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• Open Data for Open Web by Lohith Nagaraj

  This was an excellent introduction to OData by Lohith Nagaraj. Get a good mixture of slide n' demo content with plenty of small tips to get you started.

   

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• Lego for Software Engineers - How to build reusable and maintainable applications in C# by Theo Jungeblut

  Theo Jungeblut showed us how not to re-invent the wheel each time we run with a project. See how to create reusable and maintainable applications with this great presentation by Theo.

   

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  Excellent presentation by first-time LIDNUG presenter Theo Jungeblut

• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks Greatest Hits by Zain Naboulsi

  Zain Naboulsi has been doing houndreds of this popular session on this topic and each time we've learnt something new. Why not be productive with the tool that we use every day? so watch this recording.

   

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  For more tips and tricks, follow Zain's blog:

   

  http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab

• ASP.Net MVC - What it is and why you should care by David Haney

  David Haney delivered an excellent presentation and introduction to ASP.Net MVC - we took a look at how to use routing, set up your views and models. A must see if you're getting started with ASP.Net MVC.

  
  

  This presentation contains everything you need to know to get started.

  
  

  Definitely a great technical presentation delivered by David.

  
  
  
  

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• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks by Lisa Feigenbaum

  This hands-on session was delivered by Lisa Feigenbaum and she took us through some of the new features, whilst building an application (Twitter Analysis), of Visual Studio 2010.

   

  It was great to see an awesome turnout for this technical session and Lisa delivered in style.

   

  Definitely worth the download.

   

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• A tour around Orchard with Bertrand Le Roy

  Bertrand Le Roy took us through a hands-on tour of how to build a blog, using the Orchard CMS framework/platform.

  
  

  It was truly an excellent presentation.

  
  

  This CMS is based on ASP.Net MVC 3 and it's open source - what more could you possibly ask for.

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• Overcome Unit Test Failures with WiseTester by Lior Peleg

  Lior Peleg took us through the steps of how to overcome unit test failures and how to be more productive when using testing frameworks.

  
  

  Take a look at some of the features and benefits you can get from using this approach.

  
  

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• An Unplugged Q&A with Scott Guthrie VIII

  The first unplugged Q&A with Scott Guthrie kicked off with a ton of Silverlight questions, went through a bit of ASP.Net MVC and visited the importance of the community to Microsoft.

  
  

  This was the 8th installment of Scott Guthrie's Unplugged Q&A and we're looking forward to having him back again for the 9th in a couple of months.

  
  

  In the meantime, click here to download the recording of the 8th event.

  
  

• Silverlight Q&A with John Papa

  Man was this one fun event! John has a brilliant sense of humour alongside his absolutely amazing knowledge of Silverlight which made the Q&A session both entertaining and informative!

  
  

  Most definitely hoping John will come back to use in the near future!

  
  

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• Scott Guthrie Talks Shop VII - November 2010

  Scott Guthrie's 7th installment of his unplugged Q&A session definitely put things straight about the future of Silverlight.

   

  Want to hear what other pieces of news was revealed? Just download the recording and hear for yourself.

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• Produce Cleaner Code with Aspect-Oriented Programming by Gael Fraiteur

  Gael Fraiteur, SharpCrafters Founder and Principal Engineer, spoke about the problem with conventional programming, a brief history of AOP, how it works and why you should be using it to eliminate crap code from your life.

   

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• F# Today by Don Syme

  F# is a productive, supported, succinct, efficient functional programming language that enables users to write simple code to solve complex problems. It’s good for domain specialists (math-oriented), it’s good for code-oriented-architects (rapid prototyping), and it’s good for developers (especially parallel & async).

   

  In this talk Don took us through F# 2.0 as it is today: from its essence as a language, what it’s for and why, to its use as a set of “free tools” for .NET and Visual Studio Shell, and its professional implementation in Visual Studio 2010.

   

  Click here to download the recording.

• Isolated Storage for Object-Orientated Databases in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Applications by Jeremy Likness

  Silverlight applications, including Windows Phone 7, don’t provide direct access to the operation system. For this reason, it is impossible to connect with native databases unless you are running in elevated trust.

   

  There is a solution, however, for client-side caching and storage of offline data, and that solution is isolated storage.

   

  In this session, Jeremy explained the limitations of working with isolated storage, various practices for using isolated storage, and different strategies for serializing and de-serializing data in the security sandbox. Included in the discussion will be a behind-the-scenes look at Sterling, an open source object-oriented database based on isolated storage for both Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.

