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News from Microsoft Ireland's Developer & Platform Group
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See below for details on the latest .Net Coffee Break Show - coming up on 2nd of October!
Sidar Ok is a Senior .NET developer in Decare Systems Ireland based in Cork, and is a regular blogger and a contributor to many Open Source projects and MSDN Forums. He holds an MCPD.NET, ASP.NET 3.5 Certified Specialist, and lately developed 2 live enterprise applications who are live now with Linq to SQL. He is going to share his thought and experiences on this.
You can find his blog on http://www.sidarok.com.
In Domain Driven Design, keeping infrastructure related concerns out of the domain is essential, and it is called Persistence Ignorance (PI). To achieve PI, the entities should be pure POCOs.
In this show Sidar will discuss these concepts, how they relate to linq to sql, and show how to achieve implementing persistence operations without having to reference persistence related code in the entities.
This will be broadcast live on Thursday 2nd of October at 11:00 (Irish
time!) This event is free but you need to register by following this link http://www.developers.ie/Webcasts.aspx
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 Josh Holmes (Architect from Microsoft Redmond) will be visiting on the 9th of October to do a community talk on Rich Internet/Interactive Applications (RIAs) in the Morrisson Hotel here in Dublin. Talk starts at 7pm. The title of his talk will be “Developing RIAs with Silverlight 2.” There are already 60 people signed up - so make sure to get your name on the list at the MTUG site to make sure of place. This is an excellent opportunity, as Josh is a great speaker and a true leader in the RIA space. Hope to see you there!
For more information and to register for the free event, click here.
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Just wanted to give you a heads-up on an upcoming, free event in Cork. Sidar Ok, who is a senior .NET developer in DeCare Systems, will be speaking in Cork on Monday, 22 September at 19:00 on the topic of LINQ to SQL. The presentation will discuss the ORM concepts in the favour of LINQ to SQL, and it aims to give a deep insight of the various benefits one can get in daily development. There will be core coding demos throughout the event. About Sidar: Along with his work at DeCare, Sidar is also a regular blogger and contributor to many Open Source projects and MSDN forums. He holds an MCPD.NET, ASP.NET 3.5 Certified Specialist, and lately developed two live enterprise applications which are live now with LINQ to SQL. He will be sharing his thoughts and experiences on this. You can find Sidar’s blog on: http://www.sidarok.com, and specifically his posts about LINQ to SQL are here: http://sidarok.com/web/blog/content/category/linq. The event will be at the Imperial Hotel in Cork. For more information or to register, please click here. For further information on the Cork Microsoft User Group, visit http://www.cork.mtug.ie/. 
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It’s no secret here in Ireland that Virtual Earth has been getting a lot of exciting new developments and investment lately. With all the new Birds Eye View maps, 3D enhancements and models and sophisticated APIs for developers, there’s little wonder lots of companies are building their web applications on top of Virtual Earth.
On October 16th from 9:00 - 17:00, Virtual Earth experts show you just how easy it is to track your company’s assets, find customers, manage mobile sales forces and make sure that customers find you before they find your competitor!
The Virtual Earth event is free and located in the Microsoft Building 2 Auditorium in the South County Business Park in Leopardstown.
Click here for registration and to find out more about the event.
Agenda:
08:30 - 09:30 Registration open
09:30 – 09.35 Welcome - Jennifer Forsythe
09.35 – 10.30 Microsoft Mapping Platforms overview – Jennifer Forsythe
10:30 - 10.50 Tea/ Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20 Partner presentation - BizMaps
11.20 - 11.50 Customer presentation - TBC
11:50 - 12:50 Lunch
12:50 - 13:20 TBC
13.20 – 14.05 Virtual Earth Deep Dive – Johannes Kebeck
14.05 – 14.25 Tea/ Coffee Break
14.25 – 14.55 VE Pricing – Jennifer Forsythe
14.55 – 15.40 Virtual Earth Deep Dive – Johannes Kebeck
15.40 – 16.00 Q&A Session
See you there!
Click here to be invited to Virtual Earth events and webcasts!
Click here to find out about forthcoming Virtual Earth events!
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The Windows 2008 user group has two great events coming up in September (W2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 [virtualisation]) and October (day long training by Alex Yushchenko on W2008 Terminal Services).
More details from Aidan, who heads up the Windows 2008 User Group Ireland, below...
I'm delighted to announce that Alex Yushchenko will be giving another Windows 2008 Terminal Services Class in association with Windows Server 2008 Users Group Ireland. Like the previous one in May this one will be completely free. However, Alex can cover a lot more and get into much more detail this time around because he's doing the event for an entire day!
