application Development With Silverlight 4 - Webcast & Prize Winners

Damien McGivern — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:56:00 GMT

Webcast

The Introduction to Application Development With Silverlight 4 talk is now available as an on-demoand webcast at http://clients.dv4.com/microsoft/

Prizes

2 copies of Expression Studio 3

2 copies of Introducing Silverlight 3 Book by Laurence Moroney

Winners

(left - right) Ken Armstrong (Stuido), Michael Brooks (Book), Jesse Liberty (speaker) , Jose Santos (Book) , Clinton McDowell (Studio)

Thanks to evenyone who attended.

Change of venue for Silverlight event on Thursday evening

Damien McGivern — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:41:00 GMT

Due to an issue with venue booking we've moved the event to the Radisson Hotel, hope this doesn't cause to much hassle.

See event page for all the details http://nimtug.org/events/110/introduction-to-application-development-with-silverlight-4

Visual Studio 2010 Launch

Damien McGivern — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:49:00 GMT

Join Microsoft Ireland for the community launch of launch Visual Studio 2010! You will not only experience the launch alongside fellow developers and professionals - you'll get a free half-day of sessions on the latest and greatest technologies, such as Team Foundation Server, Silverlight, SharePoint, .NET 4.0 and of course the newly announced Windows Phone 7 Series.

Microsoft Ireland brings you great reasons for YOU to be at the nearest launch event:

Learn about Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET and Silverlight 4. You’ll learn to develop better desktop and Web applications starting with your attendance at the Visual Studio launch!
Get practical, real-world technical advice that you’ll start using as soon as you get back to the office.
Faster and better time to market. Get a roadmap for planning the development and deployment of future applications.
Impress your boss and colleagues. You’ll go back to the office with practical tips and tricks that will make developing applications faster and easier.
Motivating experience. You’ll leave with new ideas, practical to-do lists, knowledge to create better applications, and examples to inspire the rest of your team. If you’re looking to get fired up about new technology, you should definitely come along and be a part of the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Ahead of the event, you can take Visual Studio 2010 for a test drive by downloading the Release Candidate.

See event page for more details

The Jesse Liberty Silverlight UK & Ireland Tour coming to Belfast

Simon Phillips — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:25:35 GMT

As you may have heard Jesse Liberty (Silverlight Guru) is over this side of the pond during April and will be coming to Belfast on Thursday 22nd April.

http://blogs.silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/archive/2010/02/15/the-united-kingdom-amp-the-republic-of-ireland.aspx

This will be a great opportunity and is one not to be missed. We’ve got a choice of which talk we want Jesse to present and would like to open it up to the NIMTUG members to vote on.

The options are:

1. Introduction to Application Development With Silverlight 4

This presentation is targeted at .NET programmers new to Silverlight or who wish a review of the fundamentals of building an application in Silverlight 4. Topics will include

Drag and Drop development

Xaml and Code

Layout and Controls

Data, Data-binding, Validation and Async-validation

Templates and The Visual State Manager (Time allowing)

2. Building A Highly Extensible, Decoupled Silverlight Open Source Application with MEF and RIA Services using Lean, Test Driven Development, An International Team of Volunteer Programmers, and lots of Advil.

This talk will use the Silverlight HyperVideo Platform open-source project on CodePlex as a case study in building highly extensible Silverlight applications. Among the topics we will focus on are:

New features in Silverlight 4 and how they made life easier

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) added to Silverlight 4

WCF RIA Services for connection to a back-end db

Handling inter-module communication when the requirements are that modules cannot assume which other modules will be created, there can be no dependencies on order-of creation and unanticipated modules must be able to communicate with existing modules.

Using Markers, Injected Markers and polling to trigger events while viewing a video.

A Quick introduction to Lean, TDD and Kanban

3. Silverlight 4, Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) and Test-Driven Development

MVVM and Silverlight to build test-driven programs
Understanding Refactoring and Dependency Injection
A Walk through of a non-trivial application

If you want to drop us a line at simon@nimtug.org or leave a comment here with your choice.

Simon