December 2006 - Posts

• Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Launch - Seats still available!

  Woo Hoo!!  This Friday, December 8th, will be the Launch Date in South Florida for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Come learn how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals improves collaboration across the full development team and increases application quality with better control over database changes and automated database testing. This ½ day event covers managing change and automating testing, as well as an open panel Ask the Experts discussion, of which I will be participating in .  Some of the other sessions will include: Top Ten Features of Exchange 2007 - 2pm to 3pm Paul George reveals his top ten features of Exchange 2007 and discusses why you should be deploying this latest messaging system.  Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Workflow Foundation (WF) Overview - 3pm to 4pm  Ken Spencer and Billy Hollis give you a demo laden overview that is geared toward the Developer and IT Pro.  Their presentation walks you through how to create a simple workflow and WCF component. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and SharePoint 2007 - 4pm to 6pm Tim Huckaby shows off a flagship application that his company developed for the Scripps cancer researchers utilizing WPF and SharePoint 2007.  This unique application uses WPF as a front end and SharePoint 2007 as a back end.  You'll be seeing how researchers spin cancer molecules within a WPF window and deliver the results through SharePoint 2007.  Way cool!!!!  Ask the Experts (ATE) The following SoFla community leaders have agreed to act as Expert Subject Matter references during the event.  They'll be identifiable by their ATE name badges, so simply pick one of them out and ask whatever question you have regarding Microsoft technologies.  They will be able to answer your question or point you in the right direction. You will also find some of the legends in our field, including Tim Huckaby, Ken Spencer and Billy Hollis, Famous Authors, Speakers and Regional Director Ambassadors. Register today at http://www.teams-deliver.com/  There are still some seats open at the time of this writing, but probably not for long.   Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Posted Dec 07 2006, 03:18 PM by DavidSilverlight with 4 comment(s)

• XNA Game Studio Express UG Meeting

  Imagine building your own games for the XBox 360 using the .NET Framework.  If this excites you, this is your lucky day.  This upcoming December 12th, Russ Fustino of Microsoft will be presenting on that very topic, XNA Game Studio Express.    It will be an introductory session on XNA Game Studio Express, which consists of a set of tools based on Visual C# Express that allows students, hobbyists and gamers to build games that target both Windows and XBox 360.  In this session, Russ will be showing off the following aspects of the XNA Game Studio Express: The XNA Framework. You will see a set of managed code development libraries based on the .NET Framework 2.0 which will allow game developers to be more productive when creating games for Windows and the Xbox 360. The XNA Framework allows game developers to create modern games using the C# programming language and a rich set of development libraries. The XNA Framework Content Pipeline. The XNA Framework provides its own content pipeline to make it easy to get rich content (3D, 2D, sound, etc.) from content creation sources into a game. The XNA Framework also provides a very high level of API unification across the Windows and Xbox 360 implementations, thus virtually eliminating the cost and effort required to port games between these two platforms. Game Studio Express also contains a full set of documentation, how-to’s and starter-kits that demonstrate how best to utilize the content pipeline and XNA Framework. See a live demonstration of how to get started and build a game from scratch. If you have not a chance to Attend one of Russ's presentations, I highly recommend it.  Russ always gives phenominal, highly entertaining presentations that cover very relevant topics to our fellow developers.  Here is some additional information on the topic he will be presenting on the 12th. Details and Directions to the meeting: http://www.fladotnet.com/reg.aspx?EventID=226 DirectX Developer Center: XNA Game Studio XNA Video Montage showing some of the cool things that you can do: Not to be missed! Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Posted Dec 07 2006, 03:00 PM by DavidSilverlight with 4 comment(s)