Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG) News

Tech Lunch South/GangPlank Book Club

Chris Coneybeer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:26:43 GMT

Couple of months ago our friends at GangPlank started the GangPlank Academy Book Club for the community to help in challenging everybody’s minds. This book club has been focused on non-technical books and has been received very well.

But you say that you want to read technical books? And then you want to talk about them? Well we got the solution for you. Tech Lunch South will be host to the technology extension of the GangPlank Book Club. Starting July 27th, each week will be dedicating a portion of our lunch time to discussing the book as group.

The goal of this group is to cover titles that are as technology agnostic as possible. So we will be reading books that cover development methods or technologies that can be used in several stacks. This will allow the group to cover books that can be helpful for all in attendance and we hope it will increase participation.

So we invite you to join us as we work to expand our mind and belly!

The first book that we are reading is “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Second Edition” by Kent Beck. You can also pickup this book at Safari Books Online if you have a subscription.

Check out the Tech Lunch South postings to get more information what chapters will be covered during which days. The July 27^th meeting we will be covering chapters 1-9 (don’t worry it is only the first 54 pages of the book).

New networking page

Joseph Guadagno — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Posted a new page to the web site with the different ways that you can stay in touch with the community. Visit the new page at http://www.sevnug.org/Network.aspx.

Free Innerworkings Training

Joseph Guadagno — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We’re sure you want to know more about LINQ, so InnerWorkings has coughed up 1 hour of FREE hands-on training for you to sample:

Retrieving data using LINQ to SQL (30 minutes)
CRUD operations using LINQ to SQL (30 minutes)

For more information about the training visit here.

DevExpress is offering of 60 controls for free

Joseph Guadagno — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Get your license here : http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Free/WebRegistration60/
Embeddable Editors

Controls

XtraTabControl	FilterControl	ListBoxControl
CheckedListBoxControl	ImageListBoxControl	DataNavigator
ControlNavigator	LabelControl	SimpleButton
CheckButton	DropDownButton	MarqueeProgressBar
PanelControl	GroupControl	SplitterControl
SplitContainerControl	XtraScrollableControl	VScrollBar
HScrollBar

Framework Controls

XtraForm

XtraUserControl

XtraMessageBox

Controllers and Repositories

	StyleController		ToolTipController		DefaultLookAndFeel
	PersistentRepository		DXErrorProvider		DXValidationProvider

Learn more about the XtraEditors Library

ASP.NET Controls (the ASPxperience Suite)

Components

ASPxCallback	ASPxCallbackPanel	ASPxCloudControl
ASPxDataView	ASPxHeadline	ASPxMenu
ASPxNavBar	ASPxNewsControl	ASPxObjectContainer
ASPxPageControl	ASPxPager	ASPxPanel
ASPxPopupControl	ASPxPopupMenu	ASPxRoundPanel
ASPxSiteMapControl	ASPxSiteMapDataSource	ASPxTabControl
ASPxTimer	ASPxTitleIndex	ASPxUploadControl

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Joseph Guadagno — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I've been looking to PIMP my IDE by changing some of the colors to it. I came across this post on DEvHammer which pointed http://frickinsweet.com/tools/Theme.mvc.aspx#. This web application allows you to create a Visual Studio theme based on three colors.

It is Frickin Sweet, as implied by the domain name.

AppDev is providing free Silverlight 2 training content.

Joseph Guadagno — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

AppDev is providing their Exploring Microsoft Silverlight 2 course for free. This course contains about 3 hours of Silverlight content presented by Dino Esposito.

Free software from ComponentOne

Joseph Guadagno — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

ComponentOne now offers Community Editions as FREE software.

Tired of finding spelling errors in your Visual Studio applications? At no cost, start spell-checking your files in Visual Studio with IntelliSpell Community Edition. Looking to create a demo? Take advantage of the free DemoWorks Community Edition and start recording your screen activity today.

New site launched

Joseph Guadagno — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The new site has launched. Let me know what you think! Place comments and/or suggestions at the forum.

TextEdit	ButtonEdit	CheckEdit
CalcEdit	ColorEdit	ComboBoxEdit
ImageComboBoxEdit	FontEdit	DateEdit
ImageEdit	PictureEdit	MemoEdit
RichTextEdit	MemoExEdit	SpinEdit
LookUpEdit	PopupContainerEdit	TimeEdit
RadioGroup	MRUEdit	HyperLinkEdit
ProgressBarControl	TrackBarControl	RangeTrackBarControl
ZoomTrackBarControl