When: 8/17/2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Chris Koenig

Speaker Bio: Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy. In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack. Chris also enjoys travelling, cooking, camping and playing guitar. You can contact Chris through his blog at http://chriskoenig.net/, via email at chris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com.

Topic: Developing Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7

Summary: We live in a world today where people place a high demand on getting access to their data wherever they are, whenever they want it. In today?s technology landscape, the primary device available to all people is a mobile phone. In a mobile space arguably dominated byt the competition, Microsoft has been silent for some time about the next evolution of their mobile offering.
The time for waiting is now over!
Join Developer Evangelist Chris Koenig for a detailed look into Microsoft?s latest offering in the mobile space ? the revolutionary Windows Phone 7 Series. Based primarily on Silverlight and XNA, Windows Phone 7 Series provides a very rich and powerful development platform. In this session we?ll explore the Windows Phone 7 Series architecture, development patterns, design and development tools, and more. We?ll walk through some sample code as well as building a sample Windows Phone 7 Series application from scratch. You?ll leave this session with a solid understanding of what Windows Phone 7 Series is all about, and what it takes to build killer applications today!

Location: CoHabitat - 610 Commerce St., Shreveport, LA map

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When: 7/20/2010 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Rob Vettor

Speaker Bio: Rob Vettor is a C# MVP, INETA Regional Speaker and Microsoft .NET Architect/Technical for Jack Henry and Associates, a large financial services software company. Rob has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of NET computer books. You can contact Rob at robvettor@hotmail.com, and check out Rob's blog at www.robvettor.com.

Topic: Advance Your Debugging Skills with VS 2010

Summary: As a developer, you can easily spend 50% or more of your time in a debugger. Learn how to maximize your debugging productivity by leveraging the new debugging features in Visual Studio 2010.

In this session, we'll...

• Dive deep into the new IntelliTrace (formerly, historical debugging) feature, which enables you to step back in time within your debugging session and inspect or re-execute code, without having to restart your application.
• See how to manage large numbers of breakpoints with labeling, searching and filtering.
• Extend "data tips" by adding comments, notes and strategically "pinning" these resources to maintain their visibility throughout your session.
• Demonstrate "collaborative debugging" by debugging a portion of an application and then exporting breakpoints and labeled data tips, so that others can leverage your effort, without having to start over.
• Leverage these new debugging features in applications built in earlier versions of the .NET Framework through the MultiTargeting features available in VS 2010

You'll walk-away with a clear understanding of how you can use this upcoming technology to vastly increase your productivity and build better software.

Location: CoHabitat - 610 Commerce St., Shreveport, LA map

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When: 6/15/2010 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Casey Watson

Speaker Bio: Casey Watson is a Technical Lead with RAPP (http://www.rapp.com/), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, avid blogger, and proud father. For the last five years, Casey has been focused on helping customers realize business value through the development of quality software products, primarily on the Microsoft .NET platform. As a Certified Scrum Master, Casey is a firm proponent of agile practices and deeply believes in the value of product over process. Recently his focus has been on 3.5 technologies such as WCF and WPF, building rich Windows-based applications for several major financial and retail firms. While not blogging, coding, or updating his Twitter status, Casey enjoys spending time with his family and never turns down an ice cold bottle of Blue Moon.

Topic: MonoTouch

Summary: Interested in building iPhone applications but don't have the mental bandwidth or time to learn a new programming language? Join us as we take a deep dive into the MonoTouch platform and learn how to build rich, functional mobile applications using familiar development technologies and patterns such as C#. We'll start off with a gentle introduction to the MonoTouch framework and the Mono project in general then plunge into building a complete Twitter client from scratch. Join us as we go beyond assemblies and syntax and talk about the user experience implications of building mobile software. I think you'll be surprised at how easy MonoTouch is to pick up and how quickly you can get started development and publishing usable applications for today's top mobile platform.

