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May 17, 2012 – “C# The Hard Parts” Lab

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Join us Thursday (05/17/2012) at 6:00 PM for free food and drinks. The lab begins at 6:30 PM, followed by some great giveaways, such as books, training, and software! Our meetings are held at 22 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN (map).

Topic: C# – The Hard Parts

In this lab, we are going to tackle some of the newer, more difficult to grok features of the C# language such as dynamics, lambdas, and co- and contravariance. If we’re lucky, we may get into asynchronous and parallel programming. Come prepared!

April 19, 2012 – Hands-on Lab with Ian Lee – “.NET Micro Framework and Gadgeteer”

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Join us Thursday (04/19/2012) at 6:00 PM for free food and drinks. The lab begins at 6:30 PM, followed by some great giveaways, such as books, training, software, and this time two Gadgeteer Kits too! Our meetings are held at 22 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN (map).

Topic: “.NET Micro Framework and Gadgeteer”

Our lab master, Ian Lee will speak about the Gadgeteer platforms and then we jump into the fun of programming.  Hands-on lab means this time that you’ll be able to play with Microcontrollers!  This lab wouldn’t be possible without our good friend VACO, who sponsors us with the Gadgets.  We’ll use FEZ Hydra Kits from GHI Electronics, and even better: we’ll give away two of them during the raffle (thanks again VACO).

Lab master: Ian Lee

Ian Lee is a software engineer at Mercury Intermedia during the day and .NET Micro Framework & Gadgeteer hobbyist by night (preparing for the zombie apocalypse).  He documents his electronics and woodworking hobbies on his “Software & Sawdust” blog at http://blog.ianlee.info.

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April 12, 2012 – Ian Lee – “Tools for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Microcontrollers & Gadgets”

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Join us Thursday (04/12/2012) at 6:00 PM for free food and drinks. The lecture begins at 6:30 PM, followed by some great giveaways, such as books, training, and software. Our meetings are held at 22 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN (map).

Topic: “Tools for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse:  Microcontrollers & Gadgets”

When the zombie apocalypse comes will you be ready?  If you have doubts then attend this session and learn how you can use microcontrollers and the .NET Micro Framework & Gadgeteer platforms to build the tools you need to protect your family and have fun doing it.  This will be a brief intro to .NET Micro Framework (FEZ & Netduino boards), Arduino, and the new Gadgeteer platform.  Be there or be food.

Speaker: Ian Lee

Ian Lee is a software engineer at Mercury Intermedia during the day and .NET Micro Framework & Gadgeteer hobbyist by night (preparing for the zombie apocalypse).  He documents his electronics and woodworking hobbies on his “Software & Sawdust” blog at http://blog.ianlee.info.

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February 09, 2012 – Gaines Kergosien – “Testing with Microsoft Pex and Moles”

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Join us at 6:00 PM for free food and drinks. The lecture begins at 6:30 PM, followed by some great giveaways, such as books, training, and software. Our meetings are held at 22 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN (map).

Topic: “Testing with Microsoft Pex and Moles”

Pex is a testing tool that analyzes code and generates unit tests. Moles is a framework that isolates code with dependencies on other application layers or frameworks. With just a few mouse clicks, you can generate suites of tests against code that previously may have been difficult or impossible to test.

Links to get smart: Pex and Moles – Isolation and White box Unit Testing for .NET

Speaker: Gaines Kergosien

Gaines Kergosien is a .NET Solutions Consultant for Deloitte. Gaines is former president and current board member for the Nashville .NET User Group. With over 12 years in solutions development using Microsoft technologies, his work includes consulting for such companies as Lexis Nexis, Gibson Guitars, Cardinal Healthcare, and HCA Physician Services. Follow him on Twitter @gainesk.

Links can be found to the presentation and demo code on Gaines’s blog: http://blog.dotnetdude.net/2012/02/microsoft-pex-and-moles.html

January 19, 2012 – Scott Walters – “Entity Framework Code First”

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Join us Thursday (01/19/2012) at 6:00 PM for free food and drinks. The lab meeting begins at 6:30 PM, followed by some great giveaways, such as books, training, and software. Our meetings are held at 22 Century Blvd, Nashville, TN (map).

Topic: “Entity Framework Code First”

Microsoft’s ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) simplifies data access to avoid working directly with the database in your code. Besides “database first” development style, and “model first” development style EF4 also enables a more code-centric option which we call “Code First development”. Come and learn more about that technology!

Helpful links:

If you listen to podcasts during commuting, I advise the 70th DeepFriedBytes episode: http://deepfriedbytes.com/podcast/episode-70-coding-first-with-entity-framework-4-1/

Materials on MVC3 App EF 4.1, Code First development on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937723

Scott Gu’s blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/16/code-first-development-with-entity-framework-4.aspx

A code Project article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/MVC3_CodeFirst.aspx

Speaker: Scott Walters