All posts by : Twin Cities IT and Developer Events

1 of 20 | SilverLight User Group Meeting - November 18 - Topic:  Migrating a Data Aware WPF Application to Silverlight 2.0 Presenter:  Mike Benkovich, Microsoft Date:  11/18/2008  Time:  12pm - 2 pm   Website:  http://www.ilmservice.com/silverlight/     Abstract: One of the great things about WPF and Silverlight is that they’re both built on top of XAML and with Silverlight 2.0 you can leverage the latest data manipulation capabilities of LINQ. In this session we’ll take a look at a basic WPF application that pulls data from a web service. We will explore VB.NET’s XML Literals as we work with the information. Then we will take that application and migrate it to Silverlight 2.0 and show how the security model and communications mechan......

2 of 20 | CRM User Group - Topic:  Workflow When: Thursday, November 6, 2008 Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 AM Event: 9:00 - 11:00 AM Networking/Q&A: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Where:  Northland Center 3500 American Blvd West, Conf Room B (on concourse level of bldg) Bloomington, MN 55417 Summary:  On Thursday, November 6th, come learn what Dynamics CRM 4.0 offers in terms of workflow using the new Windows Workflow Foundation! We'll be covering various new ways the new workflow engine enables greater power and flexibility.  These are just a few of the things we'll cover: - This isn't your parent's workflow engine, see what's new in 4.0 - Using Stages to manage business processes - Creating an Audit Trail ......

3 of 20 | SharePoint 2007 - ECM (Enterprise Content Management) Seminar December 2 - Date:  December 2 Time:  9am - 12:00am Location:  New Horizons of MN 4510 W 77th St Suite 210 Edina MN 55435 Registration Link:  http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHSP07ECM Objectives   This a joint session presented by New Horizons of MN and Inetium that will explore the various content management capabilities of SharePoint 2007 for managing documents, records and web content. This session will include a number of demonstrations and tips on how to get started using SharePoint for content management.  Audience SharePoint Administrators and Power Users   Topics Document Management Content Types Version Control Metadata Records Managemen......

4 of 20 | SharePoint Server 2007: Workflow and Digital Forms Seminar October 30 - Date:  October 30 Time:  9am - 12:00am Location:  New Horizons of MN 4510 W 77th St Suite 210 Edina MN 55435 Registration Link:  http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHSP07Forms Course Overview   This is a joint seminar with New Horizons of MN and Inetium. This session will cover SharePoint 2007's workflow and digital form capabilities. With the addition of workflow in SharePoint 2007, users now have the ability to manage and track multiple processes within their organization. This session will include many demonstrations of how to get started using workflow and digital forms in SharePoint 2007. This seminar is available live on the web using VoIP (PC audio). Telephone a......

5 of 20 | SOA World Tour - October 15 - Join IBM in St. Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 for the Smart SOA™ World Tour! Website:  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/smart_soa_world_tour_na_events.html?S_TACT=107AG01W&S_CMP=campaign (let me know if this link doesn't work and I'll send you my original invitation) The Smart SOA approach drives real sustainable performance and ROI through process optimization by empowering business users to change processes dynamically and delivering the visibility to sense and respond to changing business conditions. We will review how you can get started with process automation and progress to more advanced capabilities while describing exciting new BPM announcement......

6 of 20 | MSDN Events - Twin Cities - Date:  October 28 Join MSDN Events for the latest tips, tools and technical information you need to build powerful applications and engaging user experiences. We’ll show you how SQL Server 2008 delivers new development capabilities, including support for Spatial Data types, a fresh storage mechanism and more. You’ll also learn how to leverage the Silverlight platform to build next generation applications for consumers and business, and how Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO) addresses some of the toughest challenges facing today’s Office solution developers. Don’t miss these free, live sessions near you. Register now  at  http://www.msdnevents.com  SESSION 1 |......

