The Financial Services team at Microsoft is hosting a series of webcasts focusing on real-world solutions with .NET in the financial services industry. A sampling of some of the sessions includes:
And this is just a sampling! There’s a lot of great talks lined up and as you can tell they’re not necessarily just for the Financial Services industry.
The .NET Unwrapped webcast series begins Feb. 13th. Click on the logo to view the full schedule.
Being the Developer Evangelist for the Midwest district means that I now sponsor a number of different user groups across three states, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. I want to make it easier for developers to find the events closest to them so I will be creating 3 new categories to support this: Illinois Events, Indiana Events and Wisconsin Events. Suscribe to the feed that matters most to you or subscribe to them all!
What:
Chippewa Valley .NET Users Group
Tony Surma, the Technical Director of the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago will be introducing us to the new Microsoft Certified Architect Program.
This is not the same certification process that you may be familiar with. For starters, you need to have 10 or more years of experience, 3 of which must be as a practicing architect. You need to apply to this program, and once excepted you are assigned a mentor who is already certified.
When:
Wednesday, February 15th at 5:00 PM
Where:
The Green Mill Restaurant
2703 Craig Road
Eau Claire, WI
RSVPat http://cvnug.wi-ineta.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=73. (Note: must be registered and logged in to RSVP)
What:
Chicago (West) .NET Users Group
The Hitchhikers Guide to Unintentionally Creating Mission Critical .Net Web-Services Applications … And Some Intentional Solutions.
Speaker: Mark Sundt
With the advent of web-services, more and more companies are finding that applications developed to meet departmental needs are organically becoming organizationally mission critical. Now that web services are becoming pervasive, have you thought about how you are going to provide scalable, reliable web services oriented solutions yet? In this discussion, we will review Microsoft’s Windows Workflow (WWF) Services and demonstrate various solutions for providing scalable reliable web service based solutions using WWF for applications that have become ‘unintentionally’ mission critical. During this presentation WinFX (Indigo / WWF), BizTalk and Appistry’s Enterprise Application Fabric will be discussed and demonstrated.
When:
Februray 15th, 2006, 6:30PM – 9:00PM
Where:
Microsoft
3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300
Downers Grove, IL.
Food and beverages will be provided and prizes will be awarded at the end.
If you plan on attending, you must register here. Be sure to select the February 15th meeting.
The Loop chapter of the Chicago .NET User Group (CNUG) had an amazing kick off in Janurary with over 70 attendees. I hope I can pull in that many and than some with my “Visual Studio Team System Overview” talk.
What:
Chicago (Loop) .NET Users Group
Dave Bost (that’s me!), Microsoft Developer Evangelist, will be presenting an overview of Visual Studio Team System. In the first hour, Dave will focus on the Team System client editions including features found in the Software Architect, Software Developer and Software Tester editions of Team System. In the second hour, we’ll show how Team Foundation brings these client tools together with collaboration, work item tracking, an automated build system and an enterprise-class source control system.
When:
Februray 7th, 2006, 6:00PM – 9:00PM
Where:
Information Management Group
200 West Monroe, 9th floor
Chicago, IL.
Food and beverages will be provided and prizes will be awarded at the end.
If you plan on attending, you must register here. Be sure to select the February 7th meeting.
The Release Candidate (RC) bits have apparently been handed off to the MSDN Downloads team. Estimated time to availability: February 7th, 2006!
Dave Bost is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast.
