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Dec 2007 #43 UG Meeting

Our next UG Meeting is held on 6th December 2007, Level 21, Auditorium, NTUC Center, from 1845 hrs – 2115 hrs

Languages, Frameworks and Architectures
William Tay, Microsoft Singapore, 1900 hrs – 2000 hrs
New language solution frameworks are emerging to make solution development less cumbersome. For example, AJAX for building rich, interactive, internet applications, SCA for composing components into services, Ruby-on-Rails for building web applications. This interactive session will look at how these languages are evolving to include architectural constructs and where that evolution will go. Come with an open mind, don't take any notes and get ready to interact

Building Workflow Services with .NET Framework 3.5
Rex Bayona, Sr Technical Instructor, New Horizon of Singapore, 2015 hrs - 2115 hrs
The major enhancement of to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) inside the .NET Framework 3.5 is the integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) forming a new technology called Work flow Services.  This technology is built upon the existing extensibility mechanisms in the framework and allows one to easily consume services as well as create them using WF.  Discover the underlying architecture of Workflow Services and the different scenarios this technology can be used for.

About the speaker
Rex has been delivering Visual Studio & .Net framework topics since the early days of .NET in 2002. He is one of the early adopters of .NET Framework 3.5 in Singapore and is actively spreading the word on how the new technologies benefit today’s developers. He also engages Microsoft Partners in using the Integration Development features of Visual Studio Team System.

To register, click here

Microsoft Certification 2nd Shot Campaign

Microsoft is offering a Second Shot to take certification exams.  Effective on September 15, customers can get a free second chance to pass a Microsoft IT Professional, Developer, or Microsoft Dynamics certification exam.

This offer is available worldwide, from September 15, 2007 to January 31, 2008, to anyone who registers for Second Shot and fails their first attempt at one of these exams. This is a limited time offer.

To find out more of how you can leverage on this offer and other offers we have for you on training to prepare for the exams, visit their Second Shot website.

For more information on Microsoft Certification, go to www.microsoft.com/learning.

If you’re keen to find out more about the new certifications, I’ve uploaded a slide deck which you find out more information.

MSDN Tech Talk (Organized by Microsoft)

Live demonstrations of Visual Studio 2008 (VS2008); tips on issues such as developing Web 2.0 apps with VS2008 - that's just an appetizer of what you can expect at the MSDN Tech Talk.

This event has something for all developers - from the novice, to the seasoned professional.

Date: Wednesday 12 December
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue: One Marina Boulevard, Level 7, Auditorium

Click here to find out more

Please take note that as the event is purely organised by Microsoft, all event enquiries and registrations will have to be made via their website.

Heroes Happen Here Party (Organized by Microsoft)

Celebrate with your peers, as we recognize the everyday heroes that leverage Microsoft server products to solve real life IT problems.

The party also includes a HEROES AWARD CEREMONY, so if you know of anyone who truly deserves to be named a hero, tell us!

Date: Wednesday 19 December
Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Venue: Ministry of Sound, Clarke Quay

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Nov 2007 #42 UG Meeting

We just had our Community Technology Update (i.e. CTU) event on 3rd November and it was a roaring success, with almost 120 persons turning up on a Saturday to learn about Unified Communications as well as Vista. For those who’ve made it, a sincere thank you for taking time off your busy Saturday. If you have any feedback or suggestions, don’t hesitate to drop me an email (SUBJECT: CTU 2007 Feedback).

Coming up on 22nd Nov, we’re having a joint UG event with SGSQLUG (http://sgsql.sqlgroups.com/) and we’ll be having our local SQL Server expert Weehyong to share about Spatial Support in Sql Server 2008.

Our UG meeting will be held on 22 Novemeber 2007 at Level 22, Auditorium from 6.45pm – 8.30pm.

Spatial Support in Sql Server 2008
Tok Wee Hyong (MVP, SQL Server)

The growing ability of businesses and consumers to quickly absorb large volumes of data, together with the increased availability of digital maps and spatially-enabled applications has created an unprecedented opportunity to incorporate geographic factors into decision making processes and analysis. Be amongst the first developers and IT professionals in Singapore to see public demos of spatial support in SQL Server 2008!

About the Speaker
Wee Hyong is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server. He is deeply passionate about advaning the state-of-art in database management systems. Over the past years, he has been actively sharing his insights about tapping the  immense potential of the Business Intelligence (BI) features in SQL Server. He is a regular speaker at various various events (MSDN Meet-the-Experts, MSDN TechTalk, MEDC, TechReady) and also SQL Server and SGDOTNET usergroups.  Notably, he is one of the  first Singapore MVP to be invited to present to the Channel 9 community (http://channel9.msdn.com/).

To register for the event, sign up here

.NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released!