Chris Bowen's Blog : AJAX

2008 Winter Northeast Roadshow - Resources and Summary

cbowen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:28:23 GMT

The Winter Northeast Roadshow series has run its course! Jim and I traveled about 2,000 miles to deliver seven events for nearly 600 people across the Northeast, and had a great time bringing developer technology and practices to you.

The Goods

As promised, we're posting the content and resources from each of our sessions.

Look for the content from Jim's sessions, "Windows Workflow Steals the Show" and "Adventures in Data with Silverlight, WCF REST, and ADO.NET Data Services" on his blog.

SESSION: "Tech Update"

Resources

SESSION: "ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 and jQuery"

Slides & Demos

Presentation and Demo Content (via SkyDrive)
Downloadable samples from the book "jQuery in Action"
jQuery UI Demos
- Effects sampler
PhotoGallery Application - Stephen Walther

Resources

SESSION: "Deeper into Windows Presentation Foundation"

Demos (no slides used)

Session Demo Content (via SkyDrive)
Logon Screen Demo
UIElement3D Sphere Sample
3D Solids Sample
WPF Toolkit & Ribbon Preview - Hands On Lab

Resources

SESSION: "Lunch in the Lab - A Look at Microsoft Research"

Slides

Presentation Slides (via SkyDrive)

Resources

Thank You!

Thanks to everyone who invested the time to join us for these events. Special thanks to the each of the following companies and organizations who helped us along the way:

Rochester Institute of Technology
AutoTask
Vermont Technical College
State of Maine - Central Maine Commerce Center
Daniel Webster College

We couldn't have delivered the Roadshow without your fantastic support!

Next Time

We're going into hibernation for a little while to reacquaint ourselves with family and friends, but early 2009 will see many events, including our Spring Roadshow, likely in the later February into March timeframe.

Keep an eye on our blogs and sign up for MSDN Flash to hear updates on that and other events as they emerge.

Thanks again, and we'll see you again on the road!

-Chris

A Guide to the Newly-Released Developer Updates

cbowen — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:35:23 GMT

Though I managed to sneak away for some vacation time this week, it's clearly been a busy time for the product teams. Here's a summary of the recently-released betas and updates with links for more information:

Silverlight

Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate (windows|mac)
Silverlight 1.1 Alpha Refresh (windows|mac)

Details on Tim Sneath's blog.
Here's a useful guide to the Silverlight versions and supporting tools.

Expression

Both include support for Silverlight 1.0 RC.
Details on the Expression Site.

Visual Studio & .NET Framework

Now include "Go Live" license.
Full details in Scott Guthrie's post.
Scott Hanselman (BTW, now a Microsoft employee) has a simplified installation guide.

ASP.NET Futures

ASP.NET Futures July Update

Includes Silverlight support (asp:Media, asp:Xaml), AJAX extensions, application services, dynamic language support, and dynamic data controls.
Soma describes the release on his blog.
More details on Brad Abrams' blog (second half of the post).

Ajax Control Toolkit

AJAX Control Toolkit pdate

Update to support the Beta 2's of VS2008 and .NET 3.5.
Details on Delay's blog.

IronRuby

IronRuby Pre Alpha source preview

John Lam has the details.
Scott Guthrie has a helpful introduction/tutorial.

IronPython

IronPython 2.0 Alpha 3

Dino Viehland's announcement [via PLNews.org]

F#

F# Language v1.9.2.7 release (MSI/Windows | ZIP/Mono)

Don Syme's announcement of v1.9.2.7
Don Syme with the full release notes
F# Overview (i.e. why you may be interested)

Enjoy your explorations!

-Chris

Technorati tags: Silverlight, Expression, Visual Studio, .NET, AJAX, IronRuby, Development, ASP.NET, IronPython, F Sharp

Boston .NET User Group Meeting and Speaking Opportunities

cbowen — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:04:04 GMT

Next Meeting

Wednesday July 11, 2007 - 6:00-8:00 P.M.
Microsoft Office, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA
"A Tour of Microsoft AJAX 1.0"
Chris Pels - iDevTech

Microsoft AJAX 1.0 provides .NET developers integrated client script libraries and server classes for a powerful development framework. This presentation will provide an overview of the AJAX architecture as well as several specific examples including using the ASP.NET membership service via AJAX, building custom AJAX controls, and AJAX localization features.

Details at www.bostondotnet.org

Call for Speakers

The Boston .NET User Group is now booking speakers for Sep '07 through Mar '08. If you are interested in speaking or know of someone that might be please contact events@bostondotnet.org.

Technorati tags: User Groups, Events, AJAX, ASP.NET, Massachusetts

May Roadshow Content Available

cbowen — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:40:23 GMT

We've collected the slides and content from our most recent Roadshow and have made them available at:

http://www.arcStreamEast.net/arcStreamEast/Download/zips/BandC-May2007.zip

Covered sessions are:

XML and the Database
What's New from the Patterns & Practices Group?
Silverlight
ASP.NET AJAX - Going Deeper

I'm on the road at the moment, but keep an eye out for follow-up posts with resources relating to questions I received during the various days.

