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Sunday
Jan 31, 2010
Silverlight Hackathon

Silverlight Hackathon - Sunday Jan 31st 1pm-5:55pm Event Sponsors: IT Motives, Get It Right, Souk

We've got a great place to hang out, and the Silverlight Hackathon is a go! Meet us downtown at Souk, and we're going to have a great day of working on Silverlight. We've had some great project suggestions, and we'll break down into groups and work on projects that we find fun. Are you new to Silverlight? This is a great chance to get started. We've already had several people offer to help beginners out.

RSVPs not necessary Still, if you have 5 seconds, let us know you're coming by clicking on this poll: Hackathon RSVP Poll

FAQ/Wiki Want to know how to prepare your system for Silverlight? Want to arrange a project? Go to the Hackathon Wiki

Where? Souk downtown (http://local.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=322+NW+6th+Avenue,+Portland,+OR&ie=UTF8&om=1&hq=&hnear=322+NW+6th+Ave,+Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon+97209&ll=45.525532,-122.676194&spn=0.010809,0.028818&z=16&iwloc=A ). It's super close to all kinds of Bus/Max stops, and there's a easy Smart Park close. Since it's Sunday, I expect there will even be street parking options.

Souk's direction page: http://www.soukllc.com/directions.html Public Transportation souk is located on the Max Green Line/Yellow Line (China Town Stop) and the bus route. The nearby streetcar also accesses souk a few blocks away. Consult www.trimet.org for more information. By Bike Bike lockers are within a couple blocks, and U bike racks are available on souk's block. By Car Zipcar's closest spot is at Flanders and 4th. The closest garage is on Everett at 5 th one block away. Smartpark has garages within a few blocks at Naito and NW Davis and at Station Place (at the westside foot of the Broadway Bridge). Additionally, there are several outdoor lots within a few blocks of souk.

What do I need? A laptop capable of running Dev Studio/Silverlight: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd823311.aspx

What can I do to help? Burn some CD/DVDs. We need SL3 Tools + Blend/Dev Express, SL 4 Tools and Blend/Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. Bring a (labelled) extension cord/power strip Bring a projector (please let us know if you can do this)

Portland Silverlight User Group Sponsors Platinum Sponsors: Vertigo Software Location Sponsors: Webtrends

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Tuesday
Dec 8, 2009
Portland Silverlight User Group Kickoff
Fiserv Cafe

This is the first meeting of the Portland Silverlight User Group - our keynote speaker will be Vertigo (www.vertigo.com) CEO Scott Stanfield. At its core, Vertigo is a group of developers and designers working closely together to create amazing user experiences.

Scott will discuss how Vertigo uses Silverlight, Blend, SketchFlow and a handful of development techniques (“Blendability”, MVVM and View State Manager) to enable our design and development teams to move quickly and build great apps like the Winter Olympics (http://www.vertigo.com/Olympics.aspx), Sunday Night Football (http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/26393211/), and Hard Rock International (http://www.vertigo.com/hardrock.aspx).

If you’re an interaction designer, you’ll see what’s possible with Silverlight. If you’re a developer, you’ll learn better techniques to enable the designers to dial-in the fidelity they want. Or if you're just plain curious, please join us!

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Tuesday
Nov 1, 2011
PADNUG November Meeting
Intel Hawthorn Farms 3 (HF3) Campus

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.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad, inc. Technology Consulting | Engineering | Project Management http://www.azad.com/

Cinetopia Why watch a movie in coach when you can see it in first class? http://www.cinetopia.com/

Infragistics Design / Develop / Experience http://www.infragistics.com/

Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/

O'Reilly Spreading the knowledge of innovators. http://www.oreilly.com/

VanderHouwen & Associates, Inc. VHA specializes in the placement of Software Developers. http://www.vanderhouwen.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Tuesday
Aug 10, 2010
PDX Silverlight: Developer/Designer Workflow - Adam Kinney and Karl Shifflett
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

Adam Kinney and Karl Shifflett talk about developer/designer workflow in WPF and Silverlight When: 8/10/2010 6:00pm Where: Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium 2501 NW 229th Avenue Hillsboro, OR 97124 http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?org=aj#/fotw1o04svrqm3xg This is not our normal location