Location: CoHabitat - 610 Commerce St., Shreveport, LAmap

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When: 5/25/2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Cory Smith

Speaker Bio

Cory Smith maintains a .NET related blog at AddressOf.com and is very active in the .NET community. His community involvement includes: President of the Dallas/Fort Worth DNUX group, Vice President of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, VBInsider Member, Microsoft MVP, member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. A veteran developer (professionally writing software for almost 20 years) working on projects ranging anywhere from major e-commerce sites such as RadioShack.com and InterstateBatteries.com to applications that are at the heart and soul of over 4600 radio stations around the world. His work history includes working for Tandy/RadioShack, Rare Medium, Inc., Electric Works Corp., Scott Studios Corp. and Shiny Stone Digital.
In his spare time, Cory is also owns and operates a combative martial arts academy, coaches a MMA fight team, is an avid motorcycle enthusiast and attempts to watch every action movie ever released.

Topic: Windows Forms vs WPF/Silverlight: A Candid Conversation

Summary: What is the future of Windows Forms? If I stay with Windows Forms, am I SOL? Why should I move to WPF/Silverlight? Should I choose WPF or Silverlight? What tools are available for working with these new technologies? What are third-party component vendors providing that can help me? These are the questions that aren't answered when we see the glitz and glamour of technology demos regarding WPF/Silverlight; so these are the questions that we'll tackle head on.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

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When: 4/19/2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Zain Naboulsi and John Weston

Speaker Bios

Zain:
For over 15 years Zain has been working with the latest Microsoft technologies. He's been a consultant and trainer since 1995. He currently creates the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks series. Also, he created Online Community Evangelism; which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like LinkedIn, Facebook, and elsewhere. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of online environments but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer. Zain's efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, and many others. He has been interviewed by Forrester Research, Gartner, and the Science Channel for his work. He is a frequent speaker at events in LinkedIn, Facebook, and other online venues. Zain also lectures world-wide on a variety of developer topics.

John:
Some may call John a geek. He prefers the term "technologist." Truth is, John began working with computer games before PCs even hit the scene - and he's probably got a dusty prototype stashed somewhere to prove it. He's a fourth generation educator who loves to help people learn new technologies and relishes that magic moment when the light comes on in their eyes. Before joining Microsoft full time, he spent six years as an MCT, training people at a local college and getting new Microsoft hires up to speed. John holds more certifications than he can remember, but the list definitely includes MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, and CCNA. His favorite technology is SQL and he gets a special thrill from solving customers' problems. For John, there's nothing like coaxing people from panic to joy when a server goes down and he can help get the business back up on line. When he's not working, John can usually be found sailing around Texas with his kids.

Topic: .NET Framework 4.0 Features & Cloud Computing

Summary: Seriously, the .NET Framework 4.0 is awesome! Come join Zain Naboulsi as we take a look at what's new and what's changed. Learn about Parallel LINQ, T4 Templates, Entity Framework changes, SortedLists, and much, much more! This is one session you don't want to miss!

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

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When: 2/16/2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Ken Byrd

Speaker Bio: Ken Byrd is a .NET consultant and mentor with more than 20 years of experience designing and building client/server and web-based distributed database applications. He has worked with a variety of languages including C, C++, Delphi, C# and VB.NET and has worked extensively with Microsoft .NET since the initial Beta releases.
Ken graduated from Baylor University in 1986 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and currently works in Dallas with TekFocus, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions where he teaches advanced development classes in C#, VB, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WCF, Workflow, ADO and WPF.
Ken is also a member of the INETA Regional Speaker's Bureau and is a frequent speaker at various user groups and community events throughout the area.

Topic: jQuery for .NET Developers

Summary: Occasionally a software product comes along that fundamentally changes the way we do things... jQuery does that to the world of client-side JavaScript! In this introductory presentation, Ken Byrd will show you how to incorporate jQuery into your ASP.NET WebForms and MVC applications. You'll be surprised at how easy it is!

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

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When: 1/19/2010 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Brian Sullivan

Speaker Bio: Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Praeses, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 5 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR.

