News & Announcements : WCF, UserGroup

11/11/2009 Meeting - .NET iPhone App Development using MonoTouch

zachbonham — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:51:00 GMT

Please note that the DFW Connected Systems User Group meeting location has moved from Microsoft, Las Colinas, to Improving Enterprises, in North Dallas! The new meeting location has a parking garage where you will need to enter the code 5000# for entry. If you get there before 6:30PM, there is usually plenty of parting out front. The Improving offices are located in building II.

We will have FREE food, drinks, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and lets not forget the prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.

We have picked up several new sponsors that have generously donated product and/or services to our user group community. Pluralsight is offering a 1 month free subscription to their Pluralsight On-Demand training for unemployed usergroup members and $500 off the subscription price of On-Demand. JetBrains has dontated a ReSharper license. Apress has dontated copies of select titles and are offering discounts to user group members on e-book purchases. Techsmith has dontated copies of their software along with some nice swag! Be sure to swing by this week for your chance to win!

See you there!

Presentation: .NET iPhone App Development using MonoTouch
Date: Wednesday, November 11th 2009
Time: 6:00PM
Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
Parking Code: 5000#

RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
Maps: Google

Abstract
MonoTouch is one of the most exciting developments in the iPhone apps world. Use your .NET skills to build beautiful mobile apps on the worlds most successful and lucrative mobile applications platform. We’ll start out with and introduction to MonoTouch and then move on to using program navigation, web services and the current state of WCF in MonoTouch.

Speaker Bio
Todd Stone is a senior software developer at HBS Systems in Dallas, TX. He works with communicating and converting data from a variety of different platforms including Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and the IBM iSeries (AS/400). He's active in the local .NET community as President of the DFW Connected Systems User Group, member of Microsoft’s South Central District Community Guidance Council, and as a speaker at local user groups and regional events.

10/14/2009 Meeting - BizTalk Server and WCF

zachbonham — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:54:00 GMT

See you there!

Presentation: BizTalk Server with WCF
Date: Wednesday, October 14th 2009
Time: 6:00PM
Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
Parking Code: 5000#

RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
Maps: Google

Summary

Beginning with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 a Windows Communication Foundation adapter has been available. This presentation will take a look at using BizTalk as both a provider, and consumer, of WCF services.

Speaker Bio

Zach Bonham is a Technical Consultant with Mary Kay and has been developing software for the Microsoft platform for over 15 years. You can reach Zach through his blog at zachbonham.blogspot.com.

8/12/2009 Meeting - WS-Discovery in .NET 4.0

zachbonham — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:37:00 GMT

We will have FREE food, drinks, courtesy of Improving Enterprises, and lets not forget the prizes for those who attend! The food will arrive by about 6PM and which offers plenty of time to socialize before the event start time at 6:30PM.

See you there!

Presentation: WS-Discovery in .NET 4.0
Date: Wednesday, August 12th 2009
Time: 6:00PM
Where: Improving Enterprises, Dallas (15950 Dallas Parkway Suite 500 Dallas, TX 75248)
Parking Code: 5000#

RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
Maps: Google

Summary

Previously, locating specific services on a network previously was not trivial and required quite a bit of configuration management. With WCF in .NET 4.0, Microsoft has baked a standards-compliant protocol called WS-Discovery that solves this problem without all of the messy and error-prone configuration necessary to keep track of services on your network.

In this session you will learn:

How to write service clients that automatically poll your network to locate their service endpoints
How to automatically filter services to return specific ones
How to return custom additional metadata for each service
How to create a discovery proxy to provide a central location for all clients to go to locate their services

Speaker Bio

Anderson Imes is a Senior Programmer for Mary Kay and an active member of Microsoft's Connected Technology Advisor program. Anderson is currently delivering software solutions built on .NET, including Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow. You can learn more about Anderson from his blog http://theimes.com/.

Securing Your Applications and Web Services with the Geneva Framework Downloads

zachbonham — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:42:00 GMT

Jim Lavin gave us a great presentation on claims based security with the "Geneva" Framework this month! Get Jim's slide deck and sample code here.

