Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 6:00 PM New Horizons, East Syracuse

Gary Depue and Melody Branigan of Summit Software will present: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications Summit Software will perform a sample integration of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications version 2.0. In this technical presentation, we focus on providing an end-to-end walk-through of the integration process, leveraging Summit's integration expertise and utilizing the tools available to assist with a successful integration of Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2.0. As part of the discussion, learn how integration has been significantly improved in the 2.0 version of Visual Studio Tools for Applications. Gary Depue, Lead Developer Gary started his career in computer engineering with microprocessor-based digital hardware design, before progressing to embedded systems programming, then to Windows programming. He began working as a software engineer for Summit Software in 1998, contributing to the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) software development kit (SDK) and helping independent software vendors (ISVs) integrate VBA. Today, Garys integration efforts are aimed at assisting ISVs integrate Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA).   Melody Branigan, Software Engineer Melody is an integral part of the Summits VSTA integration support team.  She joined Summit in 2007 and works closely with ISVs on their integration of VSTA into their applications. More info coming soon!

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 6:00 PM New Horizons, East Syracuse

Paul Sheriff will present: Architecting ASP.NET 3.5 Applications Putting together an ASP.NET Application so that it is easy to maintain, easy to change the look and feel of, and is flexible can be a real challenge these days. In this seminar you will learn how to take advantage of Master Pages, Themes, Skins and CSS for building the front end UI. In addition, you will be exposed to other concepts like the use of Providers for maximum flexibility in dealing with exceptions and configuration management. You will also see an example of using N-Tier LINQ to SQL classes. You will Learn 1. Creating maintainable Master Pages 2. The appropriate use of Themes, Skins and CSS 3. Effective exception management 4. Flexible configuration management using the Provider model 5. N-Tier LINQ to SQL Testing .NET 3.5 Applications in the Real World Everyone knows that they should be writing better test cases for their applications, but how many of us really do it? In VS.NET 2008 testing is an integrated part of the development environment. So there is no longer any reason to avoid not doing test driven development and automated unit testing. In this seminar you will learn how to architect your applications to make testing quicker and easier. You will learn to use the tools in VS.NET 2008 to help you do the testing. You will Learn 1. How to architect for test driven development 2. Creating test cases 3. Using the VS.NET 2008 testing tools. Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with several of their events each year and being an evangalist for them. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, videos and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. Paul can be reached via email at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff's Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).                                                                                         This meeting is being sponsored by INETA.