Topic: Introduction to Object-Relational Mapping with NHibernate

Summary: Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) have started to make their way into mainstream .NET development with the advent of LINQ-to-SQL and the Entity Framework from Microsoft. Before that, though, there was NHibernate. Based on the Java Hibernate project, NHibernate is one of the most mature .NET ORMs in the marketplace. The Fluent NHibernate project builds on this to make NHibernate a breeze to configure. In this presentation, Brian will discuss the pros and cons of ORMs in general, and demonstrate how NHibernate can take the pain out of writing your persistence layer.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

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When: 11/16/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: Jon Dalberg

Speaker Bio: Jon Dalberg is a Senior Consultant with Antares Technology Solutions in Baton Rouge, LA. He has been writing software professionally since 1994 and .Net since its initial release. Jon specializes in mentoring and training other software developers on new and existing technologies and agile techniques. Jon is the co-leader of the Baton Rouge .Net User Group (www.brdnug.org) and one of the organizers for Baton Rouge SQL Saturday.

Topic: Dependency Injection - Why you need to know about it and how it can help you design better software

Summary: We will walk through arguments for modular design that eventually lead us to DI. We will discuss some tools that help us manage those dependencies. Plenty of demos and beautiful slides!

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 10/19/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: David Penton

Speaker Bio: David L. Penton lives in the Dallas, Texas area and has a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA. He currently is a Lead Software Development Engineer / Performance Lead at Telligent Systems, Inc. Before that, he was a technical lead for the International Systems Group and then in Merchandising Systems at JCPenney, Inc., in Plano, TX. Before that, he was a senior business and analysis analyst for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie, TX. During that time he has worked on various technologies. He currently spends most of his time with C# and SQL Server. Database platforms he has dealt with (development and admin) include but not limited to SQL Server, Oracle, DB2. David is a member of the ASPInsiders and was formerly a SQL Server MVP for several years and is now an ASP.NET MVP.

Topic: Deep Dive Into Microsoft Velocity

Summary: There are several external caching engines that are available. Now Microsoft is busy developing their own caching engine called "Velocity". This promises to provide the ability for application developers to horizontally scale their applications across numerous servers by providing unified cache across all application instances. This presentation will give an overview of "Velocity", the basics of requirements and installation, and an explanation of the basic areas of interest within "Velocity" such as Named Caches, Regions and Cache Items. The samples in this demonstration include code for accessing cache, and how this can integrate with the ASP.NET cache.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 9/21/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: Jeffrey Palermo

Speaker Bio: Jeffrey Palermo is the CTO of Headspring Systems. Jeffrey specializes in Agile management coaching and helps companies double the productivity of software teams. He is instrumental in the Austin software community as a member of AgileAustin and a director of the Austin .NET User Group. Jeffrey has been recognized by Microsoft as a "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) in Solutions Architecture for five years and participates in the ASPInsiders group, which advises the ASP. NET team on future releases. He is also certified as a MCSD.NET and ScrumMaster. Jeffrey has spoken and facilitated at industry conferences such as VSLive, DevTeach, the Microsoft MVP Summit, various ALT.NET conferences, and Microsoft Tech Ed. He also speaks to user groups around the country as part of the INETA Speakers' Bureau. His web sites are headspringsystems.com and jeffreypalermo.com. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, an Eagle Scout, and an Iraq war veteran. Jeffrey is the founder of the CodeCampServer open-source project and a cofounder of the MvcContrib project.

Topic: ASP.NET MVC in Action

Summary: With the new version of ASP.NET, developers can easily leverage the Model-View-Controller pattern in ASP.NET applications. Pulling logic away from the UI and the views has been difficult for a long time. The Model-View-Presenter pattern helps a little bit, but the fact that the view has to delegate to the presenter makes the UI pattern difficult to work with. This session is a detailed overview of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. It is meant for developers already building systems with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

This event is made possible by sponsorship from INETA, the International .NET Association.

When: 8/17/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: Zain Naboulsi

Speaker Bio: For over 15 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies. He's been a Consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications. He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like Facebook, Second Life, and OpenSim. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual worlds but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer. Zain's efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, and many others. He has been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, Gartner, and the Science Channel for his work with virtual world communities. He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life, Facebook, and other virtual worlds and lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium.

