Lexington .NET Developers Group October 11, 2005 Announcement htttp://www.lexdotnet.org
Location : The boardroom of Bluegrass Regional Mental Health Mental Retardation Board, Inc. 1351 Newtown Pike Lexington, KY 40511
Meeting time: 6:00 PM
The campus is on Newtown Pike between Nandino Blvd and Citation Blvd on the left if you are outbound. White buildings behind a stone fence. Drive all the way around the buildings until you are in a large parking lot. Building D and Building B are adjacent to each other. The meeting is in Building B. Walk around Building B to reach the entrance.
MEETING DETAILS
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Building Smart Client Data Applications with Windows Forms 2.0
Windows forms 2.0 has a bunch of new capabilities for building data driven client applications and deploying them as smart client applications. This talk will explore the new data binding capabilities in Windows Forms 2.0 and show you how to design rich data bound interfaces. The capabilities of the new Data Sources window, the BindingSource component, and the DataGridView control will all be demonstrated. You will learn how to hook up databases, web services, and custom objects to your form controls in minimal time. The demos will be built using a smart client architecture best practices and the means of deployment briefly discussed as well.
Brian Noyes is a Microsoft MVP and an international speaker, trainer, writer and consultant with IDesign, Inc. (
www.idesign.net). He speaks at Microsoft TechEd US, Europe, and Malaysia, Visual Studio Connections, SDC Netherlands, DevTeach Montreal, VSLive!, DevEssentials, and other conferences, and is a top rated speaker on the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has published numerous articles on .NET development for The Server Side .NET, MSDN Magazine, MSDN Online, CoDe Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, asp.netPRO, .NET Developer's Journal, and other publications. Brian latest book, Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0, part of the Addison-Wesley .NET Development Series, will hit the shelves in January 2006, followed shortly thereafter by Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce. Brian got started with programming to stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the Navy, applying his skills and interest to aircraft and avionics simulations, prototypes, and support applications while stimulating his adrenal glands attending Top Gun and Test Pilot School.