   

  Jeremy Likness is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP who works as Project Manager and Senior Consultant for Wintellect with 15 years of experience developing enterprise applications.

   

  This guy is a genius! 

   

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• Creating a document viewer with Document Toolkit by Koen Zwikstra

  In this presentation Koen covered how to create a document viewer in Silverlight using the Document Toolkit control library.

  
  

  Koen went over features such as:

  
  

  - page thumbnails
  - page navigation 
  - printing and UI customization

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• Dan Wahlin shows us Silverlight with MVVM - September 2010

  "Building Silverlight Applications using the MVVM Pattern".

  
  

  Dan Wahlin rocked the house with 452 attending his presentation via Live Meeting.

  
  

  This was a fantastic insight into how applying the MVVP Pattern to Silverlight applications just plain makes sense!
  
  We hope to get Dan back again  to show us some more Silverlight love.

  
  

  Click here to download the recording (Live Meeting recording)

  
  Dan has also uploaded the code demos and slides. You can get them all from here.

• Scott Guthrie Talks Shop - August 2010

  

  Scott "The Gu" Guthrie had another great Q&A session for LIDNUG - this was the fifth in the series.
  
  This is the recording from August 2010 and well worth a listen.
  
  As usual, The Gu was in his normal format and answered questions ranging from ASP.Net, WPF, Silverlight, MVVM, MVC to "When do you sleep".

   

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• Production Challenges of ASP.NET Websites by Omar AL Zabir

  “It works in my PC”, the common dialog from Developers. But on production CPU burns out, disks go crazy, your site stops responding every now and then, you have to frequently recycle application pool, or even restart windows to bring things back to normal for a while.

  
  

  As your site grows from thousands to millions of users, delivering new features and bug fixes becomes an increasingly complex process where you have to ensure the performance and stability of the site is not compromised. Let me tell you some stories from the trenches how I grew a hot startup from thousands to millions of users within a year surviving through production software, hardware, process, people challenges and how you can avoid and solve them using my handy collection of articles and tools.

  
  
  

  Watch Omar Al Zabir show us how to avoid and resolve some of the issues production environments can have.

  
  

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• What's new in ASP.Net 4.0 by Todd Anglin

  Todd Anglin returned to LIDNUG and showed us what's new in ASP.Net 4.0.

  
  

  Todd has previously presented for our members with great success, and this time was no exception!

  
  

  See Todd showcase some of the new features of ASP.Net 4.0.

  
  

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• Structuring your Visual Studio projects by Peter Shaw

  How many times have you opened up a project in visual studio only to see a solution explorer that looks like a bomb hit it? How long have you spent searching for that all important spec or library documentation?

  
  
  

  In this presentation Peter showcased some of the techniques to managing your Visual Studio projects and how to set up a solid structured folder layout.

  
  
  

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• Who's got their grubby hands on my .Net objects by John Robbins

  

  The problems in .NET all revolve around memory. As in why is my memory going up? Given that there’s nothing in your day to day tools that easily tell you your reference chains, seeing who’s referencing your objects makes debugging extremely hard.
  
  

   

   

  In this demo only session, John Robbins worked through the different techniques for figuring out exactly who and what is holding onto your .NET objects. You can everything from hard core tools such as WinDBG and SOS, to interesting commercial tools that show you the complete graph.
  
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• Getting started with Thread Synchronization by Jeffrey Richter

  Thread synchronization can be a messy affair, luckily Jeffrey takes us through some of the pitfalls so you know what to look out for.

   

  Jeffrey works us through some of the techniques for avoiding thread locking and other nasty surprises in this hour long session.

   

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• What's new in Windows Phone 7 "Mango" by Jeff Prosise

  Another hit from the guys at Wintellect - Jeff Prosise took us through the features that's new in Windows Phone 7 "Mango". A must view for those entering into Windows Phone 7 development

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• Scott Guthrie's 9th Unplugged Q&A

  We finally had Scott Guthrie come out of the cave, he's been hiding in for the past couple of months, for his 9th installment of his Unplugged Q&A session for LIDNUG.

  In this 90 minute Q&A session we saw Scott storm through a load of questions and answered them in detail - one of the bigger announcements was the release schedule for Silverlight 5.

  Click here to download the recording.