Topic: A Tour of Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 1 Edition)

Summary: You've heard about it and now you want to see it for yourself: Visual Studio 2010. Take a ride with us as we learn about new features like Highlighting References and Generate From Usage. Generate a database from your conceptual model by using the Create Database Wizard. Check out the new VB.NET Auto-Implemented Properties and C# Call Hierarchy features. This is a session you don't want to miss!

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 7/20/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: Keith Elder

Speaker Bio: Keith Elder is the co-host of the popular online technology podcast Deep Fried Bytes. He is also a Team Leader / Sr. Software Engineer for Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender based in Livonia, MI and is the founder of the Hattiesburg, MS .Net User Group called Hub City NUG. Keith is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer and all around geek.

As an experienced educator, trainer and speaker he has logged thousands of hours in front of the classroom teaching students of varying ages from the 6th grade to the college level. He has trained countless developers from various business sectors ranging from top auto manufactures, fortune 500 companies and Universities.

As a Microsoft MVP and INETA speaker he speaks throughout the United States at major technical conferences, Code Camps, and .Net User Groups. Keith's ability to explain complex topics with a friendly common sense southern attitude make him a highly regarded speaker at technical conferences. You can read more about Keith's interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/blog/.

Topic: Demystyfying Windows Communication Foundation

Summary: Windows Communication Foundation was released with the .Net 3.0 framework and is the future of the platform for distributed computing. With .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) became a first class citizen with additional tooling and add ons for Windows Workflow Foundation. In this session we are going to look at WCF from the standpoint of how to transition from ASMX web services and some of the important things you should know about WCF. If you have been hesitant in adopting WCF and still writing ASMX web services, this session will hopefully put you over the edge to giving WCF a try. I assure you, once you do, you will never look back.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

This event is made possible by sponsorship from INETA, the International .NET Association.

When: 5/18/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: Zac Kleinpeter

Speaker Bio: Zac is an analyst at Praeses, LLC in Shreveport, Louisiana. He has experience with a variety of technologies, but is currently working in (and greatly enjoying) Ruby on Rails. Zac has a passion for technology, but also enjoys many non-geek pursuits, such as raquetball, brewing his own beer, and spending time with his daughters, Elizabeth and Eva.

Topic: CouchDB

Summary: CouchDB is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for extreme scalability and is easily deployed to multi-core or multi-server clusters. Zac will present an overview of CouchDB, demonstrating how to use it from a coding perspective, as well as discussing situations where a document database would be a good fit for an application.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 4/20/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: Chance Coble

Speaker Bio: Chance Coble is a partner and founder of A6 Systems, LLC. Chance is a regular speaker and author on the topic of functional programming for the real world. His career as a functional programmer began several years ago with Haskell, and he now works full time as a consultant and teacher in F# for applications ranging from scientific computing to advanced enterprise solutions. Prior to A6 Systems Chance was Senior Scientist at Ideal Innovations, Inc where his inventions were applied to mission critical systems for the DoD, DHS, DARPA and other government agencies around the world. He has an MS in Bioinformatics from the University of Texas at Houston and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Topic: The F# Language

Summary: Chance Coble will give a presentation on F#, Microsoft's new hybrid OO/Functional programming language for the .NET platform. In this talk he will give a general overview of the language, and walk through some real world examples of its use. The audience will walk away with an understanding of where this language fits, when to bring it into a project and where to go to learn more.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 3/16/2009 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Speaker: David Mohundro

Speaker Bio: David Mohundro is a software developer at Data-Tronics, Corp. in Fort Smith, AR and is a co-founder/leader of the Fort Smith, AR .NET User Group. He has over 5 years of experience developing software using technologies ranging from classic ASP and JavaScript to Windows Forms and WPF. David is enthusiastic about building decoupled and maintainable applications using practices such as Test Driven Development and he strives to be a lifelong learner. You can contact David through his blog.

Topic: The Power of Powershell

Summary: PowerShell is the a scripting language and environment from Microsoft built on top the of the .NET Framework. It offers functionality ranging from helping developers be more productive by automating their repetitive tasks to allowing them to create build scripts in a DSL-like syntax. It is being used heavily by Microsoft in the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 as the basis for the automatic troubleshooting system and is also featured in both IIS 7 and SQL Server 2008.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

Since we've had a bit of trouble with the CMS system we were trying to use for the site, we've decided to switch to just a static HTML site. That's all we really need anyway, and hopefully it will be a little more accessible to our members.