7 of 20 | The Architecture and Integration Summit - October 30 - The Architecture and Integration Summit hosted by the University of Minnesota and the Integration Consortium is coming soon. October 29th is a pre-conference tutorial day while October 30th is the main event with keynote presentations, track presentations, a panel debate on SOA versus REST, and a cocktail reception hosted by event sponsors – all at the McNamara Alumni Center. While Roy Fielding may not have invented the World Wide Web, he is in fact one of its chief architects and is the opening keynote presenter on the topic “The Web as Integration Architecture”.  Dr. Fielding is chief scientist at Day Software and is best known for his work in developing the WWW infrastructure, definin......

8 of 20 | BizTalk User Group Meeting - September 18, 2008 - Website:  www.mnbiztalk.com Date:  September 18 Time:  6:00 - 7:00 Location:  Microsoft Office Topic:  BizTalk Services - Workflow and Messaging in the Cloud Presenter:  Matt Milner   ...

9 of 20 | Classes the week of August 25 at New Horizons of MN - New Horizons of MN, located in Edina MN, has the following classes running next week.  Most classes are offered either as a public class here at our facility or as a remote class, which is the same instructor led class, but instead of coming in to our office, you take the class from anywhere.  For more information on what remote learning is, please visit http://www.nhmn.com/Services/RemoteLearning.aspx .  IT and Developer Courses: 2793 Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=MI2793 8/27/2008 - 8/29/2008 2933/2934 Developing, Deploying and Managing Business Process and Integration Solutions using BizTal......

10 of 20 | Exclusive BizTalk Training - August 25-29 - Registration Link:  http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=MI2933/2934 Date:  8/25/2008 - 8/29/2008  Location:  New Horizons of MN - Edina For more information, contact New Horizons at 952.896.6800.  Mention that you saw this training here!   Class Overview This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to efficiently and effectively integrate systems, employees, and trading partners through orchestration in a highly flexible and highly automated manner. This course also provides students with the knowledge and skills required to install and configure a computer running Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006. The course also shows you how to deploy......

11 of 20 | week3 - Another Fine Mess - Collaboration User Group Meeting - August 20 - week3 - Another Fine Mess Date: 20 August 2008, Wednesday Time: 09:00 AM End time: 11:00 AM Location: Maple Grove Community Center - Banquet Room More information and online registration: http://wcig.shuttlepod.org/Default.aspx?pageId=155624&eventId=20875&EventViewMode=2 Join Virgil Carroll from High Monkey and Rick Adams from PC Solutions for this month's topic:  Best practices for backup, document archiving, and SharePoint site management.  Agenda Why SharePoint environments get out of control: Site management planning (why it matters) Understanding the risk of creating new sites for every project / meeting / team Alternatives: using metadata, categorized views, and......

12 of 20 | Advanced Transact-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2000 & 2005 by Itzik Ben-Gan - Advanced Transact-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2000 & 2005 When:  November 3-7, 2008 Where:  New Horizons of MN located in Edina MN (www.nhmn.com) Course Outline:  http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHTASQLPrg05 This course was developed by Itzik Ben-Gan, a mentor and one of the founders of Solid Quality Learning, and the author of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (MSPress, 2006) and Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (MSPress, 2006). For more information or to register, please contact Brandy Favilla at bfavilla@nhmn.com or 952-896-6834 More Details: Advanced Transact-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for ......

13 of 20 | Architecture & Integration Summit - October 29-30 - Architecture & Integration Summit October 29 & 30, 2008 Minneapolis MN Website:  http://architectureandintegrationsummit.com/   The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and the Integration Consortium (IC) join forces to explore and discuss the best ideas for IT architecture and integration. Unlike previous IASA IT Architect Regional Conferences & IC Regional Summits, the Minneapolis event is renamed the Architecture and Integration Summit. The first day consists of in-depth workshops while the second day hosts a CIO breakfast and over 16 presentations and four tracks separated by specialty. Who should attend: This Event will discuss key issues faci......

14 of 20 | BizTalk User Group Meeting - July 17, 2008 - July 17, 2008  - BizTalk User Group Meeting Location:  Microsoft Office Presenter: Andy Morrison, Randall McClure, Krishna Velesetti and Jeff Dreke  Title: BizTalk Table Topics For the July BizTalk User Group we're going to try a different format.  Digineer will be leading "table topic" discussions on the following topics: ·  R3/Oslo/Futures: What does it mean for BizTalkers? ·  WCF Adapters/WCF Line of Business Adapter SDK ·  Operations and Deployment ·  ESB/Patterns The "table topics" will be lead by discussion leaders who will be moderating the conversations - as an attendee you'll be participating and driving the "table topic" discussions. Bring your questions, opinions, ......

15 of 20 | Collaboration Technology Interest Group (aka: Week3) - July 16 - This is a friendly reminder that this Wednesday, July 16th, from 9:00 – 11:00am the first Collaboration Technology Interest Group (aka: Week3) session will be held at the Maple Grove Community Center.  We have had a good number of registrants, but have plenty of spots open.  Free Wi-Fi is available.  For more information continue reading or click here to learn more. This event is free and space is still available, you may visit the registration page by clicking here. July 16- Collaboration Triage - “Five areas that will benefit from collaboration technology.” Join Virgil Carroll from High Monkey Consulting on July 16 to learn how you can evaluate five key areas of your organization that......

16 of 20 | Free Seminars the week of July 14 - Free events/Seminars in the Twin Cities the week of July 14. SharePoint Server 2007: ECM (Enterprise Content Management) http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHSP07ECM 7/15/2008 - 7/15/2008 Virtualization Overview http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHTRGVDC 7/16/2008 - 7/16/2008 Mentored Learning Preview http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=MLPRE 7/17/2008 - 7/17/2008 Silverlight/WCF User Group:  Web Analytics and SEO for Silverlight Applications http://www.ilmservice.com/silverlight/Signup.aspx?eventid=3 7/15/2008 - 7/15/2008 SQL User Group Meeting www.mnsug.org 7/15/2008 - 7/15-2008 MIMA Monthly Meeting http://tinyurl.com/67xr3n 7/16/2008 - ......

17 of 20 | Exclusive PerformancePoint Server Training in July - Do you need training on PerformancePoint Server? New Horizons of MN in partnership with Solid Quality Mentors has a class coming up the week of July 7 in Edina MN.  Link for more information:  http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHPerfSrvr07End  Course Title:  Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 End-to-End   Class Overview  Written and delivered by industry experts, this five-day course provides students with the technical skills required to design, develop and manage solutions using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS). From a monitoring perspective, students will learn to design, develop and manage interactive dashboards; and from a planning persp......

18 of 20 | Classes the week of June 30 at New Horizons of MN - Classes next week at New Horizons of MN www.nhmn.com MI3938:  Updating your Skills from Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=MI3938 *available as instructor led in our facility or remote learning June 30 - July 2 July 9-11 Sept 10 - 12 November 5-7 PowerShell for Administrators http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHPowerShell June 30 - July 2 July 23 - 25 August 20 - 22 October 1 - 3 *available as instructor led in our facility or remote learning Office SharePoint Designer 2007:  Data Connectivity and Workflows http://www.nhmn.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NH......

19 of 20 | Heartland Developers Conference - Heartland Developers Conference Omaha - October 15-17, 2008 Minneapolis - September 28-30, 2008 Website:  www.heartlanddc.com The Conference: HDC provides regional developers the opportunity to experience sessions usually reserved for Tech-Ed and PDC at a much lower cost while retaining the same nationally known presenters. 5 years since it’s inception, HDC08 continues to build on the success of the largest annual independent professional Microsoft development conference in the nation, organized by user groups, and focused on .NET development and other emerging Microsoft technologies. Over 2 days, 30 sessions, 4 tracks, and several networking opportunities, HDC08 is where you’ll fi......

20 of 20 | VSTS User Group Meeting Tonight at Microsoft - Topic: VSTS Build Deployment with TFS Deployer Date / Time: Wednesday, June 18th @ 5pm Where: Microsoft 8300 Norman Center Dr., Suite 950 Bloomington, MN 55437 Description: TFS Deployer is an open source agent for monitoring TFS builds and automatically deploying them when they are ready for deployment.  VSTS does not come with any ‘out of the box’ build deployment and distribution tools. Usually, users either add deployment scripts as part of the build process; create a separate build definition which is just used for deployment; or kick of build deployments manually. TFS deployer runs on a deployment server and automatically runs a batch file, powershell script or msbuild target w......