What we're giving away: cool stuff AND a copy of MSDN Ultimate worth approximately $200,000 AND some Website Spark subscriptions ** - assumes you use the MSDN subscription to start your own company and write something awesome. * - worth $100,000

Topic: Building toolable Silverlight applications that enable the designer developer workflow Warning: We won’t be 20 seconds into this session before mashing the gas pedal to the floor. After looking at the XAML tools Blend & Cider, we’ll dive deep into toolable application design. Toolable applications not only enhance the initial development experience but also provide benefits to long term application maintenance. An additional benefit is the enabling of the designer developer workflow. See the two roles played out in the presentation as they collaborate without clobbering each other.

Speakers Karl Shifflett is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on the WPF and Silverlight Designer since August of 2008. Before Microsoft, Karl was a software architect, former Microsoft MVP and Code Project MVP. He has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF fanatics & evangelists. He is a member of Team Mole that delivered the Mole Visualizer for Visual Studio to the world. He is the author of the very popular XAML Power Toys; loves WPF and Silverlight LOB and is developing a passion for Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET MCV. You can read his blog at: http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/.

Adam Kinney is a creative developer with a strong focus on UI technologies including HTML, CSS, Canvas, Processing, Flash, WPF and Silverlight. He enjoys working in the space between design and development teams enabling the best results from both sides. Having spent the last five years as an Evangelist for Microsoft, Adam also enjoys sharing his knowledge and helping others learn new UI technologies and tools. Recently leaving Microsoft, he is currently working on a variety of interesting projects and experiments with the crew at Pixel Lab and posting tutorials on his personal site:http://adamkinney.com.

Sponsors

Vertigo - Vertigo is an award-winning design and development firm that uses the latest Microsoft technologies to redefine the user experience for the Web, mobile and multi-touch environments. Vertigo develops rich media solutions such as Silverlight Deep Zoom image galleries, HD on-demand and live-streaming videos and social media integration. Webtrends - Webtrends helps you turn the data generated by your web site, blogs, online campaigns and enterprise systems into understanding of your customers and business opportunity. Intel - They make cool stuff.

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Tuesday
Dec 14, 2010
PADNUG December Extravaganza
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

Please join us for a terrific combo meeting with PADNUG and PDXSLUG both in the house!

We're starting just a little bit early to allow folks more time to mix and play before the presentations begin.

There will be a couple of Kinect equipped Xboxes set up so we can play before the meeting and between sessions. We have some OUTSTANDING swag, too: A Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN license - with a retail value of almost $12,000 - AND we'll give away a copy of NetAdvantage Ultimate from Infragistics!!

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 12/14/2010 5:30 p.m. Burrito Bar AND Kinect Gaming (by Microsoft) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Mithun Dhar, Ryan Eastabrook, Erik Mork, Kelly White

TOPIC: Getting the Most from SharePoint 2010 Mithun will share some of the latest details on developing SharePoint solutions with the latest versions of SharePoint and Visual Studio.

ASP.NET MVC, Razor, and NuGet Ryan will demonstrate the latest bits shown off at the Microsoft PDC 2010.

Silverlight Version 5 Following on the heels of the Silverlight Firestarter event last week, Erik and Kelly will give the latest details about the new features.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/ ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com/rdirects/NEW_padnug_hostby.asp O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Tuesday
Feb 1, 2011
PADNUG February Meeting
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

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

Chris Tavares will be presenting on CQRS and Windows Azure: A scalable architecture for the Cloud

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 2/1/2011 6:00 p.m. Pizza 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~8:30 p.m. After Words at On the Border Mexican Grill

WHO: Chris Tavares Chris is a Software Development Engineer in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group. He has helped develop Enterprise Library and the Unity dependency injection container. You can read more about Chris in his blog: http://www.tavaresstudios.com/Blog/default.aspx

TOPIC:

CQRS and Windows Azure: A scalable architecture for the Cloud

CQRS. A confusing jumble of letters? Well, yes. CQRS stands for "Command Query Responsibility Segregation", and is an architectural pattern which is rapidly gaining popularity. It offers clear guidance on how to build highly scalable systems that embrace asynchronous operations.

