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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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| August 19 IPMA professional development seminar This seminar will explore the What, Why, Who, and How behind Unified Communications and how state & local government can benefit from "communications-enabled business processes". Unified communications (UC) offers the ability to significantly improve how individuals, groups and agencies interact and perform. UC is a direct result of the convergence of communications and integration into applications. The convergence of all communications on IP networks and open software platforms enables a new UC paradigm and is changing how individuals, groups and organizations communicate. For more information about this event and to register, please visit the IPMAs web site at: http://www.ipma-wa.com/.
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| Devscovery Redmond 2008 8/19 - 8/21Don'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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| Free Training with SQL Saturday, October 11, 2008From the Olympia SQL Server User Group:
Have you heard about SQL Saturday? It's a free one day training event for SQL professionals held in different locations around the world. This great training event will be coming to Olympia, Washington on October 11, 2008 at the Olympia Center. We'll have two tracks of material, six sessions each. Sessions will consist of different how-to-topics, as well as some topics on the upcoming SQL Server 2008 release. Plenty of variety for everyone. Registration is open and seating is limited, register today!
At this time we are accepting speaker abstracts. If you are interested in presenting a session topic visit please submit an abstract or two. We really want a good mix of speakers, especially local speakers. If you're passionate about a topic and can talk to your peers about it for an hour, then we want you to participate! We'll give everyone a couple weeks to submit abstracts and then we'll work on building the final schedule.
Go to the SQL Saturday Event Page for more information.
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South Sound .NET Bloggers
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Chris Bilson
Walking Dependencies in Power Shell |
I am working on a new code base today and ran into a problem with two references to
log4net, referencing different versions. I get this helpful compiler error:
No way to resolve conflict between "log4net, Version=1.2.10.0,
Culture=neutr... | | 8/13/2008 10:48:27 AM |
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Charlie Poole
Four Ways to Test Expected Exceptions | | Let’s say we are testing a piece of code, using arguments that should cause an exception to be thrown. We want the test to ensure that an exception was thrown, that it was the expected Type of exception and - possibly - that the properties of the exception are what they should be.
In this blog... | | 8/1/2008 7:37:58 PM |
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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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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
National Day of Prayer Geek Style | What did you pray for on our “National Day of Prayer” (May 1, 2008)? I prayed for a world in which CPU’s would be free to get their work done with optimal saturation... | | 5/1/2008 11:22:55 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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Mike Clark
A System Test Entry |
Learning new things is almost always fun, and one must try to check one's assumptions
at the door. However, what if your brain assumes something and doesn't come
right out and say so? That's interesting.
Keeping in mind that I am new to ASP.NET 2.0...
... | | 2/11/2008 6:39:02 PM |
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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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Upcoming Meetings
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| August 14th / Writing Asynchronous Web Pages to Achieve High Scalability with Paul MehnerLearn how to build scalable ASP.NET applications by using the ASP.NET thread pool as efficiently as possible. Learn how I/O operations can be potential scalability killers and how to properly write your code to take advantage of asynchronous I/O and page processing. In this session we will learn how to leverage ASP.NET’s three asynchronous (and largely undocumented) programming models: asynchronous pages, asynchronous handlers, and asynchronous modules.
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| Sept. 11th / TBAThis was going to be our Microsoft Robotics meeting, but some scheduling difficulties have cropped up unfortunately. We're still working with Jason Olson on getting another speaker for a September Robotics meeting, or rescheduling altogether.
Jason 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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