• The outstanding Walt Ritscher presenting!
• Qdoba Oregon is catering the event!
• Sponsored After Words at the NEW Thirsty Lion Pub & Grill - Tanasbourne!
• Giving away a Xbox One Day One Edition!!!

Pure AWESOME! NOTE: We're meeting in a different venue than normal

Presentation: WPF is the go-to UI tool for building stunning, interactive Windows desktop application. Sure, HTML 5 and Windows Store Apps (aka Metro) get most of the publicity nowadays, but corporate developers across the world are quietly building impressive LOB apps with WPF.

Microsoft implemented a lot of new features in WPF 4.5. Join Walt for an information packed session showcasing many of these improved features. Topics include the new Visual Studio 2013 XAML editor enhancements, threading and collection changes. Live Shaping of bound data, weak events, and data-binding improvements.

Schedule

6:00 p.m. Qdoba Burrito Bar
6:30 p.m. Business and Intro
7:00 p.m. Presentation
8:15 p.m. Swag drawing including the Xbox One
8:45 p.m. After Words at the new Tanasbourne Thirsty Lion
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(Portland Area .NET Users Group)

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

Josh Smith will be giving us a tour of Mole 2010, the new debugging tool he helped create for Visual Studio 2010 users.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 4/5/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Josh Smith Josh is a Microsoft MVP who specializes in creating modern user interfaces with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. He has published dozens of articles about software development, and self-published a book about software architecture titled 'Advanced MVVM.'
Josh is a co-founder of Molosoft LLC (http://www.molosoft.com), creating tools for .NET software developers that help them be more productive and effective at their jobs. Their flagship product is Mole 2010, a debugging tool that enables powerful new techniques for fixing software defects.

TOPIC: Get a guided tour and behind-the-scenes look at the new debugging tool for Visual Studio called Mole 2010. We will not only see how to use Mole 2010 to make .NET debugging easier, but also get some insight into how the tool was built, what the challenges were, and the solutions to those problems. Along the way we will get a taste for what to expect next from Molosoft.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Details to follow, but do you really need to know anything else? I mean really - Karl Shifflett! If you have any interest at all in WPF, I'd show up for this one.

See Karl's blog at http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/

Please join us Wednesday night for the PADNUG August meet-up! Note again that the meeting is on Wednesday night.

Scott Hanselman will be presenting on the NuGet package management system.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Wednesday 8/3/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager Lead in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET http://www.asp.net/. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

TOPIC: NuGet In Depth: Empowering Open Source on the .NET Platform Join Scott Hanselman as he digs deep into the new open source NuGet package management system. How does NuGet fit into the .NET ecosystem? Learn how to create your own packages that are public and open source or internal ones for the enterprise. By the way, NuGet is an open source project hosted on Mercurial. Microsoft is starting to get serious about open source. We’ll talk about how and why. All this plus random Q&A.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us Thursday night for the PADNUG May meet-up! It's a week early, so yes, it is not really in May. Also note again that the meeting is on Thursday night.

Dan Wahlin will be giving us the low down on jQuery Templates and how you can use them to make your HTML 5 apps even more awesome.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Thursday 4/28/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO:

Dan Wahlin founded The Wahlin Group (http://www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in .NET, Silverlight and SharePoint consulting as well as onsite and online training solutions. He has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and Silverlight and is a Microsoft Regional Director. Dan is on the INETA Speaker's Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and has written several books on .NET such as Professional Silverlight Development, Professional ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVP Hacks and Tips and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin and writes regular columns for various technical magazines such as DevConnectionsPro and Dr. Dobbs.

TOPIC: Using jQuery Templates in HTML 5 Applications

It’s no secret that jQuery provides a productive and fun way to build client-centric Web applications, but there’s a new player in town called jQuery Templates that takes jQuery to a whole new level and makes building dynamic HTML 5 applications even easier. In this session, Dan Wahlin will discuss how to use jQuery Templates and show how they can be used to significantly reduce the amount of JavaScript code that has to be written (and make your apps more maintainable in the process). In this session you’ll learn about template tokens, how to handle conditionals and loops, and how templates can be dynamically downloaded and rendered.

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Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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

This month, Patrick Cauldwell will be presenting on Mercurial.

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

WHEN: Tuesday 11/1/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Patrick Cauldwell is a Senior Software developer/architect at WebMD, specializing in the design and development of scalable, modular internet applications. He is an experienced trainer and presenter on software and related topics, as well as a Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of experience on Agile software projects.

TOPIC: Many organizations are moving toward distributed source control systems such are Mercurial and git. These systems use a model that is radically different from more "conventional" systems like SVN or TFS. We'll look at how Mercurial works, how it's different, and some best practices that can be applied to make working with Mercurial easier and more productive.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

Please join us for Paul’s talk on WPF data binding!

WHEN: Tuesday 9/7/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Ascentium) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at TBD

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHO: Paul Sheriff Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (http://www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangelist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at [email protected] or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).

TOPIC: WPF Data Binding from A to Z There are many ways to bind controls in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to the data from your database, xml files or your own classes. This seminar will explore many ways to retrieve and present data using data binding. You will see examples of loading data into combo boxes, list views, and how to filter data using the ObjectDataProvider. You will learn how to populate WPF controls using a DataTable, Collection Classes, XML, LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework. In addition a simple add, edit, delete form will be presented.

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

Michael Kennedy will be presenting on asynchronous programming futures for .NET: This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.

WHERE: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 Map: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg

WHEN: Tuesday 9/6/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Michael is an instructor for DevelopMentor, a .NET enthusiast, an agile pioneer, an entrepreneur, a father of three girls, a husband, a student, and a teacher. His blog is at http://www.michaelckennedy.net/blog.

TOPIC: This session will take a peek into the future and examine some of the features proposed for C# 5.0. This includes studying async methods which are part of C# 5.0 and build on the PFx Task library. We will also briefly look at the PFx Task libraries to gain the necessary background for working with the new language features. Note that Visual Basic 11 will also have these identical features so in essence we'll be covering VB 11 as well.

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Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator