View discount from Code Magazine 		  Minnesota Developers Conference 2008  
6 Tracks, 24 Sessions, and 2 Keynote Speeches
September 9, 2008. 7:30 am untill 5:30 pm
    
 
Seminars
 

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ILM
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Seminars
The Twin Cities .NET User Group continues to organize exciting new seminars. We had great successes since we started in February 2002. These successes are made possible by the hard work from ILM's staff, sponsorship from Microsoft, and support from the speakers and members. We are looking forward to keeping it up in many years to come.

The seminars that have the "sign up" symbol next to it have been completely scheduled and you can feel free to register for these seminars.
 
Pizzas and sodas are provided at each seminar, courtesy of Microsoft. We also raffle-off books and other prizes.
 
 
Upcoming Events:
 
 
Past Events:                                                   
 
 

8/7/2008.  5PM-7PM 
Topic:  Microsoft Expressions Suite - Behind the Scene
Presenter:  Bob Pappas, Microsoft 
 
Abstract:

Abstract "Come and meet with the leaders of the Microsoft Expressions Developemnt team in Twin Cities. This newly created development center is building some of the most cutting edge technologies of today and tomorrow. The discussion will be focused on the following technical topics.

  • Projects
  • Microsoft software development roles
  • Team culture
    • Microsoft Expression products
    • WPF and Silverlight Platforms
    • WPF and Silverlight Development
  • Cross platform development
  • Useful design patterns
  • Question & Answer
"
About Speaker
 

Bob's career started at an early age in the frozen tundra of northern Minnesota. While still in high school in the early 80's, Bob published several TRS-80 video games including porting (with no code or specs) Frogger to the TRS-80, Timex Sinclair, and the Color Sinclair. After high school, Bob moved to the Twin Cities to attend the University of Minnesota. In 1985, Bob purchased a 512k Mac and proceeded to write MacGolf, a multi-year top selling 3D golf simulation. In 1997, Bob and Doug started ImageReady with Bob as the engineering manager, a web focused image authoring tool. Bob was awarded two patents recently that were filed due to innovations in ImageReady and Photoshop – most notably the History Palette which introduced multiple undo to Adobe products. In 2005, Adobe hired Bob to come back and lead the Photoshop Lightroom engineering team, a professional photography processing and workflow application. After the successful public beta programs and Lightroom 1.0 launch, Doug lured Bob away from Adobe to join the world class team here at Microsoft and to build a world class development team in the Twin Cities.

6/5/2008.  5PM-7PM 
Topic:  Introduction to ASP.NET MVC
Presenter:  Jeff Brand, Microsoft 
 
Abstract:

This session will introduce the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. It will cover the core fundamentals of the ASP.NET MVC framework and will demonstrate how to build applications using it. A comparison to ASP.NET WebForms will also be part of the discussion so attendees will understand how the two technologies relate and when to use one over another.
About Speaker
 

Jeff has bee