The Sarasota .NET Developers group focuses on building solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, Office, and other related tools. This is a technically oriented group where our monthly 1.5 - 2 hour presentations concentrate on code development and techniques.

Meetings are generally held on a Tue/Wed/Thu in the middle of the month (speaker's choice). Our usual location: Sarasota Community Foundation, located at 2635 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota, FL 34237 (just west of Tuttle on the north side of Fruitville).

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December, 2008 Meeting

DotNetNuke 5 - Developing Custom Modules - by Stan Schultes

This meeting will be held on Thu, December. 18, 2008 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Location: Sarasota Community Foundation, located at 2635 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota, FL 34237 (just west of Tuttle on the north side of Fruitville).

After a brief introduction to DotNetNuke 5, we'll install DNN and look at some of the new management features in the portal. Then we'll take a tour through the process of custom module development, including setting up the dev environment in Visual Studio 2008, running in design mode, and looking at the architecture and structure of a custom module. Stan has been working with DotNetNuke since early 2003 - just a few months after the original project launched. He's co-author of the upcoming WROX Professional DotNetNuke 5 book, where he writes the custom module development content in the book - chapters 12 through 15. This talk uses the example module from the book, which is due out in February 2009.

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Upcoming SarasotaDev Events:

• Aspect Oriented Programming by David Hayden, Thu, Jan 22, 2009. This session will cover the Unity and Policy Injection Application Blocks, Castle Windsor and Dynamic Proxy, PostSharp and other tools. It will also include a quick intro to the Decorator Pattern and Generic Decorator Chains.
• A Lap Around VSTS 2010 - by Brandon Kelly - Feb 2009. This is the talk that Brandon did at the recent MSDN DevCon (MDC) in Orlando. In the spirit of an agile sprint, see how to use the next version of Visual Studio Team System to manage user stories and re-factor existing architecture. Learn how to diagnose real production problems, debug in-production virtual labs, capture test data to eliminate the no-repro bugs, and transparently plan, monitor, and adapt software projects.
• Ambrose Little  of Infragistics - Mar 2009, topic TBD
  

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Nearby User Group/Developer Events:

• Test Driven Development Firestarter - in Tampa on Sat, Jan 17. Scott C. Reynolds, Cory Foy, Sean Chambers, Christopher Bennage, Rob Eisenberg - big names, and a different way of thinking about coding. More info here.
• SQL Saturday in Tampa on Sat, Jan 24. More info here.
• Security Data Visualization in Sarasota on Thu, Jan 15 at 6pm. SunCoast Security Society. More info here.

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Florida CodeCamps in 2009:

The 2009 Florida CodeCamp season is on the horizon! If you haven't attended in the past, a CodeCamp is a free, all-day Saturday developer event put on by regional developers, for developers. If you've been to CodeCamp in the past, then you know you don't want to miss the 2009 season.

• South FL - Sat, Feb 8, 2009. 
• Orlando - Sat. Mar 28, 2009. 
• Jacksonville - Aug, 2009
• SWFL - Sep, 2009
• Tallahassee - Oct, 2009.
• Tampa - Dec, 2009.

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Other Developer Events of Interest:

• Microsoft TechEd 2008 - this event will be held in LA on May 11-15, 2009.
• Microsoft PDC 2009 - this event will be held in LA on Nov 17-20, 2009.