Who: Database administrators and developers using/interested in MSDE
What: Chat with the SQL Server Express Experts
When: 2004-08-10, 3:00pm to 4pm Central Time
Where: Chat with the SQL Server Express Experts
Why: This SQL Server Express webchat, sponsored by The SQL Server Worldwide User's Group (www.sswug.org), puts you directly in touch with SQL Server Express experts who will answer your questions about this new version of SQL Server 2005 that is designed for building simple, dynamic applications.
How: On the Communities Chatroom on TechNet.
Afternoon: MSDN Event at the AMC Oakview
Who: TBA
What: Three -- count 'em three -- great sessions:
- Session #1: Building ASP .NET Custom Controls: Learn how to author server-side ASP .NET custom controls to easily create reusable user interface elements for your Web applications. See how to gain granular control over caching, use control designers, render your controls, and handle postback events.
- Session #2: ASP .NET 2.0 Overview: Discover the significant advances that ASP .NET 2.0 will offer to Web application developers to dramatically reduce the number of lines of code required for common tasks. Explore new features such as Personalization, Master Pages, Navigation Controls, and Web Part customization, as well as productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2005.
- Session #3: Developing Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Solutions with Visual Studio .NET 2003
Experience the flexibility of XML data-sharing with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003. Learn how its new Service Pack 1 feature enhancements will help developers and users get more out of InfoPath, and how the InfoPath Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET will allow developers to easily create, debug and build InfoPath solutions using managed code.
Major Added Bonus: MS will be handing out a DVD with software like Whidbey Beta 1, all the Express Products, and webcasts.
When:2004-09-16, Starts promptly at 1:00pm
Where:AMC Theater - Oakview Plaza 24, 3555 South 140th Plaza, Omaha, 68144
Why: Great information, refreshments and prizes!
How: Register here.
Evening: FunWith.NET user group meeting
Who: Jeff Brand
What: Join us after the MSDN event for a discussion on "Threading with Windows Forms". Jeff Brand, Developer Architect for Microsoft, will be walking us through an introduction to threading, and then proper application within the WinForms environment. This session will introduce basic threading concepts such as thread creation, using delegates, and configuring threads. Attendees will then be shown how to use multiple threads with Windows Forms applications, key concepts and issues, and a sample framework for incorporating threading into their own application.
When: 2004-09-16 starts around 6:00 PM
Where: TDB
Why: Knowledge, Pizza, Pop and Prizes!
How: Keep an idea on the Events page on http://www.funwith.net/
Who: John Box
What: XP SP2 Issues for Developers
When: Thursday, August 12, 2004 at 6:00 PM
Where: Creighton University West; 11111 Mill Valley Road
Why: Windows XP Service Pack 2 delivers a number of safety technologies for end-users. The changes in the Internet Connection Firewall, Web Browsing experience, Email/IM and Application Memory Protection affect many different application types. This session covers example applications, how they are affected and how to modify them to work with Windows XP SP2.
How: Just show up!