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Welcome to the South Sound .NET Portal
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Welcome to the South Sound User's Group DotNet Portal. Our user group was founded in December of 2000 to facilitate local area knowledge transfer about .NET tools, technologies, and development resources. This site was built, sponsored and hosted by Soundex Information Systems, Inc. as a community service. |
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General Information
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| About Us...The South Sound .NET User Group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month (with a few noted exceptions) at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW in downtown Olympia. Register your email address with this site to receive a monthly newsletter, meeting notices, and general announcements. We also have a local community discussion group at http://communities.msn.com/ssdotnet
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| Meeting Dates for 2008 (7:00 to 9:00 PM)Jan 10, Feb 15, Mar 13, Apr 10, May 8, Jun 12, July 10, Aug 14, Sep 11, Oct 9, Nov 13, Dec 11.
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| Olympia Area SQL Server Users GroupThe Olympia Area SQL Server User Group (OASSUG) is a community of information technology professionals who have an interest in Microsoft's© SQL Server database products. We are a network of SQL server professionals in the Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey communities that have a strong desire to explore and share the latest technological advances in database technology and how to apply them to real business solutions.
For more information browse to www.oassug.org
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Upcoming Events
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| Portland Code Camp, 2008: Rescheduled TBAThe Portland Code Camp was scheduled for July 19th and 20th at the WSU campus in Vancouver, Washington, but has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts. We'll post an update here as soon as we know what the new schedule will be. You can also check their website for updates, link below.
If you have any questions or would like to help out, please contact us at director@portlandcodecamp.com.
The website at http://www.portlandcodecamp.com/
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| Devscovery Redmond 2008Don't miss the annual Devscovery conference in Redmond August 19 through the 21, 2008. Because Wintellect is one of our user group sponsors, I've arranged for our members to receive $150 off on the conference admission! As this discount is only for our user group members and their current employers, please send me an email to get the private discount code before registering. 
D E V S C O V E R Y 2008 Designed with the intermediate to advanced developer in mind, Devscovery is three days of in-depth .NET content in the Microsoft Conference Center on the Redmond campus for just $900. Choose from more than 30 sessions by Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, John Robbins, Paul Mehner, Dennis Hurst and Richard Hundhausen. Learn about Atlas, Windows Communication Foundation, Security, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio Team System, Windows Workflow Foundation, advanced debugging, the Framework, and more! Space is limited. Register today at www.devscovery.com View the full conference schedule at http://www.devscovery.com/overview.aspx
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South Sound .NET Bloggers
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Charlie Poole
NUnit’s Generic Test Fixtures | | One recent addition to NUnit 2.5 is the ability to define generic test fixtures, allowing the same fixture to be reused for multiple types that implement the same interface or even just having common method signatures. For example, the following code tests multiple implementations of IList.
[TestFi... | | 7/2/2008 8:16:16 PM |
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Charlie Poole
NUnit 2.5 and VS2008 | | Thanks to a contribution from Microsoft, kindly arranged by Stephen Walther, I now have a copy of Visual Studio 2008 - and NUnit has a VS2008 build! It’s available in CVS and will be part of the Alpha-3 release in a week or two. NUnit operates pretty much on a shoestring these days, now that [... | | 6/27/2008 12:40:22 PM |
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Camey Combs
Portland Code Camp postponed | | The Portland Code Camp (v4) was scheduled for July 19/20. Unfortunately, it's been postponed and the new schedule hasn't been... | | 6/19/2008 1:55:40 PM |
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Paul Mehner from Wintellog
One Small Landing, Another Giant Leap For Mankind | |
I have vague memories of watching the Apollo moon mission in 1969 at age 6. I remember my father sitting with me on the sofa and telling me how history was being made as we watched Neil Armstrong take his fir... | | 5/25/2008 9:43:00 PM |
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Paul Mehner from Wintellog
Vista SP1 for my 64-bit OS has fallen and it can’t get up! | Vista SP1 for the 64-bit version of the OS has fallen on my computer, and it can’t get up! I’ve been without my primary computer now for several days due to the release of SP1 for Vista. The symptom is an infinite loop of inst... | | 4/29/2008 12:15:00 AM |
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The South Sound DotNet Users Group is proud to be a Charter Member of the International .NET Association |
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Sponsors
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Upcoming Meetings
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| July 10th / Applications for Web Mobility / Chad Stoker, CodeSmart IncChad Stoker, long time South Sound .NET member, will be presenting information on the challenges and opportunities of developing applications for mobile devices.
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By 2012, over five billion wireless devices will be Web-enabled, including cell phones, notebooks, cars, media players, consumer electronics and toys. Web users and applications will go mobile. Agencies must become experts in mobile Web development for a wide range of employee and consumer applications. Find out about the future of FLASH, JSON, Silverlight, and AJAX on mobile devices and more!
What attendees will learn:
- Cross-browser detection, new WC3 Standards, and why there’s a new “Browser War”.
- What are “Native” Mobile Applications and why do they impact my hardware decisions?
- The REAL power of Mobile Technology… Offline data collection! (featuring the MS Synchronization Framework)
- How should agencies decide which mobile Web devices and technologies to support?
- What is the future of Mobile Web technologies? AJAX, JSON, FLASH, Silverlight… and more.
- Development, Debugging, Troubleshooting… which tools get your organization to the finish line?
- How will your Project Plan be impacted by Mobile Technology considerations and should you worry?
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| August 14th / Writing Asynchronous Web Pages to Achieve High Scalability with Paul MehnerMore details upcoming on this presention by our very own Paul Mehner.
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| Sept. 11th / Microsoft RoboticsJason Olson and Marc Mercuri are coming to Olympia to tell us about Robochamps and other cool stuff coming out of the Microsoft Robotics group. Hopefully, they'll be bringing robots to demo for us. Get the word out, this should be fun.
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| October 9th, Stuart Celarier brings a Whirlwind Tour of C# 2.0 and 3.0 - The New More details upcoming. Stuart is a regular at Code Camps and has presented multiple times for us here in Olympia.
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