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The Chicago .NET Users Group invites you to attend the 5th Day of .NET conference.

A Day of .NET is for you if ... You're a beginner or a veteran developer Looking for a component, tool, or an expert .NET consultant to accelerate your .NET development effort Looking for a new position or recruiting .NET talent Have a nagging question about a project Want to walk away with a cool raffle like a PocketPC October 30th 2004 Harper College 1200 W. Algonquin Road Palatine, IL RSVP online by 12 pm October 27th

Keith Franklin: Keith Franklin, the General Manager of the Midwest District of Magenic Technologies, was recently appointed a Microsoft MVP for his commitment to the technical community. Keith is also a regular speaker at VSLive!, DevDays, and the Chicago .NET Users Group, which he founded and directs. His close relationship with members of the Microsoft .NET Team(s), publishers, speakers, and user group community led to his appointment to the Board of Directors of the International .NET Association (INETA) in September 2001. He authored one of the first Visual Basic books devoted to the .NET Framework. He has also authored numerous articles published by Visual Studio Magazine, .NET Magazine and Visual Basic Programmers Journal and recently was named to the Editorial Board of the .NET Developers Journal .. Dave Bost: Dave Bost is the Director of Technology for Solution Partners, a Chicago-based consulting company and Microsoft Solution Provider Partner. From the earlier days of Visual Basic and COM to the present times with .NET and distributed architectures, Dave has spent the past 10 years specializing in designing and implementing Microsoft software solutions. Dave is a large contributor to the Chicago .NET development community and has been a frequent speaker at some of the industries leading conferences including VSLive and Microsoft’s Developer Days. You read what’s on his mind lately at www.davebost.com . Chris Mayo: Chris Mayo is the Developer Evangelist for the Midwest specializing in Visual Studio .NET and the .NET platform. Chris has over 12 years experience developing enterprise software as both a developer and as an architect. Chris’ development experience dates back to the days of VB 2.0 and includes development on the Win DNA/COM(+), .NET and J2EE platforms. Chris speaks at numerous developer conferences, including INETA user groups, MSDN events (both live and on the web), launch events for Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 as well as conferences such as VSLive! and DevDays. Chris has authored articles for .NET Developer Journal on SQL Server CE and Compact Framework development. Chris can be reached at cmayo@microsoft.com. Derek Ferguson Speaker bio coming soon. Jason Beres Jason Beres is the Chief Technical Evangelist for Infragistics, Inc, a Microsoft Visual Studio Integration Partner. Jason is a recognized international speaker, a Microsoft .NET MVP, is on the INETA Speakers Bureau (http://www.ineta.org) and is the Chairman of the INETA Academic Committee. Jason is the author of Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days from Sams, the co-author of the Visual Basic .NET Bible from Wiley, the C# Bible from Wiley and he writes a monthly column for Visual Studio Magazine. Rod Paddock Rod is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle WA. Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET, VB 6, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the DevTeach 2004 conference in June 2004. Rod is the editor for CoDe Magazine and his writing credits include articles for database publications such as CoDe Magazine, Data Based Advisor, Smart Access, Visual Basic Programmers Journal and others. He has also authored a number of books including Visual Basic 5 for Web Development, Visual Basic 6 for Web Development, and Visual FoxPro 6.0 Enterprise Development. Rod is also the V.P. of Technology for Red Matrix Technologies and the architectural visionary behind the DataClas middle-tier component and SQLAudit product lines.  Marc Gusmano Marc Gusmano is a Partner and the Director of Emerging Technologies for The Information Management Group, a Consulting and Education Services firm based in Chicago, Illinois. Marc has been involved in systems integration and software development since 1984, focusing on building Microsoft-centric solutions using technologies such as Visual Basic, SQL Server, ASP.NET, the .NET Framework, Commerce Server 2002, and BizTalk Server 2004. Marc is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including ADVISOR DEVCON, ComDex, Microsoft TechEd and Microsoft Developer Days. Marc is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) . marcg@imginc.com Raj Das Speaker bio coming soon. Shawn Wildermuth Shawn Wildermuth, a Senior Consultant with Magenic Techologies, Inc., has over eighteen years of experience as a software architect, developer and visionary. He is a nationally known author and speaker as well as a Microsoft C# MVP, an INETA speaker, and editor of O'Reilly's .NET Website (ondotnet.com). He is the author of "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, co-author of the forthcoming "Programming SQL Server 2005" for O'Reilly, as well as an author of numerous articles for a variety of magazines and websites. He founded ADOGuy.com to help developers around the world by answering their database development questions. In his years developing and architecting applications, he has worked in the varied fields of accounting, real estate, Internet, and medicine. Shawn is a proved leader in the software field and his ability to write and speak to the software field exemplifies his ability to communicate, both verbally and written. He has specific experience understanding the issues of working with teams of development, both local and distributed. In addition, he has specific experience working with teams outside the country and the needs of managing the new challenges of what development looks like in the twenty-first century.		Time Track 1 8:30 - 9:00 Keynote Welcome and Overview of Day of .NET Keith Franklin - Magenic Technologies 9:00 - 10:15 NUnit - Test Driven Development Keith Franklin and Dave Bost - Solution Partners Finding code design issues is a key component of the quality assurance process. Traditionally this has been a software development task that is done after the coding is complete (often months later). Agile development processes move a great deal of this task to the beginning—sometimes prior to actual coding. Learn how to improve the quality of your code by utilizing Test-Driven Development with the .NET Framework and NUnit and related tools. You will be introduced to NUnit and tools that take Test-Driven Development to the team as well as the individual programmer. 10:30 - 11:45 Build Management - Continuous Integration Keith Franklin and Dave Bost Session description 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 Overview of Visual Studio 2005 Chris Mayo - Microsoft In this session, we’ll take a look at what’s new in Visual Studio 2005. First, we’ll take a look at Visual Studio 2005 and the new tools and features that will make you more productive when developing software. Secondly, we’ll take a look at Visual Basic .NET and the new language features such as the My object and the new application events. Finally, we’ll take a look at what’s new in Visual C#, including the new generics support, anonymous method support and some new syntax features that make code focused RAD a great way to develop .NET projects. 2:00 - 3:00 Building Professional Looking Smart Clients with VS 2005 Chris Mayo In this session, we’ll take a look at some of the great new features in Win Forms development with Visual Studio 2005, including: How the ToolStrip, MenuStrip, and StatusStrip controls can be used to create flexible and customizable interfaces. Learn how the SplitPanel improves upon previous splitter technologies. Learn how new layout controls such as FlowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel provide new options for control positioning. Understand how new properties such as AutoResize and AutoRelocate support localization scenarios. See how AutoComplete allows users to easily access lists of values from within input controls. 3:15 - 4:15 What's new in ASP.NET 2.0  Marc Gusmano - 4:15 Giveaway & Raffle Time Track 2 8:30 - 9:00 Keynote Welcome and Overview of Day of .NET - Keith Franklin 9:00 - 10:15 Introduction to .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Derek Ferguson Session description 10:30 - 11:45 Introduction to Windows Forms Jason Beres In this presentation, you will learn about Windows Forms technology in the .NET Framework. Since the dawn of .NET, ASP.NET and the Web have gotten much of the spotlight, even though Windows Forms is an equally powerful and more user-friendly platform for delivering applications. You will gain an understanding of Single and Multiple Document Interface applications, how windows interact with each other, how to use controls on forms, different deployment scenarios in Windows Forms, and why Windows Forms should be the platform of choice for application development. By the end of this presentation, you will be able to create a basic Windows Forms application, you will understand controls and forms, and you will be able to effectively argue why Windows Forms should be the best choice for new application development, now and in the future. 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 ASP.NET 1.1 Advanced  Jacob Cynamon Session description 2:00 - 3:00 Introduction to ADO.NET Rod Paddock Session description 3:15 - 4:15 ADO.NET  DeMystifying the DataSet Shawn Wildermuth - Magenic Technologies Session description 4:15 Giveaway & Raffle Time Track 3 8:30 - 9:00 Keynote Welcome and Overview of Day of .NET Keith Franklin 9:00 - 10:15 A Developers Introduction to BizTalk Server 2004 - Part 1 Marc Gusmano - Information Management Group This two part session will provide an overview for developers on how to build the next generation of e-business integration solutions using BizTalk Server 2004. The sessions will focus on: An Introduction to BizTalk Server 2004 which will introduce the core features of BizTalk Server 2004 and how messaging and orchestration services work. Creating and Configuring BizTalk Schemas which will demonstrate how to use the BizTalk Editor in Visual Studio .NET to create and manage XML schemas. Creating Schema Maps in BizTalk Server 2004 which will demonstrate how to create maps and use functoids to perform mapping operations. Configuring BizTalk Messaging which will demonstrate how to use BizTalk to route and processes messages. Creating BizTalk Orchestrations which will demonstrate how to use the BizTalk Orchestration Designer in Visual Studio .NET to define business processes. 10:30 - 11:45 A Developers Introduction to BizTalk Server 2004 - Part 2 Marc Gusmano Session description 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 A Developers Introduction to Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 Raj Das - Magenic Technologies Session description 2:00 - 3:00 A Developers Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Shawn Wildermuth - Magenic Technologies Session description 4:15 Giveaway & Raffle
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