4001 Planters Road
Events coming up
Past events
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Fort Smith .NET User Group April Meeting - Tom DuPont - PLINQO: Advanced LINQ to SQL
11-12 Apr 2011 in Fort Smith, United States
In the time that LINQ to SQL has been available, we have been identifying ways to make LINQ to SQL better. We have compiled all of those cool tips and tricks including new features into a set of CodeSmith templates.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group January Meeting - David Mohundro - JavaScript and jQuery
Tue, 11 Jan 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Fort Smith, United States
jQuery is the most widely used client-side framework on the web today. It is "a fast, concise library that simplifies how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add AJAX." It has revolutionized the way that JavaScript is written on the web.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group July Meeting - Todd Anglin - The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML 5
Tue, 13 Jul 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Fort Smith, United States
HTML 5 may take some time to find full support in all major browsers, but you may be surprised to discover how many of HTML 5's features are available today! HTML 5 is the next generation standard for web applications, and it promises to give plug-in based RIAs a serious challenge.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group May Meeting - Dennis Palmer - XML is Everywhere!
10-11 May 2010 in Fort Smith, United States
XML, XHTML, XAML, app.config, web.config, Office Open XML, WiX, RSS, SOAP and sometimes REST. These days it's getting rare to find a software application that does not use some form of XML. It's everywhere! Remember ages ago (back in 2001) when you wrote your own xml parser?
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Fort Smith .NET User Group April Meeting - Shan Pesaru - Usability-Driven Design for Developers
12-13 Apr 2010 in Fort Smith, United States
You've probably heard phrases like "easy to use", "user friendly", and "intuitive". Usability is everywhere around us and the less you notice it the more effective it is.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group November Meeting - Michael Johnson - ASP.NET MVC from Basics to Tip and Tricks
Tue, 10 Nov 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Fort Smith, United States
ASP.NET MVC is a new framework for developing website applications utilizing the model-view-controller pattern. How does it compare to ASP.NET WebForms? There is nothing wrong with ASP.NET WebForms, but ASP.NET MVC allows for clean lightweight code while giving you more control.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group October Meeting - Jimmy Bogard - Testing the Last Mile with UI Testing
12-13 Oct 2009 in Fort Smith, United States
The ASP.NET MVC framework greatly improved the web testability story in .NET, allowing for testing of the various components of MVC including controllers, filters, binders and more. But testing these components in isolation still doesn't prove that your site works as a whole.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group September Meeting – Cory Smith – LINQ - An Average Joe's Guide (or "It's not all about SQL")
14-15 Sep 2009 in Fort Smith, United States
Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) offers developers a new way to query data using strongly-typed queries and strongly-typed results, common across a number of disparate data types including relational databases, .NET objects, and XML.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group August Meeting – Jay Smith - Introduction to Agile Software Development
10-11 Aug 2009 in Fort Smith, United States
In today’s world of software development the challenge of delivering quality value added software quickly and often have brought rise to a new approach in software development. Agile software development is becoming a widely proven and accepted alternative to heavy up front software development.
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Fort Smith .NET User Group July Meeting - Keith Elder - Distributing Cache One Byte at a Time With Velocity
13-14 Jul 2009 in Fort Smith, United States
Have you ever used the built-in caching capabilities within Asp.Net? If you have you know that as long as you have one server to cache information it works really well. What happens though when you add an additional server? Or even better let's say you add an additional 10 servers! Now what?