Welcome to the Lake County .NET Users' Group located in Northern Illinois!
Meetings
We meet from 7-9 PM on the last Thursday of the month at the College of Lake County
in Grayslake, Illinois. For June 2008 through October 2008, we will meet in the
Technology Building in room T326-328. The room holds 100 people. Please register
before each meeting. If you don't register, we may have to ask you to leave. We
cannot exceed 100 bodies due to fire codes.
Next meeting: June 26, 2008, 7 PM. Topic: Windows Workflow Foundation Primer
Scott Seely will be presenting on
Windows Workflow Foundation. The talk will stay at a beginner level. Scott
will cover what WF is, what features it contains, and what types of projects could
benefit from WF.
Speaker bio:
Scott Seely has been working with Microsoft tools and technologies for a long time.
He is the author of several books, including two on Web Services and one on Windows
Shell Programming. Scott worked for Microsoft in Redmond from 2000 through 2006
as a member of MSDN, Windows Communication Foundation, and as part of the Microsoft
Transactions team. Since arriving in Chicago-land in 2006, he has worked as an Enterprise
Architect at various locations in Cook and Lake counties.
July Meeting: July 31, 2008, 6:30 PM. Topics: Silverlight and SQL Server
Pizza and soda will be provided at 6:30. Talks start at 7:00.
Silverlight abstract: Silverlight is a new Microsoft technology to radically enhance
the UI experience. Silverlight provides several huge benefits, like a vector-graphics
API, programming in a compiled .Net language (like C# or VB), a rich object model,
and finally solving the cross-browser problem. We will provide a general overview
of Silverlight, with an emphasis on common gotchas and where to learn more.
Speaker Bio:
Tim Stall is a Software Architect at Paylocity. He has a MCAD.Net, has written several
articles for .Net Developer's Journal and online journals, has presented to the
Chicago .Net User’s Group, and has created two open-source projects on CodePlex.
One of those projects was Silverlight TruckWars (created in 1.1 Alpha, and migrated
to the 2.0 Beta 1.0), a real-time strategy game which is open-sourced on CodePlex
and listed in the Silverlight Gallery. Tim has been fascinated with Silverlight
since its 1.1 Alpha release back in 2007. He blogs at http://timstall.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com.
SQL Server Abstract: Querying Hierarchies in SQL Server Hierarchical schemas can
be a very powerful tool, but can cause real headaches. Thankfully, there are a number
of methods to effectively manage that data and use it in your applications! Using
a typical solution to populate a tree view control with organizational data, we’ll
go beyond the usual lazy loading techniques to see how other options can improve
performance.
Speaker Bio:
Jeff Zuerlein is a senior developer with Dell, where he designs and builds applications
focused on e-commerce, and electronic content delivery. He previously spent seven
years in the legal sector, building line of business applications to streamline
the operations of a law firm. Jeff has been a member of the “Professional Association
for SQL Server” since 2001. When he’s not extolling the virtues of .Net and SQL
Server, you can find him chasing after his two year old son, or tinkering with his
espresso machine.
