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• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Crate & Barrel

  Sun, 3 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 22:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Crate & Barrel

  Sun, 6 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 22:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Crate & Barrel

  Sun, 4 Nov 2012, 19:00 - 22:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Angela Dugan (placeholder)

  Sun, 7 Oct 2012, 18:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Crate & Barrel

  Sun, 2 Sep 2012, 18:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Crate & Barrel

  Sun, 5 Aug 2012, 18:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Crate & Barrel

  Sun, 1 Jul 2012, 18:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Dave Black presents Effective Memory Management in .NET.

  Sun, 3 Jun 2012, 17:30 - 20:30 in Hinsdale, United States

  Meet and greet 12:30Pizza and Beverages 12:45Dave Black's Presentation 1:00Abstract:A general introduction to .NET memory management and why you should care about taking on some responsibility yourself.  Its goal is to dispel the myth that you can/should let the garbage collector take care of everything for you.Bio:Dave Black | Box Solutions, Inc. | Owner, .NET Solutions Architect

• Dr. Joe Hummel presents F#.

  Sun, 6 May 2012, 17:30 - 19:30 in Hinsdale, United States

  Software development Community Meeting ScheduleMeet and greet 12:30Pizza and Beverages 12:45Dr. Joe Hummel's Presentation 1:00F# is a programming language that provides support for functional programming in addition to traditional object-oriented and imperative (procedural) programming. The Visual F# product provides support for developing F# applications and extending other .NET Framework applications by using F# code.

• Scott Seely presents "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric"

  18-19 Apr 2012 in Hinsdale, United States

  We are pleased to have Scott Seely join us to lead a discussion and present on "Intro to Windows Azure and Windows Azure Appfabric"Scott Seely Bio:Scott is the founder of Friseton LLC (www.friseton.com) and Scott develops training materials for Pluralsight (www.pluralsight.com). Scott is also a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP in Connected Systems.

• HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Chicago

  11-12 Apr 2012 in Hinsdale, United States

  Come join us for an evening of talks on all things HPC/GPU and an opportunity to network with HPC/GPU enthusiasts.

• Tim Stall presents ALM: Empowering Teams with Automation and Build Servers

  Sun, 1 Apr 2012, 17:30 - 19:30 in Hinsdale, United States

  Software development Community Meeting ScheduleMeet and greet 12:30Pizza and Beverages 1:00Tim Stall's Presentation 1:30ALM tooling: Empowering teams with build servers and metricsEveryone knows that automated builds are a good thing, but many teams don't leverage them fully because it's hard to get started. Tim will go over practical techniques and concepts for automating builds with TFS and MSbuild.

• Corey Miller presents Silverlight 5

  Sun, 4 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash.About Corey Miller:Corey Miller is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) who has been working with Silverlight since version 3.  You can reach him on his xamlmammal blog at www.xamlmammal.com.

• Mobile Device Programming

  Sun, 12 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  Mobile device programming is an area with rapidly evolving technology and marketing opportunities. Will the future be a world of native silos (IOS, Android and Windows)? Will cross-platform technologies undermine the proprietary nature of the mobile OS and put the focus on users and applications? What new classes of applications are now enabled with Verizon and AT&T's LTE networks? Is Flash really dead?

• Jeff Byttow presents RestSharp and WCF REST Services

  Sun, 5 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  AbstractRestSharp is a simple, open source REST client for .NET designed primarily for consuming third-party HTTP APIs.This meetup will focus on how to use RestSharp in the following .NET Applications: *Windows Forms applications *Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications *Silverlight 4 applications *Windows Phone 7 applications *ASP.NET ApplicationsBioJeff Byttow has been programming since 1997.  He currently works for Stericycle in Lake Forest.

• Sergio Pereira presents Advanced jQuery.

