As you recall, we cancelled last month's UG meeting due to weather.  For this month, we're having Bryan Sampica, an ASP.NET MVP from Cedar Falls, come talk to us about WPF!  The info for the meeting is below.

Hope to see you there!

 

Utilizing WPF as a Business Application Platform
Bryan Sampica, ASI Computer Systems
With the emergence of WPF and XAML as a UI framework, we've seen lots of demo's and examples on animating birds, and playing video clips.
In this session we'll examine the business uses in a real world application setting.  Looking at XAML creation options, the connection between designers and coders, and briefly talk about how to overcome some of the common difficulties in implementing the technology.
Presenter Bio:

Bryan has turned .NET development into his passion. Being introduced into the .NET world in
the .net 1.0 generation he quickly got his start designing and implementing web applications for 3rd party integrations.

Working today with Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, AJAX, WPF and Silverlight and the full power of .NET 3.5 he couldn't be more excited about where the technology is headed. By day he works at ASI Computer Systems located in Cedar Falls Iowa as a Software Architect and by night he authors for Wiley Publishing on his upcoming book, ASP.NET 3.5 - A programmers reference.