Jonathan Zuck is making a few stops here in Michigan to talk about issues affecting you as a businessman or technology professional. Please join us for a dynamic and informative session about a part of your business and career that often gets overlooked. read more ...

Come join Darrell Hawley as he talks about the basics of IronPython and some of it's features before coding-up some examples. read more ...

Lansing Day of .NET 2008 – Saturday, June 21, 2008
http://www.dayofdotnet.org/Lansing

The first annual Lansing Day of .NET is ON!!!

When: June 21, 2008
Where: Lansing Community College

Register HERE

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Come join us to find out what VSTS is, how it can help, and why they built it. Then roll into a "What's New in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Team Foundation Server and the Team System Clients", and dip into "Improving Code Performance with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System". read more ...

Now that the release of Visual Studio 2008 is here, it’s time to look at how these new features will make you more productive. New toys are great, but this talk will teach you how these new features can help you be more productive in your daily development. More importantly, they’ll help you avoid anti-patterns with these new features that will cause your project to take longer, and have more quality issues. read more ...

West Michigan Day of .NET 2008 – Saturday, May 10, 2008
http://www.wmdotnet.org/dodn08

The second annual Michigan Day of .NET is ON!!! – and we’d love for you to be there.

When: May 10, 2008, 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Where: Davenport University (same location as last year)

Register HERE

Note: There will be a 175 person limit for the Day of .NET.

 

The March meeting is sure to be a cool one. Come listen to Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg show off some of Microsoft's coolest recent technologies. read more ...

Ok, so its only the first talk of the year but it should be fun. So, ditch the WF, C# 3.5, LINQ and all the other Business stuff at the door, were going to talk about writing games for your Xbox. In this session were going to talk about XNA, what it is, what you need to get up and running and how to get started writing games for the Xbox360. read more ...

Join Aydin and see how easy it is to read data from a Wii Remote and control either the mouse, or maybe even a remote control helicopter! read more ...

In this session, you will learn about the caching features available in ASP.NET as well as best practices for designing applications with caching in mind and proper code patterns to use for cache access.  read more ...

With Vista, speech recognition goes mainstream. Microsoft's Managed Speech API takes the latest in powerful recognition technologies and joins it with the simplicity of .NET programming to make it easy to add speech capabilities to any application. read more ...

Day of .NET in Ann Arbor is a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers for developers. This event is being offered at no cost to anyone interested in .NET development, and will take place on October 20, 2007 at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI. read more ...

Thanks to SRT Solutions (http://srtsolutions.com/) for providing a venue for Ann Arbor .Net Developers Group. We are moving to their new downtown location here:

206 S. Fifth Avenue
Suite 200
Ann Arbor, MI

Click here to view in google maps

 

Windows Workflow (WF) was introduced as one of the four pillars of .Net 3.0.  WF provides a rich set of tools to embed workflow within your applications.  Sometimes you have to provide more than just a simple workflow though.  Sometimes you have an intricate set of business rules involved that may change quickly over time due to changing laws, industry trends, sales reports or the whim of pointy haired bosses.  read more ...

Inversion of control or IoC is about enforcing isolation. IoC can help you write more maintainable code that is highly decoupled and easy to test. read more ...

Generics in the C# language give you much more than collections. I'll show you a few of the techniques that generics make possible, such as generic methods, generic interfaces, and generic classes for common design patterns. read more ...

Since about 75% of all software developers write applications that make use of databases, managing schema changes in their development, testing, staging and production environments can be overwhelming and very difficult to accomplish.  Up until now the database professional has been left out the development life cycle. read more ...