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Events coming up

Past events

• Real-time Web Messaging with SignalR

  Wed, 8 May 2013, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  In the modern web, real-time asynchronous messaging between client and server lets you provide a more seamless experience to your users, increase your application performance, and reduce your server load.

• ASP.NET Web API

  Wed, 13 Mar 2013, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  Join us at Midlands Tech NE Campus Auditorium for practical lessons in ASP.NET Web API by Derick Whitaker.

• Being the Swiss Army Knife of DB Pros

  Wed, 13 Jun 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  Being a specialist means you're really, really good at one thing. Being a generalist means you're good at a a lot of different things. The generalist has an advantage over the specialist because he or she can see and solve problems the specialists can't.

• Building Applications for Windows 8 with HTML5

  Wed, 9 May 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  Because the new programming model for building compelling, connected, native apps that harness the full power of the PC will allow HTML5 and JavaScript developers to use what they already know.

• Introducing the ASP.NET Web API

  Wed, 11 Apr 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  Microsoft likes big stacks! Look at Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or, better yet, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). With either of these "foundations", you start out a noob and you come out the other side a freak'in Ph.D in Quantum Physics. It doesn't have to be that hard!

• Data Mining with Excel 2010 and PowerPivot

  Wed, 11 Jan 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  Excel 2010 provides a world-class platform for enterprise decision making. This presentation introduces the decision-making ability possible with the free Excel add-ins for PowerPivot and SQL Server Data Mining.

• Behavior Driven Development Options for .NET

  Wed, 12 Oct 2011, 18:00 - 20:30 in Columbia, United States

  Behavior Driven Development draws some inspiration from Test Driven Development. Given some recent tooling contributed both by corporations and open source developers, BDD has gained ground as a viable methodology and is fast becoming one of the more promising approaches in the Agile toolbox.

• High Level Shader Language in XNA Game Studio 4.0

  9-10 Mar 2011 in Columbia, United States

  The High Level Shader Language (HLSL) is the language used to talk directly to the machine's graphics card / Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). It is like C in syntax and has a couple of nuances. We will discuss how to pass data from your game to the shader.

• Asynchronous Programming, Then and Now

  9-10 Feb 2011 in Columbia, United States

  In this session we will look at some of the evolution of asynchronous programming and how techniques have changed as new features are added to .NET. We will first start off at looking at event based asynchronous programming then graduate to callback based asynchronous programming and finally we will

• PowerShell for Developers

  12-13 Jan 2011 in Columbia, United States

  PowerShell is the new sonic screwdriver for system administrators - it's focus on discoverable functionality makes it easy to learn and use. However, it's extensibility makes it a great platform for a software developer to build dynamic tools and flexible applications.