This Monday evening will be the kickoff meeting for the CMAP study group covering Silverlight 4 Business Application Devlopment

We will meet at the Aquilent Conference Center on Monday, July 12, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.  Future meetings will be held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.

Aquilent Conference Center, 1000 West St., Laurel, MD 20707 - http://www.cmap-online.org/Meetings/Locations/Directions/Aquilent%20Conference%20Center.aspx.

As a study guide, we will be reading "Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginners Guide" by Cameron Albert and Frank LaVigne.  You can help support CMAP by ordering the book from Amazon via the link on this page:  http://www.cmap-online.org/books/Default.aspx

For the first meeting, Steve Stewart and I will be presenting the material in Chapter 1 and an introduction to XAML Syntax. Anyone interested in expanding their knowledge about Silverlight is welcome to attend any of the meetings.

Please note that there are currently no plans to provide pizzas at these meetings, so you might want to grab a bite before arriving or bring a snack.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone on the 12th.

-- Kevin Bailey
Study Group Coordinator

When: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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

Topic: A Look Inside Entity Framework 4.0

A new version of Entity Framework will be available with the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 in April. During this presentation we will look at a number of the new features in this release with the primary focus being on T4 template based code generation. These features include:

• Better N-Tier Support with Self-Tracking Entities
• Persistence Ignorance
• Lazy Loading
• POCO Change-Tracking
• T4 Template Based Code Generation
• Model-First & Code Only Development

Presenter: Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown is the Chief Software Architect and founder of Customer of Velocity, a software company providing sales force automation for the residential home building industry. He also consults as a Microsoft "Subject Matter Expert" for Apex Systems, one of the top 10 placement firms in the US. Brandon has 15 years of experience as a software architect and systems designer and travels the country teaching Microsoft technologies to Apex employees and consultants.

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

When: Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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

Topic: What's New in ASP.NET MVC 2

Learn about the new features in the ASP.NET MVC2 Beta release. Learn how Areas, Templates, Validation, Model Metadata, and Strongly typed URL Helpers will improve the development experience on the ASP.NET MVC stack.

Presenter: Roberto Hernandez

Roberto Hernandez is currently a senior consultant for Excella Consulting, who has been designing and writing software using Microsoft technology for the past the 10 years. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Roberto is one of the founders of the NetaWeb community, the leading .NET developers community in the region. You can read more about Roberto at his blog at community.rhpconsulting.net.

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

When: Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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

Topic: PDC09 Highlights and Silverlight 4 Fun

I just returned from PDC09, my first conference as a newly minted Microsoftie, and can't way to share all the cool things we announced. We'll hit the highlights and big announcements from PDC09, and then drill into some of the interesting things announced in the Silverlight, WPF and client dev spaces, with a focus on the new and exciting things in Silverlight 4 including webcam/mic support and COM automation.

Presenter: Pete Brown

A former INETA speaker and Silverlight MVP, Pete is now a Community Program Manager on Scott Hanselman's team at Microsoft, with a focus on Windows application development. His blog is at www.irritatedvowel.com/blog and you may follow him on twitter @Pete_Brown .

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

When: Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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

Topic: PDC09 Highlights and Silverlight 4 Fun

I just returned from PDC09, my first conference as a newly minted Microsoftie, and can't way to share all the cool things we announced. We'll hit the highlights and big announcements from PDC09, and then drill into some of the interesting things announced in the Silverlight, WPF and client dev spaces, with a focus on the new and exciting things in Silverlight 4 including webcam/mic support and COM automation.

Presenter: Pete Brown

A former INETA speaker and Silverlight MVP, Pete is now a Community Program Manager on Scott Hanselman's team at Microsoft, with a focus on Windows application development. His blog is at www.irritatedvowel.com/blog and you may follow him on twitter @Pete_Brown .

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

When: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

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

Topic: Windows 7 House Party

Wondering what this Windows 7 thing everyone is talking about? Come out early to the CMAP main meeting on Tuesday and test drive Windows 7. We will have a number of computers preloaded with Windows 7 for you to use. Bring your questions about Windows 7 and we'll try to answer them. Also, being a developer user group, we'll have the latest beta of Visual Studio 2010 installed.

What is a party without prizes? We have a number of items to giveaway, including a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

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

When: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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

Topic: C# 4.0 New Language Features

This presentation will cover the new C# 4.0 language features. This demo-heavy session will begin by covering various dynamic scenarios with C# including the new "dynamic" keyword, simplified Reflection, custom dynamic objects, duck typing, Iron Ruby integration, and more. We will also cover named and optional parameters, new COM Interop enhancements, co-variance, and contra-variance. If you are a C# developer, come learn about the new language tools that you can put in your toolbox!

Presenter: Steve Michelotti

Steve Michelotti is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and an Architect/Developer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS). 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 previously was the Chief Technologist at e.magination. Steve is a frequent presenter at developer user groups and Code Camps along the East Coast and holds the MCSD, MCPD, and MCT certifications. Steve 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.

CMAP is currently looking for speakers for our upcoming CMAP Code Camp Fall 2009 on Saturday, November 7th from 8:30am - 5:30pm. There will 20-25 75 minute sessions, along with several 45 minute sessions during lunch.

We are looking to give our attendees a wide range of session topics.

Looking to get into speaking? Speaking at Code Camp is a great way to get started.

If you are interested in presenting please fill out the form located on our sessions page.  If you have any questions or problems with the form, please send an email to programming[at]cmap-online.org.  Please feel free to submit more than one topic. We would like to limit it to 2 presentations per speaker.

For more information about the CMAP Code Camp can be found on the code camp web site.

Sessions Page - http://www.cmapcodecamp.org/Sessions.aspx

CMAP is currently looking for speakers for our upcoming CMAP Code Camp Fall 2009 on Saturday, November 7th from 8:30am - 5:30pm. There will 20-25 75 minute sessions, along with several 45 minute sessions during lunch.

We are trying to get more jQuery, Ruby, TDD, SQL Server, and Best Practices sessions.

Other possible session topics are .NET 101, .NET 4.0 and VS2010, ALT.NET, Data Access, Business Intelligence, and Sharepoint. If your talk does not fit into one of these, submit it anyway, we'll find a place for it.

Looking to get into speaking? Speaking at Code Camp is a great way to get started.

If you are interested in presenting please fill out the form located on our sessions page.  If you have any questions or problems with the form, please send an email to programming[at]cmap-online.org.  Please feel free to submit more than one topic. We would like to limit it to 2 presentations per speaker.

For more information about the CMAP Code Camp can be found on the code camp web site.

Sessions Page - http://www.cmapcodecamp.org/Sessions.aspx

We are currently looking for speakers for our upcoming CMAP Code Camp Fall 2009 on Saturday, November 7th from 8:30am - 5:30pm. There will 75 minute sessions, along with several 45 minute sessions during lunch.

Possible session topics are .NET 101, .NET Futures, ALT.NET, Best Practices, Data Access/SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and Sharepoint. If your talk does not fit into one of these, submit it anyway, we'll find a place for it.

Looking to get into speaking? Speaking at Code Camp is a great way to get started.

If you are interested in presenting please fill out the form located on our sessions page.  If you have any questions or problems with the form, please send an email to programming@cmap-online.org.

Please feel free to submit more than one topic. We would like to limit it to 2 presentations per speaker.

For more information about the CMAP Code Camp can be found on the code camp web site.

Sessions Page - http://www.cmapcodecamp.org/Sessions.aspx