In this talk we'll look at what CQRS is, how it lives up to the promises, and what kinds of systems would benefit from this approach. And then we’ll take the pattern and see what it takes to implement on top of Windows Azure.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Tuesday
Apr 5, 2011
PADNUG April Meeting (Portland Area .NET Users Group)
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

(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.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com ORCS Web - http://www.orcsweb.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Thursday
Apr 28, 2011
PADNUG May Meeting
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

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.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Wednesday
Aug 3, 2011
PADNUG August Meeting
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

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.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com Cinetopia - http://www.cinetopia.com Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Tuesday
Sep 6, 2011
PADNUG: Asynchronous Programming Futures for .NET (C# 5 / VB 11)
Intel Ronler Acres RA1 Auditorium

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.

Thanks to our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

azad - http://www.azad.com http://www.azad.com/ http://www.azad.com/ Cinetopia - http://www.cinetopia.com http://www.cinetopia.com/ Infragistics - http://www.infragistics.com http://www.infragistics.com/ http://www.infragistics.com/ Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com http://www.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Cheers, Jesse PADNUG Outreach Coordinator

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Tuesday
Apr 6, 2010
MIX10 discussion
Microsoft Portland

MIX10 last month had a plethora of amazing announcements for the .NET world, including Windows Phone 7 development with Silverlight and XNA, Internet Explorer 9 with support for HTML5, the Open Data Protocol (OData), new developments with Windows Azure, and more. Come check out the latest and greatest with plenty of demos!

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Thursday
Sep 30, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed - Training and Hackathon
Microsoft Portland

Registration Required! It's a BYOL event.

Windows Phone 7 is about to be released! Come check out Windows Phone 7 Unleashed for everything you need to know to develop for WP7. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or you’re just starting with .NET development, there’s something in it for you.

The first half of this deep dive event is lecture and hands on lab. At the half point mark of the day, you’ll have a solid foundation for building WP7 applications.

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Monday
Apr 18, 2011
Windows Phone 7 Hackathon
Microsoft Portland Office (Pearl District)

This event is follow-on from the Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Events that were held last fall. The format is less structured, and more hands-on. Whether you need help developing, architecting, pricing, integrating ads, or are just getting started, this is the place to be. Our primary goal is to help you get your app ready and submitted to the marketplace. We’re happy to share lessons learned from our own experiences (e.g. Alchemy and Soak Your Head). If you find yourself to have been inspired by MIX and just want to get together and hack a cool app, we’re more than happy to jump in and help you with that as well.

This is the place to be, whether you're new and want to learn, or want the latest info on what's coming in the "Mango" release.

NOTE: Devices will be available for testing your apps.
NOTE: A light lunch and snacks will be provided.

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Friday
Apr 29, 2011
Windows Phone 7 Hackathon
Microsoft Portland Office (Pearl District)

This event is follow-on from the Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Events that were held last fall. The format is less structured, and more hands-on. Whether you need help developing, architecting, pricing, integrating ads, or are just getting started, this is the place to be. Our primary goal is to help you get your app ready and submitted to the marketplace. We’re happy to share lessons learned from our own experiences (e.g. Alchemy and Soak Your Head). If you find yourself to have been inspired by MIX and just want to get together and hack a cool app, we’re more than happy to jump in and help you with that as well.

This is the place to be, whether you're new and want to learn, or want the latest info on what's coming in the "Mango" release.

NOTE: Devices will be available for testing your apps.
NOTE: A light lunch and snacks will be provided.

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Tuesday
Nov 11, 2008
Silverlight 2 Launch Party
North

If you haven't gotten into Silverlight yet, now is the time! The format for this event will be a series of short presentations on various aspects of Silverlight 2, along with Tim Heuer presenting the keynote. Sponsors will be providing dinner and swag. Do you need another reason to attend? Join us for an evening of food, fun, and Silverlight.