-Chris

Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow - Back for More!

cbowen — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:34:00 GMT

We're back in the saddle again, gearing up for another five-city tour to bring deep technical content to a projection screen near you!

Dates, locations, and registration links are at the bottom of this post.

Note that we've changed venues from Farmington to Hartford, CT and Manchester to Nashua, NH.

See you on the road!

-Chris

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Bob Familiar and Chris Bowen are two guys who love to write code and can’t stop talking about it. And now they’ve decided to take their long winded rants and questionable demos to a city near you. And if you were at our last event, you know the line about questionable demos is no joke!

AGENDA: AJAX, Extensible Scrubbing Bubbles and that Cross Browser Cleansing Motion
8:30am	Arrive, check in, grab a nosh and a seat
9:00 – 10:15	XML and the Database
9:00 – 10:15	SQL Server 2005 offers architects and developers a slew of great features for creating data driven solutions. For this session we will focus on the XML features including XML Indexes, XQuery, the XML Datatype, the FOR XML clause and validating XML within the database using XSD. The use cases for these XML capabilities will also be discussed.
10:15 – 10:30	<Break />
10:30 – 12:00	What’s New From The Patterns & Practices Group?
10:30 – 12:00	Like doing things the hard way? Well, unfortunately for you this session is all about making your life as a developer or architect easier. The Patterns & Practices group keeps churning out great tools, reference code, and guidance to show you Microsoft's recommendations for designing, developing and deploying great applications. We'll cover Enterprise Library 3.0, various Software Factories, the Guidance Automation Toolkit and more, explaining how they could fit in with your development efforts. If you suddenly find the hard way less thrilling, don't say we didn't warn you!
12:00-1:00	Grab a lunch and search for patterns in the carpet
1:00 – 2:15	Microsoft Silverlight (aka Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere)
1:00 – 2:15	At our last meeting, we dug into the Windows Presentation Foundation, a .Net Framework development library that sits overtop of DirectX allowing one to create the next generation of Windows user interfaces using advanced graphics, animation, rich documents and multimedia along with traditional UI controls. Windows Silverlight is a subset of the capabilities of WPF that can be used within browser based applications on the PC and the Mac. This session will discuss the architecture of Microsoft Silverlight and demonstrate how integrate XAML into your browser-based applications.
2:15-2:30	Take a break and animate
2:30 – 3:45	ASP.NET AJAX – Going Deeper
2:30 – 3:45	If you're developing applications for the web, you've likely heard about AJAX and how it can improve the usability and functionality of your site. In this session, we'll quickly introduce the main concepts of ASP.NET AJAX and then we'll roll up our sleeves for other details that will help you when you're in the trenches with AJAX. We'll talk about the client side library, Silverlight (formerly codenamed WPF/E) integration, enabling and invoking server methods and web services, debugging, best practices and more.
3:45 – 4:00	Zune Giveaway


Location	Date	Time	Registration
Sheraton Burlington Hotel	May 8^th, 2007	8:30am-4:00pm	Register!
870 Williston Road
Burlington Vermont			Event ID:
			1032339883
RIT INN & Conference Center	May 10^th, 2007	8:30am-4:00pm	Register!
5257 Henrietta Road
W. Henrietta New York			Event ID:
			1032339884
Sheraton Hartford Hotel	May 14^th, 2007	8:30am-4:00pm	Register!
100 East River Drive
Hartford Connecticut			Event ID:
			1032339886
MESDA	May 15^th, 2007	8:30am-4:00pm	Register!
506 Main Street
Westbrook, ME 04092			Event ID:
			1032339885
Sheraton Nashua Hotel	May 17^th, 2007	8:30am-4:00pm	Register!
11 Tara Boulevard
Nashua New Hampshire			Event ID:
			1032339887

New England Visual Basic Professionals Group - Special Event

cbowen — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:05:57 GMT

The New England Visual Basic Professionals Group will be featuring two excellent speakers at their upcoming meeting on December 7th:

5:30 - Jim Miller - Microsoft .NET: What is It and What’s Next
CLR: Internals and Future Direction
Earlier this year, Microsoft released version 2.0 of .Net. Jim Miller will talk about the implementation of some of the new technology (generics, for example). Then he’ll talk about future directions for the CLR. But I’ll leave most of the time for discussion purposes. What would you like to see in the next version of the CLR? What have you always wanted to know about how the CLR evolves over time? What technologies do you think should become part of a future CLR?”

Jim Miller is a senior architect on Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR) team.

6:30 - Pizza

6:45 - Joe Stagner - Microsoft's Web 2.0 / AJAX strategy
ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX
Learn what Microsoft is doing to help Web Developers Improve the User Interface experience of their web applications and minimize the impact of their rapidly evolving technology set.

Joe Stagner is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Developer Tools & Platform Group.

The meeting will be at the Microsoft offices at 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA. For details and directions, see http://www.nevb.com

-Chris