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Western Mass.NET Users Group

Join fellow .NET developers in the Springfield Massachusetts / Northern Connecticut area

Events

Tuesday, April 1st - Stylin’ with WPF Controls

The Western Mass .NET Users Group is hosting its next monthly meeting Tuesday, April 1st at 6:00 PM at the MassMutual Learning Center in Chicopee, MA.  Free Coffee, Pizza, and Drinks will be provided compliments of MassMutual.  Please note the location - directions are below.

Abstract
Discover some of the features of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that make it such a versatile and extensible technology for User Interface development. We will explore styling and templating WPF controls to give them the look, feel, and functionality you want in your applications. For those familiar with Windows Forms controls, you will be pleased with the relative ease which these customizations can be accomplished. We will also touch on using triggers and storyboards to give your controls animation that would have been very difficult to achieve with previous UI technologies.

About John Thayer
John Thayer is primarily an ophthalmologist. However, for the past five years, Dr. Thayer has worked extensively in medical practice management and electronic medical record application development and has experience with a variety of technologies, to include Windows Forms 2.0; SQL Server 2000 and 2005; Crystal Reports; BizTalk Server 2002, 2004, and 2006; Terminal Services; ADO.NET 2.0; Windows Server 2003 administration, Active Directory and clustering; Windows Communication Foundation; and Windows Presentation Foundation.

Sponsors


Infragistics is the world leader in Presentation Layer Technology. We are committed to providing our customers the highest quality of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Tablet PC, and Java environments.  Our products and services empower our customers' software development teams to realize the potential of the presentation layer by accelerating their development cycles and improving usability for end users.


JetBrains has a passion for making developers more productive. We make development tools more intelligent, development processes more efficient, and development cycles shorter -- to simplify your challenging tasks, automate the easy ones, and help you /Develop with Pleasure/. Our innovative .NET products include: ReSharper, TeamCity and dotTrace.


Wrox Press, established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers, is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.

 

Meeting Details
Tuesday, April 1 at 6:00 PM
MassMutual Learning & Conference Center
350 Memorial Drive
Chicopee, MA 01020
Telephone: (413) 598-9898

From the West
Take I-90 East (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
the Right.

From the East
Take I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
the Right.

From the South
Take I-91 North
to Rte. 291 East in Springfield. Follow Rte. 291 East to Exit 6
(Ludlow/Chicopee Falls). Follow exit ramp to first Stop sign. Take
a Right onto Fuller Road. Continue on Fuller Road to third traffic
light. Take a Left at light onto Memorial Drive (Rte. 33). Take a
Right into MassMutual Learning & Conference Center entrance.

If you have questions, please direct them to:
Dan Caron
User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group

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About dancaron

Dan Caron is MassMutual's Professional .NET Leader and published author. With MassMutual, Dan leads the technical direction for Microsoft .NET application development for the enterprise. For over a dozen years, he has been designing and developing applications with programming technologies that include Microsoft VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, SQL and AJAX. Dan is also the new leader of the Western Mass. .NET Users Group. Dan is an author of two technical books (Professional DotNetNuke 4.0 and DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals). He has been a major contributor to the DotNetNuke open-source portal project since the core team was founded in 2003. Some of his noteworthy contributions include the exception handling framework, event logging provider, event viewer, module security redesign, web-farm support, namespace hierarchy organization and the event scheduler. Dan is now an alumnus of the DotNetNuke Core Team and Board of Directors. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2005 and 2006.
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