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 held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 6 to 8:30 PM in the training center of our meeting host, ImageSmith Communications, located near Asheville at 19 Walden Drive 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.

Web Programming with WCF 3.5

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) excels at allowing developers to quickly and easily implement SOAP based services. However, programming the web these days means working with services that aren’t SOAP based. The Web Programming Model introduced in the .NET Framework 3.5 extends the reach of WCF to cover Web-style scenarios that include RESTful services, AJAX and JSON services, and Syndication (ATOM/RSS) feeds. This presentation will examine webHttpBinding (the new WCF binding that enables the development of these services), as well as dive into the various configuration options and coding approaches for working with web friendly services. This talk will also introduce the basic principles behind REST based architectures. Please click RSVP to send us an email that you will attend this meeting to help us estimate refreshments. Click here to add this meeting to your calendar.

Agenda

• 6:00 PM Networking and Refreshments
• 6:30 PM Announcements and Introductions
• 6:45 PM Presentation - Web Programming with WCF 3.5 
• 8:15 PM Prize drawings if anything to give away
• 8:30 PM Wrap-up

Presented by Glen Gordon

Glen Gordon is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, and speaks about .NET around the country at user groups, conferences and MSDN Events. Originally from New York, Glen Gordon earned a degree in applied psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied the learning process and how humans interact with computers. Glen joined Microsoft in 2004 and he has almost 20 years of experience as a software trainer and presenter. Glen lives near Atlanta with his wife and three children, and his hobbies include playing the piano and all things Disney. Click here for Glen's blog.

Technical Sponsor Information – TEKsystems

TEKsystems is one of the nation's largest single source providers of information technology and communications staffing and services, providing more than 20,000 professionals to client locations every day. Our promise to you is world-class technology expertise delivered with customer service that's second to none.

Our headquarters are in Baltimore, Maryland, and we have more than 90 offices throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. TEKsystems is the nation's largest IT staffing firm - ranked number one in the industry by an independent review run by IT Services Business Report.

Kevin Willmot and Margaret Lowrance from TEKsystems will attend our meeting so feel free to talk with them about what TEKsystems can offer.

See the Future Presentations page for more details but here is a summary of what we already have lined up for you:

• August 12th - Exposing Workflows from Windows Communication Foundation by Joel Reyes, Microsoft Developer Evangelist from Charlotte, NC
• September 9th - Building Data Visualization Applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight by Tim Huckaby from Carlsbad, CA.