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Welcome to the South Sound .NET Portal
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Welcome to the South Sound User's Group DotNet Portal. Our user group was founded in December of 2000 to facilitate local area knowledge transfer about .NET tools, technologies, and development resources. This site was built, sponsored and hosted by Soundex Information Systems, Inc. as a community service. |
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General Information
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| About Us...The South Sound .NET User Group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month (with a few noted exceptions) at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW in downtown Olympia. Register your email address with this site to receive a monthly newsletter, meeting notices, and general announcements. We also have a local community discussion group at http://communities.msn.com/ssdotnet
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| Meeting Dates for 2008 (7:00 to 9:00 PM)Jan 10, Feb 15, Mar 13, Apr 10, May 8, Jun 12, July 10, Aug 14, Sep 11, Oct 9, Nov 13, Dec 11.
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Upcoming Events
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| May 20-21, IPMA Forum 2008"Where Government and Technology Meet"
Tuesday-Wednesday, May 20-21, 2008
Saint Martin's University, Lacey, WA
All Forum activities are FREE and OPEN to the public! Please plan to join us! Pre-register now!
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| Devscovery Redmond 2008Don't miss the annual Devscovery conference in Redmond August 19 through the 21, 2008. Because Wintellect is one of our user group sponsors, I've arranged for our members to receive $150 off on the conference admission! As this discount is only for our user group members and their current employers, please send me an email to get the private discount code before registering. 
D E V S C O V E R Y 2008 Designed with the intermediate to advanced developer in mind, Devscovery is three days of in-depth .NET content in the Microsoft Conference Center on the Redmond campus for just $900. Choose from more than 30 sessions by Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, John Robbins, Paul Mehner, Dennis Hurst and Richard Hundhausen. Learn about Atlas, Windows Communication Foundation, Security, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio Team System, Windows Workflow Foundation, advanced debugging, the Framework, and more! Space is limited. Register today at www.devscovery.com View the full conference schedule at http://www.devscovery.com/overview.aspx
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South Sound .NET Bloggers
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Chris Bilson
Git Pipelines |
When I was a younger programmer I had the privilege of working in a few places where
we had really tight development processes: Daily Builds (before CI was widely known),
test suites (like perl make test type stuff - before TDD became popular) and tools
to help do common things in our proces... | | 5/15/2008 9:07:50 PM |
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Chris Bilson
Drop Dead Simple Podcast Client |
I am sick and tired of trying to find a really good podcast client. iTunes has the
best "reach" but itunes sucks in every other respect (I love it when I shift
click a bunch of things while iTunes is thinking real hard about something for 30
seconds, then I release shift, and iTune... | | 5/15/2008 8:56:42 PM |
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Camey Combs
comment spam sucks | | I know there are ways to deal with comment spam, but I haven't had the time to put them into... | | 5/15/2008 3:05:59 PM |
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Charlie Poole
NUnit 2.5 Alpha 2 Released | | With a European trip about to start, I decided to release a second Alpha so that the new stuff would get some visibility. I won’t be doing another release till late June, so please give this one a try.
As compared to 2.4, NUnit 2.5 has quite a lot:
Data-driven tests using [TestCase] and [Data... | | 5/8/2008 2:02:26 PM |
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Charlie Poole
A Simple NUnit Usage Recipe | | Scott White has a blog about NUnit Best Practices. The approach may require adjustment on more complex projects, but it’s a very simple recipe for those starting out with NUnit.
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Paul Mehner
National Day of Prayer Geek Style | What did you pray for on our “National Day of Prayer” (May 1, 2008)? I prayed for a world in which CPU’s would be free to get their work done with optimal saturation... | | 5/1/2008 11:22:55 PM |
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Paul Mehner from Wintellog
Vista SP1 for my 64-bit OS has fallen and it can’t get up! | Vista SP1 for the 64-bit version of the OS has fallen on my computer, and it can’t get up! I’ve been without my primary computer now for several days due to the release of SP1 for Vista. The symptom is an infinite loop of inst... | | 4/29/2008 12:15:00 AM |
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Mike Clark
Tems | TEMS is the replacement to the Travel Voucher System (TVS).
We hope you will find this new system to be of great value in accomplishing your duties!
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Mike Clark
Hashing It Up |
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The South Sound DotNet Users Group is proud to be a Charter Member of the International .NET Association |
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Upcoming Meetings
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| Thu. May 8th 7:00-9:00 / Robert GreenData Enhancements in Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2008 offers a number of features that make it easier to build both 2-tier and n-tier data applications. This session will cover the following: • Using the new TableAdapterManager to manage updating of related table. No more having to write the code make sure child rows are deleted before parent rows. Now, it’s automatic. • Using ADO.NET Synchronization Services to maintain a local copy of data that doesn’t change often, such as lookup tables, and then synching that data with the server version. • Automatically separate DataSet code from TableAdapter code. Today, you must do this by hand if you want to use the DataSet Designer and build an n-tier application. Or you can have VS 2008 do it for you. • LINQ to SQL classes and the Object Relational Designer. The LINQ to SQL classes provide a way to map a database model to an object model. You can write the code yourself, or you can use the Object Relation Designer and drag and drop tables and stored procedures from the Server Explorer.
Speaker Bio
Robert Green is a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Tools for Office. Along with Ken Getz, Robert has co-authored AppDev’s Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and Windows Workflow Foundation courseware, and appears in the video training for these courses, as well. Robert is a member of the INETA Speaker Bureau and has been a frequent speaker at technology conferences. Before joining MCW, Robert worked at Microsoft for 8 years, as a Program Manager on the Visual Basic product team and as a Product Manager for Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Visual Studio Tools for Office and Visual FoxPro.
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| June 12th / Silverlight 2.0 with Erik MorkErik Mork is a Silverlight consultant out of the Portland area and a Principal at Silver Bay Labs. He and his wife produce Silverlight podcast show called Sparkling Client.
Erik presented on Silverlight 1.0 in July of 2007. He returns to give us a look at the new Silverlight, version 2.0, just released in Beta in conjunction with MIX08.
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| Sept. 11th / Microsoft RoboticsJason Olson and Marc Mercuri are coming to Olympia to tell us about Robochamps and other cool stuff coming out of the Microsoft Robotics group. Hopefully, they'll be bringing robots to demo for us. Get the word out, this should be fun.
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| October 9th, Stuart Celarier brings a Whirlwind Tour of C# 2.0 and 3.0 - The New More details upcoming. Stuart is a regular at Code Camps and has presented multiple times for us here in Olympia.
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