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Thursday
Jan 28, 2010
January Corvallis .NET Users Group Meeting - Silverlight presented by Arian Kulp
Portland Art Museum

January Corvallis .NET Users Group (CDNUG) Meeting:

Arian Kulp will be presenting Silverlight. Do you need Flash-like functionality in the browser, but don't want to learn another language? Need rich user interaction on your web site? Want to have your own video player? Come learn about Silverlight, how to use it, and where it makes sense to use it.

Arian Kulp is a Microsoft Certified Professional and your can find him at http://www.ariankulp.com/

Hope to see you there!

Time/Place:

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 @ 6:00 PM

Location:

TBA

RSVP here!

(Or you can email: cdnug.info AT gmail.com (helpful for food ordering))

Schedule:

5:30 - 6:15: Networking Opportunities & Dinner (free food!)

6:15 - 7:30: Arian Kulp "Silverlight"

7:15 - 7:45: Q&A / Discussion

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

Please forward this to anyone that may be interested!

Visit the Corvallis .NET Users Group at: http://corvallisdotnetug.ning.com

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Thursday
Dec 2, 2010
Silverlight Firestarter Bus - Free
Portland Art Museum

We're taking a bus to see the next version of Silverlight unveiled. We've been told that there will be wifi on the bus :)

We're leaving early (bus rolls out at 5am), we'll have a full day in Redmond listening to talks and hanging out, and we'll return that night.

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Sunday
Jan 31, 2010
Silverlight Hackathon - Install Clinic
Stumptown

The Install Clinic has moved to Stumptown

Stuart Celarier is running an Install Clinic at Stumptown starting at 10am. After the clinic, it is a short walk to Souk where we'll be starting the main event at 1pm.

The Install Clinic is an opportunity to drop in, grab a cup of coffee, and Prepare Your System for the Hackathon. Depending on what software you have to install, and the speed of your laptop, it can take some time for the installs to run. You might want to do those installations at home, but if you're like me, these things can sometimes get put off to the last minute. Well, here is your formal last minute to get ready.

It's also an opportunity to schmooze, and if you get set up early you can help others or even try your hand at some impromptu Silverlight hacking.

I am working to get installation media onto CDs or USB drives so we're not all trying to download off the Internets.

As with any install, I'd highly recommend that you ensure that your system backup is current and valid before getting started. 'Nuf said.

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Tuesday
Mar 30, 2010
Nerd Dinner: Silverlight, XNA, Windows Phone 7
Washington Square Mall food court

Come eat and chatter about cool new Microsoft technologies and whatever geeky things float your boat.

Tuesday
Jan 12, 2010
Silverlight User Group - Silverlight QA with Shawn Wildermuth
Webtrends

More info tbd, but Shawn is coming to town, and he's agreed to answer our Silverlight questions!

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Portland Silverlight User Group: A Flash Evangelist Goes to the Dark Side
Webtrends

A Flash Evangelist Goes to the Dark Side January 12, 2010 6pm Webtrends* ( http://maps.google.com/maps?q=webtrends&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS221US221&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl )

*- Super easy access via the Max and lots of close Smart Parks ( http://maps.google.com/maps?near=851+Southwest+6th+Avenue,+Portland,+OR+97204-1307+(Webtrends+Inc)&geocode=CZtaax3F1n_AFfqMtgIdhxCw-CFZtU_2hrTHig&q=smart+park&f=l&hl=en&dq=webtrends+loc:+Portland,+OR&sll=45.518074,-122.679161&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&z=15 )

Mike Downey was deep in the Flash world (Principal Evangelist/Senior Product Manager on the AIR/Flash teams) before switching to Silverlight. Now, he works for the devil (er... Microsoft). On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, we hear his story. How does Silverlight stack up against Flash? How does Silverlight Out Of Browser measure up to Flex? How does media work in Silverlight?

Warmup - MVVM in Practice At the beginning of the meeting our own Alexis Jasso will be giving a short MVVM demonstration. It will be an example of how to convert non-MVVM code into the MVVM pattern.

