The November meeting will be on 11/17/2009 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale: Scott Klein, MVP SQL Server presents: Entity Framework 4.0 Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/ Free pizza and softdrinks! Posted: Rainer Habermann ......

ArcSig meeting 08/18/2009 - 6:30 PM Ft. Lauderdale at Microsoft All (!) seats were taken after free pizza and refreshing soft drinks. 43 Users came to our August meeting to hear Jesus Rodriguez's excellent presentation "From SOA to WOA". Despite being one of the latest acronyms in the never ending distributed programming dictionary, Web Oriented Architectures (WOA) represents one of the most important architecture styles in service orientation. In a nutshell, WOA incorporates the principles of the ......

If you install Windows 7 new and later install Visual Studio 2008, you might get an error during installation. Reason for this error was that Windows 7 and updates installed Silverlight 3 previous to the VS2008 installation. Deinstal Silverlight 3 from Control Panel and VS 2008 will install just fine. I hope that helps!

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The August meeting will be on 08/18/2009 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale: Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect at http://www.tellago.com/ Web Oriented Architectures (REST) and how they enhance traditonal SOA's Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/ Learn more about Jesus and his activities at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/ Posted: Rainer Habermann ......

ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009 Ft. Lauderdale at Global Response Don Demsak, Senior Solution Architect at Tellago, gave us an excellent presentation about Architecting Web Applications using ASP.Net Webforms with jQuery and WCF. Don showed us how to avoid some of the architectural pitfalls when moving from a pure server side transformation model to a more client side friendly transformation model. Furthermore, we got important information about how to redesign ASMX web services to WCF web services and ......

The July meeting will be on 07/21/2009 - 6:30 PM Global Response, Margate: Don Demsak, Senior Solutions Architect at http://www.tellago.com/ Architecting Web Applications using ASP.Net WebForms with jQuery and WCF Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/ Learn more about Don and his activities at http://donxml.com Posted: Rainer Habermann ......

ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009 Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale Jeff Barnes gave a excellent presententation about .NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET. Great participation, almost all seats were taken. Jeff gave us a great insight into the next Silverlight version with code examples and programmatic features. Thank you very much for the great presentation Jeff, we are looking forward to your next one! Find more information about Jeff and .NET ......

The June meeting will be on 06/16/2009 6:30 PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale: Telmo Sampaio, CTO of Blue Dasher Technologies: SQL 2008 Beyond Relational Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/ Participate in an architecture review showcasing the use of SQL Server 2008 Spatial features and the filestream data type together with WCF services, Virtual Earth and jQuery. The session will focus on a pre-defined solution architecture using SQL Server 2005 with pure relational data and after a brief introduction ......

Some third party add-ons can cause a miserable performance running Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. On my machine the Java Plug-In SSV helper caused a delay of several seconds before a web page was displayed. I disabled the add-on and everything was again speedy and smooth. If you experience a slow performance of IE8 disable one add-on after another to find out which add-on makes your day miserable (in the menubar select: tools-manage add-ons). I wonder if Microsoft can integrate a function checking ......

This month ArcSig meeting on 05/19/2009 6:30PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale: Jeff Barnes: NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET. Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 8 years and has spent over 6 ½ years of those years as an ......

ArcSig Meeting Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale 04/21/2009 Oleg Sych presented a great session about Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio. Oleg Sych introduced the Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - one of the best-hidden new features of Visual Studio 2008. T4 allows you to use simple ASP.NET-like template syntax to generate application source code, configuration files, stored procedures and more. This session provided an overview of code generation, describes T4 template syntax and shows how to ......

ArcSig Meeting Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale 03/17/2009 Jason Milgram’s excellent session “Building a Message Oriented Cloud Middleware Service in WCF” brought a great amount of usergroup members to the meeting, despite the fact that it was St. Patrick’s Day! Jason explained in detail the Architecture of his solution, named Linxter. With Linxter you are able to rapidly build connected applications using Microsoft developer tools. The solution encapsulates the complexities of Windows Communication Foundation ......

Yeah! I won a Community prize for February 2009! The Notification I received: Dear Rainer Habermann, You won 5th Prize in the February 2009 Contest. As you may know, a lot of people competed, but only a few won. Nicely done! Please also keep in mind that your prize is not just a stupid, geeky gift, but it's also a symbol to represent your contributions to the development community. When folks ask you how you won, you can tell them that it was by helping out other geeks. Be proud and brag ......

I am testing Windows 7 Beta since almost 6 weeks now. Granted, I was not a fan of Vista since it was to slow and the file explorer was a mess. Windows 7, still a beta version with debug code, is so refreshing fast, offers a better file handling and the processing times for almost everything are amazing fast. IE8 is doing very well and highly compatible! I am looking so forward to the final version. Great Job Microsoft Teams!

The right data structures can shorten development times to a high degree.
I started to prepare a presentation for this topic.

I just scheduled the March ArcSig Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale meeting.

Speaker: Jason Milgram
Topic     :  Building a message-oriented cloud middleware service with WCF

Please sign up for the meeting at: http://www.fladotnet.com

Jeff, Dave, and I, talked in December 2008 about the idea to setup a session for the ArcSig meeting, solving actual architecture problems brought up by group members. In dire need for a title, I called it "iPimp your Architecture", what caused some discussion, but we got a few good ideas for different names from the participants. I created some documentation about architecture problems with a CRM Telephony application, just for the case that no user had architecture problems. Right! Dave has a great ......

Since the Microsoft meeting room was blocked, we met for an informal meeting at the local "Owl", well known for tacky chicken wings and other delights. We had a good conversation about some application problems and issues, making them a subtopic for the next meeting.