  Sun, 8 Jan 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  AbstractYou already know jQuery and you use it to interact with your page elements and easily add Ajax to your project. Well, that's only the meat and potatoes of working with jQuery.It may be time for you to kick it up a notch and add a few more jQuery tricks to your utility belt. Come and see what other features are packed in jQuery that can solve some of your problemsHere's a sampling of what we will look at: *When to create your own plugins *Custom events

• Dr. Joe Hummel presents Async and Parallel Programming in .NET

  Sun, 4 Dec 2011, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hinsdale, United States

  Need to make your apps more responsive? Run faster? On today's multicore hardware, async and parallel programming may be the answer. This talk will introduce the new Task-oriented programming model in .NET 4, discuss its underlying execution, and demonstrate some of the higher-level constructs and patterns supported by the Task Parallel Library. A number of examples will be presented; and if time permits, we'll compare and contrast parallel programming in C# (imperative) vs. F# (functional) vs.

• Scott Seely, MVP will be presenting RPC and REST Services Using WCF

  Sun, 6 Nov 2011, 19:00 - 21:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  Microsoft MVP Scott Seely programming remote services, you have two real options: RPC and REST. Knowing when to use which can be tricky. In this talk, we’ll cover what REST is good for and when to use it. We’ll then dive into the various ways in which a .NET developer can build and consume RESTful services. You will learn how to build services with existing parts provided within .NET as well as how to roll your own.Bio:Scott Seely is the president of Friseton, LLC

• Allan Brown presents dependency injection (DI)

  Sun, 2 Oct 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  Overview of what dependency injection is and the motivations for applying it to existing and new projects. *Increased decoupling to enable maintainability and test-ability. *DI Containers *Different forms of dependency injection and their uses *Constructor injection *Property injection *Method injection *Object composition *Object lifetime *DI pitfallsI will try to include examples, probably using Unity and at least one of the Unity extensions.

• Candi Suriano presents unit testing

  Sun, 11 Sep 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  About unit testing:Candi will present 2 case studies showing the tangible benefits to unit testing. The presentation will include discussions of how to choose a mocking framework, how to unit test legacy code, how to use unit tests when refactoring, and how unit tests can save time & money.About Candi Suriano:Candi Suriano is an Enterprise Architect at Career Education Corporation. She has been working in the software field since 1986 which include 15 years as a university professor.

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Create & Barrel

  Sun, 5 Jun 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Create & Barrel

  Sun, 1 May 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  The Software Development Community (SDC) is pleased to announce that on May, 1st @ 1PM at Microsoft Store - 49 Oak Brook Center Oak Brook, IL, 60523 Faith Peterson will conduct a highly interactive, hands-on, pragmatic presentation on User eXperience (UX):We'll explore Jesse James Garrett's framework for understanding what has to be done to create effective user experiences.We'll look at tools, techniques, and resources anyone can use to improve their user experience practice.

• Microsoft Store (Oakbrook Center), reserved for us. - Next to Create & Barrel

  Sun, 3 Apr 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  The Software Development Community (SDC) is pleased to announce that on April, 3rd at 1PM at Microsoft Store  - 49 Oak Brook Center Oak Brook, IL, 60523 Jeff Byttow will detail how he developed a solution to satisfy a business problem by utilizing the following techniques: *jQuery *Ajax *Dialog Box. *Web Services *AJAX Control Toolkit *FilteredTextBoxExtender *LINQ-to-SQL *One Customer - object *Select via a Generic List.

• SOLID Development Principles & Pizza at the Microsoft Store in Oakbrook

  Sun, 6 Mar 2011, 19:00 - 21:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  The Software Development Community (SDC) is pleased to announce that on March, 6th at 1PM at Microsoft Store - 49 Oak Brook Center Oak Brook, IL, Michael Kappel will conduct a platform agnostic presentation on the general principles of S.O.L.I.D (object-oriented design). Pizza and beverages will be provided free of charge.About SOLID... In computer programming, SOLID (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion)

• Oakbrook Center (Microsoft Store) - Next to Create & Barrel

  Sun, 13 Feb 2011, 19:00 - 21:00 in Oak Brook, United States

  I choose this location because it's pretty easy to get to, they have Wi-Fi, food and an upstairs that's somewhat secluded. If you have any questions, please contact me at (630)362-3686 or ([email protected])

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