Agenda
Alex will be including the following subjects during the day:
- Windows 2008 Terminal Services what's new
- RDP Client
- TS Gateway
- TS Session Broker
- TS Easy Print
- TS Remote App's
- TS WebAccess
- TS & Windows System Resource Manager
- Terminal Services Licensing
- Troubleshooting Terminal Services
- Terminal Services with 64 Bit - benefits & design
- Profile and User management
- TS & Softgrid 4.5 Virtualization
- Get the best out of it with Free Tools
- And More!
Prerequisites
This is a "Level 200" event so some knowledge of Terminal Services on Windows 2000/2003 is required.
Where and When
The event will take place in Guinness Storehouse on October 3, 2008 from 9.30 to 16.30 with lunch. We're restricting this to 50 people so book your place as early as possible. There will also be free admission to the Guinness Store House as well a free pint of Guinness in the upstairs Gravity bar :-)
Attending The Event
The class is free to attend for members of the Windows Server 2008 Users Group. Membership and joining the group are free. Once you are joined, we will send an invite out to you - assuming there are places still free.
This event is a "must attend" if you run or are planning to run Terminal Services on Windows Server 2008. Alex is a world recognised expert on the subject. I'd also recommend that you check out the next PubForum event (Nice, 7-9 Novemeber 2008) that Alex is organising.
ALEX YUSHCHENKO
Better known as "Dr. Conti" to his peers, Alex is one of the top posters to the official Citrix support forum. He's also the organiser and host of the server-based computing technology experts conference called "PubForum" held annually in different locations throughout Europe – London, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Nice. Alex has over 9 years of Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services experience and is a true Microsoft Technologies evangelist. Alex holds a Citrix Technology Professional designation and was awarded the Microsoft Terminal Services MVP designation in 2006 and 2007.
We will be running an event on Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 on the 2nd of September at 7PM sharp. The location is Buswells hotel in the city centre.
Hyper-V is Microsoft's new hypervisor hardware or machine virtualisation solution. You've probably heard much of the promotional material on the subject but we aim to give you something a little more at this event. You'll also be introduced to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. This is the product that will be used to manage multiple Hyper-V servers ... and VMware ESX!
The topics and speakers will be:
- Dave Northey (Microsoft): Hyper-V - we can get a little deeper on this topic now that the product has been released.
- Aidan Finn (C Infinity): Lessons I've learned about Hyper-V - Aidan will share his experiences with the product and things you should be aware of when setting up a lab or production environment.
- Mark Gibson (Microsoft): Virtual Machine Manager 2008 - System Center VMM2008 is due to be released in Q3 2008. It is Microsoft's answer to VMware's Virtual Center and will be an essential tool for managing production Hyper-V deployments.
The event is free to attend for members of the Windows Server 2008 user group. Simply join the group by sending a mail and you'll be sent out an invite. There are only 20 places so book while they're available.
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Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal will be talking at the SQL Server User Group meeting out here in auditorium in Microsoft Ireland from 6pm-9pm. I've seen Kimberly present at TechEd Europe before - and she is a very impressive speaker. If you are in Dublin on September 4th - this is one community event you won't want to miss!
Here are more details from the SQL Server User Group:
Kimberly, aka SQL Goddess, has been the top speaker at PASS & TechEd events in the US, Europe, & elsewhere. Her husband, Paul Randal is also a regular speaker – he is a former SQL Server product group expert, working on versions 2000 thru 2008, where he was responsible for fragmentation management, recovery scenarios, consistency checking, & core storage amongst others.
The topic is Index Internals & Fragmentation - Indexes and indexing are huge topics and given half a chance, Kimberly and Paul could talk for days on this stuff! In this session, they've chosen their favourite indexing topics to discuss. The internals section will cover the structures and benefits of various kinds of indexes and show the 2005 feature "INCLUDE" and the 2008 feature "filtered indexes". Fragmentation is often mis-understood and so this section will explain the various forms of fragmentation, how they can occur when a schema or workload is poorly designed, then how to detect and remove fragmentation in a way that causes least disruption to the production workload.
If there is one user group meeting to attend, this is it. It cannot emphasise this strongly enough. Previous events where Paul & Kimberly spoke have provided me with an incredible wealth of new information.
In order to accommodate them, we have moved the event from the regular 1st Tuesday of the month to Thursday, September 4th. The event will be held in the Auditorium in Microsoft Atrium - Block B, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate, our usual venue. The event will start at 18:00 sharp and will continue until 21:00.
Registration is on the regular site...
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The next .NET Coffee Break from developers.ie is on September 3rd with Joe Stagner, a Senior Program Manager from Microsoft in Seattle. It covers ASP.NET Dynamic Data.
