When: Tuesday, May 5th, 6:30pm

Where: HCC Business Training Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046

Topic: WCF 3.5 REST

Tuesday night is not a night to rest but a night to join us for a RESTful evening of learning about a different approach to web services. You need not be a RESTifarian, but you will rest easier knowing you have REST in your toolbox.
With the advent of WCF 3.5, there are now many features at your disposal to build Web 2.0-style services. This demo-heavy presentation will cover both building and consuming WCF REST services. We will dive into many of the new APIs available in the WCF REST Starter Kit with a nod to new features on the horizon in WCF 4.0. Consuming REST services will be explored through a pure AJAX jQuery client as well as a Silverlight client. The session will also give a brief introduction to ADO.NET Data Services.

Presenter: Steve Michelotti

Steve Michelotti, MSCD, MCPD, MCT is a consultant for Applied Information Sciences. He has consulted at Advertising.com/AOL where he was the Tech Lead for one of the highest volume .NET applications in the world. He is a frequent presenter at developer user groups and Code Camps in the Maryland area. He has been on Microsoft Channel9 and his published articles include Visual Studio Magazine and his blog: www.geekswithblogs.net/michelotti.

For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.

The CMAP Hands On Labs Group will be meeting this Thursday, April 16th at TEK Systems in Linthicum, MD at 6:30pm.

The focus of this group is to go through a couple of hands on labs (HOL) together during each meeting.  The idea is to learn through a hands-on experience.  People like touching the bits. It's much easier to learn while getting your hands wet with the code, and we're doing what we can to help you along the way. So, bring your laptop and we'll provide the labs.

If you don't have a laptop (or portable desktop), you can still join us. You can either buddy up with someone or just watch as we will walk through each step of the lab along with everyone else.

If you are planning on bring a laptop, below are instructions and software needed to prepare before arriving.  I will bring the labs on a USB thumb drive.
The focus of the labs this month is ASP.NET MVC.

Required software:

• Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP2, or Windows Vista
• Visual Studio 2008 (not the express edition) (evaluation version available here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (included in Visual Studio 2008) (http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7755937)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (includes .NET Framework 3.5 SP1) (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en)
• SQL Server 2005/2008 Express Edition (or any other edition of SQL 2005/2008) (http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/download/)
• ASP.NET MVC (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en)

You can find the HOL manual and sample files here.  There is 1 zip file containing the HOL manuals and source.  I have also put the HOL manual in the directory as well for those who want them separately.

Details and directions can be found at http://www.cmap-online.org/Meetings/Details/2009-04-16.aspx.

Hope to see everyone there.

Christopher Steen
CMAP Hands On Labs Group Coordinator

If you can not put Visual Studio 2008 on your laptop, you can use the Visual Studio Team System 2008 VPC available from MSDN. You will also need to download either Virtual PC 2007 or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. I suggest just downloading Virtual PC as it will be easier to set up for these particular labs. It will take some time to download these materials.

Of course, if you already have Visual Studio 2008 installed, along with SQL Server or SQL Server Express, you do not need to worry about steps 1 and 2.

Step 1: Download Virtual PC 2007 and install
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&displaylang=en

Step 2: Download the Visual Studio Team System 2008 VPC, follow the instructions on the download page to extract and set up the virtual machine.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c7a809d8-8c9f-439f-8147-948bc6957812&displaylang=en

Lab Files
http://cid-1e604b15acc5b8c7.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/CMAP%20Hands%20On%20Labs/April