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october norcal treat

2004-09-29T23:14:00Z

This is not a trick... Deborah Kurata will present the topic Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals in VB.NET at October norcal MSDN Events! (The other three topics will be presented by yours truly.)

Deborah Kurata is a professional software architect, designer, and developer. She has authored several books, including the Doing Objects in Visual Basic series (SAMS) and Doing Web Development: Client-Side Techniques (Apress), and is currently working on Doing Objects in VB 2005 (Addison-Wesley). She also writes for MSDN and CoDe magazine (www.code-magazine.com).

Deborah speaks at .NET user groups all over the country as a member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau (www.ineta.org) and at conferences, such as VSLive, DevDays, and TechEd. She enjoys participating in the local .NET community as a member of the Bay.NET board and co-chair of the East Bay.NET user group (www.baynetug.org). For her work in support of software development and software developers, she has been recognized with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award.

Deborah is cofounder and President of InStep Technologies Inc. (www.insteptech.com), a professional consulting firm that focuses on turning your business vision into reality using Microsoft .NET technologies. InStep architects, designs, and develops object-oriented and service-oriented software for Windows and the Web. InStep provides premier software consulting services to the most successful companies in Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay area, and nationwide. Reach InStep at (925) 224-7280 or info@insteptech.com.

See my previous post october norcal msdn events for dates and other information (just keep scrolling down if you're at my blog now).

october norcal msdn events

2004-09-12T09:05:00Z

The new MSDN Event topics starting in October are:

Object Oriented Programming Fundamentals in VB.NET
Learn the fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) with the features of Visual Basic .NET. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how the use of Visual Basic .NET in conjunction with the principles of OOP can lead to code that is easier to test, maintain, extend and reuse.

Programming with MapPoint Web Services
See what the MapPoint Web services can bring to your applications. With this hosted, programmable XML Web service, you won’t believe how easy it will be to add high-quality maps, driving directions, distance calculations and other location intelligence to your own Web sites and applications.

Optimizing ASP.NET 1.1 Web Applications
Explore how to build high-performance Web applications running on Windows Server 2003. We’ll begin with an examination of how to measure and analyze Web application operation and then demonstrate some key design and development principles to follow for optimal performance.

Membership & Personalization
Discover the new Membership and Personalization features that will be coming in ASP.NET 2.0. With these powerful new features, you will be able to add secure user authentication and customized user personalization to your Web sites with significantly less code and development time.

The norcal dates for October are:

Oct 12   Sacramento
Oct 14   San Francisco
Oct 19   Oakland
Oct 21   San Jose

september norcal msdn events

2004-09-12T08:57:00Z

The current MSDN Event topics are:

Explore the feature enhancements in InfoPath Service Pack 1 and the new InfoPath Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET.
Learn how to author ASP.NET custom controls to easily create reusable user interface elements for your Web applications.
Discover the significant advances that ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 will offer to Web application developers.

The two remaining norcal dates for the current topics are:

Sep 28 Stockton (Antioch)
Sep 30 Vallejo (Fairfield)

Note that we will be handing out the highly desired MSDN Event DVD to each attendee – includes great reference material such as recorded in-depth presentations on the current topics, VS 2005 Beta 1, and more!