The School of Dev 2009 Conference is coming up soon on Saturday, March 28th 2009 is going to be bigger and better than ever!  This year the School of Dev is joining efforts with the first ever SharePoint Saturday Tulsa!

Offering something for everyone! SharePoint End Users, Developers, Administrators and Architects.  Of course, the School of Dev content will continue to deliver for everyone from beginner to advanced developer!

You think you already know it all? Show up and you'll feel like you should be a contestant on "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?".

Registration will be open soon, so keep your eye on the School of Dev 2009 site for more details.

As Zach Young has mentioned, Dennis J. Bottjer, a Software Solutions Architect for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies in Tulsa, OK, will be speaking at the next NWADNUG meeting. The NWADNUG group has been going through some changes over the last few months to try and allow for the group to grow and become a better and larger group.

Our group has now secured the Chapel room at the Jones Center in Springdale which will hold 337 people in theatre style seating. The room also has a large video screen and sound system for the presentations.

We have also been able to sign up a catering service for the meetings that will help give some variety to the food at the meetings. I hope all of these new changes and better venue will help drive more people to come to the meetings.

Here is the information for our next meeting:

You can also track us on twitter at http://www.hashtags.org/tag/nwadnug/

Click here to RSVP on CodeZone

Title: Tips for Improving SharePoint Performance

Description: A discussion for SharePoint Developers, Administrators and Solutions Architects focused on improving internet and intranet performance.  Tips will discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out of the box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code.  This discussion will benefit anyone currently design a SharePoint implementation!

Presenter: Dennis J. Bottjer is a Software Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies, in Tulsa, OK.  He is a Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP.  He previously worked for one of the largest US based Financial Services Companies on the FORTUNE 100.  He has an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Oklahoma.  Dennis served for two years as the President of the Jacksonville Developers User Group.

SWAG:

• Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 ($49.99)
• Inside Office SharePoint Server ($44.99)
• Professional Team Foundation Server ($39.99)
• Hunting Security Bugs ($49.99)
• JetBrains ReSharper ($199)
• CodeSmith Studio ($99)
• Infragistics NetAdvantage Suite ($999)
• Windows Vista Ultimate ($319.99)

When:

• September 2, 2008
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
• 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
• 6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
• 6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
• 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways

Where:

• The Jones Center
  922 East Emma Avenue
  Springdale, AR 72764
  Room 100

NetMeeting URL: http://snipr.com/3a50w

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Add to your calendar:

•  Microsoft Outlook
•  Windows Live Calendar
•  Apple iCal
•  Yahoo! Calendar
•  Google Calendar

There is a new SharePoint video from the Ted Pattison Group on the Microsoft Downloads. The video gives a real world example of how to build web parts for SharePoint as user controls that utilize AJAX.

Overview:

Learn about building Office SharePoint Server Web Parts with user controls and AJAX. Walk through a real-world example of separating your UI from your code-behind, using user controls to create input panels. Also, learn about using the AJAX update panel.

You can download and watch the video, by clicking here.

SharePoint development has always been a little difficult because WSS and MOSS have to be installed on a server. This requirement forced developers to uses Virtual PC's with Windows Server and SharePoint installed as their environment to develop for SharePoint. Many bloggers have discussed this option as not being a good development platform.

Now, thanks to the people over at Bamboo Solutions, developers can now install WSS 3.1 or MOSS on Vista x86 or x64 and begin their SharePoint development. Of course this option is not supported by Microsoft, so you use with caution. Bamboo Solutions provides a tool that you install that allows you to install WSS or MOSS on Vista. Your Vista machine does not have to be a part of a domain to be able to use this tool.

You can download and find more information about this tool by clicking here.