Events


New Site & New Name

We've changed names and websites ... We are now known as the Twin Cities Developers Group . You can find our new website at www.TwinCitiesDevelopersGroup.com For more information on the change, please visit the new site . Note: This site will remain active until we transfer over all the previous talks...

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November 9th: Adam Grocholski

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Getting Down with MEF - Silverlight Edition In certain .NET circles there has been a lot of talk as of late about the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF. You may have even heard some of this chatter, but...

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October 12th: Brian Noyes

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: What’s New in Prism 4 + MEF Bootstrapping Prism 4 includes three main focus areas: guidance for the Model-View-ViewModel pattern, inclusion of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) for modularity,...

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No December Meeting

There is no December meeting. Why? Our meetings take place on the second Tuesday of each month. In December, this puts us in prime-time company holiday party season. Therefore, our turn out is very low because most people are attending holiday parties. We want to make sure everyone can get the most out...

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Jan 11: Michael Maddox

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Distributed Version Control Systems Speaker: Michael Maddox...

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Sept. 14th: No-SQL Introduction

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Session : Over the past few years, many high profile sites have stopped using traditional relational databases like SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL, using alternatives that all fall under the term "NoSQL". This...

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June 8th: Everything You Wanted to Know About Velocity But Were Afraid To Cache

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Everything You Wanted to Know About Velocity But Were Afraid To Cache Microsoft's AppFabric Caching (aka Velocity) offers a distributed caching solution, not unlike the popular "memcached" open source library...

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May 11th - Developing for Windows Phone

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Developing for Windows Phone Session Info: Take a look at how you can get started developing applications for Windows Phone 7 Series using the free downloadable tools that are now available. Starting off with...

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April 13th - Android Development for .NET Developers

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Topic: Android Development for .NET Developers In this talk we will delve into the foray that is Android Development. The topic will be approached and explained from the perspective of a .NET Developer who is on the...

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March 9th - Sound Synthesis with Silverlight 3

When: 6:00 PM. Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP Sound Synthesis with Silverlight 3 (90 mins): In this session we'll discuss how to produce raw sound waves from code in Silverlight 3. We're not talking about simple WAV file playback - we're talking actual sound synthesis...

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