This month we have a special guest, Geoff Dalgas of StackOverflow.com, giving us a presentation on ASP.NET MVC! StackOverflow.com was built from the ground up on ASP.NET MVC and is currently used by thousands of developers from around the world!

Geoff will be showing how StackOverflow.com uses ASP.NET MVC, as well as how to create a brand new simple Q/A site using MVC. Have questions about ASP.NET MVC? Want to get started using ASP.NET MVC? Come to the January Covallis .NET Users Group Meeting!

Thanks to our sponsor: Business Solutions Group, OSU (http://bsg.oregonstate.edu/)

Time/Place:

Thursday, January 22th, 2009 @ 6:00 PM

Location: OSU - Kelly Engineering Center, Room 1003

RSVP here!

(Or you can email: [email protected] (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

6:00 - 6:30: Networking Opportunities & Dinner

6:30 - 7:30: "ASP.NET MVC", Geoff Dalgas, StackOverflow.com

7:30 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

7:45 - 8:00: Giveaways: Books and cool stuff!

Please forward this to any other .NET professionals that may be interested!

David Knape will be at Fashionbuddha Friday night to discuss his Bumpslide App Template. The app template is part of his open-source Bumpslide Library and will be used as a launchpad for discussion of the Model-View-Controller pattern for Flash application development.

The goal is a relaxed talk where we can discuss the basics of why and how to separate application state from view components while touching upon some more advanced topics including data binding and the command pattern.

We’ll also talk about general coding best practices and how the app template relates to some of the other frameworks that are currently floating around the web including PureMVC, Cairngorm, Gaia, and this thing called Flex. Don’t be scared. There will be beer.

This presentation will be broadcast live at: http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/flashpdx

Please join us Tuesday night for the PADNUG May meet-up!

This month, Kathleen Dollard will be presenting on MVC extensibility with MEF.

WHERE: Intel Hawthorne Farms 3 (HF3) 5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://binged.it/IntelHF3Map

WHEN: Tuesday 5/8/2012 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Kathleen Dollard is Technical Evangelist for Digital Folio. She has been a Microsoft MVP since 1998 and has given hundreds of speeches around the world. She has worked extensively with compositional architectures in relation to specific development platforms. Her experience includes HTML5/Javascript, Silverlight, and WPF in both C# and Visual Basic. She’s interested in making core .NET technologies available to all coders to enable them to write better software faster. Her newest adventures include Windows Azure and SQL Azure. Kathleen is also a long-time advocate of generative techniques and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies. Kathleen is active in the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, the Denver Visual Studio User Group, and the Northern Colorado Architect's Group. Twitter: @kathleendollard | Website: http://msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen

TOPIC: MEF offers a great tool for composition and MVC offers an extensibility model designed for composition. Combining these two demonstrates a great composition design with nearly unlimited flexibility conditionally exposed as you need more features within MVC. You’ll learn how to use dependency injection (DI) to componentize tasks following single responsibility principle for more robust and testable applications. You’ll see how MVC uses custom model binders, value providers, validators, and filters. You’ll see these techniques used to pull almost all code out of the website project, giving you full flexibility in how you organize your website’s code. You’ll also see generic base classes that allow extensive reuse of controller logic and reuse of page elements. This challenging talk offers something for everyone – deeper insight into composed systems using DI, details about MVC internals, and some serious MEF examples.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator