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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.
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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

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENT

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!


UPCOMING MEETINGS
Date Presenter
Topics
May/14/2008Tim 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.

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.