The WNC .NET Developers Guild is an independent, all volunteer organization, dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community of Asheville, NC and the surrounding areas. Our monthly meetings will offer refreshments, professional networking and educational programs and we will often have some great items to give away.

Meetings are normally held on the 3rd Thursday of every month from 6 to 8:30 PM in the training center of our meeting host, dataBridge, located near Asheville at 6 Winners Circle in Arden near the intersection of Sweeten Creek, Hendersonville, and Airport roads. Click here for a map and directions.

Anyone interested in .NET software development is invited to join our group. We invite you to register so that you will be notified of upcoming meetings and events. Your contact information will not be used for any marketing purposes. You are invited to attend whether you register or not. See the individual meeting announcements to add the event to your calendar and to RSVP so that we can estimate refreshments for our meeting sponsors.

If you have an interest in helping to sponsor or making presentations at meetings please contact us.

We welcome Matt Duffield back to present

Client-side MVC Architecture

With social sites becoming so popular like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc, we are reaching a point where consumers are demanding applications and systems that can deliver real-time experiences.  We will look at the landscape and discuss some of the most popular frameworks currently available.  We will also look at the question of ubiquity and how we can leverage good architecture and design to support such models.  Finally, we will take a look a one such architectural approach and look at the pros and cons with such an architecture.

It’s a new year and things are already changing. Last November our location hosts informed me that the logistics of us holding meeting on Thursday nights has become a problem. We had a special meeting at ImageSmith in December. Sadly it was our last one after 3 and ½ years. ImageSmith will continue to host our website.

With help from Guy and Rick, we have found a new location. The 2012 meetings will be held at the dataBridge offices located at 6 Winners Circle Suite 3, Arden, NC 28704. The offices can actually be seen from outside ImageSmiths office.

From I-26 exit 40, Airport Road. Turn the opposite direction from the airport, you should see a McDonald's on your right, keep going. You'll pass a Wal-Mart on the left after a few traffic lights. Then you'll come to a large intersection down the hill (Hendersonville Rd), go straight, the road becomes Sweeten Creek Rd. At about 1/2 mile, make a left onto Winners Circle. The building is in the back right of the complex. Enter the door on the left.