Mike Downey http://madowney.com/blog/about/ Mike Downey is Director of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft where he focuses on platform adoption of Microsoft Silverlight and related technologies. Mike was formerly the Principal Evangelist for the Platform Business Development team at Adobe Systems focusing on promoting Adobe's platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and AIR. Mike joined the AIR team as Senior Product Manager in December of 2006 before moving to his role in business development. Prior to joining the AIR product team Mike spent four years as Senior Product Manager for Flash.

Sponsors Vertigo - Platinum Sponsors Webtrends - Location Sponsors

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Friday
Feb 19, 2010
Silverlight User Group - Conversation and QA with Shawn Wildermuth
Webtrends

Silverlight Conversation and QA with Shawn Wildermuth Feb 19th at Webtrends 6pm This is a Friday (not our usual day)

Do you have questions about Silverlight? Shawn's the person to ask. He's full of Silverlight knowledge, and he's coming to Portland to have a conversation with us. Shawn is extremely well known and respected in the Silverlight community, and it's going to be a real treat to have him. If you want to have a complex and nuanced discussion about Silverlight, join us for this meeting.

Shawn Wildermuth Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com).

Warmup: Operating System in Your Browser Window At the beginning of the meeting (6pm), Marc Schulper will show us how to write Silverlight applications for a web based operating system.

WHEN: Friday 02/19/2010 This is a Friday (not our usual day)

6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD

WHERE: Webtrends (map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=webtrends+in+portland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.77044,117.949219&ie=UTF8&hq=webtrends&hnear=Portland,+OR&z=15&iwloc=A ) 851 SW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97204-1337

Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible: * Vertigo - http://www.vertigo.com * Webtrends - http://www.webtrends.com

Getting There: Trimet. I recommend taking Trimet to this event. Check out the map to see the tons of Max/etc. stops nearby. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=webtrends+in+portland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.77044,117.949219&ie=UTF8&hq=webtrends&hnear=Portland,+OR&ll=45.518113,-122.678565&spn=0.00557,0.014398&z=17&iwloc=A Parking. I recommend Smart Parks: http://maps.google.com/maps?near=851+Southwest+6th+Avenue,+Portland,+OR+97204-1307+(Webtrends+Inc)&geocode=CZtaax3F1n_AFfqMtgIdhxCw-CFZtU_2hrTHig&q=%22Smart+Park%22&f=l&dq=webtrends+loc:+portland&sll=45.518074,-122.679161&sspn=0.011831,0.006499&ie=UTF8&ll=45.519218,-122.67643&spn=0.022281,0.057592&z=15

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Tuesday
Apr 13, 2010
Creating Great UX with Expression Blend
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WHO: Corrina Black Corrina Black grew up sketching pictures and cartoons, but didn’t turn to design until she discovered the Web and taught herself to design and code simple websites. She focused instinctively on user flow, interaction, and attractive solutions. Corrina is currently a UX Designer on the Microsoft Developer Division team. To broaden her impact, Corrina pursued a software engineering degree to combine with her passion for user experience design. For Corrina, user experience is what matters. A product that doesn’t solve a problem, is difficult to use, and doesn’t draw the user in, regardless of how amazing the technology, will fail.

TOPIC: Creating Great UX with Expression Blend Corrina will do an intro to Blend and walkthrough the process of creating a great user experience; this will involve SketchFlow because detailing and iterating on user flow, layout, and animations and transitions prior to full-scale implementation is key to great UX design and this is done in tools like SketchFlow. She will also likely walkthrough the process of building a simple application in Blend to show the core functionality of Blend (maybe create a phone application).

Warmup - The Reactive Framework (Rx) in Silverlight At the beginning of the meeting (6pm) our own Eric Sterling of Vertigo will be giving a short introduction to Rx. Have you had trouble writing asynchronous code (including unit testing code)? If so, Rx offers a compelling and syntactically attractive way of handling events.

