Upcoming TVBUG Events

All TVBUG meetings are held at the North York Public Library or North York Memorial Hall. Both are located in the same building at Yonge Street and Park Home Avenue (North of the 401 between Sheppard and Finch across from Empress Walk). If you are taking the Subway get off at the North York Centre Station. The library meeting rooms are on the 2nd Floor. Memorial Hall meeting rooms are on the Concourse Level near the food court.

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TVBUG Needs Speakers

We are in the process of lining up speakers for future meetings. If you have any ideas for topics, have a request for a specific speaker, or would like to present to TVBUG yourself, please contact us.

General Meeting
Location: Gold Room, Memorial Hall
Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Time: 6:30 to 6:50 (Pizza - Meet and Greet)
6:50 to 7:00 (Group Business)
7:00 to 9:00 (Presentation)
Topic: What's New in Entity Framework 4.0
 Jonathan Aneja, Microsoft
www.microsoft.com

In this demo-heavy session we’ll take a lap around Entity Framework 4 and look at as many new features as we can (won’t be able to do them all!). We’ll see how it enables new capabilities to leverage multiple development approaches, for example the use of code-first, model-first, and database-first. We’ll talk about the benefits of EF and its deep integration with the rest of .NET Framework 4, including MVC, Dynamic Data, and Windows Presentation Foundation.

Areas covered include:

  • POCO Support
  • Better N-Tier API support, and the Self-Tracking Entities (STE) template
  • Foreign Key associations
  • Stored Procedures
  • Enhanced TDD support

Tenth Anniversary Meeting
Location: Burgundy Room, Memorial Hall
Concourse Level (near food court)
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Time: 6:30 to 6:50 (Pizza - Meet and Greet)
6:50 to 7:00 (Group Business)
7:00 to 9:00 (Presentation)
Topic: Silverlight Development Best Practices
 Evan Hutnick, Telerik
www.telerik.com

In this session, we will explore best practices of development with Silverlight. This will include a look at the current toolset (VS2010/Blend) as well as the different options for architecture and data access (to MVVM or not to MVVM, WCF RIA Services or not, etc.), as well as how you can structure your application for intelligent reuse of styles and resources, making it easier to design a large-scale application with a unified look and feel.