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Dave Laskowski of Software Architects will be leading the charge for this month’s DevCares event in Downers Grove on the new Windows Presentation Foundation. Come join us as we dive into WPF and give you a sample of what the capabilities will be for building next-generation applications.

DevCares is a free monthly half-day seminar where we tackle the latest technologies making their way out of Redmond. Each month we select a particular theme and deliver detailed content to give you a jump start in educating yourself around these technologies.

The following monthsour themes of focus will include Windows Communication Foundation, Agile Methodology, Team Foundation Source Control and Visual Studio Team System Edition for Database Professionals. If you’d like to see a particular theme make it into our DevCare events, please send me your suggestions.

Register at http://www.imginc.com/devcares.

August DevCares – Windows Presentation Foundation

Thursday, August 31, 2006, 1PM – 5PM
Microsoft
3025 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL.
(map)

Building Windows Presentation Foundation Applications
Windows Presentation Foundation is the next-generation unified presentation graphics subsystem for Windows Vista and Windows XP. It consists of a display engine and a managed code framework. Windows Presentation Foundation unifies how Windows creates, displays and manipulates documents, media and user interface, enabling developers and designers to create visually stunning, differentiated user experiences that improve customer connection. This session will showcase how to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application model, its navigation and layout systems, and other features to build a rich client application with immersive UI.

Using Data Binding in Windows Presentation Foundation
This session discusses the basics of binding and the power of styling and templating in WPF, while maintaining a clean separation between your data and presentation layer. We will discuss element data binding, Object and Xml data binding and data templates all within the context of Windows Presentation Foundation.

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On October 12th – 13th, industry recognized experts Juval Lowy, Michele Leroux Bustmante and Brian Noyes will be descending down upon Chicago to deliver an intense 2-day training class on everything .NET 3.0. It’s called the .NET 3.0 Roadshow.

Cost of the training class is $999 but if you sign up before Sept. 8th, you’ll be privy to an early bird discount of $799. There are also discounts available for user group members, students, as well as team discounts.

Here isa sampling of some of the topics that will be presented:

Programming with Windows Communication Foundation (Part 1 & 2)

Transactional WCF Services

WCF Security

Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation

Workflow Hosting, Communications, and Activities

Exploring Windows CardSpace

Build Rich Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation

When you mention “roadshow” that typically doesn’t mean a one-stop tour and this “show on the road” is no different. Juval, Michele and Brian are taking this hardcore traveling circus to Los Angeles (Oct. 9-10), Mountain View, CA (Oct. 10-11), Reston, VA (Oct. 16-17), New York (Oct. 17-18) and Waltham, MA (Oct. 18-19) as well. Check ‘em out if you can. I plan to.

.NET Development, Illinois Events

SP1 for Visual Studio 2003 is now available for download from Microsoft Downloads. I know this service pack was long in the making and the team has worked awfully hard to get this out the door. You can find all of the bugs (or are they enhancement requests???) that were addressed in this service pack by checking out hotfix list.

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