When: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Where: HCC Business Training Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, MD, 21046

Topic: Sketching on a Screen: Using Blend 3 and Sketchflow to Gather Requirements and Begin Development of WPF and Silverlight Applications

Sketchflow is a new application released with Expression Blend for wire framing, sketching, and prototyping applications.  This session will be an interactive view at the process of wire framing.  The group will work together to develop an application sketch, while learning about Sketchflow, Blend 3, design time data, and designer developer workflow.   This session is meant as an interactive deep dive with lots of participation.

Presenter: Michael Wolf

A thirteen year veteran of developing web applications, Michael was an early adopter of Rich Internet technologies, developing solutions for initial betas of ASP.net, AJAX , Microsoft WPF/Silverlight, and the Microsoft Surface. As Principal Architect for Cynergy’s Microsoft practice Michael has presented on stage with Microsoft at both MIX 09 as well as TechEd 09.  Michael has also been cited and or contributed several white papers on Silverlight and WPF. In addition acting as Technical Lead Michael’s team won the first Microsoft Phizzpop National Design Challenge, beating a field of 30 of the top design firms in the country. Michael has also developed several enterprise WPF / Silverlight / Surface applications for companies from Startups , to Broadcast Television, to Microsoft.  Michael is an active member of the Silverlight and WPF community via blogs and user group presentations, as well as a member of the Silverlight/WPF insiders and Blend insiders group.

For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.

When: Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Where: HCC Business Training Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, MD, 21046

Topic: Sketching on a Screen: Using Blend 3 and Sketchflow to Gather Requirements and Begin Development of WPF and Silverlight Applications

Sketchflow is a new application released with Expression Blend for wire framing, sketching, and prototyping applications.  This session will be an interactive view at the process of wire framing.  The group will work together to develop an application sketch, while learning about Sketchflow, Blend 3, design time data, and designer developer workflow.   This session is meant as an interactive deep dive with lots of participation.

Presenter: Michael Wolf

A thirteen year veteran of developing web applications, Michael was an early adopter of Rich Internet technologies, developing solutions for initial betas of ASP.net, AJAX , Microsoft WPF/Silverlight, and the Microsoft Surface. As Principal Architect for Cynergy’s Microsoft practice Michael has presented on stage with Microsoft at both MIX 09 as well as TechEd 09.  Michael has also been cited and or contributed several white papers on Silverlight and WPF. In addition acting as Technical Lead Michael’s team won the first Microsoft Phizzpop National Design Challenge, beating a field of 30 of the top design firms in the country. Michael has also developed several enterprise WPF / Silverlight / Surface applications for companies from Startups , to Broadcast Television, to Microsoft.  Michael is an active member of the Silverlight and WPF community via blogs and user group presentations, as well as a member of the Silverlight/WPF insiders and Blend insiders group.

For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.

When: Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Where: HCC Business Training Center, 6751 Columbia Gateway Drive, MD, 21046

Topic: LINQ From The Ground Up

In this practical demonstration of LINQ we'll look at what makes language integrated query work. Bring your questions and thinking cap to this fast and fun journey through interfaces, extension methods, and lambda expressions, and see how to apply this wonderful technology to everyday business problems and not just traditional data queries.

Presenter: Scott Allen

Scott Allen is a founder of OdeToCode and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 15 years of commercial software development in areas ranging from 8 bit embedded systems to highly scalable web applications. He is a Microsoft MVP, a frequent speaker at international conferences, and writes the Extreme ASP.NET column for MSDN magazine. You can reach Scott on his blog at http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/, or on Twitter as @OdeToCode.

For more information about the meeting, please visit the CMAP website.