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For the first time ever, PDC attendees will converge on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond for the PDC, this October 28 – 29, 2010.

Coming Events

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Oxford - Making an Exception

Monday, August 09, 2010

Hereford - Azure Table Service - NoSQL

Monday, August 09, 2010

Coventry - Entity Framework 4

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Birmingham - I've Got A Little jQuery ...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Manchester - An Introduction to F#

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David Tims

Presentations this week on three truly "Next Generation" topics, another excellent event.

David Matthews-Gore

Good event as always, and a pleasure to have a little extra time to network and to finish a few minutes early!

James Coulter

An interesting technology conceptually, which Robert did well to explain. I wasn't sure I got a complete picture of how Volta solves the architectural problems Robert referred to in his slides, perhaps a different example would have illustrated it better.

James Coulter

Another fine demo of the power of Silverlight and Expression Blend. If Rich carries on at this rate, he'll be giving Josh Twist a run for his money.

Ami Bening

Excellent insight into something that has only recenty been released.

Stuart Wells

Volta could be an impressive technology, but I don't use the internet space thatmuch so it is unlikely toplay a large part in my current work...that said it's cool that IL can be coverted to JS.

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Event: Volta - The Next Generation

Derr de derrr... [Insert Star Trek Music] Robert Hogg, of Black Marble, Trekkies down to NxtGenUG Coventry to reveal Microsoft Volta. Microsoft Live Labs "Volta" is an early access toolset that presents a new way of developing client and server side applications by allowing multi-tier web application to be rapidly developed using familiar .NET skills and techniques. They'll also be a Nuggetoid from Rich on the Planetoid Silverlight, and hopefully you'll klingon till the pizza arrives. Beam Me Up!

If you are not a member of NxtGenUG, you are more than welcome to attend. We just ask you register on the site, to help us to plan numbers and refreshments. Once registered on the site, you can then register for this event from this page.

Monday, July 21, 2008
Region:	Coventry
Location:	Coventry Flying Club Coventry Aero Club Rowley Road Coventry CV3 4FR
Time:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Breakdown

Robert Hogg	Microsoft Volta: Next Gen .NET Client-Server Apps
Microsoft Live Labs "Volta" is an early access toolset that presents a new way of developing client and server side applications by allowing multi-tier web application to be rapidly developed using familiar .NET skills and techniques. Decisions in application architecture are currently made well in advance of implementation. We discuss how future changes in development tooling will change the way that multi-tier web application architecture is implemented. "Volta" allows developers and architects to postpone previously irreversible or costly design decisions until the last possible moment by making architecture a solid part of agile development. It does this by automating the plumbing of distributed applications across multiple tiers, tooling for debugging and profiling, and allowing developers to concentrate on application development. We will show how to produce a web based "Volta" application, separate the application tiers and demonstrate how Volta works under the hood.

Richard Costall	The Silverlight Template Nugget
The World is your oyster with Silverlight, or the button can be an oyster, or a chicken, or a banana or something not so extravagant that a developer could create. In this nugget Rich shows us how you can customise the look of a button in Silverlight and he wont be writing any code just using Expression Blend. Designers look away now!

Robert Hogg	the Oslo nugget...
Shhh... don't tell anyone. Actually Robert knows exactly what he can and can't say about Oslo - An exciting wave of SOA and Business Process technologies to be detailed at the PDC in October 2008. Robert will give us a high level overview of Oslo.