My Fall is Taking Shaping - VSLive NY in September

Saturday, June 28 2008 - , , , , , - 0 comments

I’ll be flying to New York City in September to present 2 sessions at VSLive NY at the Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge from Sep 7-10. They’ll be some great sessions there from some great presenters. Registrations are open now.

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Even though the conference season is on break over the summer, my summer has been a bit crazy so far with writing my upcoming book on data access, devices and Silverlight 2. I’ve got a few nice breaks with some user groups that i have done and a few more I am looking forward to. Its great to get out and share with the community. In July I will be heading to Miramar Florida and to Albany NY for some great user group meetings. Head over to my events page to see my full lineup, as it unfolds.

A colleague and friend of mine, Brian Peek, who’s fame is skyrocketing lately will be presenting 2 sessions here as well. Brian is the author of the Wiimote library that has been talked about and downloaded by many people and has even been discussed in Newsweek magazine. If you plan on attending VSLive, be sure to check out Brian’s sessions.

I’ll be presenting the following sessions at VSLive in NYC:

Building Effective Data Bound Applications with WPF and Silverlight
John Papa
Monday, September 8, 4:45 p.m.
XAML makes it easy to design robust user interfaces and it provides powerful data-binding capabilities. With WPF and Silverlight, you can perform data manipulation using code, XAML, or a combination of both. You can bind to controls, public properties, XML, or objects, making data binding quick, flexible, and easier than ever. This session will demonstrate how to use these data binding features with WPF and Silverlight applications.

ASP.NET Data Binding
John Papa
Tuesday, September 9, 9:45 a.m.
Generics can enhance the implementation of a data access model. You can bind a list of objects directly to a bindable control or you can use the ADO.NET DataSet. The new data binding and data source objects in ASP.NET are a huge step forward in reducing and simplifying UI code. This session will begin by demonstrating how to use the SqlDataSource to retrieve and modify data from an OLE DB compliant database and bind it directly to an ASP.NET web form, without writing any code. The ObjectDataSource is ideal for multi layer applications as it allows data bound web controls to bind to a data source through a middle tier class library or web service. It can also be used to assist in binding either a DataSet or a list of objects using Generics. I will demonstrate these new data source tools and walk through examples of when and where each is ideal.

Coding4Fun Book is on Amazon

Thursday, May 29 2008 - , - 0 comments

Brian Peek, one of the authors of the MSDN Coding4Fun web site, announced that his book is now for sale at Amazon.  The book is a compilation of 10 cool and fun ways you can use .NET code. Brian is famous for his Wiimote .NET library that allows .NET developers to write code for the Wiimote. Newsweek interviewed Brian and wrote an article about the library. Yes, that Newsweek ... I was darn impressed too!

Several people have already created some ingenious applications for the Wiimote using his library. If you have not checked out the Wiimote library, you really should. Then again, you can check it out in his book along with several other cool topics. The book is titled "10 Coding4Fun Projects with .NET for Programmers, Hobbyists, and Game Developers".

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.NET Development with the Wiimote

Monday, May 12 2008 - , - 0 comments

My friend and colleague Brian Peek has been developing some awesome and fun applications for a while. As a contributing author to MSDN's Coding 4 Fun Bran has been creating some cool applications that you should really check out at his site at www.brianpeek.com.

Not his latest, but certainly one of his most famous, achievement is his Wiimote .NET Library and the uses that he is putting it to. Brian got the attention of Newsweek magazine for the Wiimote .NET library that he authored. They interviewed him and the article can be found on line at http://www.newsweek.com/id/136381.  The print article should be in the May 19th issue of the International Edition of Newsweek.