Full details are available below or on www.developers.ie. The event is free - but you have to register here if you want to attend...
From their site:
Our next speaker is Joe Stagner, with a talk on ASP.NET Dynamic Data.
Joe is a Senior Program Manager in Microsoft Corporation’s Developer Tools and Platform Group and has been with Microsoft since 2001 focusing on highly scalable and performant web application architectures, multiplatform interoperability and software security. Joe brings 30 years technical and business strategy experience to Microsoft which affords him a unique experiential perspective.
ASP.NET Dynamic Data is one of the quickest means to build functional data-driven web applications. It ships as an extension to ASP.NET and it can ‘dynamically’ display web pages and supports CRUD operations against a variety of data object models, without having to create pages manually.
This will be broadcast live on Wednesday 3rd of September at 15:00 (Irish time!)
All the connection details to the show will be sent to you a few days prior to the start of the webcast.
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PDC2008 Early Bird Discount has been extended by three weeks. Register by 11:59PM PST, September 8th and save $200 off the full conference registration price. That brings the ticket price down to $2195 or round about 1500 EUR - a real bargain for the most anticipated Microsoft conference of the year!
Plus, if you register using the RSVP code 'LAExperience' you'll get entered to win a separate trip for 2 to see the Lakers, the Dodgers or attend a Universal Movie Premiere (flights and hotel included). Just the antidote if you have just come back from holidays to this weather! :)
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Some exciting news just in - it's just been announced that Live Mesh Technology Preview has been extended to include Ireland (it's been available for everyone in Northern Ireland for some time now). Amit Mital from the LIve Mesh & Developer Platform team has blogged some details here.
Live Mesh was announced at Web 2.0 and all Irish developers are now invited to try out this new platform experience. There is a limit on how many developers in total sign-up - but no limit on what proportion are from Ireland/NI - so if you are interested, you should get in quick!
If you want to learn more about Live Mesh - here are a couple of videos you might find interesting:
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Visual Studio SP1 is out! Pay a visit to the download centre to take a look.
Here are a couple of notes from the page there:
This download installs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes support for SQL Server 2008, new ADO.NET features such as the Entity Framework, improvements to the WPF designers, WCF templates for Silverlight projects, debugger support for the .NET Framework public symbols and source release, control improvements such as the DataRepeater for Windows Forms and Office 2007 Ribbons for C++, and several general updates for debugging and IntelliSense. SP1 also enhances the stability, performance, and security of many features.
The included .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 adds many new features and fixes, including the following:
- .NET Framework Client Release (“Arrowhead”)
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ASP.NET Routing
- ADO.NET Data Services
- ADO.NET Entity Framework
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is right around the corner and the beta program has opened up. If you want a go at testing it - mail the team at IESO at microsoft.com and tell us a little about yourself, including why you'd be a great beta tester!
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If you are a SQL database admin and are based in Ireland or Northern Ireland - you should check out Dave Northey's recent post on SQL Academy 2008. On September 5th, two of the world's top SQL speakers (Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal) will be coming over to kick-start the series of free training. There are very few spaces available - so register early if you are interested!
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Yet another great .NET Coffee Break online event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23rd at 4pm (GMT). Stephen Walther, a Senior Program Manager over with Microsoft and author of the popular 'ASP.NET Unleashed', will be speaking about ASP.NET MVC. You'll find full details and can register on the developers.ie site - more details are also included below... enjoy! :)
From Developers.ie:
Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast.
We think that during your coffee break is the right time to attend a short talk on various subjects, starting with Silverlight this month.
Our next speaker in July is Stephen Walther, Microsoft Senior Program Manager.
If you don't know Stephen, he's the famous author of a couple of .Net bible like ASP.NET Unleashed, probably the one book to own when you develop with ASP.Net.
He's also busy with the next one ASP.Net MVC Unleashed.
ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft's new framework for building web applications. In this talk, you learn how ASP.NET MVC framework differs from the current ASP.NET Web Forms framework. You learn how to take advantage of ASP.NET MVC to build loosely coupled, highly testable, agile applications. You also learn how ASP.NET MVC provides you with fine-grained control over your HTML and JavaScript.
This talk focuses on a short walkthrough of the process of building a simple data-driven MVC application. Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Unleashed.
Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at http://StephenWalther.com
This will be broadcast live on Wednesday 23th of July at 16:00 (Ireland
time!) - 8am Pacific Time
All the connection details to the show will be sent to you a few days prior to the start of the webcast.
This event is free but you need to register by following this link http://www.developers.ie/Webcasts.aspx
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