Thanks, Jim!

12/10/2008 Meeting - Caching with Windows Communication Foundation

zachbonham — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:31:00 GMT

Todd Stone will present on caching frequently accessed data near a Windows Communication Foundation service. WCF can be a chatty interface and Todd will demonstrate that caching the frequently accessed data near the WCF service will avoid a lot of overhead in accessing it every time from the database. This in turn makes your WCF service more scalable, robust and available.

Since this is the last meeting of 2008, we will take the opportunity to spend a bit more time socializing!

We will have FREE food, drinks, and there will be a prize drawing for those who attend - courtesy of Sogeti!

Presentation: Caching with Windows Communication Foundation
Date: Wednesday, December 10th 2008
Time: 6:30PM
Where: Microsoft, Las Colinas LC1 (7000 HWY 161, Irving TX)
RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
Maps: Google | Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft

Speaker Bio

Todd Stone is a developer at HBS Systems. He works with communicating with a variety of different platforms including Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and the IBM iSeries (AS/400).

Sponsors

We would like to extend a special thank you to the sponsors of this event!

09/10/2008 Meeting - WCF in .NET 3.5 SP1 and MSMQ Follow up

zachbonham — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Thanks to everyone for attending and thanks to Darshan for presenting!

Darshan has provided us with this presentation, and source code, which can be downloaded here:

WCF in .NET 3.5 SP1 and MSMQ Communication Presentation and Source

Once again, great feedback from everyone...keep those ideas coming!

See you next month!

09/10/2008 Meeting - WCF in .NET 3.5 SP1 and MSMQ Communication

zachbonham — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:03:00 GMT

Please join us on September 10th as Darshan Singh presents on the improvements to WCF in .NET 3.5 SP1 and MSMQ! We will have FREE food, drinks, and there will be a prize drawing for those who attend - courtesy of Sogeti!

Presentation: WCF in .NET 3.5 SP1 and MSMQ Communication
Date: Wednesday, September 10th 2008
Time: 6:30PM
Where: Microsoft, Las Colinas LC1 (7000 HWY 161, Irving TX)
RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com or via Codezone (new users use Access Code 'BizTalk2006' - see Join Us On Codezone for more info!)
Maps: Google | Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft

Speaker Bio

Darshan Singh is a Sr. Developer at Intuit, working with the Innovative Gateway Solutions (IGS) team to provide credit card authorization gateway services. He is currently working on upgrading several .NET 1.1 and 2.0 applications to .NET 3.5.

Summary

In this two-topic presentation on Windows Communication Foundation, you will learn about the latest and greatest improvements to WCF introduced by .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1. The second part of the presentation will focus on implementing MSMQ-based communication using WCF.

Sponsors

We would like to extend a special thank you to the sponsors of this event!

8/13/2008 Meeting - Workflow as a Service

zachbonham — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Please join us on August 13th as Anderson Imes presents on Workflow as a Service! We will have FREE food, drinks, and there will be a prize drawing for those who attend - courtesy of Sogeti!

Presentation: Workflow as a Service
Date: Wednesday, August 13th 2008
Time: 6:30PM
Where: Microsoft, Las Colinas LC1 (7000 HWY 161, Irving TX)
RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com
Maps: Google | Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft

Speaker Bio

Anderson is a developer for Mary Kay and an active member of Microsoft's Connected Technology Advisor program. Anderson is currently delivering software solutions built on .NET, including Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow. You can learn more about Anderson from his blog http://theimes.com/.

Summary

In the past, raising events and communicating from the outside into a running workflow was difficult to understand and to manage. With .NET 3.5, though, Microsoft has blurred the lines between Windows Communication Foundation and Workflow Foundation, giving you the same great homogeneous communication model with workflow as you do a WCF service.

In this presentation you will learn:

How to implement a WCF service declaratively, using WF
How to create long-running operations that could span weeks, months, or years
New bindings in WCF for use in and out of WF
Tips to make sure your transition to .NET 4.0 WF is painless

Sponsors

We would like to extend a special thank you to the sponsors of this event!