April 2008 - Posts

• May Meeting - The ASP.NET MVC Framework

  Jess Chadwick Thursday, May 9th, 2008 - 6:15 PM   The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern is one that many developers are familiar with which separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC-based Web applications. It is a lightweight, highly testable framework that allows you to easily incorporate this pattern into your applications, helping to separate the different aspects  (input logic, business logic, and UI logic) into loosely-coupled and pluggable elements.   ASP.NET MVC is an alternative to standard ASP.NET Web Forms development, not a replacement.  In this presentation we'll explore the advantages that ASP.NET MVC has to offer, including: Maintaining a clear separation of concerns Facilitating Test-Driven Development More control over more aspects of your applications, particularly the URLs and the HTML you emit   Speaker Bio Jess Chadwick is the Web Lead at Infragistics, responsible for keeping all their various web properties up and running.  He has over 7 years experience with .NET technologies ranging from embedded devices in startups to enterprise-scale web farms at Fortune 500s.  He is actively involved with the community, acting as Leader of the NJDOTNET Central New Jersey .NET user group and actively contributing to various open source projects such as CodeCampServer.  You can visit his blog at http://blog.jesschadwick.com.   Posted Apr 23 2008, 12:30 PM by Jess Chadwick with no comments Filed under: Meetings

• First Meeting of the Spring Study Group Tonight

  Just like the title says, we'll be having our first meeting of the Spring '08 MS Certification Study Group tonight - 4/17/2008 starting at 6:30 PM.  If you haven't already heard about it, check out the forum I've created for it for more info. For those of you coming, it is in the some location and time slot as our regular NJDOTNET user group meetings, so you can use the directions listed on our homepage to get there if you don't already know where we meet. Important Note:  Unlike the regular user group meetings, this group is not sponsored (at least not yet), so there will be no free pizza.  You'll need to get your dinner beforehand, though you can feel free to bring it with you to the group.   Posted Apr 17 2008, 01:42 PM by Jess Chadwick with no comments Filed under: Meetings

• April Meeting - Dive into WPF: Using the Visual Tree to Create Awesome UI

  Pavan Podila Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 6:15 PM The Visual tree is one of the core concepts of the WPF framework. All things visible in a WPF application are objects from the Visual tree. In this talk I'll give a quick overview of the Visual Tree and then get into interesting ways of manipulating it. We will also look into the styling and templating aspects of visuals. The ideas presented here should be immediately useful to custom-control developers and application developers in general. The session will be very hands-on with cool demos and live coding! The techniques discussed here were used in my blog posts on ElementFlow, GlassWindow, Drag 'n' Drop with attached properties, Genie Effect, etc. Speaker Bios Pavan Podila has worked on a wide variety of UI technologies with current focus on WPF/Silverlight, Flash/Flex and DHTML. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science with specialization in Graphics and Image Processing. He has been working with .Net since 2004 and WPF since 2005. In the past he has worked with Java Swing, Eclipse plugins, AJAX UI frameworks and Trolltech Qt. His primary interests are in 2D/3D Graphics, Data Visualization, UI architecture and computational art. He blogs actively on http://blog.pixelingene.com.   Posted Apr 09 2008, 01:49 AM by Jess Chadwick with 1 comment(s)