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Tuesday
May 11, 2010
Portland Silverlight User Group - May Meeting
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WHO: Jeff Paries Jeff Paries is the lead Silverlight developer with Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a leading integrated communications company. Jeff has a strong background in 3D graphics and animation and is also an accomplished author and instructor in that area — he has authored several books and numerous magazine articles related to 3D. An early adopter of Silverlight, Jeff’s interests lie in developing animation concepts and methodologies within Silverlight. As a developer with design experience, Jeff’s mission is to help bridge the gap between design and development. His latest book, “Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation” works to further this goal through a scenario-based approach.

TOPIC: Procedural Animation in Microsoft Silverlight Come and see how trigonometry and trigonometric functions can help us create movement in Microsoft Silverlight. Trigonometry is the study of how the angles and lengths of sides of triangles relate to one another, and is quite useful in programming Silverlight applications. We'll talk about how to apply trigonometry within Silverlight to create free-form rotations, calculate the distance between objects, use Sine curves to create oscillating movement, and more. The math will be demonstrated in a scenario-based approach in order to make it easier to understand, even if you slept through math class.

Warmup - Smooth Streaming w/ VideoRx At the beginning of the meeting (6pm) Robert Reinhardt, co-author of the Microsoft Expression Blend 2 Visual Quickstart Guide and the Flash Bible series, will present his latest online encoding service, videoRx.com. This service makes it easy to compress your video content at the highest quality and lowest file size. videoRx.com analyzes your uploaded source video and delivers the best compression for your content. videoRx.com can also create adaptive streaming content for Silverlight Smooth Streaming for playback on devices and the web.

Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

Vertigo - http://www.vertigo.com Webtrends - http://www.webtrends.com

Monday
Jun 7, 2010
Silverlight User Group: What's this Silverlight Stuff?
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Are you interested in what Silverlight is and what it can do? How does it compare to HTML 5? These questions and more will be answered by Microsoft Silverlight MVP Erik Mork. It's going to be a fun night of info for Silverlight beginners. Also not to be missed: a Silverlight Ninja will be designed before your eyes.

WHERE: Webtrends(16th Floor) 851 SW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97204-1337

WHEN: Tuesday 06/08/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD

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Tuesday
Jul 13, 2010
Portland Silverlight User Group - July Meeting
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TOPIC: Windows Phone 7

WHAT: Portland Silverlight User Group - July Meeting

WHEN: Tuesday 07/13/2010 6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo) 6:30 p.m. Presentation ~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD

WHERE: Webtrends (map) 851 SW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97204-1337

Sponsors: While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:

• Vertigo - http://www.vertigo.com • Webtrends - http://www.webtrends.com

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Tuesday
Sep 14, 2010
Portland Silverlight User Group - OData, Where Art Thou?
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TOPIC: OData, Where Art Thou? Nick Muhonen describes OData, its service support in WCF Data Services, and its consumption through Silverlight. And of course, demos for the faithful!

Warmup - XNA Goodness on WP7 At the beginning of the meeting (6pm) Jason Mauer will present his latest XNA game project for the Windows Phone 7.

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Tuesday
Nov 9, 2010
HTML5 Crash Course with Scott Stanfield - PDX Silverlight User Group
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It's been nearly a decade since the last big changes to HTML, which frankly weren't all that interesting. But this time it's different. With all the excitement around the latest features and browsers, it's time to take a closer look, especially if you've been heads-down on Silverlight, like I have been. If you haven't had time to look into the HTML5 family of technologies, it's time to start.

Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc.

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Tuesday
Jul 12, 2011
Mobile: The Market, The Web, and Windows Phone’s Future
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TOPIC: Mobile: The Market, The Web, and Windows Phone’s Future There are few things more frustrating than reading the tech press in the United States try to cover the mobile market. First Microsoft’s mobile efforts are going nowhere. Six months later, it will be bigger than the iPhone by 2015. Say what?

Let’s back up for a moment from the day-to-day horse race coverage of Android versus iPhone and look at what the big picture trends are in the mobile market. What makes mobile unique? What makes a mobile product successful? And finally does Microsoft have a chance to get back into the mobile game?

Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile group.

Jason is a co-founder of Cloud Four, a small start-up focused on mobile and web development. He blogs at http://CloudFour.com/blog and provides frequent updates about mobile as @grigs on Twitter.

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