Microsoft London (Cardinal Place)

Events coming up

Past events

• Edge UG January: SOLID & SharePoint 2010

  Wed, 20 Jan 2010, 18:00 - 21:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  This month we're kicking off 2010 in style!2009 saw the mainstream emergence of best practice development techniques such as Dependency Injection, the Single Responsibility Principle, DRY and many others. When Edge UG members were polled as to what they wanted to hear about in 2010 best practice techniques were at the very top of the list.

• Edge UG: November 18th

  Wed, 18 Nov 2009, 18:00 - 21:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  For this, the last Edge UG event of the year we bring you two great speakers.First up: Eric Nelson joins us to discuss SQL Azure - Microsoft's Database platform on the Cloud. Want to learn some compelling reasons to put your data in the cloud? Want to know the limitations of using SQL Azure over a local SQL Server? Then this event is for you.SQL Server 2008 R2 was released as a Community Technology Preview this month.

• Edge UG: Internet Explorer Event

  Wed, 4 Nov 2009, 18:00 - 21:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  The month of November brings us 2 great events, the first of which is a visit from Giorgio Sardo an Internet Explorer Evangelist from Microsoft Corp in RedmondInternet Explorer isn't just about the browser itself but covers other related technologies such as HTML 5 and other web standards, Microsoft Expression Web, Super Preview and gadgets such as IE8 Accelerators.Come along on Wed 4th November to find out more about the Internet Explorer of today and it's road map going forward.

• Edge UG - October Event

  Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 18:00 - 21:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  After a cracking inaugural EdgeUG event last month we follow that up with two more high quality content talks.Opening the night will be Richard Hopton speaking to us to Introduce Test Driven Development. That talk is followed by Russ Kirk who is here to present to everyone on Microsoft Unified Communications and what it can do for you.Agenda:18:00 - 18:30 Meet and Greet/Networking18:30 - 19:30 Richard Hopton - TDD.19:30 - 20:15 Pizza!

• The Inaugural Edge UG

  Wed, 16 Sep 2009, 18:00 - 21:15 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  The first Edge UG meeting is going to be a cracker!  Jon Skeet will be speaking on  Code Contracts and Parallel Extensions.This will be followed by  Liam Westley on a fantastic talk on Hyper-V. The presentation provides an overview of Hyper-V Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V, tools that you can install to help you out, how snapshots work and finally automation of Hyper-V using the PowerShell library for Hyper-V.Agenda:18:00 - 18:30 Meet and Greet/Networking

• Vista Squad: August Event

  Wed, 19 Aug 2009, 18:00 - 21:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  This month's Vista Squad brings us an introduction to .Net RIA Services and an Introduction to PRISM from Vista Squad's very own Ian Smith. This will be followed by | Sebastian Lambla - returning to Vista Squad to present "When Agile goes bad" - a presentation aimed at trying to help us avoid some of the common challenges of Agile project management.

• Vista Squad - July Event

  Wed, 15 Jul 2009, 18:00 - 21:00 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  The second of this month's Vista Squad event see's us return to our regular format in Cardinal Place. This month C# MVP Ben Hall will be dropping in to talk to us about IronRuby and the DLR. Following that Sarah Atter will be presenting to us on the features of Windows 7 that make it so attractive to Enterprise organisations. Agenda 6pm - 6.30pm: Arrive and introductions 6.30pm - 7:15pm: Ben Hall on IronRuby7.15pm - 8:15: Break, food and drinksÂ

• UKAzure Net Inuagural Meeting

  Tue, 19 May 2009, 18:15 - 21:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  Our first true user group meeting as UKAzure Net.  After our fantastic Windows Azure Update hosted by Microsoft, we hope to continue the momentum with this first community event.  The agenda is below and will be finalised once our speakers are confirmed. Stay tuned! Agenda 6:15 - 6:30 Arrive6:30 - 7:30 First Speaker Slot7:30 - 8:15 Break with food and drinks8:15 - 9:15 Second Speaker Slot9:15 - 9:30 Wrap Up!

• Windows Azure Update

  Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 18:15 - 20:30 in Westminster, United Kingdom

  We would like to invite you to a session titled ?Windows Azure Update, What it is & What it isn?t? including a Q&A session with 3 x members of the Azure team from Microsoft Corp along with a session that introduces ?UK AzureNET? which is the name of what we hope evolves into UK Azure User Group / community! Please see agenda below along with speakers bio and registration details below:- Agenda 6.15pm - 6.30pm Arrive and Registration 6.30pm - 7:30pm Azure Update ?What it is &a...