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Welcome!
This group is based in Fresno and surrounding
areas. The purpose of the group is to be a
resource for developers, designers, architects, and managers with a
specific interest in Microsoft .NET Technologies. Presentations will be
given by world-class speakers from Microsoft, from leader software
companies, and also, by the group's own members.
We meet every second Wednesday of every month, at the California State
University, Fresno (Business Center, room 192). Starting in February/2007
attendees are asked to contribute with a $5 per meeting, to cover pizza
and drinks. If you plan to attend
please send an email to
rsvp@centralcaldotnet.com.
This will help us choose a room according to the attendance.
(Click
Here for a detailed map )
More
information about the meetings...
6:00-6:30:
Pizza, drinks, networking
6:30-6:45: Introductions, announcements
6:45-8:45: Presentation
8:45-9:00: Raffles Microsoft event to launch Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The event will bring together IT Pros and Developers to get an
in-depth, up-close look at the new products and will give attendees an
opportunity to meet with our Partners as well as members of the
development teams who created the cutting-edge technologies. And all
attendees will get a promotional pack containing all three new products. 4/24/2008 Fresno Convention Center (map) Free registration here!
| May/14/2008 | Tim Huckaby (InterKnowlogy)
| Building Data Visualization Applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
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Tim Huckaby is CEO of
InterKnowlogy - experts in Microsoft .NET and
Microsoft Platforms. InterKnowlogy is a
software engineering & consulting firm dedicated to system and application architecture, software design,
development & deployment. As Lead Technical Architect, Software
Development Lead, Microsoft Regional Director, author and Microsoft Partner
Advisory Council member,
Microsoft MVP, and
International .NET
Association speaker, Tim has over 20 years of industry experience. Tim has worked on technology projects for
such clients as Microsoft, Pacific Life Insurance Company, Nabisco, Qualcomm,
Gateway, Standard & Poors, Colonial Insurance
Company, Mobile Planet, SkyMall, Kingston Technology,
Cooking.com, Buy.com, the U.S. Navy and many others as a Developer, Architect
and Technical Lead. Tim’s skills expand
into many areas, including system, platform, and application architecture, Internet / Extranet / Intranet Architecture and
Development, and enterprise Application Development. Tim is one of the rare technologists whose
expertise spans developer, system, network and infrastructure areas.
More of Tim's bio here.
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Presentation
synopsis:
This session will be
heavily demo focused to accentuate how the power of the Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) can be used to visualize data. WPF
is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows. It
provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for
building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate
UI, media, and documents. WPF uses vector based graphics
rendering, which results in better graphics and presentation for an
application. WPF also has other features such as layout, styling, and
data binding, which, when you mix with interactivity, enables scenarios
such as interactive data visualization. When you put all this together,
you have a unified API for various presentation components, such as 2D
and 3D documents and declarative programming through XAML, which is a
powerful platform for data visualization that can be used to really
“light-up” you enterprise applications.
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