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Friday, May 09, 2008

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Welcome to CTDOTNET...

Welcome!
We welcome you to the Connecticut DotNet Developers website. Our mission is to help the Connecticut .NET developers' needs and expectations by providing information, presentations and other events to enhance productivity and enjoyment of Microsoft .NET Technologies. We are a member of INETA - the International .NET Association.

Questions? contact us at ctdotnet@gmail.com

Please register here if you like to be kept informed of our events...

Looking for a .NET job? Job Openings listed here...

Announcing Groove Developer Workspaces - see below..

CTDOTNET Event was held on April 29th (Tues 6-8PM): 'SQL Server 2008: Should .NET Developers Care?'. Presented by Adam Machanic. Adam is an author of two books on SQL Server and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. Download Demo SQL 2008 T-SQL scripts from here...

Other events of interest:

Collaborative Solution Survey - This survey is in support of a graduate-level special project by students at Central Connecticut State University. Please see below (bottom of page for details).

DISCOUNTS ON SOFTWARE, BOOKS, TRAINING & MAGAZINES - As an INETA Member Group, we can offer discounts on a variety of things available for CTDOTNET members. Please see the INETA site here for more details...

New local Agile Project Leader's Network chapter in Hartford. See here for details...

Company Vendors: Sponsor our meeting events (& post job openings) - for details please see here...

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Drop us an email at ctdotnet @ gmail.com if you have any queries, ideas or suggestions or would like to join us.

CTDOTNET Developers Group: Acting Directors - Carl Franklin & S.B. Chatterjee. Acting Board Members - Jay McAnally, Bob Ohlheiser & Kathleen Anderson.

CTDOTNET Event - APRIL 2008

The marketing message behind SQL Server 2008 has certainly been odd. Phrases like "pervasive insight" and "beyond relational" are difficult to interpret, and it has been a challenge getting a solid explanation of why developers should actually pay attention to this upcoming release when SQL Server 2005 seems to do the job just fine. In this session we will plumb the depths of what's actually there -- at least as of the just-released CTP 6 -- and check out many of the features that developers will want to become familiar with. We'll talk about table-valued parameters, change tracking, the MERGE statement, the DATE and TIME data types, improved T-SQL syntax and intellisense (finally!), filestreams, spatial data support, and whatever else I can jam in without putting people to sleep.

Adam’s Bio:

Adam Machanic is the SQL Server Practice Lead for Pythian Group, a leading provider of remote, fully and partially outsourced DBA services, for over 100 clients around the world. He has been involved in dozens of SQL Server implementations, for both high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and has spent quite a bit of time optimizing data access layer performance along the way. Adam has written for numerous web sites and magazines, including SQLblog, Simple Talk, Search SQL Server, SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and VSJ. He has also contributed to several books on SQL Server, including "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development" (Apress, 2007) and "Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization" (Microsoft Press, 2007). Adam regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP). Check out his blog here...

This event is sponsored by TekSystems and Edge Tech Services

Our thanks to MyWinHosting & Franklins.NET for their continued support.

GROOVE Developer Workspaces

Announcing Groove Developer Workspaces

Microsoft Office Groove 2007 is now available - read more about this new Office product here...

We have three Groove Developer workspaces for you to participate in -

Developer V3 Workspace (for Groove v3 clients - this is a fairly filled space with over 50 workspace members and lots of content).

Groove 2007 Developer Workspace (relatively new with more content forthcoming)

Groove 2007 Server Workspace (relatively new with more content forthcoming - this for Groove 2007 Servers: Management, Relay & Groove DataBridge)

All the above files are zipped - unzip and click the 'grv' file with your Groove client app and contribute!

Questions? Drop a line at ctdotnet@gmail.com

Collaboration Solution Survey

Collaborative Solution Survey - Sunday, April 20, 2008

Collaborative Solution Survey

This survey is in support of a graduate-level special project by students at Central Connecticut State University. The purpose of this project is to create a model which evaluates available collaborative solution(s) for their applicability and fit for common tasks in the software development lifecycle.

Please find below a link to the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=A63ZF8m5ufzdBdZpyUC6Jg_3d_3d

In the survey, you will find questions regarding: the team that participates in specific collaborative tasks, and the solutions used to support that task. A few questions to gather demographic information about you and your organization are also included. Please fill out the survey as accurately as possible. If any particular part of the survey is inapplicable to you, please use the available options to skip ahead.

We truly appreciate your time in completing this survey. It will be a tremendous help to the success of the project. Please respond to the survey by May 1, 2008. If you're interested to know the results of the survey, leave your contact information in the space provided on the last page of the survey.

Please email any questions or concerns pertaining to this survey to:
collaborativesolutionsurvey@officeliveusers.com