Building Application that are Cluster Aware and testing them in a Virtual SQL Cluster with Hyper-V and Storage Server 2008  - Bill Chesnut

Windows Phone 7: Introduction and UI guidelines - David Burela

Building Application that are Cluster Aware and testing them in a Virtual SQL Cluster with Hyper-V and Storage Server 2008

Today we are building more and more applications that run in a highly available environment, with SQL server this is typically a SQL Server cluster, but very few developers or developer organization have access to a SQL Server Cluster for development. Bill Chesnut will be talking about both the consideration you need to make in your code when connecting to a SQL Server Cluster and how to build a SQL Server Cluster with Microsoft Hyper-V server and Windows 2008 Storage Server and will demonstrate this environment running on a 8GB laptop.

Windows Phone 7: Introduction and UI guidelines

Windows Phone 7 is Microsoft's latest approach at the mobile phone market, it is a drastic shift away from the previous attempts at trying to bring the Windows XP feel into the palm of your hand. The entire WP7 experience has been standardised to follow the "Metro" theme which embraces concepts such as discoverability, content over chrome, and touch as the primary input (without the fiddly stylus).

Join David Burela as he takes us through the concepts required to create your apps to keep them consistent with the WP7 style guidelines. David will demonstrate a concept application"Beachy" which has had these ideas applied to it, to give a better insight into how an application could be styled. Useful tools and resources that Microsoft have released that can assist you will also be discussed.

About the speakers

Bill Chesnut, who is popularly known as "BizTalk" Bill, is a Mentor for SolidQ Australia in Melbourne, and he has been driving various application integration projects using VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, SQL Server and BizTalk Server to connect a variety of Microsoft Business Solutions applications with other systems. He is a Microsoft MVP and is very active in the .NET community, frequently giving talks at Industry and community events.

David Burela is a Senior Consultant at Hazaa. He is a frequent speaker in the community and recently came runner up at the Windows Phone 7 Bizspark camp with his application "Beachy"  http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/beachy-runner-up-windows-phone-7-application-at-bizspark-camp/.

David has also started the "Developer Blog Banter" with the aim of getting more developer involved in the community and blogging. The Developer Blog Banter is a frequent editorial where anyone in the community is able to respond on a common topic, details can be found at http://davidburela.wordpress.com/developer-blog-banter/

Its Free!

The event is free to attend and there are prizes on offer for attending. Bring your colleague or your boss. Free pizza will also be provided :) But don't forget to RSVP by sending mail to info@victoriadotnet.com.au