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Southwest FL .Net Code Camp - September 25th, 2010

Sam Abraham — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:03:08 GMT

Sam Abraham (Me) had the great pleasure of attending and participating at the SW FL .Net Code Camp which took place on September 25, 2010 at Florida Gulf Coast University, Estero, FL.

I spoke at two sessions: “ASP.Net MVC” and “SSIS for C# Developers”. I was pleasantly surprised with the high turnout at the MVC session despite the fact that it was scheduled early on that Saturday (8:45 AM). This highlights the growing interest in ASP.Net MVC and its related suite of tools such as Razor, Web Pages Helpers and WebMatrix, to name a few.

John Dunagan and his volunteer code camp committee did a wonderful job ensuring all aspects and logistics of the event went as planned and that arising issues were immediately tended to.

One notable all-day-long track I attended was for Windows Phone 7 featuring the highly regarded speakers Joe Healy, Henry Lee, Diane Leeper, Jonas Stawski, Kevin Wolf and Nikita Polyakov.

Code camp was yet another good example of what it means to be part of a “Technical Community”. Everyone’s friendliness, openness to share their knowledge and sincere care about other community members was phenomenal.

In trying to express what I saw, I couldn’t find better words than how John Dunagan put it in a conversation we had after code camp: “We are all one family”, he said.

Look forward to visiting John and the SW FL .Net User Group in the near future.

All the best,

--Sam Abraham

Sam Abraham to Speak at the South West .Net Code Camp on September 25th, 2010

Sam Abraham — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:04:37 GMT

Sam Abraham (Me) will be speaking at The South West Florida .Net Code Camp taking place on Saturday, September 25^th, 2010. I will be sharing two topics: “SSIS for C# Developers” and “Introduction to ASP.Net MVC”. With so many great speakers covering a wide variety of today’s hottest technologies, the event is bound to be a great learning experience for all.

Looking forward to attending as many talks as my brain can take. :)

See you all there!

--Sam Abraham

Here are the abstract for my scheduled talks:

SSIS for Developers:

SSIS enables us to quickly create deployable packages to move/manipulate data. Things do however get a bit challenging when source and destination tables are not known at package design time or when a requirement exists to have an already-deployed package support schema changes in source tables. One solution to this problem is to leverage our ability to create and execute an SSIS package dynamically in code. In this session we will take a look at a complete project for a C# Runtime SSIS Package Designer, taking as input a set of table names and dynamically generating both destination Access tables then creating, validating, saving and executing an SSIS Package at runtime with logging enabled to demonstrate the various package steps.

An Introduction to ASP.Net MVC

In this session, we will introduce ASP.Net MVC and compare it to traditional Web Forms. We will also share a scenario where an organization can incrementally/partially adopt MVC while keeping its existing ASP.Net Web Forms in the same project.

About the Speaker

Sam Abraham is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS ASP.Net 3.5/4.0). He currently lives in South Florida where he leads the West Palm Beach .Net User Group (www.fladotnet.com) and serves as Director of Electronic Communications at the South Florida Chapter of The Project Management Institute (www.southfloridapmi.org). Sam finds his passion in leveraging latest and greatest .Net Technologies along with proven Project Management practices and methodologies to produce high quality, cost-competitive software. Sam can be contacted through his blog: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/wildturtle

Sam Abraham to Speak About Dynamic Data Backup Using ADOX and SSIS in C# - SQL Saturday #40 - Devry University

Sam Abraham — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:16:14 GMT

I will be speaking at SQL Saturday #40, an all-day FREE SQL event taking place at Devry University on July 31st, 2010.

We will be making use of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS to retrieve column properties for desired SQL Server tables then leveraging the ADOX Library to dynamically create corresponding Access database tables using C#. We will then continue to demonstrate how to Programmatically generate an SSIS package to copy selected rows from the SQL Server tables to their corresponding, dynamically-created, Access Tables. I hope for this talk to be a good forum for discussion where each of us learns something new.

To register and join the 400+ already-registered attendees, please visit www.sqlsaturday.com/40/eventhome.aspx

Looking forward to meeting you all there.

-Sam Abraham