Acadiana .NET User Group

Network Assemblies Presentation Slide and Source Code Available

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:22:50 -0700

Ben has been gracious to release his source code and slides for all to review in his presentation Network Assemblies: Secure and Update code through the cloud. You can retrieve and review his presentation over here. Thanks again Ben for the presentation. We hope to see something new from you soon, as your presentations are always interesting and welcome!

SQL Saturday Event Aug 06, 2011 - Register Now

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:23:39 -0700

You dont want to miss this event folks! Sql Saturday is our Coding .NET personal conference, chocked full of sessions and social fun. If you are a developer, a Sql guru, a pass-time coder, you dont want to miss this FREE event! Please register before at the following link here. You can view the Sessions Schedule here.

If you want to go, but dont have a ride, send me an email, and I can post out a email asking who has room and maybe we can all meetup before we head out to baton rouge.

How are we doing as a .NET User Group ?

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:23:39 -0700

It's been awhile since I posted this question, but I need to keep up to date with how you guys/gals think we are doing. Is there anything we can do better? Is there something more you would like to see? Do you enjoy the presentations? Do you enjoy the .NET Socials? Any suggestions to make it a better event?

We want to hear from you. Dont hesitate to email us with feedback, suggestions, rants, or just to say hey.

We thoroughly enjoy doing this for this community, because we feel this community is a great one. Big or small, we have to stick together :).

Dynamic parallel async requests in MVC

Tue, 17 May 2011 14:04:11 -0700

How to make several asynchronous requests in parallel to the same web service, when the number of such requests is dynamically determined. I found a great post from Pete Montgomery that shows a really simple example on doing Async Parallel requests in MVC. Click to read the details ....

Compile Views in ASP.NET MVC to save you time and enhance your code

Wed, 11 May 2011 07:13:38 -0700

Compiled ASP.NET MVC Views is not a widely known feature, but one that can save you tons of time! It can easily catch runtime errors at compile time, and save you from missing a simple error days from now and spend loads of time trying to remember why this view no longer works. I recently read a article that talks in detail how to enable Compile Time Views in ASP.NET MVC and thought I would share it with our User Group. Click to get the details ...

Silverlight 5.0 Features Announced !

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:15:19 -0800

Yesterday Silverlight 5.0 features were announced and the entire event (the whole day) was captured via Online Smooth Streaming. You can catch the recording of the entire event online as well as all of the new features. Click for more details...

Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW (Release to Web)

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:42:21 -0700

Here at Last: Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools

The Windows Phone Developer Tools package is a free single download containing all of the tools that developers need to create apps and games for Windows Phone 7. Give these tools a try. Remember these tools are free and ready to use and play with. Have fun coding and let me know some cool things you come up with :) ...

Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone 7

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:48:49 -0700

Recently Tim Heuer has notified the world that the new Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit was released. These controls will definately make the development of the Windows Phone 7 alot easier. Click for details ...

WCF 4.0's new feature Routing Services

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:03:54 -0700

Lately I have been playing with WCF 4.0's new ability called Routing Services to play around with choosing services based on input values. This seemed pretty difficult with the XPath query to get right until I stumbled onto this blog post by Richard Seroter. This really is a simplified blog post that shows an easy approach to utilizing Routing Services based on input values. The only hard part about this is getting the namespace alias correct, which is pretty easy once you look at the wsdl of the service generated. If you have any issues concerning this, please dont hesitate to email me, and I can help you out. I really like WCF's Routing Services, and its ability to route services based on any criteria you deem necessary (such as input values, header values, multicasting, etc), and its ability to have a backup service if the first one fails. This really is a great addition to WCF 4.0. Click for more details...

ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery Templating with PURE & Json Value Provider

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:00:26 -0700

I have been over the past couple of weeks playing alot with ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1, and I must say it is really nice. The enhancements put it even closer to Ruby on Rails (even though it still has a ways to go) in terms of simplicity and easy of use. I am especially excited about the JSON auto serialze in the Action Methods and the new View Engines, as well as the ability to utilize MEF to bind your Controllers. I have recently read a post by Michael Hamrah and I must say I am definately interested in looking into the PURE JSON Templating Engine. I have used the Microsoft AJAX Javascript tools to do Html JSON Templating, and it works fine, but seems to be alot more verbose than PURE seems to be. It seems as if PURE can make enough assumptions to cut down on how much templating you actually have to do. Click for more details ...