The details about previous meetings, plus the slide decks and other resources from those meetings will be put back on to the new site shortly. We wanted to get the more usable site out on the web as soon as possible. We hope you like the new look!

When: 11/19/2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: David Penton

Speaker Bio: David L. Penton lives in the Dallas, Texas area and has a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA. He currently is a Lead Software Development Engineer / Performance Lead at Telligent Systems, Inc. Before that, he was a technical lead for the International Systems Group and then in Merchandising Systems atJCPenney, Inc., in Plano, TX. Before that, he was a senior business and analysis analyst for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control in Grand Prairie, TX. During that time he has worked on various technologies. He currently spends most of his time with C# and SQL Server. Database platforms he has dealt with (development and admin) include but not limited to SQL Server, Oracle, DB2. David is a member of the ASPInsiders and was formerly a SQL Server MVP for several years and is now an ASP.NET MVP.

Topic: A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache Management

Summary: ASP.NET has a wonderful built-in framework for managing Cached items within a website in the namespace System.Web.Caching. It is accessible from HttpRuntime.Cache (among other ways, such as from System.Web.UI.Page.Cache). You have great flexibility with the data you may wish to cache. With this flexibility, there is an extremely important piece missing from HttpRuntime.Cache - and that is thread safety. Not from inside of the Cache, but from the external code that accesses it. Websites under high load could cause a cache item to be populated multiple times. Web applications are multi-threaded (whether you know it or not!). This is wonderful and wicked at the same time. Why, do you ask? This discussion will show you how to manage safely loading items into HttpRuntime Cache. I will also describe methodologies for easily load collections in a thread safe manner.

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 11/17/2008 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Speaker: Brian Sullivan

Speaker Bio: Brian Sullivan is a developer analyst for Praeses, LLC in Shreveport, LA. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for about 4 years, and is interested in increasing the exposure of agile techniques and methodologies in the Microsoft developer community. He is a graduate of Harding University in Searcy, AR

Topic: Debugging Evolved - An Introduction to Automated Unit Testing

Summary: Automated Unit Testing has started receiving some "buzz" in the Microsoft developer community in the last few years, and even Microsoft itself has gotten into the game by creating its own unit testing framework. Brian will cover the basics of unit testing using the NUnit framework. The goal of this presentation will be to give the audience an entry-level understanding of how unit testing frameworks function to open the door for study into more complex topics, such as Test Driven Development

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 10/20/2008

Speaker: Rob Vettor

Speaker Bio: Rob Vettor is a Microsoft .NET Architect/Senior Solution Developer, who has built systems for a number of corporations, including Avanade, Raytheon and American Express. Rob, an avid Toastmaster and 'hacker golfer,' founded the Dallas .NET Architecture User Group (http://www.dotnetarch.com) , and is a member of the Microsoft South Region Developer Guidance Council. Rob lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, twin sons, three dogs and rooms full of computer books

Topic: LINQ

Summary: While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not. Today, binding these two platforms together results in a significant amount of lost productivity as well as a less than optimal solution. Come and take a detailed look at the "LINQ Project " to see what Microsoft is doing to help bridge the mismatch between OO and relational data. We will take a close look at the following areas:

• How LINQ manifests a move from an imperative to a declarative style of programming.
• New language and framework extensions that provide a single, unified approach to querying data.
• Examples of querying data from multiple data domains: In-memory, database, ADO.NET constructs and XML documents.
• A look at the upcoming Microsoft Entity Framework.
• How LINQ might fit into a multi-tiered application

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map

When: 8/18/2008

Speaker: Chris Koenig

Speaker Bio: Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy. In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack. Chris also enjoys travelling, cooking, camping and playing guitar. You can contact Chris through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig, via email at chris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com.

Topic: Silverlight 2.0 - Next Generation Web Applications

Summary: Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web

Location: Centenary College, Wright Math Building Room 103 - map