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November 11, 2008 - Guild Meeting, featuring Donn Felker

When: 6:00 PM.

Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435)   MAP

Donn Felker

Topic: Dependency Inversion Learn about how the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP), Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Containers help you get your system under test more effectively and how it can help you decouple your code. You will also be introduced to a small subset of dependency breaking techniques that will help you break ground into setting your system up for maintainability. This session is intended to be very audience interactive so that it can help the audience break into the world of dependency inversion and introduce methods that will help you gain confidence when you need to make a change in your code base. Speaker Bio: Donn Felker is a Senior Consultant with Magenic. He has over 8 years of professional experience in various markets that include – entertainment, health, retail, insurance, financial, and real estate. He is a MCTS in Web Client Development for .NET 2.0 and 3.5 and is also a certified Scrum Master. He is the founder and coordinator of the Twin Cities Give Camp (www.twincitiesgivecamp.org), a writer, presenter and consultant on various topics ranging from architecture, development in general, agile practices and patterns & practices. He is an active member in many open source projects on Codeplex as well ranging from development patterns to Team Foundation Server deployment methodologies.

Previous Meetings

October 7, 2008 - Guild Meeting, featuring Jeff Brand

When: 6:00 PM.

Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435)   MAP

Jeff Brand

Topic: ASP.NET MVC Overview This session will introduce attendees to the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework. It will compare MVC to existing ASP.NET Web Forms and show the basics of creating an ASP.NET MVC application. Demos will be used to show how to create a simple product catalog web site. Speaker Bio: Jeff Brand is a .NET Developer in Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Group. Jeff assists customers in evaluating, developing and deploying applications built on the .NET Framework and the Microsoft platform. He has been with Microsoft for twelve years and has served in variety of roles including infrastructure consultant, e-commerce technology specialist, and enterprise technology advisor.

September 9, 2008 - Guild Meeting, featuring Kirstin Juhl

When: 6:00 PM.

Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435)   MAP

Kirstin Juhl

Topic: Team Foundation Server - What you as developers need to know. Speaker Bio: Kirstin Juhl is software developer and consultant for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Kirstin has been developing software since 1996 when she started a career in engineering. She has been full-time in software development since 1999 and specializes in middle/back tier and database design and development. Kirstin holds a B.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an M.S.in Software Engineering from the University of St. Thomas. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two children, and when not speaking at software events enjoys mountain biking all over the Midwest.

August 12, 2008 - Guild Meeting, featuring Rocky Lhotka

When: 6:00 PM.

Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435)   MAP

Rockford Lhotka Slides & Code

Topic: CSLA .NET is one of the most widely used development frameworks for .NET. CSLA Light is a subset of CSLA .NET that runs in the Silverlight environment. CSLA Light is an ongoing project, scheduled for a first release in September 2008. Come to this session to get an insiders first look at CSLA running on Silverlight, providing many of the same powerful benefits to Silverlight that CSLA .NET does for .NET itself. These include support for data binding, standardized validation and authorization and flexible support for n-tier architectural models and data access. Speaker Bio: Rockford Lhotka is the author of numerous books, including the Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and Expert C# 2005 Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He contributes to several major magazines and regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic (www.magenic.com), a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. For more information go to www.lhotka.net.

July 8, 2008 - Guild Kickoff and Cookout

When: Cookout at 5:00 PM, Meeting at 6:00 PM.

Where: New Horizons of Minnesota (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435)   MAP

Cookout Details: Show up at 5pm for our kickoff cookout. We'll be serving burgers, brats and hot dogs for an hour prior to the meeting beginning at 6pm.

Jason Bock Slides & Code

Topic: Writing Better Code It's one thing to write code that will do the job in the short-term; it's another challenge to write code that can stand the test of time. In this session I'll show you how you can use tools and features in VS 2008 (e.g. unit testing, Code Analysis, Code Coverage, etc.) to assist you in making your code maintainable over time, easy to understand, and resilient to defects. Speaker Bio: Jason Bock is a Principal Consultant for Magenic, and is also a Microsoft MVP. He has worked on a number of business applications using a diverse set of substrates and languages such as C#, .NET, and Java. He is the author of "Applied .NET Attributes", "CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET", ".NET Security", and "Visual Basic 6 Win32 API Tutorial". He has written numerous articles on software development issues and has presented at a number of conferences and user groups. Jason holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University.